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post 1458531543 08-20-2016, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted By truth223⏩
OP has lived more life than half of the misc combined. Mirin your lifestyle OP.


How's the trail when it comes to heights? I love to hike but heights scare the ever livImg **** ouT of me.
There are some heights on the PCT. You can take a side trail and summit Mount Whitney which is the highest peak in the lower 48. There are times where you're walking on the side of a mountain and it's a pretty steep drop. A couple hikers have actually died in the past month on the Eagle Creek Trail which is a popular side trail on the PCT. They fell to their death is what I heard.

The Eagle Creek Trail is the one with the waterfall at the bottom of this post.
Originally Posted By SadBoys⏩
Seriously mirin' though. I'm a hiker myself and I thought I was badass for hiking for 3 days straight, meanwhile there are people like you who do it for 3 months. I really need to step up my hiking game

Do you take longer breaks brah or have rest days where you do nothing but relax the entire day? Or do you walk a set distance every day? What do you do during rain and bad weather? Are there any foreigners there hiking such long trails or just Americans? I'm from Europe but would like to do something like that one day, I've heard America has some amazing hikes
I only took three off days. On my resupply days it would be a half day. I only rain I had was in Washington and I hiked through it, everything was soaked, it sucked. I actually saw a ton of foreigners from all over the world. Met Germans, Israelis, Aussies, Koreans, and a bunch of other people from Europe. A man beat the supported record on the PCT a few days before me and I believe he was from Germany.






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Originally Posted By theACEofSPADES⏩
Link? I think I know who you're talking about. Another Asian dude?
http://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showth...hp?t=171423331
Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.

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Originally Posted By theACEofSPADES⏩
Nothing dangerous aside from rattle snakes. I have a huge fear of spiders but I never saw any. There are bears but I didnt see any either

No scary moments with logistics. You really have to pay attention to water in the desert. So many people get rescued because they didn't bring enough water.



I met people the first day and hiked with them most of the way. We all did similar miles



You can do it too, especially if you were a Ranger. You've probably done worse in the regiment. There were a decent amount of people doing sub 90. The record is 60 with no help, that's truly insane.



Oregon was the easiest section/state by far. That's where I could do high 30s and low 40s like nothing. There's almost zero elevation gain. Everything was so flat. There's actually a two week challenge for oregon



No.



I didn't actually hike 40 every day. If you do the math I averaged almost 30. I only did forty probably around six times. Most of my days were high thirties. I knew a couple people that did 50+. I was usually moving 15 hours out of the day. If I did it again I'd probably do bigger miles but take more time in towns. I missed out on some good towns because I was trying to save money.






This looks beautiful, was this Oregon?

What were the main things you learned from your first big trail hike that prepared you for the PCT?
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Originally Posted By BronsonStorm⏩
This looks beautiful, was this Oregon?

What were the main things you learned from your first big trail hike that prepared you for the PCT?
Northern Washington. Oregon didn't have much

The main thing I learned from the AT was just how to live like a thru hiker. I knew what my body could do, I knew I could do big miles so I did big miles right off the bat on the PCT. I learned what to eat, how often to eat, how to resupply, etc.
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fuark looks beautiful OP, i'm mirin. but I would never do this because of how badly it reks your body + no poontang for half a year
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I have always wanted to do this
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Did you bring any weapons?
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What's the longest you hiked at one time without stopping for a break? At my last job I basically had to walk around for 8 hours a day, every day. But hiking with all the gear you have to carry, I'm not sure how long I could go for without stopping.
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How much bear Grylls did you watch prior?


My hat goes off to you OP. I had to hike up Malaysia's biggest mountain which is 4100m high (13451ft) and I wanted to kill myself lmao and that hike was only like 12km
Fck u james
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Originally Posted By Kuzon⏩
fuark looks beautiful OP, i'm mirin. but I would never do this because of how badly it reks your body + no poontang for half a year
Hiking doesn't wreck your body that bad. Can't be worse than what you do in the gym.
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Did you bring any weapons?
No
Originally Posted By Briangumble⏩
What's the longest you hiked at one time without stopping for a break? At my last job I basically had to walk around for 8 hours a day, every day. But hiking with all the gear you have to carry, I'm not sure how long I could go for without stopping.
6+ hours
Originally Posted By Gringo12⏩
How much bear Grylls did you watch prior?


My hat goes off to you OP. I had to hike up Malaysia's biggest mountain which is 4100m high (13451ft) and I wanted to kill myself lmao and that hike was only like 12km
Don't watch Bear Grylls
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Originally Posted By kalamari01⏩
Did you bring any weapons?
Just his knife (hands)



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The asian dude in the misc is on the AT right now. I follow him on IG and see his updates from time to time as he moves through the wilderness. Cool pics.


OP, might have missed it but how old are you? I see you said that you don't have direction for a career yet. Well I'm 34 and also fit that bill. I'm going back to school for medical stuff here pretty soon and maybe I'll end up with some search and rescue gig or a tactical medicine job, we'll see. Regardless, I hope you don't feel like you need to fit into the 8-5 mold that so many dudes here "brag" about. Brb, make 80k a year but only enjoy Saturdays. No thanks Jeff.
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Originally Posted By US_Ranger⏩
The asian dude in the misc is on the AT right now. I follow him on IG and see his updates from time to time as he moves through the wilderness. Cool pics.


