<div>28...with a trail birthday...Can't wait to see where I spend it this year. I actually thought (for just a split second) about holding off hiking the CDT until next year (celebrating my 30th) but I just can't wait that long...taking the summer of 2006 off from long distance hiking was hard enough. I am sure birthday number 30 will be spent out on a trail too.</div> <div> </div> <div>Mags, I think you'd be surprised how many of those 30 somethings were really late 20 somethings or even younger...but as Marcia said...age doesn't really matter out there. </div> <div>NITRO<BR><BR><B><I>Karen Somers <kborski@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">"....The minority are the hikers between 30 and 45<BR>years old, because they're usually busy with their<BR>careers and raising families."<BR><BR><BR>It seemed that the above was true more on
the<BR>AT.....then, on the PCT, suddenly there were lots of<BR>thirty-somethings on the trail. A more serious lot? <BR>AT graduates growing older and moving onward? Hmmmm.<BR><BR>Bald Eagle and I will be 35-36 on the CDT. Our<BR>buddies we hope will join us will be 39 and 52. We're<BR>all hopelessly ruined by thru-hiking....all of us quit<BR>perfectly good jobs and abandon comfortable abodes to<BR>be homeless, perpeturally tired and filthy. In one<BR>world, we aren't happy. In the other, we are.....<BR><BR>Although the time raising a family is one activity<BR>that can't be put off too long.<BR><BR>Nocona<BR><BR><BR>"Civilization is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't<BR>want to live there."<BR><BR><BR><BR>____________________________________________________________________________________<BR>No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go <BR>with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.<BR>http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail
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