OT: Kindness Finds a Boneyarder

[diggerfoot]

This past year I hiked (walked, not hitched) across the country on a journey of kindness. Having returned home to Connecticut I want to keep up my Kindness Blog. On the Womens Board I offered to hike into towns around here to report on a story of kindness.

In response to my request for stories of kindness, one Boneyarder sent me an email with a touching story of kindness experienced abroad. I've now posted that on my site. If anyone else would like to just send me a story, rather than having me "hike by," please do so.

By the way, thanks again Fishy for your kindness to me. I hope I'm not spoiling your reputation.

Be Happy!
Kirk Sinclair, aka
formerly mapper
now diggerfoot

 

[Fishy]

I think it's already been spoiled - it's probably also been questioned, impugned and maligned. You can tarnish it, if you'd like - I don't think that's been done.

Try to get your minds around this....Kirk walked across the freaking country. The whole thing. Even the bumpy bits out west and the flat bits there in the middle. All of it.

He is, of course, crazy.

 

[babysheep]

My buddy is a month into an Appalachian Trail hike (full thing, from Georgia up through Maine), still has another 4 months or so to go

 

[Fishy]

My buddy is a month into an Appalachian Trail hike (full thing, from Georgia up through Maine), still has another 4 months or so to go

That's a monster effort, too.

I won't be doing it this year, but we usually look after a section of the AT for the Trail Conference in New York. When your friend gets to eastern Dutchess County in New York, if he needs to be restocked with anything, we can take care of that. (Ask for my email address some time between now and then.)

 

[diggerfoot]

My buddy is a month into an Appalachian Trail hike (full thing, from Georgia up through Maine), still has another 4 months or so to go

I live about 13 miles from where the AT crosses in both Falls Village and Salisbury. I look to provide a respite for thru-hikers or section hikers when I can. Please feel free to provide this email hiking(dot)humanitarian(at)gmail(dot)com to your friend. In an earlier day I thru-hiked the AT 3 times (1975, 1980, 1983). I remember early on they used to give out 2,000 miler patches to people who thru-hiked the AT. Now, through my thru-hikes of various trails, I'm a 20,000 miler.

 

[diggerfoot]

That's a monster effort, too.

I won't be doing it this year, but we usually look after a section of the AT for the Trail Conference in New York. When your friend gets to eastern Dutchess County in New York, if he needs to be restocked with anything, we can take care of that. (Ask for my email address some time between now and then.)

I could have walked by your place without knowing it. To get from Delaware to Connecticut we used the AT as a guide, but went on roads as well. You help maintain a section of the AT? I don't have to say anything further to tarnish your reputation as a curmudgeon, your doing a good job of it all on your own.

 

[babysheep]

Thanks guys, I'm sure my buddy would really appreciate it, but I haven't heard from him in roughly 5 weeks. I only know of one person (his girlfriend) who has any communication with him. Dude's going alone and, as I figured, is keeping off the grid for the most part. I don't really expect to hear from him until mid-October, but that's just the kind of guy he is. I would think he's in either Northern South Carolina or Southern North Caroling by now. My god it must be hot.

 

[Dove]

Way to go mapper!

 

[diggerfoot]

Thanks, Dove. If I'm not mistaken, weren't you interested in doing some distance hiking in the mid to late nineties? Anything ever come of that itch?

 

[Fishy]

I could have walked by your place without knowing it. To get from Delaware to Connecticut we used the AT as a guide, but went on roads as well. You help maintain a section of the AT? I don't have to say anything further to tarnish your reputation as a curmudgeon, your doing a good job of it all on your own.

I had a section of trail in eastern Dutchess County a few miles east of where the trail crosses the Taconic Parkway. Basically, to maintain a section, you agree to walk it three or four times a year, keep it clear and marked and report anything major to the trail conference. Not sure if they have anything similar in Connecticut, but our trail conference covers nearly every public trail in New York and New Jersey.

I'm not maintaining anything this year - no time. I'll probably start again next year, but I think I'd want something either in the Lake Minnewaska (New Paltz area) or the Escarpment Trail in Catskill. I tend to get to both of those trails more often than the AT - we run pretty regularly on both.

 

[Dove]

Thanks, Dove. If I'm not mistaken, weren't you interested in doing some distance hiking in the mid to late nineties? Anything ever come of that itch?

I never had that itch. Not 10 years ago anyway. I may have mentioned that I loved a hike I did up in Salisbury.