If you could hike the AT with anyone you wanted, then who would you like to hike it with and why?
I’ll give you my answer to this interesting question later on after I’ve read some of your responses.
So the question is who and why?
See you out there.
Maintain
You’d be a fine hiking partner for a while maintain. I know you’ve been pretty helpful along my prehike journey. But my dad would be who I would pick. I guess I am a sap, but i never knew my grand dad from that side of the family, and dad’s been a workaholic since forever, great depression era kinda kid himself, so I would have a better chance to hear about the stuff he did when he was a kid and the stuff he experienced through out his life. when I get back from my thru…i need to go sit down and have a long talk with him. Maybe the fish will be biting.
Burn
I honestly not a very religious person, but I think Jesus Christ would be a pretty cool hiking partner. He seems to travel light, he’d be a hit at the shelters with the bread and fish miracles, and oh man the trail conversations! Honestly, I do feel close to God (or whatever you want to call the great spirit) when I hike. A physical manifestation would make for an interesting thru!
:boy
Tha Wookie
Christ was a liberal wimp. I’d hike with Ted Nugent. At least I’d be well fed with fresh spirit meat. Whack em and stack em!
Wolf
I grew up hiking the AT with my father. He helped build the trail in the Smokies. He was stationed at SP71 CCC camp in Cades Cove. I’ve always had a love for the trail and have hiked it since 1951. I thru-hiked in '02 with my wife and it was a great time. I plan on doing it again with my son. And someday, Lord willing, with my grandson when he is old enough. JC travels with me everyday Maintain! Circuit Rider and Sherlock will have their ministry on the trail again this year for those interested. Turn the other cheek Wolf. Have a great hike.
Papa Smurf
Anyone who can put up with me singing awful Dutch songs, songs from The Sound of Music, and Willie Wonka (‘I want it now, Daddy, right now!’). Also, this person should hike uphill very slowly so I can keep up without getting frustrated. Oh, and this person should of course absolutely adore being around me despite the smell, the whining and did I mention the smell?
Why? Because it’s always fun to hike with someone who’s compatible.
Apple Pie
It’d be this girl from Dumcannon I met with one sock on. I was gonna say this Joisey goil but she had bad clamp:x
Jumble Jowls aka Steve Hiker
I want to take with me my 70 years old brother who hasn’t spoken with me for 4 years since our mom died.
Or my woman-friend whom I’ll have to depart from for 6 months .
Or my 26 years old daughter.
Or my dog, if I had one , he (Nho-Kat) died 4 years ago and I miss him or having a dog.
zammy
Who knows when to shut up. A little quiet conversation is fine, but I like long stretches of silence when I can enjoy the sounds of nature and think. I don’t enjoy hiking with loud, boisterous people.
Even though she’s not as enthusiastic about it as I am, my wife is my best hiking partner. We have good conversations and we’re able to be with each other without talking also. If I could choose someone to hike the AT with me, it would be her. We just need someone to watch the kids for six months, because they are definitely in the ‘loud, boisterous and don’t know when to shut up’ category. :tongue
Ardsgaine
George W Bush so I could make him see how beautiful and how much of a treasure America’s land truely is, and to reflect on our role as stewards in preserving our land.
Jeff T
It would be all of you, not for what you could learn from me, but for what I could learn from you. For I am a student of knowledge, of people, of reactions…
Speaking of which, thanks for your responses. They have made and brightened my day.
And now to the brighter side. “JC travels with me”. Hold on, I would suggest traveling with JC and not the other way around. I’d heard it said that if JC is your co-pilot, then move over and let him drive. Believe that to be good advice, so travel with him and not vice versa.
Also JC does not perform miracles on demand. DT said I won’t believe until I see the holes in his palms and the spear wound in his side and after JC appeared and showed them to him, JC said blessed is he who believes without seeing. So someone hiked up here with those fishes and all that bread and hid them behind the shelter for JC to magically find and feed all of you hungry hikers. A miracle will not convince a non believer, a hundred miracles will not----you either have faith and believe or you do not. JC, we know and believe it is you, just perform a miracle so we can be sure. I don’t think so.
Burn, you have many more brain cells, then you give yourself credit for. And I’d hike with you and be good company for awhile----but awhile might be a very short time cause I might not be able to keep up. LOL
Now I love Ted Nugent, and I share his Spirit of the Wild and Kill It and Grill It attitude. But I am afraid Ted would not be able to make it up the first mountain, because all I’ve ever seen him or most hunters do is ride in their 4WD’s and ATV’s to within 50 yards of their deer stand. So Ted, if I am wrong I’d be happy to hike a few hundred miles with you on the AT.
And the father refused to let his long haired sandal wearing son borrow the car to go into town. The son said but Dad isn’t that a picture of Jesus hanging over there on the wall and doesn’t he have long hair and isn’t he wearing sandals. And the dad said, yes that is true, but it is also true that he walked everywhere he went. LOL. So I think that JC would be a good hiking partner, but I’d let him take the lead and I would walk with him and not the other way around.
We hike to feed mainly our mind, our spirit and our soul; so having our bodies well nourished is the least of it. It’s about the spirit, the mind and the soul. And if we survive or if we don’t, our spirt, mind and soul can become stronger if it is within us for this to occur.
Now having said this, we must each walk that lonesome valley and the high mountain tops by and within ourselves, for regarding of who we are hiking with, we are still alone within ourselves.
See you out there.:cheers
Maintain
Come to think of it, JC would be a damn good hiking partner. He can turn some of that nasty spring water into a fine cabernet wine. He could catch fish like a MOFO too.:cheers
Wolf
Maintain,
If you are gonna be spouting that crap on the trail, let me know at the shelters before I unpack, so I can move on. If I get all set up for the night, and then you start in with all that silliness, I will not be a happy camper.
The UN-Brainwashed
WOLF:
I truly hurt for your ignorance and lack of faith in Christ Jesus. Hopefully one day you can see the true light; meanwhile I’d be careful with your blasphemous remarks about the Lord.
RxR
