[at-l] Hiking and Divorce

[Jim Bullard]

LOL The AT as an orgy? I'm sure there are a few folks engaging in sex on
thru-hikes but I doubt it is as common as at least one of the responders
suggested and I suspect his opinion was based on speculation rather than 1st
hand knowledge. OTOH maybe you and I just stink worse than most when we hike
and that's why we get left out of all the hot activity. :-)

On 6/13/07, David Addleton <dfaddleton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I asked a simple question and nobody answered it.
>
> I got re-interested in backpacking and trekking as a result of an amazing
> 13
> yo daughter who asked me for a very special gift for her 14th birthday.
> She
> wanted me to take her hiking on Cumberland Island, just me and her. I made
> it happen. 18 mos later or less her mom and I separated.
>
> I read somewhere this article about failing marriages that castigated us
> males who go off hiking.
>
> I know at least one other person who got divorced in and about the same
> time
> frame, after starting to hike . . .
>
> My hiking came up in my divorce trial, suggesting I went off hiking solo
> for
> weeks at a time, as if THAT were something perverted: I dealt with it on
> cross examination (I tried my own divorce case pro se) by asking about all
> the kids who joined me on my hikes: mine, her sisters' and the ex's
> coworkers and their kids and our neighbors kids . . . and by asking about
> all the times the ex provided shuttle service for me and the people who
> came
> with me . . . and about the ONE time she provided shuttle service for the
> ONE time hiked solo to finish a one-nighter section between Springer and
> Fontana . . . (I "won" the divorce trial, btw . . . taking my 50% of the
> marital interest in the home + the other 50% that I didn't even ask for as
> "lump sum alimony." The client fool had a great lawyer!)
>
> Well, now I see why people think trekking is something perverted . . .
>
> All those sweating, stinking bodies collapsing into a shack at the end of
> the day's long hike MUST BE HAVING A SEXUAL ORGY . . . .
>
> So now I have a new question, being single these many years after my
> divorce:
>
> WHEN DID THE TALIBAN START HIKING THE TRAIL? HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU FIND
> SEX
> ON THE TRAIL?  WHAT ARE THE MAGIC WORDS? GOT ANY GOOD LINES?  AND . . .
>
> WHEN DID THE A-T BECOME A MEAT MARKET?
>
> HOW DID I MISS THAT?
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Jim Bullard
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