[pct-l] Great Quote

[Brick Robbins]

"The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important."
--- General Dwight D Eisenhower.

I think that quote applies here.



On 10/25/07, Bighummel at aol.com <Bighummel at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> From the book, "Pacific Crest Trail Hike Planning Guide", 1976 on the first
> page, a letter from Jim Podlesmy,
>
> "It is my belief that a book anyone writes on planning will never help
> another do such a trip as a long-distance hike . . . Hiking Maine to Georgia
> or Mexico to Canada is a thing of the heart.  The planning, the doing, is
> inside a person.  The desire to do the long-distance hike is the only thing
> which can get a person through it."
>
> I agree with this so deeply, yet my respects go out to anyone and everyone
> who has attempted to put together a "guide" book of any sort, especially
> Yogi.
>
> A bit smokey but fine in Sth Calif.,
>
> Greg "Strider" Hummel
>
>
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Brick Robbins
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