[pct-l] Long Pants

Brick Robbins brick at brickrobbins.com
Sun Feb 12 22:04:14 CST 2012


This sounds like a Reinhold Thread......




On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Jackie McDonnell <yogihikes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I think hiker chicks with hairy legs look TOUGH.  I tried it
> once.  In fact, I made it from Kennedy Meadows to Etna without shaving.  I
> looked tough, but I just couldn't stand the way my hairy legs felt.  It
> seemed hotter, and I definitely was dirtier than with shaved legs.  A
> disposable razor weighs next-to-nothing.  I just carry one with me and
> shave when I get to a motel/hostel.
>
> Yogi
> www.pcthandbook.com
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:38 AM, CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
>>
>> http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/
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