To proceed the mountaineering theme we began earlier this week with Mr. 1500I believed I’d regale you with only a bit Frugalwoods household story.
As shortly as upon a time (like two weeks beforehand), Mr. Frugalwoods and I have been mistaken for through-hikers. What’s a through-hiker you possibly can inquire? A through-hiker is a loopy excellent one who hikes the Appalachian Path (AT) or the Extended Path or one different ludicrously prolonged path from begin to end with out stopping.
This is not going to be loads of a narrative if this case of mistaken hiker-identity had occurred to us, say ON a mountaineering path or right after we’d been mountaineering. However no, being the frugal weirdos we’re, it occurred on the grocery retailer.
Mr. FW and I stroll or bike to the grocery retailer collectively each weekend to refill on produce and espresso, and to eat the free samples. Naturally, we take our mountaineering packs on account of they’re helpful for carrying groceries and we positioned on mountaineering sneakers on account of they’re our strolling sneakers. Okay so presumably we seem like hikers. However through-hikers?
Contemplate this for a second: a through-hiker has been on a path for weeks, if not months. They haven’t bathed, they haven’t shaved. They’re making an attempt ratty and tatty. So when any individual stopped us all through the grocery retailer and requested if we now have been through-hikers, our instantaneous response was, naturally, WOOT!
Are you prepared for the clincher? The one who requested us had himself been a through-hiker.
Yep, apparently we glance SO BAD in our weekend apparel {{{that a}}} dude who had lived all through the woods for months thought we’d furthermore been mountaineering all through the mountains FOR MONTHS. Mr. FW’s chest overrated with satisfaction and we grinned with glee. For the file, I blame Mr. FW’s epic beard for at least 50% of the mistaken id.
This typically is a Woot for us on loads of ranges:
1) We all the time say we don’t care what folks contemplate us, nonetheless on this case, we now have been thrilled!
2) It’s a life objective of ours to primarily BE through-hikers ultimately so I’m glad we a minimal of look the half.
3) We now have the one Halloween costumes ever.
4) This Woot provides me an excuse to position up additional of the mountaineering footage that I couldn’t squeeeeeeeeze into Tuesday’s put up.
The first grumble correct proper right here is that we’re not really through-hiking any trails right now. If we now have been, I wouldn’t be penning this and we’d be some cosy, smelly folks all through the woods someplace.
