[pct-l] Your Top 10 Hiking Songs

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

That totally makes sense. For lots of things besides just music.  
Whenever I used Burts Bees honey chapstick I'm instantly back on the  
PCT. Whenever I hear a raven I'm instantly on the PCT. Certain plant  
smells also instantly take me back.

I didn't bring any musical listening devices on the trail and ended  
up listening to ear worms. Around Oregon or so the ear worms reduced  
themselves to a generous helping of Dan Fogelberg, Pachelbel's Cannon  
(both those seemed to match my walking speed plus Pachelbel's Cannon  
has a sort of never-ending round and round quality to it if you can't  
remember how the whole thing goes) and a couple bits and pieces of  
other tunes I couldn't quite remember.

The only potential problem I can see with using a radio is that when  
I drive up I5 or 395 in California, after a while there's only  
Mexican oompah pah music, country western and Christian country  
western. I don't like any of those.

On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
> I recommend a simple AM/FM radio instead of an Mp3, and here's  
> why:  During
> his 2005 CDT hike, D-Low loaded all his favorite songs from the last
> several years into his Mp3, and took that on the trail.  He thought  
> he'd
> want to listen to his favorite songs while he hiked.  After a few  
> weeks, he
> realized that there were already memories attached to those songs.   
> If he
> listened to the radio while hiking, then he would hear the songs  
> which were
> current during his thru-hike.  If he listened to the pre-loaded  
> songs while
> hiking, then he was robbing himself of making new memories attached  
> to new
> songs.  Whatever songs were on the radio during the summer of 2005  
> now hold
> memories from that hike.  Hope that made sense.
>
> yogi
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