[pct-l] affording a thru-hike

[CWillett at pierce.ctc.edu (Chris Willett)]

You don't have to live in a shack without electricity oreat canned pasta every night to go thruhiking every summer.  Academics get most of the summer and a month of the winter off.  At the university, I had nearly 4 months off during the summer (3.5 months spent thruhiking the PCT).  
Now, at the college level, I've got a few days less.  This winter will be spent on a 250 mile trek in Death Valley.  Next summer, well, who knows?  Of course, you need to go to school for a while, and you need to like what you do.  But, to suggest that a certain life style is closed off to those who have a stable job is, I suggest, untrue.

Suge

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Christopher Willett
cwillett@pierce.ctc.edu
www.pierce.ctc.edu/faculty/cwillett
Pierce College
9401 Farwest Drive SW.
Lakewood, WA. 98498-1999

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> From: 	pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net on behalf of David Dalbey
> Sent: 	Monday, November 15, 2004 6:47 PM
> To: 	Pct-L@Backcountry. Net; Jeffrey J. Olson
> Subject: 	RE: [pct-l] affording a thru-hike
> 
> Also around that same area are some really amazing sea kayakers doing
> the sea-kayak equivilent of thru-hikes, (actually on a grander scale).
> Chris Duff has paddled around Ireland, Iceland, and New Zealand's south
> Island.  He supported himself as a carpenter and lives in a straw bale
> cabin.  Leon Somme and Shawna Franklin, with whom Chris did the Iceland
> expedition, live in a 12' x 12' cabin with no electricity on Orcas
> Island.  During a presentation on their Iceland trip they explained that
> what they do, not what they own is what makes their life rich!  That's a
> gem of advise!
> 
> David
> david@dalbey.org
> 
> 
> :A short story...  In the pacific northwest, on the olympic
> :peninsula, around
> :Port Townsend, live a breed of men in their 40s and 50s the locals call
> :"Shed Boys."  Shed boys essentially tuned in, turned on, and
> :dropped out in
> :the late 60s and early 70s.  Rather than get straight jobs, they find
> :seasonal work, enough for beans and rice and getting high.
> :They found old
> :sheds in the forest and converted them into small living
> :spaces, running
> :electric cords through the trees, etc.  Shed boys apparently
> :don't last long
> :in relationships - too much commitment.
> :
> :There are lifestyles that support whatever you want to do.
> :You just have to
> :choose to live them and have the self-discipline to live
> :within your means.
> :Self-discipline is the key.  I think it's harder to live on
> :the margins than
> : it is to get a straight job and do the nine to five thing.
> :
> :Jeff Olson
> :Laramie WY
> :
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