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First of all...how dare you? by potatohouse

Do you think it appropriate to start new topics on this board without closing the parentheses on your Maye Musk post from a few weeks ago? You think you can just drop a one-liner like that without explanation?

As to the trail, one of my ND roommates did. A year or so after he graduated. He'd always hinted at it but we mainly figured he was just talking. Then one day we got an email saying he was leaving in two weeks. Just got up and went for it.

He knocked it out, too. I think he hit Katahdin in under four and half months. He was the quiet, introspective type. Brilliant kid. Resourceful. And tough. This was definitely in his wheelhouse.

Couldn't grow facial hair for shit though. His "beard" pic at the end was nightmarish in a child predator kind of way.