Trivia # 3 - Appalachian Trail

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#1

Over the years the Trail has been hiked in many different ways. Out of the following, which has NOT been done for an entire thru-hike?

  1. Walk backwards

  2. Walk only when it is raining

  3. Walk only at night

  4. Sleep overnight in every shelter

  5. Carried a cat

  6. Walked totally nude

  7. Walked three YOYO’s back to back

  8. Got married on the trail; then divorced; then reconciled - during one thru-hike

  9. Started to hike the trail, was arrested and sent to prison for 12 years; completed the thru-hike as soon as released from prison

  10. Hiked with only one leg

  11. Spent over $15,000 during the thru-hike

JAWS

#2

I say #6

Tha Wookie

#3

I’m with Tha Wookie!

Brakelight

#4

Okay, let me give everyone a hint - three of the eleven are false.

JAWS

#5

Numbers 1 and 2 seem very weird. These would be definaetly be doable, and very likely just agimmick for someone to be famous. Number 3 seems likely. I am personally afraid of the dark, but know many hikers who LOVE hiking at night. Number 4 seems like a no brainer. number five I have a question about, would that be interpreted as actually carrying it, or would the cat have walked part of the way. Number 6 seems unlikely, but very possible. Number 7 I think I read about. Number 8 is my number 1 vote for being false. Number 9 seems to weird not to be true. Number 10 I know many people have hiked with disabilities. and Number 11 is very possible.

Ill go with Number 8, although it would be cool to here the whole story behind this one.

Hammock PhD

#6

Ok, I’ll say 1,6, and 8

Hammock PhD

#7

Let me clarify on #5 - Carried a cat.

It is my understanding the cat was carried the entire way while the hiker was actually hiking. Around camp, shelters, towns - I don’t know.

None of this clarification should suggest #5 is either true or false. You decide.

JAWS

#8

Number #10

One Leg never completed his thru-hike. And he has half of his leg.

Dave Blizzard

#9

If I’m not mistaken, someone else already holds the title of first to hike with one leg.

I’ll go with #6. I’d think it’d be pretty hard to get through so many trail towns buck-naked, that is if they were being a naked “purist.” :wink:

Definitely #2 as well, besides being asinine, I can’t imagine it has EVER rained enough for anyone to complete the AT only when it’s raining. It may rain for a month straight, but that’s not enough time.

And probably not walking backwards either, can you imagine hiking the Whites and Maine backwards. Or PA for that matter without killing yourself.

Cap’n

#10

Another hint - some of these (some of the true ones) have been mentioned in the past by Wingfoot, on his web site.

JAWS

#11

This is fun! lol, right off the bat I believe the last 4 are true, then I narrowed it to four and finally decided #1, #4, #6.

  1. Walk backwards - false (tho this could be a trick answer, it only says “walk” so climbing/rockscrambles do not apply)

  2. Walk only when it is raining - there was a pretty rainy season a coupla years back, right? zero on the few sunny days, I can see this
    -lol, why fight it?

  3. Sleep overnight in every shelter false - some of those shelters are very close together, but if someone wants to say “I slept in every shelter”, but seems like it would take an awfull long time. (side question, how many shelters ARE on the trail, JAWS?)

  4. Walked totally nude false - for reasons given above, lol, unless it was the same guy in #10 for public nudity!

Wild Hare

#12

Number 10, because when he got to Vermont he got caught up in a ASS kicking contest and then he got soo busy he ran out of time-…my real guess is 2, 8, and 9

1\4 of the way

#13

1,2,8? my guess

Manfire

#14

I’ve got a list of shelters that adds up to around 225-235. That includes the huts you have to pay for in the Northeast. The trail folks are also replacing or consolidating some shelters each year that are old or decrepit.

So, you would spend about 225-235 nights on the trail - I’d think that would definitely be possible (IMHO).

That brings up a question I have no clue about the answer - What is the oldest shelter currently open?

For clarification sake, lets say the hiker who walked backward only did so on terrain that did not require scrambling or use of your hands.

I believe (but may be wrong) that the closest shelters are about 4 miles apart.

I wouldn’t think you would get a 12-year sentence for public nudity. If so there would probably be less of us (myself included) who took advantage of Hiking Nude Day.

JAWS

#15

Say someone hiked backwards and naked from shelter to shelter only when it rained with one leg carrying a cat in a tuba.

Now that’d be more impressive than Squeaky’s little walk in the woods. :tongue

Cap’n

#16

Sorry - there’s a lot of weird stuff, but no tuba.

Actually, as I understand it, the hiker with the cat carried the cat perched on top of his/her pack.

JAWS

#17

Yup, the hiker’s name was Geek. He hiked again in '02 sans cat. The cat could swim, too. Anybody remember the cat’s name?

Cap’n

#18

Tuba Man did a SOBO in 2000. he carried a 30 pound tuba and a 70 pound pack.

i’m pretty sure Geek’s cat was named Ziggy.

grizzly adam

#19

ok, know that three out of four of us have commented, come on Now, or Never, it is my turn to chim in. But it will be a tangent. But what is a forum with out tangents? Could Tuba Man be the same guy i’ve met that carried a tuba across the united states by bicycle. it would be even stranger because jaws met mountain man and mountain dew, who i met the year before while riding their bikes across the country too!

jerm

#20

how many Tuba Mans can there be jerm? the Tuba Man on the AT and the Tuba Man on the bike are, in fact, the same Tuba Man. you can find his website here.

grizzly adam