[pct-l] Training

[metam01 at earthlink.net (Monty Tam)]

Great Idea!  Make it a Carnival Event. Have a weigh-in at the KickOff, and,
instead of "Guess your weight", do "Guess what your weight will be."  


> [Original Message]
> From: <dsaufley@sprynet.com>
> To: <Slyatpct@aol.com>; <steve_peterson@sbcglobal.net>;
<StoneDancer1@aol.com>
> Cc: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: 1/2/2005 10:02:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Training
>
> So, instead of a waystation, we'll be a weigh station!  :o)
>
> -=dsaufley=-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slyatpct@aol.com
> Sent: Jan 1, 2005 3:00 PM
> To: steve_peterson@sbcglobal.net, StoneDancer1@aol.com
> Cc: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Training
>
>
> I got it.  
>
> Someone can leave a scale and a log book at the border just prior to the
Kick 
> Off.  Everyone that starts has to log their weight, height, experience, 
> overall fitness and rate their own chances of making it.
>
> Then once they reach Agua Dulce and/or Meadow Ed at Kennedy Meadows to
check 
> them off.  Other places up the trail, where most thru-hikers frequent,
could 
> also be used as weigh stations.
>
> Sly
>
> In a message dated 12/31/2004 9:12:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> steve_peterson@sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> > "Although this may seem to offer evidence that anyone in any condition
can 
> > successfully complete a long hike, it does not say that the chance is 
> > equally 
> > good regardless of the hiker's starting condition. If all who attempted
the 
> > trip 
> > had been queried the day they started, the results would have been very 
> > different. What the data do say is that among 136 long-distance hikers
who 
> > survived at least several weeks, and usually much longer, a remarkable 
> > "trail 
> > conditioning" took place, putting all the hikers on a more or less
equal 
> > basis 
> > once the first month was past."
>
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