Hardcore Hikers

**mudd** · 12th March 06, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

Gold Bond promotes calluses, and that's not where you want those!

Calluses!

Eeuuuuuuuuuuuw!

**Verlyn** · 12th March 06, 11:20 AM

Andrew, you're too modest. I followed your weblog of your AT hike and if that doesn't qualify you as a hardcore hiker, nothing does. I had hoped to run into you when we were doing our sectionals, but you passed through the area we did a week before. And I agree; Body Glide is the only way to go.

**Andrew Breecher** · 12th March 06, 12:18 PM

I kind of flew through PA - finished up the last 40 miles from Palmerton to Delaware Water Gap in one overnight shot. Sorry to have missed you.

I'll consider myself hardcore once I finish the Continental Divide Trail - bushwhacking along the trailless crest of the Rockies from Canada to Mexico....

Andrew.

**Southern Breeze** · 12th March 06, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

I kind of flew through PA - finished up the last 40 miles from Palmerton to Delaware Water Gap in one overnight shot. Sorry to have missed you.

I'll consider myself hardcore once I finish the Continental Divide Trail - bushwhacking along the trailless crest of the Rockies from Canada to Mexico....

Andrew.

Once you do the Triple Crown, hike the American Discovery Trail. THEN you'll be hardcore.

**Iolaus** · 12th March 06, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

I kind of flew through PA - finished up the last 40 miles from Palmerton to Delaware Water Gap in one overnight shot. Sorry to have missed you.

I'll consider myself hardcore once I finish the Continental Divide Trail - bushwhacking along the trailless crest of the Rockies from Canada to Mexico....

Andrew.

Hey Andrew, when are you doing the C.D.T.?

**Andrew Breecher** · 12th March 06, 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by Southern Breeze

Once you do the Triple Crown, hike the American Discovery Trail. THEN you'll be hardcore.

Yeah, I followed Ken and Marcia Powers on their hike, and saw Andrew Skurka give a wonderful talk and slide show presentation about his Sea to Sea hike along the Sea to Sea route. You're right, I haven't hiked anything until I go the length of the U.S. instead of the breadth. ;)

Andrew.

**Andrew Breecher** · 12th March 06, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by Iolaus

Hey Andrew, when are you doing the C.D.T.?

On my current schedule, 2007 (the exact timing, including whether I go north-south or south-north, depends on the snowfall that year).

I hope I have enough money saved up now to do the PCT this year, and the CDT next year.

Andrew.

**way2fractious** · 13th March 06, 05:53 PM

While in high school (class of '71) my dad and brothers regularly took summer backpacking trips of 1, 2, or 3 weeks in California's Sierra Nevada range. A couple decades later, my cousins and dad's grandchildren gathered for trips into the Uintahs in Utah and the Tetons and Wind Rivers in Wyoming.

I started making and wearing kilts only three years ago, but hike kilted now. Andrew is right when he says he sees "the light go on" when other hikers inquire about the kilt.

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

I hope I have enough money saved up now to do the PCT this year.

Do you have a good timeframe for the PCT yet? Perhaps I could follow your trail log and meet up with you somewhere between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe this summer. http://www.frappr.com/?a=viewphoto&i...74&pid=1344223

As an aside, I've changed gears and usually opt for bikepacking, or self-contained long distance bicycle touring (unlike backpacking, the downhill side is a freebie.) Of course, a kilt is part of the off-bike kit. This year's sea-to-sea segment will be two weeks to cross the state of Virginia, west to east, then head up to Baltimore.

**Andrew Breecher** · 14th March 06, 12:37 AM

Originally Posted by way2fractious

Do you have a good timeframe for the PCT yet? Perhaps I could follow your trail log and meet up with you somewhere between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe this summer. http://www.frappr.com/?a=viewphoto&i...74&pid=1344223

I know I'm leaving Campo, CA, on 27 April, but apart from that I don't have any set schedule, and I have no idea how things will go from there. I know I probably won't enter the Sierras (from Kennedy Meadows) until 15 June or thereafter, and it will take approximately two weeks to get from there to Tuolumne Meadows/Yosemite, but I don't know the details. I'll post my hiking email in a little bit, but otherwise you can sign my guest book on my journal site, and I'll get the email from that. If you're following along with my hike you'll see when I leave Kennedy Meadows, and I'll be able to check email anywhere there's a telephone.

(Me in Yosemite.)

Andrew.