Buck30 - Appalachian Trail Journal - 2009
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Brian (Buck-30)
Begins: Mar 18, 2009
Direction: Southbound
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Date: Wed, Feb 25th, 2009
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It's about that time again
The trip....March 18 to mid-August: Appalachian Trail
Mid-August to December: South America (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina)
I'll start out this journal with the question I most often get....
"Why I hike"
Most everyone I know thinks I'm a little bit crazy. It's impossible to answer the question of "why I hike". You just have to do it to understand it, but I think this quote does a pretty good job of explaining it. It's from Johnathon Ley's CDT journal and is a quote of what someone told him the first day he started hiking the PCT.
The first day I started hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 1999, someone told me that the trail had ruined them. At the time, I thought it was a cute thing to say. It didn't occur to me as a warning, I didn't realize that I was walking the same path. I've often told people that the hardest part of hiking any long trail was taking that first step. I later found out, that the hardest part was actually taking the last step