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[pct-l] Re: pct-l-digest V1 #104-hiking on a budget



As far as hiking on a budget-I read Jan Deeds book about her hike of the 
AT and she mentioned a hiker named Freight Train.
You guessed it! He arrived on a freight train with no visible means of 
support and no equipment. When he needed to go to 
town to resupply the Train was his prefered means of transportation. He 
had found his pack and a blanket in a dumpster. Trail clothes were beyond 
his budget, but not to fear, Hikers discard extra clothes along the trail 
and freight trains' wardrobe soon was complete. Hiker boxes and 
sympathetic day hikers provided sufficient food.
As his means of transportation to and from the trail was rather 
unreliable-He had to wait until the rail police were looking the other 
way to board-He didn't keep up with the group and it is unknown if he 
actually finished the trail.(bail money was hard to come by) But he did 
hike a substantial part of it and sure didn't spend any money!

Steve

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