Reply #36: LOL!!! Once agin, same question... [View All]

How is hiking more stressful on the back than boot camp and combat?


ALso what was the schedual of this hike? From the piece I get the impression that Dean was hiking only that last part of the trail, 13.3 miles, that he had not hiked yet and the kids met up with him, and also hiked the trail.

"The Craft Center group had planned to get off the trail after nine miles, where Route 105 crosses. Several of them, however, decided to continue with the governor for the remaining 4.3 miles to make sure he didn’t get lost. Nine hours after they started, they arrived at the Canadian border."

A nine hour 13 mile hike so stressful a pack of 7th graders was able to walk it with him.

Oh and they weren't he only ones...

"Also present on the governor’s trip were Paul Kendall of Braintree and several other members of the executive board of the Green Mountain Club. They briefed Gov. Dean on land use issues and pointed out (through the fog) the 3000-acre acquisition the Club just made to protect the west flank of the Trail near Jay Peak."


Do you even read the stories these quotes are from? Or do you just hope nobody else will bother to read the whole thing?