[pct-l] Trail Names

[scott garner]

 Well, I was hiking in Penn on the AT and my feet were so "chewed up" and "blisterfied" that I walked about 5 miles with Flip flops duct taped to my feet and another thru hiker named Hobbes saw this and immediately called me flip flop and it stuck. Didn't hurt that I was also doing an AT "Flip flop" hike. I started in Harpers ferry went north than got a ride back down to harpers ferry and went south. Flip FLop
> From: jomike at cot.net
> To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:47:24 -0800
> CC: dvsteven at hotmail.com
> Subject: [pct-l] Trail Names
> 
> (I'd love to hear how everyone got their trail names
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> 
> I was with a group of about 5 to 6 people starting from Scissor's Crossing about 4 years ago. We were just a few 100 yards into the "climb" up the San Felipe's when, being a smart a_ _, I turned and said to those behind me, "Are we there yet?" They all advised me I now had a trail name.
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> As time went by I decided to drop the capitalization of the a and to make it a statement instead of a question.
> 
> are we there yet
> 
> ...going to the mountains is going home.
> 
> John Muir
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