[pct-l] zero days (nights) on the trail instead of in town?

[Bob Sartini]

I did the AT with only four Zero days  when I passed near relatives homes.
Once you get tuned into the trail I don't feel I need zero days. But one 
thing leads to another. Resupply to shower to laundry to motel can become 
inevitable.  On another trip I took a zero on the trail and was bored silly. 
I also got tired explaining to people hiking by that I was not hurt, 
everything was cool, etc. But for many  zero days are good. They let you 
take the  trail as a series of one week backpacking trips instead of the 
huge undertaking it can be.

"EVERYTHING is in walking distance,"
    ......Bamboo Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Plamann" <julian at amity.be>
To: "pct-l" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:57 PM
Subject: [pct-l] zero days (nights) on the trail instead of in town?


> The subject of thru-hike cost that has been floating around on the list 
> for
> the past week or so has got me curious about something.
> Are there any former thru-hikers that managed to spend the majority of 
> their
> zero days+nights on the trail itself? I'm talking somewhere in the range 
> of
> 5 or less nights spent at hotels or in hostels. I may be wrong, but I 
> think
> I remember reading somewhere that Billy Goat spent every night sleeping
> under the stars on at least one of his thru-hikes. I also recall reading a
> few comments in Yogi's handbook of hikers saying they wished they had 
> taken
> more on-trail zero days.
>
> I say this in anticipation of my upcoming thru -- not as a plan by which I
> can save money, but rather because I've always been more comfortable
> sleeping under the stars than in an enclosed room. That said, I also know
> well the feeling of occasionally needing to get the type of clean that can
> only come from a hot shower and freshly laundered sheets.
>
> -Julian
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