[pct-l] Impact of WILD on PCT numbers

[Robert Henry]

To pass the time waiting, another co-hiker and I read her description
of the hike along Hat Creek Rim just before we did the hike ourselves.
 It caused us some mirth at the author's expense, and, perhaps made us
drink even more water before leaving on that section.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Bob <bobandshell97 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> It was more about her and less about the trail than I was hoping for.
>
> Certainly true.  I was given the book at Christmas and actually enjoyed it,
> in that she is a fine writer.  As a collector of quotes, I did grab the
> following lines from the book.  A bit pessimistic perhaps, but an
> interesting image, with a kernel of truth:
>
> "It literally felt as if I were almost always, impossibly, going up.   Going
> down, I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yarn on a
> sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire
> sweater unraveled into a pile of string.  Hiking the PCT was the maddening
> effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again.  As
> if everything gained was inevitably lost."       -      Cheryl Strayed,
> Wild, p. 222.
>
> Dr Bob
>
>
>
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