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Ridgewalker

Ridgewalker

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You know if your addicted to hiking if:
You convinced your spouse to buy all titanium cookware.
For Christmas you give your elderly mother a hiking pole "for all your hikes up the stairs".
Your furniture is now fold up chairs with cup holders.
You replaced your bed with a therma rest and a couple's double sleeping bag for you and your wife.
You think gorp is better to serve as refreshment on Easter insted of chocalate.
You day dream of your next hike at a business meeting
You have an emergency stash of Backpacker's Pantry in the cupboard
You consider your best clothing to be a pair of zip off pants, teckwick shirt, heavy socks and liners.
You subscribe to every hiking magazine and get all known gear retailer magazines.
 
... you have six (count em) pads, five bags and five packs in your closet, gulp ... :eek:

[the multiple waders, fly-rods, vests, etc. require a whole other thread] :eek:
 
Ouch - this hits too close to home :eek:

Perhaps if you have enough gear to outfit a boy scout troop?
 
She says "But you went backpacking last month."

You say "And you went to church last week."

She has no idea that you are serious. You are ready with passages from the gospel according to Abbey and Thoreau. Yet the debate does not come just a heavy silence.
 
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She has no idea that you are serious. You are ready with passages from the gospel according to Abbey and Thoreau. Yet the debate does not come just a heavey silence.
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Puck yer SICK!!! (but i know just how you feel...) :eek:
 
New House

When you are houes shopping you have to find a house with a good pack room and you wonder if you can talk your wife into moving to Randolf or Gorham so you can be closer to the trail heads.
 
Puck said:
She says "But you went backpacking last month."

You say "And you went to church last week."

She has no idea that you are serious. You are ready with passages from the gospel according to Abbey and Thoreau. Yet the debate does not come just a heavy silence.
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Why reach for Abbey and Thoreau....

Try this:
Matthew 14:23 (New American Standard Bible)
23After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.

Plenty more where that came from.

Said the Preacher to the Mountaineer: Why do you always climb on Sunday?
Said the Mountaineer to the Preacher: Because, I would rather be in the mountains thinking about God than in church thinking about the mountains!
 
After getting up early all week to make a long commute to work, you get up even earlier on the weekend to make an even longer commute to the trailhead.
 
...if you're on a first-name basis w/ every single employee of Campmor

...if you've every sent an important message to someone by writing a note in a canister sign-in book

...if you create lists of chores for your children, and once they've completed the tasks, you give them a patch

...if you calibrate your altimeter upon reaching the second story of your house

...if you've ever had food delivered to a lean-to

...if you go to a formal party and "accessorize" with a compass on a string around your neck

...when your work colleagues leave the break room, you insist that they "leave no trace"

Matt
 
Puck said:
She says "But you went backpacking last month."

You say "And you went to church last week."

She has no idea that you are serious. You are ready with passages from the gospel according to Abbey and Thoreau. Yet the debate does not come just a heavy silence.
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Amen Brother
 
You look for excuses to climb one of your favorite peaks for the 33rd time... “Hey, I have never climbed Lafayette on Oprah Winfrey’s birthday!” :D
 
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