what's the most you walked in a single day and why?

"shlemazeltov" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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i once walked for 9 hrs.

forgot to bring transit fare and had to walk from city all the way home.

9 Hours eh? On paved road? That's not really that hard is it, boring maybe,
but not difficult.
Try 9 hours walking/climbing up a mountain, whilst being blasted by
snow/rain in 40mph winds and being not quite sure where you are because the
cloud dropped suddenly and you neglected to learn how to use that compass
and map that everybody advised you to buy.

On 23/10/04 10:02 am, in article
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i once walked for 9 hrs.

9 hours ; is that all! When I'm wondering through mountains - like the
Pyrenees wild camping - I'm frequently over 10 and have occasionally done
well over that (not recommended though).

--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK

"shlemazeltov" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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i once walked for 9 hrs.

forgot to bring transit fare and had to walk from city all the way home.

I walked 17 miles from Storey Arms to Home because I wanted to...took me
10hrs 30 mins

On 23 Oct 2004 02:02:56 -0700, [email hidden] (shlemazeltov)

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i once walked for 9 hrs.

24 hrs.

--

Paul

(Watch this space)

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:49:59 GMT, Andy Howell

andy.howellNOSPAM@ecotrendDOTorgDOTuk said:

On 23/10/04 10:02 am, in article
[email hidden], "shlemazeltov"

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i once walked for 9 hrs.

9 hours ; is that all! When I'm wondering through mountains - like the
Pyrenees wild camping - I'm frequently over 10 and have occasionally done
well over that (not recommended though).

Yes, and don't you get p****d off at the people who ask you how far
you walk in a day? 10 Pyrenean hours can, as you know, translate to
a straight-line distance of 8 miles.

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All the best
David Millen
Xativa, Valencia
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"shlemazeltov" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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i once walked for 9 hrs.

forgot to bring transit fare and had to walk from city all the way home.

Once I walked a really long way to ask this guy why
he posts walking-related questions to art, music, films,
and phish groups.

cheers,
--
David (in Hamilton ON)
www.absolutelyaccurate.com
www.allfalldown.org

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i once walked for 9 hrs.

forgot to bring transit fare and had to walk from city all the way home.

25 miles over rough/wet terrain.

DAMN those royal signals sergeants :-(

<< DAMN those royal signals sergeants :-( >>

What uniform do they wear,
How to know them?

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I once walked from Mount Olympus on Earth to Olympus Mons on Mars, and back,
but don't remember how long it took exactly.

Why? To question the Gods and compare answers, of course.

-cr

To the fridge for a cold beer, 23 seconds.

21 hours, in ice, snow, and blowing sleet, to get to my girlfriends
house. I was 16, and REALLY horny.

.. said:

21 hours, in ice, snow, and blowing sleet, to get to my girlfriends
house. I was 16, and REALLY horny.

HOT.

--
Craig

http://www.patik.com/

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21 hours, in ice, snow, and blowing sleet, to get to my girlfriends
house. I was 16, and REALLY horny.

Was it worth it? Any pics?

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On 23/10/04 10:02 am, in article
[email hidden], "shlemazeltov"

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i once walked for 9 hrs.

9 hours ; is that all! When I'm wondering through mountains - like the
Pyrenees wild camping - I'm frequently over 10 and have occasionally done
well over that (not recommended though).

i meant 19 hrs and thru mountains, jungles, swamps, and deserts.

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21 hours, in ice, snow, and blowing sleet, to get to my girlfriends
house. I was 16, and REALLY horny.

did it work when you got there?

shlemazeltov said:

i once walked for 9 hrs.

....Yeah, RIGHT, Stephen Hawkings, find a nice ramp for your chair?

Derek Janssen (this is one of Gaza's ODDER self-delusions)
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i once walked for 9 hrs.

forgot to bring transit fare and had to walk from city all the way home.

23+ hours in a 24 hour ROGAINE event.
http://www.rogaining.com/

-Tony

On 23 Oct 2004 02:02:56 -0700, [email hidden] (shlemazeltov)

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i once walked for 9 hrs.

forgot to bring transit fare and had to walk from city all the way home.

14 hours. Photography expedition.

