Len!<br>You are toooooo funny! Maybe hiking, like sex, is highly overrated!! (That was a quote from an old friend of mine. Cracked me up every time).<br><br>And yes! Night hiking sux!!! As if hiking isn't dangerous enough in the daylight!! Good God!!<br><br>But I gotta disagree with you on the "lesser accomplishment" statement. Sorry.<br><br>Wheeew<br><br><b><i>Len Glassner <len5742@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> >> But, i think this is why speed-hikers get a negative<br>> response from many non-speed thru-hikers: by saying<br>> that completing a trail in a record time is a great<br>> achievement, there's a SLIGHT implication that going<br>> less fast is less of an achievement.<br><br>Mark,<br><br>It IS less of an achievement. In the sense that hiking can be a<br>competetive sport. In the sense that
completing any distance in<br>record time, doing anything is at all, an achievement.<br><br>(Night hiking, on the other hand, is a perversion of all that is good<br>and true. This cannot be disputed.)<br><br>Perhaps thru-hiking should be viewed like sex: The longer you can<br>keep it up, the better. (However, any thru-hikers experiencing a walk<br>longer than five months should seek medical help.)<br><br><br>On 12/2/07, mark v <allemande6@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>_______________________________________________<br>Pct-l mailing list<br>Pct-l@backcountry.net<br>To unsubscribe or change list options (digest, etc):<br>http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l<br></allemande6@yahoo.com></blockquote><br><p> 
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