The topic of pink blazing made me wonder if anyone had any great stories about meeting their soulmate on a trail? I know I have read a couple of journals where someone starts out single and ends up in a relationship. Anyone reccomend a journal? I love a good love story as much as I love a good hiking story!
P.S. On a totally different subject, I see Break A Leg has updated her journal, way to go B-A-L, and good luck to you in the future!!!
Wondering
They didn’t meet on the trail, but Tha Wookie and Island Mama are one of the best matched trail couples around. They hiked part of the AT and all of the Colorado Trail, PCT, and American West Coast Trail together.
Ti Poles
I can think of several. Cheers and Grace, AT '04. Now happily married with hiker baby. Xena and Bloody Cactus (Mr. & Mrs. Cactus), AT '04 now…married?, I was the cause of that todo. Lekiless, AT '04, and himself. Nuffy is still looking for her ma’an.
Journals here.
Bushwhack
Then there is Straightjacket and Golden Sun from 2000. ATC sell’s Straightjacket’s (aka Bill Maroni) book entitled “When Straightjack Met Golden Sun”.
Jeffrey Hunter
There was a group of nine of us hiking/slacking together in the Shenandoahs. We hiked on and off together from Waynesboro to Connecticut. In that group, three couples formed. One young couple married a year after the trail and now they have two beautiful babies. Jim and I got together on the trail and thirteen years later, I still believe we have an exceptional relationship. One other couple in our group tried to make their relationship work after the trail, but had the problem of totally separate lives/families/businesses on opposite coasts. I don’t think they lasted.
When you spend 24 hours a day, seven days a week hiking with someone - you get to know them very well, especially on the trail where you are happy and there are no emotional walls. Sometimes friendship leads to love leads to commitment. OTOH, there are a lot of relationships that remain summer romances - and don’t last beyond the time on the trail. It is rare that it works out as well as ours has, but it happens.
Ginny
Captain Patagonia and Quinn met in Tennessee this past year and are still together.
Go homer
Steve and I met backpacking on the north rim of the grand canyon and never looked back…
jules
“They didn’t meet on the trail, but Tha Wookie and Island Mama are one of the best matched trail couples around. They hiked part of the AT and all of the Colorado Trail, PCT, and American West Coast Trail together.”
We actually met right before the trail. The night the sparks first flew, she saw me in town, writing out a “to-do” list for my hike, that started just a month later.
We had discovered a great interest in each other right before the trail, but we were almost still stangers when she started to meet me at different spots along my 01 thru.
Sometimes letting go means holding on.
Tha Wookie