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I hiked 30 miles over 3 days once and it was an epic adventure, leaving me exhausted. It's hard for me to even imagine what a 700 mile trip like this on foot is
by lacker 5y ago
I hiked 30 miles over 3 days once and it was an epic adventure, leaving me exhausted. It's hard for me to even imagine what a 700 mile trip like this on foot is like! And the PCT is almost four times longer....
- stickfigure 5y agoI hiked the Camino de Santiago about ten years ago, taking ~6 weeks to do 600 miles. Exhaustion really isn't the issue, you reach a steady state. The bigger risk is repetitive stress injury - I came back with a numb spot on my hip that took a few years to go away. I also came back married, but that one hasn't gone away.
- raducu 5y ago> I also came back married That's indeed a sore spot that doesn't go away :)
- antihero 5y agoWhy do people still make jokes like this about marriage? It seems very outdated.
- em-bee 5y agobecause we haven't learned yet how to prepare for and maintain a good relationship to have a happy marriage.
- helloworld11 5y agoBecause people like to joke about things that are common causes of little problems (and sometimes big ones) to so many of us in life. What exactly is so outdated about it? or the real fact that marriage is a marathon sometimes?
- raducu 5y agoYou can go to any place, anywhere on Earth, at any point in time, make a joke about marriage and some human will get it. Not on HN though :)
- LorenPechtel 5y agoThe CDT is even worse. And there are parts of the CDT where towns are 120 miles apart--you either carry enough food to cross that or you cache supplies in the wilderness (there are roads you can get access with) to pick up along the way.