[pct-l] No one hike next year!

[whitethunder10 at hotmail.com (Joseph Niemiec)]

What is with the talk about next year already?

It's kinda wierd. Ya hear about this super long hiking trail and think to 
yourself, "damn that would be cool to hike."  So you sign up to the PCT-L.  
And then you get out there and hike it.  When you get back you are amazed by 
yourself.  But you don;t realize that the PCT-L is a place for people who 
are "attached" to the trail.  So when ya get back people already talk about 
the next year's hike...
It just feels too much like an event or something.  But it isn't. It's a 
long hike with lots of time for self reflection...

I guess I understand peoples need for information, and the PCT-L is a 
connection point for hikers, but it just feels cheapened or something - like 
it's the ironman or something.

It should be hiked every 4 years like the olympics or something.  We need to 
keep some magic there!!!

It might just be me, no?

I guess I shouldn''t talk considering that I already hiked the hike...  And 
I guess I could just log off the PCT-L, but, hmmmm, i don't want to...

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