Ask before you bring your pack into an establishment.
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Unwritten Rules
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#22
Ok, ok… All I ask is that when you get all of your rules together, boys, you send me a copy of your work so I can watch my back on the trail. Until then I’ll keep my mouth closed and work on my fundraiser at www.thawookie.com. Cheers, :cheers
“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at anytime what I think right.” Henry David Thoreau
THA WOOKIE
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#23
You’re so right, Wookie. Rules suck. Please, go ahead and live freely. Piss in the shelters, bushwhack around muddy areas of the trail, light fires wherever you’d like. Mouth off to anyone in trail towns who doesn’t treat you like deity. Steal from other hikers, use your cellphone to make obnoxious calls in full hearing of others, and while you’re at it, why don’t you bring your dog with you to crap all over the place and bite everyone it sees.
Sooner or later, you’ll come across another jerk who doesn’t believe in rules, and he’ll smack you down on your ass. Good luck, little girl.
Hiker
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#24
Peaks said it well: Hike your own hike, and don’t force anyone to hike your hike.
Some of us (apparently not most, at least not on the A.T.) do a long-distance hike to get way from the myriad “rules,” ruts, and conventions that cramp the mind and keep the spirit from soaring. I’ll do what I want on my hike. Might hike alone, do side trips, go southbound, hike naked, toke a fattie, hike at night at times and sleep during the day, maybe even do a through hike on the CDT or Colorado Trail before the crowded A.T. And if you hand me a rule book, I’ll have some free *******.
:pimp
steve hiker
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#26
OK, boys, time to move on. See beyond the words and understand the concern. Unwritten rules? Those are the little, and sometimes big, lessons we learn in life. Those are the things that parents try to impart to their children. Those are the little points of pain that we have each encountered and endured and learned by, and now that some one has been thoughtful enough to ask about, we’d like to pass along. If you would argue that these experiences aren’t important enough to share…then why are you surfing this site? This is trail information, people. Someone asked a question in a way you might not be comfortable with. So, frame the question so you do like it. How about, “What should I know about thru hiking that I might not find written down?”
I would hope that most of these things are common sense, like peeing in a shelter. (Gee, that sure defines MY favorite place to sleep.) But maybe not. I mean if some one has to mention it, then some one already did it. (Hint: if you can pee in the back of a shelter, you can pee in a bottle. Save it and dump it some place else.)
Sorry for the long post. HYOH
Jim2
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#29
be like the native americans…not the white man…adapt yourself to the land…and enjoy what it has to give to you freely…:smokin :cheers
fausa
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#30
I think there is really only one, and it encompasses everything: “do unto others, etc…” and this includes the “natural” world in the definition of the “others”.
M
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#31
Man, people are touchy here. THA WOOKIE, from what i took of his comment, was not trying to be patronizing to anyone. This is a sight of expressing you views. He was just changing the way people were talking of “RULES.” They are not really rules. If you break them, nothing happens to you. They are just things, if you feel they are right to follow by. Like his example of LNT (Leave No TRace). Dont be so quick to think you are being patronized. THA WOOKIE–I agree with ya.
Ripple