George W. Bush (Dubya)
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Past Work Experience
Ran for congress and lost.
Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
* Got a felony arrest and conviction.
Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company
went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took
land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the
Chicago White Sox.
With father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments in Previous Positions
Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the
most polluted state in the Union.
Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in
America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of
billions in borrowed money.
Set record for most executions by any governor in American history.
Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes,
with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments As President
Attacked and took over two countries.
Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
12-month period.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock
market.
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal
record.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation
by any president in U.S. history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided
over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other
president in U.S. history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their
job.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any
president in U.S. history.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than
any president in U.S. history.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any
president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than
any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to
intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused
to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously
take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the
record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S.
history.
My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S.
history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S.
history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an
Exxon oil tanker named after her).
First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union
simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market
in any country in the history of the world.
First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military
occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history
of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases,
more than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the
U.S. from the human rights commission.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the
U.S. from the elections monitoring board.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of
congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S.
history.
Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by
default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign
donations.
My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the
largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay,
former CEO of Enron Corporation).
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S.
history.
First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign
nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and
then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less
than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world
(possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile
Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of
Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace
and stability.
First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more
threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who
violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations
bidding for government contracts.
Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders
of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months
I have no leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks I have successfully
prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure
in the history of the United States.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other
president in U.S. history.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in
decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the
Civil War.
Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less
than two years turned every single economic category heading straight
down.
Records and References
At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving
record has been erased and is not available)
AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of
war.
Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away
to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
view.
All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or
bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
view.
All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the
board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding
public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
review.
For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker
(they can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for
war-profiteering.)

We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

By Garrison Keillor

Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once,
it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed
spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their
communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all
ships.
They were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of
their party, the paranoid Roosevelt-haters, the flat Earthers and
Prohibitionists, the antipapist antiforeigner element. The genial
Eisenhower was their man, a genuine American hero of D-Day, who made
it
OK for reasonable people to vote Republican. He brought the Korean War
to a stalemate, produced the Interstate Highway System, declined to
rescue the French colonial army in Vietnam, and gave us a period of
peace and prosperity, in which (oddly) American arts and letters
flourished and higher education burgeoned-and there was a degree of
plain decency in the country. Fifties Republicans were giants compared
to todays'. Richard Nixon was the last Republican leader to feel a
Christian obligation toward the poor.

In the years between Nixon and Newt Gingrich, the party
migrated southward down the Twisting Trail of Rhetoric and sneered at
the idea of public service and became the Scourge of Liberalism, the
Great Crusade Against the Sixties, the Death Star of government, a
gang
of pirates that diverted and fascinated the media by their sheer
chutzpah, such as the misty-eyed flag-waving of Ronald Reagan who,
while
George McGovern flew bombers in World War II, took a pass and made
training films in Long Beach. The Nixon moderate vanished like the
passenger pigeon, purged by a legion of angry white men who rose to
power on pure punk politics. "Bipartisanship is another form of date
rape," says Grover Norquist, the Sid Vicious of the GOP. "I don't want
to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I
can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." The boy
has Oedipal problems and government is his daddy.

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the
party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills,
faith-based
economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of
convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking
midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts
in
pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks,
Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk
was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the
rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a
dull
and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of
secular
institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts
trying to walk. Republicans: The No1 reason the rest of the world
thinks
we're deaf, dumb and dangerous.

Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the
forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous
gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit
in
committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of
billionaires! Hypocrisies shine like cat turds in the moonlight! O
Mark
Twain, where art thou at this hour? Arise and behold the Gilded Age
reincarnated gaudier than ever, upholding great wealth as the sure
sign
of Divine Grace.

Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a
platform of tragedy-the single greatest failure of national defense in
our history, the attacks of 9/11 in which 19 men with box cutters put
this nation into a tailspin, a failure the details of which the White
House fought to keep secret even as it ran the country into hock up to
the hubcaps, thanks to generous tax cuts for the well-fixed, hoping to
lead us into a box canyon of debt that will render government
impotent,
even as we engage in a war against a small country that was undertaken
for the president's personal satisfaction but sold to the American
public on the basis of brazen misinformation, a war whose purpose is
to
distract us from an enormous transfer of wealth taking place in this
country, flowing upward, and the deception is working beautifully.

The concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few
is the death knell of democracy. No republic in the history of
humanity
has survived this. The election of 2004 will say something about what
happens to ours. The omens are not good. Our beloved land has been
fogged with fear--fear, the greatest political strategy ever. An
ominous
silence, distant sirens, a drumbeat of whispered warnings and alarms
to
keep the public uneasy and silence the opposition. And in a time of
vague fear, you can appoint bullet-brained judges, strip the bark off
the Constitution, eviscerate federal regulatory agencies, bring public
education to a standstill, stupefy the press, lavish gorgeous tax
breaks
on the rich.

There is a stink drifting through this election year. It isn't
the Florida recount or the Supreme Court decision. No, it's 9/11 that
we
keep coming back to. It wasn't the "end of innocence," or a turning
point in our history, or a cosmic occurrence, it was an event, a lapse
of security. And patriotism shouldn't prevent people from asking hard
questions of the man who was purportedly in charge of national
security
at the time. Whenever I think of those New Yorkers hurrying along Park
Place or getting off the No.1 Broadway local, hustling toward their
office on the 90th floor, the morning paper under their arms, I think
of
that non-reader George W. Bush and how he hopes to exploit those
people
with a little economic uptick, maybe the capture of Osama, cruise to
victory in November and proceed to get some serious nation-changing
done
in his second term.

This year, as in the past, Republicans will portray us
Democrats as embittered academics, desiccated Unitarians, whacked-out