[pct-l] Long Pants

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning,

Some of the female hikers I’ve known over the years admit to wearing long
pants because they can’t seem to accept being seen in public – if that’s
what hiker-trash is called – with hairy legs.  I’ll admit being up way past
my bedtime making recommendations about what the distaff hikers should do,
but leg and pit fuzz are  facts of life on the trail, to one degree or
another, so I’d say just go with it.

Quit shaving now and by the time the Kick-Off rolls around you’ll be past
the stubble-stage and be will on the way to feeling comfortable, both
physically and socially.  Then you'll be able to decide long pants vs.
short pants based upon technical merit rather by social pressure.

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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