tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post1687852856852004513..comments2024-01-24T02:07:45.539-08:00Comments on Wolverine Hikes: Drop the Trail Name?Chris Hillierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992687337882874258noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post-88676927165352924402013-07-12T08:00:45.210-07:002013-07-12T08:00:45.210-07:00Thank you for your comment! I've heard several...Thank you for your comment! I've heard several stories about the origin of trail names but no 'first hand' accounts like yours. Who is this? You were hiking the AT in 1972? That's fantastic! I must know who this is!Chris Hillierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08992687337882874258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post-56271502557796428712013-07-12T07:08:50.184-07:002013-07-12T07:08:50.184-07:00I can offer some directly observed perspective fro...I can offer some directly observed perspective from the era when trailnames started,i.e., Appalachian Trail 1972. Prior to this a very few of the most famous, or notorious, thru-hikers had trailnames(The Judge, Grandma, Crazy One), but in 1972 there were two women who chose their own trailnames who thru-hiked the AT. They never signed any registers because, as they explained to me: (paraphrasing)the shelters and registers are intrusions of the city into the woods. Their self-chosen trailnames were both Lakota Sioux and i cannot even begin to pronounce or spell them after so many years, but they were audibly beautiful names. The salient point being, these very first trailnames of 'non-famous' hikers were self-chosen: kind of a hike-your-own-name genesis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post-30368144356957561872012-08-27T07:52:02.290-07:002012-08-27T07:52:02.290-07:00We could argue for days regarding this. The saying...We could argue for days regarding this. The saying originated as a chinese proverb--the beginning of wisdom is to call all things by their right names. Many people gave said it in many diffetent ways.<br />"For a moment, she re-discovered the purpose of her life. She was here in earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and call each thing by its right name.” -Boris PasternakMarthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04351422931213161086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post-54839551163424803132012-08-26T14:47:57.790-07:002012-08-26T14:47:57.790-07:00Good try but McCandless was actually quoting Boris...Good try but McCandless was actually quoting Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago.Chris Hillierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08992687337882874258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post-71255183910303146352012-08-26T14:25:25.529-07:002012-08-26T14:25:25.529-07:00Mom & Dad thought the proper name they gave yo...Mom & Dad thought the proper name they gave you, fit YOU. Do your real name, it has more respect built into it. Just my opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post-39084734145810445402012-08-24T06:55:48.286-07:002012-08-24T06:55:48.286-07:00Hi Chris.....bye Wolvy...
LuvyaHi Chris.....bye Wolvy...<br />LuvyaPatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post-13506883855681068272012-08-21T12:14:24.532-07:002012-08-21T12:14:24.532-07:00Hmmm...had not heard of the Michigan Wolverine bef...Hmmm...had not heard of the Michigan Wolverine before you mentioned him, but I love your given name, Christopher Brian Hillier, and we even named our firstborn son Brian after you...so we will call you Chris from now on...safe travels Bro!Patti Albers Hilliernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034169958840364329.post-66976222597694687462012-08-21T06:58:59.981-07:002012-08-21T06:58:59.981-07:00"What's in a name? That which we call a r..."What's in a name? That which we call a rose<br />By any other word would smell as sweet;"<br /><br />And Wolverine, by any other name, would be as tenacious, strong and fierce.<br /><br />THE Michigan Wolverine sounds like an idiot! I don't blame you for removing yourself from him in all ways. Be Chris, CB, Chilly...<br /><br />Robert Hall famously admonished people to “call things by their right names.”<br /><br />Go for the change . Stop calling yourself Wolverine. IMO.Marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04351422931213161086noreply@blogger.com