JACK JONES aka QUADZILLA ~ THRU HIKING GEAR & TRAIL WISDOMS
“I didn’t do any of this alone, at all. It took thousands of people for me to be able to do this hike”
GEAR
FOOD
• Coconut Milk Powder
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• Sawyer Squeeze
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PACK
• Osprey 48L Exos
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SLEEP
• Nemo 15 degree bag
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• Nemo 1 person tent
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MISC
• “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson
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• Arizona Trail
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• Melanzana
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• Sony A7SII
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• Anker 20,100
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• Peak Design Capture Camera Clip
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• ZPacks Pouch
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• Nature Conservancy
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• Forest Service
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• Montana Conservation Corp
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• Southwest Conservation Corp
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WISDOMS
THRU HIKING
• I didn’t do any of this alone, at all. It took thousands of people for me to be able to do this hike.
• Horrible pain for the last 700 miles, but the thing that kept me going was this idea that “Hey if I complete this, then maybe it will fix some part of me that’s broken inside.”
• I would say there was a lot of disappointment at the end because hiking in itself is
not going to fix you. But what it showed me was that I have the capability to
face whatever problems that I had.
• Thru hiking forces you in to so many uncomfortable situations.
• Our normal lives are so regimented and all the solutions are already there for us that
I think a lot of people maybe never discover or they forget at just how awesome
humans are at problem solving.
• I notice I feel much more alive when I’m out on a trail or on a thru hike. I think it has to do with that white noise. You’re just experiencing more, feeling more. A lot of it is pain and discomfort, but at least you’re feeling it rather than being insulated from everything.
• Its kinda like a muscle. Your ability to tolerate pain and suffer grows with you as
you experience more of these things.
• There’s never anything you’re going to do externally that’s going to make
you ok on the inside.
• I feel like 1000 – 1500 miles or like 3 months is the perfect amount of time for me.
• People coming from the other trails tend to under estimate how cold it gets (on the CDT).
• If you want to do a lot of miles, you just have to stop less to break.
• There are a lot of good views and I remember those through my pictures,
but all those really good times are with people.