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May 31, 2024 : Sly the Navigator The Trek

Thanks for the comments

I’d like to thank everyone who left comments on my posts for my 1st section. I sure hope it will be easier as i hike southbound, with the exception of Mt Mansfield and CH i guess…

Thanks to all for sharing your experience with pain, medical conditions, and how to achieve our goals and our hopes in a situation that would call for grief.

I will gladly consider all your suggestions.

The one thing i did not anticipate was my inability to recover after a strenuous day. Section hiking will mitigate that. I learned i can have a hard day, if i can rest afterwards.

I will try to continue on the week of June 10th, depending on weather. I’ll keep you posted.

Sly the Navigator

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Sly the Navigator
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After 25 years in the Canadian Airforce, I have been struggling with major chronic pain for the last 10 years which at one point confined me to a couch 20 hours a day unable to do anything nor sleep. Refusing to accept the fact that i could not hike anymore i embarked on a very long and difficult journey to fight against pain while also trying to live with it. Major changes in treatment and pure stubbornness enabled me to start walking from a few hundred yards a day to miles in a matter of years. I now can combine my amateur radio hobby with hiking for a sideline activity called “Summits on the air”, where i bring a portable radio set on a summit and contact “chasers” for points. I will attempt thru hiking the Long Trail and document my hike, trying to hack a way trough the daily pains which are still very much present.

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