Toe Cozy
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The birth of Cozy...
Back in aught four while doing my very first backpack trip with Seema and some other ladies my name was Jen. Simple. Obvious. But this was the Long Trail in VT and I was hiking more miles with more weight than I'd ever done before. I was livin' a dream for real and so happy those first two weeks. (my first backpack trip was 130 miles) I knew ahead of time that the second toe on my left foot got really hurty after lots of walking. So in anticipation I purchased this toe "thing" from the drug store. It's like a gel/compression stocking hat for your toe. I cut it to the right size and put it on every day. It was really quite unique and eccentric, (i.e. dorky!). When we arrived at camp I'd remove my boots and my socks and the (gross) toe thing. Invariably during those first few days I'd lose the stupid beige toe hat by morning. It was sad. Then I stuck my hand into a little used pocket of my shorts and my fingers felt a weird squishy object. I pulled my hand out of the pocket, held aloft the prized object, smiled at my companions and hollered with extreme happiness, "hey, my toe cozy!"
Seema deemed me Toe Cozy from that moment on. It's a warm fuzzy early days on the LT memory and for that reason I'll always keep it as my trail name. Although I don't use it in reality for more than posting here.
Our experience on the LT also created a group trail name of "The Go-Lite Girls" for the four of us. That was fun too.
Trail names are great fun. And often special memories.
Back in aught four while doing my very first backpack trip with Seema and some other ladies my name was Jen. Simple. Obvious. But this was the Long Trail in VT and I was hiking more miles with more weight than I'd ever done before. I was livin' a dream for real and so happy those first two weeks. (my first backpack trip was 130 miles) I knew ahead of time that the second toe on my left foot got really hurty after lots of walking. So in anticipation I purchased this toe "thing" from the drug store. It's like a gel/compression stocking hat for your toe. I cut it to the right size and put it on every day. It was really quite unique and eccentric, (i.e. dorky!). When we arrived at camp I'd remove my boots and my socks and the (gross) toe thing. Invariably during those first few days I'd lose the stupid beige toe hat by morning. It was sad. Then I stuck my hand into a little used pocket of my shorts and my fingers felt a weird squishy object. I pulled my hand out of the pocket, held aloft the prized object, smiled at my companions and hollered with extreme happiness, "hey, my toe cozy!"
Seema deemed me Toe Cozy from that moment on. It's a warm fuzzy early days on the LT memory and for that reason I'll always keep it as my trail name. Although I don't use it in reality for more than posting here.
Our experience on the LT also created a group trail name of "The Go-Lite Girls" for the four of us. That was fun too.
Trail names are great fun. And often special memories.