OP, might have missed it but how old are you? I see you said that you don't have direction for a career yet. Well I'm 34 and also fit that bill. I'm going back to school for medical stuff here pretty soon and maybe I'll end up with some search and rescue gig or a tactical medicine job, we'll see. Regardless, I hope you don't feel like you need to fit into the 8-5 mold that so many dudes here "brag" about. Brb, make 80k a year but only enjoy Saturdays. No thanks Jeff.
I'm 26

Still trying to figure out what I want to do, kind of sucks, thought I'd have it figured out by now. I was actually looking into S&R jobs too but didn't find much. A lot of it is volunteer and it also depends on your location. Some places they have dedicated groups that do it, others it's the police or air guard.

I'll work 8-5 if I like the job.
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Originally Posted By theACEofSPADES⏩
I'm 26

Still trying to figure out what I want to do, kind of sucks, thought I'd have it figured out by now. I was actually looking into S&R jobs too but didn't find much. A lot of it is volunteer and it also depends on your location. Some places they have dedicated groups that do it, others it's the police or air guard.

I'll work 8-5 if I like the job.
We're in the same boat, I'm just older.

My suggest: Medicine

If you like the outdoors and you're good on the trail (which you are) then do something that allows you to work out there and enjoy the life you like. I have my wilderness EMT and now I'm moving past that for more training. Still, there are openings for jobs that allow you to use these sorts of skills. At the very least, you learn skills that will save your life, or someone else's life, in the backcountry. I've had to use medical training on people dozens of times.

You're right that most S&R jobs are volunteer. It's too bad because dudes put their life on the line for zero pay. Places like Washington State have some nice paid positions. If you're a good swimmer, you can look into combat rescue jobs with the air force that would allow you to get paid to train into that sort of field. You can do it through the guard or reserves too. You're prior service so it shouldn't be too much of a pain in the ass except you'd get treated a million times better than how the Marines did it.
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This you OP?


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Originally Posted By theACEofSPADES⏩
I only took three off days. On my resupply days it would be a half day. I only rain I had was in Washington and I hiked through it, everything was soaked, it sucked. I actually saw a ton of foreigners from all over the world. Met Germans, Israelis, Aussies, Koreans, and a bunch of other people from Europe. A man beat the supported record on the PCT a few days before me and I believe he was from Germany.
aren't they debating not giving him the record because he took a bunch of detours due to forest fires and **** and he cut off a lot of trail miles in exchange for road miles?
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It's amazing to me that there are mapped trails in America like this, with signs and everything

In England you can pretty much walk on anybodies land and path of your choosing, but most people don't hike from town to town because the weather is terrible and towns are so close together. Hiking here is just up tame mountains which is more like hillwalking than mountain climbing, or a 5-30 mile circular route around sights of natural beauty like waterfalls which people generally arrive by car or bus and go home the same day.
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Originally Posted By US_Ranger⏩
We're in the same boat, I'm just older.

My suggest: Medicine

If you like the outdoors and you're good on the trail (which you are) then do something that allows you to work out there and enjoy the life you like. I have my wilderness EMT and now I'm moving past that for more training. Still, there are openings for jobs that allow you to use these sorts of skills. At the very least, you learn skills that will save your life, or someone else's life, in the backcountry. I've had to use medical training on people dozens of times.

You're right that most S&R jobs are volunteer. It's too bad because dudes put their life on the line for zero pay. Places like Washington State have some nice paid positions. If you're a good swimmer, you can look into combat rescue jobs with the air force that would allow you to get paid to train into that sort of field. You can do it through the guard or reserves too. You're prior service so it shouldn't be too much of a pain in the ass except you'd get treated a million times better than how the Marines did it.
I was thinking about the medical field and taking some courses through NOLs, we'll see. I have 33 months of the GI Bill remaining so I want it to count.

I met a few people on trail who could hike long trails every year because they were nurses. That's a good profession and they get paid well. I guess it's easy for them to take months off and still have a job
Originally Posted By MikePlow⏩
aren't they debating not giving him the record because he took a bunch of detours due to forest fires and **** and he cut off a lot of trail miles in exchange for road miles?
I didn't hear anything about that. Everybody has to take some kind of detour on the PCT, I'm willing to bet almost nobody has been able to hike every inch of the PCT in one go. There are always fire detours in the desert, and most of the detours are longer than the trail




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how do you know where you're going through the mountains?
Following the trail

If it's covered in snow you could follow the footprints. I also used an iPhone app that had a GPS on it which was very handy
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I'd love to do this but I know absolutely nothing about camping and all that

Maybe in the next life
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OP, you mentioned eating junk food, can you give us examples of what you actually ate on a day to day basis? Mirin...
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really mirin, but no way in hell id be able to do it. Id get bored/panic if i dont have water.
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