[pct-l] Colin Fletcher

[Junaid Dawud]

Aloha,

I think about this myself.  In 2006 I hiked Mex ->
Snoqualmie pass.  My decision to get off trail was
something that really bothered me for the first few
months afterward.  In truth it still bothers me a bit
now.  I didn't really have an option when I quit, to
continue would have been dangerous and foolish.  But I
think sometimes that if I'd finished and didn't have
plans to return to the trail, it may have been really
depressing.  By finishing I would have ended the "PCT
book" of my life.  By not finishing, I have more
chapters to look forward to.  I even think I may end
up rehiking the whole trail someday.  Would that have
changed if I had finished?  Either way I still miss
the trail greatly. I think about it every single day. 
I can't wait to get back on trail and head north. 
I'll probably cry like a little girl when I finally
reach the northern terminus.

---------------Speshul 41


--- David Hough on pct-l <pcnst2001 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> What I remember most from Colin Fletcher was his
> first
> rather unpretentious book, the Thousand Mile Summer.
> It's a series of interesting vignettes along his 
> rather unconventional route.
> 
> But the part that stuck most firmly in my mind since
> the
> early 1970's was the day he realized in his gut that
> his hike was about to end - somewhere around Honey
> Lake
> in September he realized he'd be at the Oregon
> border
> soon.      "As predictable as the next payday" were
> his words, more or less.
> 
> The Thousand Mile Summer and the High Adventure of
> Eric
> Ryback got me interested in the PCT, and if I had
> been
> bolder about ignoring my graduate school debts I
> could
> have been part of the class of 1977.     But I
> wasn't
> and so I have been knocking off sections on a ten 
> year plan.     But I still think the most
> interesting
> aspect of completing the PCT (or the Camino de
> Santiago or any other long trail) is the sadness and
> disappointment that seem so common among people who
> have completed their goal.     The only cure seems
> to
> be to go back again next year.      Hard to do that
> in the marriage-mortgage-offspring stages of life.
> 
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