You know you’re a thru-hiker-to-be when eating ice cream sundaes the month before you start is classified as “safety-enhancing insulation production.”
Mimi Asnes
You Know You're A THTB (Thru-Hiker-To-Be) When
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when you get fired from work cause all you want to do all day is surf AT websites… Damn… here comes my boss again!!!
Moose
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So funny as The Program Manager for My Ems Helicopter keeps bouncing into my office and this site or Whiteblaze is always on the screen…
Chopper Dave
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when every conversation you have with anyone else centers around hiking the appalachian trail.
when, your major concern being a tight budget, you ask yourself before every purchase, “would i rather have this right now, or hike the appalachian trail?”
hephzibah
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Hephzibah, that’s almost exactly what I think whenever I buy anything anymore. My two criteria for purchases:
1/ Is this something that I can use on the AT?
2/ Will I still be happy to have this item if I can’t do a through-hike due to lack of funds?
--TR
Teddy Roosevelt
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- When you are already counting the days, and it is still 365+ days to go 2)as above, when everything you buy and spend somehow relates to hiking and finances 3) you are constantly websurfing hiking websites 4) you are thinking about your future hike when there are other, more presnet and more importnat things to be thinking about!!! (damn, I have got class in 15 minutes, gotta run!!) :eek:
airferret
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I’ve been counting for 4 years!! Do you KNOW how long four years is in days???
hippie hiker chic
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When you weigh the pros and cons of buying capilene underwear vs. cotton underwear. One is cheap- already own many pairs; the other is expensive and smelly, but light. Is the 1 oz worth it?!!
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You know you are a THTB when you are out shoveling snow in shorts, never wear pants unless at work, you’ve slept the last fifeteen sub twenty F days in your backyard under a tarp, analyzing what sleep combo gets the best bang for the ounce and the sales lady at EMS calls you “Scale Boy” because you have weighed the entire contents of the store on your portable postage scale!
hikerltwt
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You know you are a THTB when you are out shoveling snow in shorts, never wear pants unless at work, you’ve slept the last fifeteen sub twenty F days in your backyard under a tarp, analyzing what sleep combo gets the best bang for the ounce and the sales lady at EMS calls you “Scale Boy” because you have weighed the entire contents of the store on your portable postage scale!
hikerltwt
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Not to bring the drug conversation back up, but hikerltwt, why do you have postage scales…are they digital? Just Kiddin’…
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when, while tromping through snow you get your boots wet, then you leave them in your truck overnight — and when you go to get them in the morning find that they are frozen (I live in northern Maine, after all), and instead of wearing sneakers for the day, you decide that a ‘real’ thru-hiker would wear the frozen boots, and so you put them on, ignoring the tiny screams of your freezing toes . . .
True story!!!
Kineo Kid (2003?)
Kineo Kid
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You know you are a thru-hiker-to-be when you get home from the outfitters with only the things you have to have to survive on the AT and your pack now weighs 65 lbs!
Last year we met a guy at Springer with a pack weight of 109 lbs!!! He was only taking what he needed!?!
Papa Smurf
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You know you’re a thru-hiker-to-be when you stop dating so you can avoid any relationship entanglements that might make hiking the trail less attractive. Next year.
cal
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Damn Cal, I thought I was the only one…avoiding certian entanglements that might impede a AT’04 hike…
For me, everything will probably be as good as it is going to get…No marriage, no kids, no school, no car payment or insurence, no mortgage, no significant other back home, etc…:pimp
xtn
airferret
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#17
Too true, too true.
My former hiking-partner-to-be wants to wait until 2005 to go, and I am now going by myself because I’m scared I might have something to keep me off the trail.
And then I go and do something stupid like have a WONDERFUL date on sunday. Ugh. At least he’s a backpacker, too, so he understands and I made it clear that I was going and nothing was going to stop me, so it’s his own fault if he decides to keep dating me. :girl (though I really hope he does ):oh
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