[at-l] Hiking and Divorce

[David Addleton]

I asked a simple question and nobody answered it.

I got re-interested in backpacking and trekking as a result of an amazing 13
yo daughter who asked me for a very special gift for her 14th birthday. She
wanted me to take her hiking on Cumberland Island, just me and her. I made
it happen. 18 mos later or less her mom and I separated.

I read somewhere this article about failing marriages that castigated us
males who go off hiking.

I know at least one other person who got divorced in and about the same time
frame, after starting to hike . . .

My hiking came up in my divorce trial, suggesting I went off hiking solo for
weeks at a time, as if THAT were something perverted: I dealt with it on
cross examination (I tried my own divorce case pro se) by asking about all
the kids who joined me on my hikes: mine, her sisters' and the ex's
coworkers and their kids and our neighbors kids . . . and by asking about
all the times the ex provided shuttle service for me and the people who came
with me . . . and about the ONE time she provided shuttle service for the
ONE time hiked solo to finish a one-nighter section between Springer and
Fontana . . . (I "won" the divorce trial, btw . . . taking my 50% of the
marital interest in the home + the other 50% that I didn't even ask for as
"lump sum alimony." The client fool had a great lawyer!)

Well, now I see why people think trekking is something perverted . . .

All those sweating, stinking bodies collapsing into a shack at the end of
the day's long hike MUST BE HAVING A SEXUAL ORGY . . . .

So now I have a new question, being single these many years after my
divorce:

WHEN DID THE TALIBAN START HIKING THE TRAIL? HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU FIND SEX
ON THE TRAIL?  WHAT ARE THE MAGIC WORDS? GOT ANY GOOD LINES?  AND . . .

WHEN DID THE A-T BECOME A MEAT MARKET?

HOW DID I MISS THAT?