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« on: August 26, 2008, 09:38:36 PM »
Are you doing any less hiking strictly based on the price of gas this year?

Or maybe you are doing the same amount of hiking, but just staying closer to home? 

How, if at all, has the price of gas affected your hiking?
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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2008, 09:56:55 PM »
Yeah I'm not going to the Smokies this fall. (w/ the family I mean, I'm doing a section from Devils Fork Gap to Hot Springs).  Just for a weekender not for a week.
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« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2008, 07:07:24 AM »
Actually, with prices going down, I've moved from no trips, to a limited day-trip schedule. Granted, at the peak of prices I was studying for the bar, but I've pretty much done nothing since June when I went to Vermont for the day.
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« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2008, 09:04:08 AM »
No.  Price of gas has not hindered my hiking... yet.  Main limiting factor for me is available time.
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« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2008, 09:29:16 AM »
It's affected me big time.  Spring and fall a year ago I was on the AT at least once a month.  This last spring and this coming fall looks like I'll be spending a lot of quality time on the Pinhoti.  Not a bad second but I'm having trouble believing I won't stay on LeConte at least once this fall  Undecided
Buisness took me to Knoxville, TN last week and I hiked up Chimney Tops.  They paid gas Smiley
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« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2008, 02:03:42 PM »
The price of gas might affect the number of trips I make, I'm not sure.  However, I know the price will affect the number of vehicles we might take.  We'll probably go with one versus two and that will affect the trails we tackle.
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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2008, 06:42:19 PM »
I'm with PastorLarry on this one. My time availability affords a limitation on my travels so I don't usually have to worry about potentially over spending on fuel.
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« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2008, 09:07:44 PM »
I am hooked on hiking, to me it is just like being on drugs, it is addictive and no matter what gas or anything else cost I will go when I want to.  The Chattooga River Trail and a forty mile section of the AT is comming up in the next couple of months. 
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