You know you're a Thru-hiker when

imported
#1

You know you’re a thru hiker when you find food in your beard an hour after lunch, and you are excited to the point of tears (from shelter N of Hot Springs, '01).

THA WOOKIE

#2

Dude, you know you’re a thru hiker when you start thinking about eating that red gummie bear on the ground. (somewhere in NC on a rock)

Bushwhack

#3

When a Natural Lite beer taste great and one is enough to make you silly.
:cheers

Leif

#4

Someone described the difference between day hikers, section hikers, and thru-hikers as:

When a day hiker sees an M&M on the ground, he walks past it.

When a section hiker sees an M&M on the ground, he picks it up and eats it.

When a thru-hikers sees an M&M on the ground, he gets out his little trowel and digs around in the dirt to see if there are more.

Peaks

#5

You know… When you call REI more than your mother.

THA WOOKIE

#6

you start to rate the privys and a construction sight Porta John is four star!!!

Virginian

#7

You’re incredibly irritated that it’s .15 miles further to the water source.

trainwreck

#8

You won’t go more than .2 for anything.

Bushwhack Feb 18th '01

#9

I was kind of the opposite (as usual). I’d walk 2.2 for the slight chance that there was a candy bar at a place that I thought just might be open.

Blue Jay

#10

When you get to town and eat lunch before taking a shower or doing laundry.

Darth Pacman

#11

You Know You’re a Thru-hiker when you start disclosing bowel movements to random weekend warriors

THA WOOKIE

#12

When you eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s before any meal.

Leif

#13

You hate to eat on an empty stomach.

Papa Smurf

#14

When the first five plates at the Chinese place in Wanyesboro was an horsdouvre(sp).

BW

#15

U know you R a thru hiker when shelter mice as food is a topic of coversation…

Maintain

#16

Leif

Ice Cream
When you eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s before any meal.

When you eat a pint before and a pint after.

ZipDrive

#17

I ate all found m&m’s etc i saw on trail during my thru…

had 9 plates for the “buffet breakfast” at a restaurant in the SNP.

Ate a pint of Ben and Jerrys and drank a half gallon of chocolate milk in noth adams right before i went to lunch.

lunch was 2 double decker whoppers and a large frywith a large milkshake. and half of wifes sandwhich too.

2 hours later we got a humoungous superdeluxeeverythingonit pizza. she had 2 slices. i finished the rest, all within about a half hour

yea, its all funny afterwards and if you avent been there but its all true. Thru-hikers’ll eat anything

Moose

#18

Oh, yeah; WHILE watching the Fight Club at the Side Track Cafe I had five Philly Cheeze Steaks, a six pack and a half a pound of cheeze cake, boip. Then went back to the room and ate the rest of the ten pound bag of mashed potatoes we made the night before followed by an Adam Sandler marathon!:cheers I loved a 2 ltr of Code Red and then a nap. Or two pints of B+Js and a nap, hhhhhhhhmmmmm. Or the entire Pizza Hut lunch buffet and a nap. No wonder I only lost eight pounds.

Bushwhack

#19

When you know more then 4 people can fit in a shelter.

Leif

#20

You pick the flavor of ben & jerry’s based on the fat calories contained. Picking the one with the most of course.

Two Scoops