Casting calls are being made fore the Walk in the Woods movie. Filming to begin this month based in Atlanta.
Google it up.
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This is an irritating book. Disparages hikers, hostel owners, and the idea of a true hike. However, it's funny as hell and I'll see the movie, if and when. Hate to spend money that would find its way to Bryson somehow.
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But you know what?
They are calling for Civil War re-enactors to be in this movie.
Say what?
I have a feeling they’re going to trot out all the old stereotypes to play for a laugh. Bryson is a good, funny writer, but Walk wasn’t really about hiking, per se.
I fear this movie will just draw more attention to the book and the Trail, maybe too much. Think thousands more bumbling dreamers out there, pooping everywhere and tearing the place up. Yikes.
There’s also a Drew Barrymore movie about the PCT “WIld” being made now.
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I thought it was a good book. It is a story that is much like what your average thru-hiker experiences. Your average thru-hiker over prepares, obsesses, hits the trail too hard, becomes exhausted, yellow blazes, comes back for another section, encounters funny, mean, ignorant, kind, nice others....in the end fails....then goes home wondering why it did not work out for him and wonders what he wanted in the first place. It is so typical of your average thru-hiker. I will go to the movie.
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The 6'-4" AT thru-hiker guy who'd whipped out the 12" Bowie knife one evening in a Georgia shelter. He'd had a crush on the pretty girl thru-hiker next to him in the shelter -- she was afraid of all the black snakes.
That Bowie knife pretty much cleared the shelter for the night. Snakes and all.
Up ahead on the Trail the Bowie knife guy hands-down won a big singing contest in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Crazy beautiful voice. He was offered a recording contract and a trip to New York City or $1,500 cash. He took the $1,500 and kept hiking north.
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By the way, 600 miles north I would watch Blister Sister rescue a four foot black snake from the rafters of an AT shelter. The black snake had snuck up and swallered a bat hanging off the shelter rafters The snake was then too bulged from the bat swallow to squeeze back through the squeezed spot where the snake had surprised the bat.
Blister Sister saw the situation, reached up to grab the snake by the neck and inched it back two-handed through the squeezed spot to back it out into the open.
I, of course, was laying in the shelter starting a nap and watched as the black snake cantilevered out from where Blister Sister had placed it back into the rafters. The snake leaned out from the rafters and followed Blister Sister wherever she went.
The photo of Blister Sister reaching up to rescue that black snake is one of the most treasured photos I have from my AT thru-hike.
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It is the 48" long strip map of the Appalachian Trail mounted to a post in a Gatlinburg outfitters where Bryson looks at what progress he's made on the map and says to Katz. "We've done nothing!"
It still makes me laugh out loud.
You would not believe how many times I saw that strip map of the AT on my AT thru-hike and saw how little progress I had made to that point on my journey.
I had thought to myself, “How do people do this? I mean, it’s so dang long it seems impossible.”
Later on my AT thru-hike in Oquossoc, Maine I was in a laundromat trying not to dirty the place up with mud as I was covered an inch thick with it trying to do my laundry.
A woman in the laundromat had been sitting quietly in a plastic chair waiting for her laundry to be done while I was knocking off the mud from my trousers before putting them into the washing machine.
After several minutes, the woman sitting in the chair said to me, “I admire you people.”
I couldn’t think of anything to say so I sat down and said, “Thank you.”
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I agree that every dreamer is going to hit the AT next year after watching "A Walk in the Woods." Problems, of course, will abound as they are in no physical and/or mental condition for this undertaking. Same with the PCT aftter "Wild" comes out. The PCT will become the Mecca for the princess-warrior trying to "find herself."
The problem is that niether of these books was so much about the trail(s) as it was about someone’s personal search/problems that were being dealt with, and the person just happened to be doing that on the trail.
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