MANDY BLAND aka PURPLE RAIN ~ THRU HIKING GEAR & TRAIL WISDOMS
“If you’re doing the full thru hike, you have to hold yourself accountable because whether it’s a weather window or whatever or time for having off work or what not, if your goal is to get to Canada or your goal is to get to Katahdin, you have to keep pushing yourself.”
HIKING GEAR RECOMMENDATIONS
MISC
• Grand Enchantment Trail
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• Ghee
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• Gaia Maps
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• Illinois River Trail
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• Trinity Alps
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• Purple Rain Adventure Skirts
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THRU HIKING WISDOMS
THRU HIKING
• You don’t know until you drink stinky cow water how good it is!
• It teaches you not to be picky and breaks down all those barriers for you.
• That’s what I love about hiking. It just breaks it down to what’s important and what’s not.
• If you’re doing the full thru hike, you have to hold yourself accountable because whether it’s a weather window or whatever or time for having off work or what not, if your goal is to get to Canada or your goal is to get to Katahdin, you have to keep pushing yourself.
• Every day is the whole rollercoaster of emotions.
• I’d quit it all to go hike.
• Hike the miles that are there. Cause soon you won’t be hiking and that’s all you’ll be thinking about.
• Just put a pocket on it and life gets better.
• The movie got people on trail and their changing their lives because of it.
• I feel really powerful when I’m out there.
• There is the correlation between thru hiking and life all over the place.