Internet Purists

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#1

Hydro, who is hiking NoBo this year but took some time off to recouperate from giardia like symptoms, recieved an email from someone telling her “I hope you’re not still calling yourself a Thru-Hiker since you’ve taken so much time off the trail.”

I actually became sick to my stomach when I heard this. Are people so intent upon causing each other misery and woe that they feel the need to contact a complete stranger and piss in thier proverbial Wheaties?

I just hope folks can realize that the people you’ll meet on the AT and those who skulk in the shadows of the internet AT are very different critters.

Christopher

#2

Christopher,

Totally agree with you. Sometimes I wonder how long it has been since these so called purists have set foot on the trail for any length of time.

Hydro took about 3 weeks off … Heck, I knew people last year that took a week off here and there. Did that lessen there hike? Not in any sense of the word. As usual, you have people that only think in terms of “their” hike and the concept of, hike your own hike, becomes hike your own hike as long as it fits “my” idea of your own hike!

You go Hydro! and if I see you out there, well met! All that matters is you and the people YOU meet out there. Not the people on the net. Remember, you chose to post your journal for all to read and jealously runs rampant among those that can’t be there!

Cuppa Joe

#3

Hmmm. I wonder what the cut-off is of how much time you can take off before you have to surrender your “thru-hiker” title.

And by the way, real thru-hikers shouldn’t have email access anyway! :lol

FrogLog

#4

When will these folks learn the meaning of HYOH? Who friggin CARES how anyone else chooses to do their hike? Don’t like what someone else does? Hike your own! sniff Why can’t we all just get along?!

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