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Am reading the below - it is great. Update the fabrics used and you are in the here and now. Loaded with practical info for anyone spending time alone in the wilderness hiking or not.
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Read Camping and Woodcraft by western North Carolinian Horace Kephart. Tho ca100 years old as valid a guidebook as any in print today. Would be interesting to hike equipped as he did.

Agree with the general theme of this discussion.

Suggest charging extra for ability to do more than making journal entries such as post photos and create a data log etc [gear list, photos, stats...

Title says it all. Follow firts post link to some funny reading.

Great article.

In reading trail journals have noticed many hikers make note of their progress by 100 mile "mile stones". If the data lends itself to a reasonable tabulation of time to hike each...

Great article.

In reading trail journals have noticed many hikers make note of their progress by 100 mile "mile stones". If the data lends itself to a reasonable tabulation of time to hike each...

Probably about what I will have by the time I get to it!

Bingo! - can't stop chortling.

How about an X on each eye.

There is a place in Louisville that has billboards asvertising "Tattoos While You Wait".

FM 21-76 US ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL page 93: "The box turtle is a commonly encountered turtle that you should not eat. It feeds on poisonous mushrooms and may build up a highly toxic poison in its...

Given the following just do it!

Commitment

Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative and creation there is...

Have you considered doing this as a series of annual section hikes? Possibly then followed by a Thru some years down the road.

Make out a monthly annual budget for your expenses at home and...

Wonderful resource.

Asssuming that this is a pdf of an excel file it can be formatted so that the column headings appear at the top of each page.

Also guessing that the 0 foot elevations are an...

use google picasa

Plan B - Maintain commitment to plan A. I like this:

Commitment

Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.



Concerning all acts of...

Some like to wash what they eat. :banana

With all the discussions relating to small pack weights I would like to get some best guesses from experienced hikers as to what it appears to you is the "average" pack weight you see other thru...

Rats! Lost again ... and for the third time already. He began to realize that being color blind and unable to tell white from blue blazes was going to make this hiking more difficult than he had...

1/2" to 2". Get it cut 5 or 6 times a year whether it needs to be or not. Shampoo ... what's shampoo ... bar soap makes suds.

Try using a silicon caulk made for windshields. It is thin to the point of being runny. Get it at an auto parts store.

Probably. Just another variant on HYOH really no different in its way than a supported sub-whatever trail sprint. Probably will not bother many until one cannot get away from cell phones ringing and...

I, too, have had knee problems on trail decents. Use a trekking pole and wear trail runners. Believe that most of my problem, apart from poor conditioning, is pronation related. Found that when I...

Now add to that the ca440,000 up and down elevation changes [almost 8 round trips on Everest]!

If there is info in the data to identify those who are seasoned hikers and those who are not, would be interesting to see what that separation shows in terms of zero and hiking days.

If there is info in the data to identify those who are seasoned hikers and those who are not, would be interesting to see what that separation shows in terms of zero and hiking days.