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Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2017 09:07:40 No.1067712 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1067713 >>1067715 >>1068649 >>1068722

Amerifags, explain the difference between hiking and thru-hiking. I seriously don't get it, i crossed the alps from Venice to Munich. Was i hiking? Or thru-hiking? Or maybe just walking?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2017 09:10:57 No.1067713 Report

Quoted By: >>1067794

>>1067712
sounds like a made-up and useless distinction, i wouldn't worry about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2017 09:13:16 No.1067715 Report

Quoted By: >>1067754 >>1068454

>>1067712
I would call your trek a thru-hike. Venice to Munich, huh? Good job

Now, the actual difference between hiking and thru-hiking, all I can say is that a thru-hike is usually a longer distance trail. Call me out for saying this, but I'd say anything longer than 100 miles is a thru-hike. Tell me if I'm wrong

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2017 10:03:44 No.1067738 Report

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One of them will give you more instagram credits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2017 10:45:54 No.1067754 Report

Quoted By: >>1067839 >>1068620 >>1068922

>>1067715
You're wrong. A thru-hike is from start to finish, no matter which trail you're hiking. If the trail's 300 miles long, you're not a thru-hiker unless you're doing the whole thing in one go. Obviously, this only applies to trails with a designated start and finish.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2017 12:51:18 No.1067794 Report

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>>1067713
All words are made up, aren't they?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2017 15:05:19 No.1067839 Report

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>>1067754
Okay thank you for clearing that up because I wasn't exactly sure about it myself

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2017 15:20:57 No.1067845 Report

Quoted By: >>1068393

>hiking
one day or less
>backpacking
multiple days. anything from overnight to months
>thruhiking
long distance, point-to-point backpacking trip completed in a single attempt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 06:02:25 No.1068393 Report

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>>1067845
this

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 09:25:43 No.1068454 Report

Quoted By: >>1068565 >>1068623

>>1067715
It surely was epic. I started a thread about it, but nobody cared, so i stopped posting about my adventures at the time i reached Belluno.

Last thing i posted was a detailed description about the lady at the espresso bar at mc donalds near the trainstation. Yeah, they serve freshly pulled espresso at mc donalds in tiny paper cups!

Also, every trainstation has a vending machine that grinds and pulls the espresso right there and then. It's awesome.

Anyways, my question is answered.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 15:16:28 No.1068565 Report

Quoted By: >>1068689

>>1068454
>on /out/
>detailed description of mcdonalds worker
>surprised no one cared

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Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 17:45:43 No.1068620 Report

Quoted By: >>1068721 >>1068922 >>1068965

>>1067754
yet i see threads here bitching about thru-hikers like they're some kind of subspecies, when clearly they're doing the ACTUAL challenging stuff.

sounds like /out/ is jelly

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 17:48:27 No.1068623 Report

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>>1068454
That's actually really cool! Wish I had seen your thread. Again, good job on hiking that far!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 18:20:35 No.1068649 Report

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>>1067712
A hike is a hike. Movement to view a place.
Thruhike is a long endeavor spanning weeks or months from point A in one area, and ending in point B in another area quite a large ways away.

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Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 19:26:35 No.1068689 Report

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>>1068565
Nice humorous description of OP, friendo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 20:28:48 No.1068721 Report

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>>1068620
the problem isn't thru-hikers. the problem is people who won't shut the fuck up about being thru-hikers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 20:29:48 No.1068722 Report

Quoted By: >>1068753

>>1067712
Define walking

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Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 21:32:22 No.1068753 Report

Quoted By: >>1068795 >>1068825

>>1068722
Flew to Venice, started putting one foot before the other and didn't stop until i reached Munich. Took 29 days and about 590 km, climbed about 22km elevation. Wild camped 20 nights. Destroyed two pairs of Merrel Moabs. Lost 8 kg of body weight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 22:15:48 No.1068795 Report

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>>1068753
Sounds like fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2017 22:32:32 No.1068825 Report

Quoted By: >>1069120

>>1068753
I'm off to do the same in under a month, just the other direction. How is the last (for you first part) in terms of wildcamping?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 00:49:57 No.1068922 Report

Quoted By: >>1068926 >>1068962 >>1068983 >>1069120

>>1067754
Say you thru hiked a trail and went back the other way. Is this a new thru hike or part of the original hike with a new name?

>>1068620
While I agree dealing with fellow dirty thru hikers can be challenging, I don't think it's the most challenging in /out/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 00:59:43 No.1068926 Report

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>>1068922
You did 2 thru-hikes back to back

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 02:06:52 No.1068962 Report

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>>1068922
>Say you thru hiked a trail and went back the other way
that's called yo-yoing, and it's a subset of thru-hiking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 02:12:56 No.1068965 Report

Quoted By: >>1069142

>>1068620
>challenging
>trail miles
choose one
Thru-hikers are the most unimaginative /out/ people, which is why there are so many of them
They are box checking normals, who want to brag that they have gone from A to B

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 02:50:05 No.1068983 Report

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>>1068922
>Is this a new thru hike or part of the original hike with a new name?
I'm in the AT area, and a northbound thru hike (colloquially called GAME - Georgia to Maine) is different than a southbound thru hike (MEGA - Maine to Georgia). They would be considered different thru hikes according to most people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 09:23:25 No.1069120 Report

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>>1068825
Not ideal, as soon as it got flat i just bivy camped.

Make camp at the last minute, get going fast in the morning. The italians are a friendly folk, they will not bother you if your footprint is small.

I personally would skip the italian flatlands if i was to start again, it was extremely hot and i didn't have my trail legs when i started.

Took a few days off to be with the mc donalds lady, i would say 26 days is doable, everything less would start to get difficult.

Have fun anon.

>>1068922
You just singularly reversed a thruhike. Its a subset of yoyo hiking which is a subset of thruhiking. M8.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 09:32:25 No.1069123 Report

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Basically in America all ""nature"" is locked down and pretty restricted so they have all these strange terms

>trail
This is a designated walking path where you're allowed to walk but not stray from

>thru-hike
This is when you're hiking through areas you're not allowed to camp in

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 10:58:21 No.1069142 Report

Quoted By: >>1069462

>>1068965
Fucking exactly this. Trail-hiking on a well-beaten path with shelters, nice flat tent sites, fire pits, and hundreds of other people is not exactly what I would call challenging.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Jul 2017 21:51:34 No.1069462 Report

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>>1069142
What would you call challenging?

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