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[pct-l] Re: Leisurely Hiking
Hobbit,
just a couple of thoughts...
>With all due respect to the Vegetables, what's so new and radical about
>leisurely hiking?
New? well, there's nothing especially new about it. Radical? The only
thing radical about it is that, as far as I can tell, we were the only
long-distance hikers averaging less than 15 miles a day on the trail this
year.
>So Veggies, you've let the cat out of the bag. Now all those pristine
>places, so wisely bypassed by the trail designers (to protect them from
>us), unseen by the four month thruhikers, will be over-run by
>Veggieites, the new breed of the PCT.
That thought warms my li'l heart :) The hot springs, especially, are worth
visiting.
>For what its worth, I believe I'm one of the few serious backpackers >who
>left Campo last spring and didn't
>pass the Vegetables; they fast forwarded when I was but a few days
>behind them approaching Castella...
I'm sorry for that. I heard quite a bit about you on the trail and would
have liked to cross paths out there. We wound up taking a bit of a swiss
cheese route through Northern California, then all had to leave the trail
for Burning Man.
Staggerin' Willie
Charter Member of T.H.A.T.H.
(Thru-Hikers Against Thru-Hiking)
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