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03-17-2009, 08:38 PM
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Well, 550 miles isn't exactly epic, but still... 
This summer I've decided to hike the whole of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, about 1/4 of the total 2000 (+/-) distance. Right now I'm still working out the logistics of everything, but i hope to get started by mid-may, and end around the first or second week of July.
I'll post pictures and etc. when I'm done with my venture.
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03-17-2009, 08:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Sounds like a lot of fun. I was thinking of doing something similar with a trail here in Ontario.
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03-17-2009, 09:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | I walked the Maine part. It's a really amazing experience, you won't regret it. I didn't get a view from the top of Kathadin, but I had to expect this the day after a storm warning.
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03-17-2009, 09:21 PM
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03-17-2009, 09:32 PM
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03-17-2009, 10:21 PM
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03-17-2009, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by IconBasser um... am I the only one who thinks that this doesn't sound like fun at all? | Don't shoot it until you try it.
If you're just thinking about the walking, you're doing it wrong. 
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03-17-2009, 10:26 PM
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03-17-2009, 10:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: St. John's, NL | | | while waking up on a warm glowing morning, you'll walk though the bush, you'll hear a sound. You'll look up and notice a red-beaked-FAIL-hawk racing towards you.
I'm sorry, you fail, again.
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03-18-2009, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Fontaine while waking up on a warm glowing morning, you'll walk though the bush, you'll hear a sound. You'll look up and notice a red-beaked-FAIL-hawk racing towards you.
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03-18-2009, 12:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Fontaine while waking up on a warm glowing morning, you'll walk though the bush, you'll hear a sound. You'll look up and notice a red-beaked-FAIL-hawk racing towards you.
I'm sorry, you fail, again. | fail fail
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03-18-2009, 12:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Singapore | | | Walking from home to work or school does not equate to 550 miles.
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03-18-2009, 06:44 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | I knew a guy in Orlando back in the 80's that did the WHOLE Appalachian Trail, started in Maine in early May, got done in Georgia in late September.
THAT is an epic walk. 
I have done a bit of the trail in VA and a bit here in NC, Dragon's Tooth (just outside of Roanoke) is AMAZING...I went and stood at the very tip of the tallest rock, and it felt like you could see everywhere from there...beautiful.
Enjoy it.
And for those pokin' fun at him, jealousy, it's ugly. 
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03-18-2009, 06:46 AM
|  | You don't want to do that. Trust me. Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: atlanta ga | | | oh, man, this sounds like great fun. you need to take pics bud. many pics.
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03-18-2009, 07:00 AM
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03-18-2009, 07:51 AM
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I can tell you from personal experience that no matter how thick the mosquito's get never, never, ever spray Deep Woods Off onto your O ring, or adjacent junk. You'll walk home looking like you just slid down a barbed wire banister!
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03-18-2009, 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Phalex Pack plenty of toilet paper and insect repellent!
I can tell you from personal experience that no matter how thick the mosquito's get never, never, ever spray Deep Woods Off onto your O ring, or adjacent junk. You'll walk home looking like you just slid down a barbed wire banister! | On a related note, the affliction you might come to know as the "fire bag" can be solved with a drop of olive oil on each side of the said "bag".
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03-18-2009, 08:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Istanbul | | I'd like a long walk like that but I'd probably die of a heart attack due to smoking. 
BTW don't tell us "I'm too lazy to get out of the bed and start walking" when its summer time. 
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03-18-2009, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by L-A On a related note, the affliction you might come to know as the "fire bag" can be solved with a drop of olive oil on each side of the said "bag". | I take lots of bacon camping with me, but not olive oil. Would rubbing a raw bacon strip around down there accomplish the same goal?? I imagine you'd really have to be on the lookout for bears after doing something like that though, huh?
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03-18-2009, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Phalex I take lots of bacon camping with me, but not olive oil. Would rubbing a raw bacon strip around down there accomplish the same goal?? I imagine you'd really have to be on the lookout for bears after doing something like that though, huh? | Black bears are myopic, herbivore sissies. Spend your fear time on mosquitoes.
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