We greatly admire the hikers who’ve earned the Triple Crown of AT, PCT and CDT thruhikes!\u00a0 That makes 3 long hikes.\u00a0 Well, if we can finish the CDT, that makes 3 long hikes for us, so it’s sortakinda a Triple Crown.\u00a0 Sort of.<\/p>\n
We did go have a look at the AT in Massachusetts.\u00a0 Our impression was “This is a walk in the woods.\u00a0 No views unless you happen to make it up to the top of something.”\u00a0 We met some northbound\u00a0AT thruhikers while we were there and we asked them, “Is this pretty typical AT trail?\u00a0 Just walking through a forest?\u00a0 No views, no nothing?”<\/p>\n
They all sort of looked at the ground and shuffled their feet and finally one of them admitted, “Yeah, this is pretty typical.”\u00a0 Another piped up, “Except back in Georgia before the trees leafed out.\u00a0 We saw some good views then.”\u00a0 So we brandished our PCT bandannas and told them, “Next time, go do a REAL trail!\u00a0\u00a0 The PCT is WAY better than this!”\u00a0 They all said that was definitely something they planned to do.<\/p>\n
We made up our minds at that point that doing the AT is something you only do so you can say you did it.\u00a0 Not worth it.<\/p>\n
Our first PCT hike was in 2005.\u00a0 I\u00a0 (3rd Monty) was 57 and Fixit was 65.\u00a0 He had just retired and we figured, “This is our one and only chance to do the PCT before we are too old and decrepit.”\u00a0 Wrong!\u00a0\u00a0 Doing the PCT got us into such great shape that we decided we had to do it again.\u00a0 So in 2010, we did.\u00a0\u00a0 And now every summer, Fixit hikes the whole JMT–We start at Horseshoe Meadows and go up via Cottonwood Pass, so we don’t have to deal with permit hassles.\u00a0 I go with Fixit to the top of Mt. Whitney, then say, “Bye, honey, have fun!” and I head back to the car,\u00a0many miles away, while Fixit begins his race against time.\u00a0 Each year he tries to go faster than he did the year before.\u00a0 This summer of 2015, he did the whole JMT from Whitney to Happy Isles, in 7 days and 11 hours.\u00a0 Not bad for a 75 year old!\u00a0 The reason I don’t go with him is because there is NO way I want to go that fast!\u00a0 I love the JMT, but not at that speed.<\/p>\n
Fixit and I did the whole Tahoe Rim Trail last summer also, in 7 1\/2 days.\u00a0 It was tougher than we expected, but really awesome.<\/p>\n
So the CDT looks like a big challenge, but we think we are up for it.\u00a0 And it will sortakinda be a Triple for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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