Long Distance Hikers

[Crankshaft]

Any other long distance hikers around here?  I saw 97thruhiker, so that's awesome to have a fellow thru-hiker on the boards.

I floated the Mississippi River in 2001 also, and most of the other people out there were former thru-hikers too.  Well, most of the other people out there were driving barges, but aside from that.

Pizza Guy
GA->ME '99

[Donkey_Kong]

I used to fish for walleye with my dad on the Mississippi River in central Minnesota (Aitkin & Brainerd area) when I was a kid. Occasionally we would see someone in a canoe loaded to the gills with gear and supplies and you could just tell they were going to try to go all the way. I was always amazed seeing that, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Especially being that we were up near the source of the river & 1000's of winding miles from New Orleans. Heck it still amazes me. Seems like a cool trip though.

[Crankshaft]

It's a pretty cool trip, but WAY harder physically than I was expecting.  All those locks and dams make for still lakes down to St. Louis, and the wind is always from the south.  We could have sailed with our makeshift tarp sail from St. Louis to Minnesota faster than we paddled from Minnesota to St. Louis.  It seemed that way anyway.  Every day we would wake up and see those logs floating by and say, "it's rolling today!  Let's get on the river!" but every day it's an optical illusion. 

Brian Z

[Jdurg]

A few years ago I hiked up Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire.  I did so while I was fully out of shape and well before I started working out and getting physically fit.  It nearly killed me, but I did make it up to the top from the very bottom.  Don't know how many miles I hiked, but at the top I could see the city of Boston and various other cities in the area.  Beautiful view I must say.

[boykster]

I havent' been on a long hike in years, but over the years I've hiked most if not all of the old Pacific Crest Trail in WA state, all the way up to Manning Park in Cananda.  Neat trail, and the northermost portion is really very nice....

[ChadTower]

I've always really wanted to do this, don't even care where, really.  Never had the freedom to do it.  I've always had people to support such that I couldn't take that sort of time off work.