The only way to hike!

[Steve Ashton]

I had a friend who did the Appalachian Trail. He started out in a kilt. But he preferred to wear the waist of his kilts down at the top of his hip bones. Of course this dropped the hem to the bottom of his knee.

On the third day it was raining pretty good and the sand that was kicked up behind him caked on the back hem. This chafed the back of his calves so bad that it drew blood.

He was laid up for five days letting his legs heal before he could continue.

I remember that he was more angry at the delay than the fact that the kilt caused the problem in the first place.