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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on August 29, 2011, 08:25:32 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9770036
NW CCers, be on the lookout for a SW Missouri drifter coming your direction:
Lady Freedom Returns (27 posts) Mon Aug-29-11 07:08 PM
Original message
anybody know any trails through the state of Kansas to Colorado?
Through to get to Washington state. Any suggestions?Please Remember we have less that $200. Will take all advice. Happy we are leaving Joplin, there is nothing here for many of us.
elleng (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-29-11 08:06 PM
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2. Not exactly.
Ask Lewis and Clark.
http://www.lewisclark.net /
Have fun!
Lady Freedom Returns (27 posts) Mon Aug-29-11 08:34 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. Will try to have fun!
But it won't be all fun as we have found out.
Glassunion (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-29-11 08:36 PM
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4. Interstate 70
This is a small, pathetic campfire, most likely started to generate pity, healing white light, and possibly a bit of cash for the potential hiker. I'm not sure when the DUmmie is planning on commencing the hike, but if they plan on beginning even at the beginning of September, that sounds like a horrendously stupid idea.
The SW corner of Washington state is at minimum 1350 miles away from Joplin, so I have no idea how they came up with their 1,000 mile figure. Assuming they can manage to hike 10 hours a day every day at a brisk pace, they are looking at 75-80 days of travel. That would put them in Wyoming around the beginning of November.
Oh well, I guess somebody has to feed the bears up in that part of the country.
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The sister thread to this one is here, titled "What is the best thing you could take on a 1,000+ mile hike?":
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9770070
Lady Freedom Returns (28 posts) Mon Aug-29-11 07:42 PM
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What is the best thing you could take on a 1,000+ mile hike?
Edited on Mon Aug-29-11 07:51 PM by Lady Freedom Returns
An E- tool! this baby digs, saws and can be used as an ax! Man I never knew this thing even existed! It is a good thing my husband is a 8 year ex-marine! This is allot harder than it sounds to do!
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTnsMN7vXzPfCeMvJe81cYAvVwKD65P-VlWdyQ2C93S3kICWq2P-8fiKl0 (http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTnsMN7vXzPfCeMvJe81cYAvVwKD65P-VlWdyQ2C93S3kICWq2P-8fiKl0)
More at the link to DU. I almost feel sorry for this DUmmie. Almost.
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(http://selectism.com/columns/michaelwilliams/files/2008/11/oregon_1_large.jpg)
Stock up on ammunition.
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To the DUmmie who mentioned Lewis and Clark: Lewis and Clark didn't have to avoid crossing private property.
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Now, why isn't the primitive planning on hiking through the Sandhills of Nebraska?
That's more of a straight line from Joplin, Missouri to Washington, than through Kansas and Colorado.
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This primitive is going to get self-owned if it thinks it can survive this trek. An experienced hiker wouldn't attempt this distance at this time of year.
Unless it's definition of hiking is to stand along a road with a cardboard sign and a thumb extended.
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Can someone really be that stupid? Silly question.
We don't need their dumb butts up here. No doubt they would in some way need rescued or fed and housed. Wyoming doesn't hand out much food and housing to anyone. When we have to rescue stupid people, a couple have been quoted that dying would have been less embarrassing (well, duh). I guess their feeling got hurt.
Finally, we don't have enough water to drink (or grow pot) and there's hardly any gas stations (just in case bobo happens on this thread).
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Only a DUmmy would set out to cross the Northern Rocky Mountains on foot in autumn.
To the DUmmie who mentioned Lewis and Clark: Lewis and Clark didn't have to avoid crossing private property.
They also damned near died in the during winter in the Bitteroot Mtns because they couldn't find a suitable pass.
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Only a DUmmy would set out to cross the Northern Rocky Mountains on foot in autumn.
You're assuming this DUmmy knows there are mountains between Missouri and Washington.
I dont think anyone on the thread has mentioned that.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9770036
This is a small, pathetic campfire, most likely started to generate pity, healing white light, and possibly a bit of cash for the potential hiker. I'm not sure when the DUmmie is planning on commencing the hike, but if they plan on beginning even at the beginning of September, that sounds like a horrendously stupid idea.
It IS a horrendously stupid idea. The Dumbshits need to research the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers#1856:_Willie_and_Martin_handcart_companies) of 1856. Winter in Wyoming is nothing to screw around with, as I'm sure these idiots are about to find out.
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It IS a horrendously stupid idea. The Dumbshits need to research the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers#1856:_Willie_and_Martin_handcart_companies) of 1856. Winter in Wyoming is nothing to screw around with, as I'm sure these idiots are about to find out.
I seriously doubt they even make a start. After they put a few belongings into recyclable grocery bags and look westward down the street, they'll wear out and start looking for their next joint.
I predict a winter of wearing out their welcome sofa surfing.
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You can rent a car for less than $200 a week. Rent a car and drive. Why hike?
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Lady Freedom Returns (32 posts) Sun Aug-28-11 09:41 PM
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6. right now just to walk over the Missouri- Kansas line.
we should be on the west side of Pittsburgh KS by tomorrow night.
:mental:
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Toboggan.
Watch cap, wool!
Extra socks.
A .22 carbine for bagging squirrels along the way.
I've probably forgotten something, but nothing important. Don't listen to the naysayers Lady Freedom, just keep heading towards the setting sun and you'll be fine, I'm sure.
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Toboggan.
Watch cap, wool!
Extra socks.
A .22 carbine for bagging squirrels along the way.
I've probably forgotten something, but nothing important. Don't listen to the naysayers Lady Freedom, just keep heading towards the setting sun and you'll be fine, I'm sure.
:rotf: H5
Don't forget extra gloves, too!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fTzP4kGe58&feature=related[/youtube]
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Don't listen to the naysayers Lady Freedom, just keep heading towards the setting sun and you'll be fine, I'm sure.
Well, now those directions are fine for late afternoons, but what about mornings? Or cloudy days?
It's gonna to take forever, just travelling on sunny afternoons. I guess that's why it took the pioneers months to reach California.
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Nadin really needs to tell these people why this is such a bad idea, but yet she hasn't.
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Is Donner Pass on their planned route?
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but what about mornings?
Well, couldn't you just walk toward the rising sun? Wouldn't that work?
I don't know what to say to this thread. Darwin Award? Bears gotta eat too? Idiot Dummie channeling Tom Joad and getting all romantic about it? Oh well, go ahead. It's a free country.
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Yay, one less stupid moonbat in Missouri! WINNING!!!! :rotf:
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Is Donner Pass on their planned route?
That was my first thought too. :evillaugh:
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http://news.yahoo.com/michigan-man-killed-grizzly-yellowstone-161707907.html
Just something to look forward to on your magical mystery tour, Lady Freedom Returns.
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to go Greyhound?
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to go Greyhound?
Greyhound is pretty expensive. A pair of tickets from Joplin to Colorado Springs is anywhere from $257-$320 (https://www.greyhound.com/default.aspx)
They can always hobo it and jump a train. I suppose if I was a hopeless grabass with nothing to lose, I would give it a shot.
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Happy we are leaving Joplin, there is nothing here for many of us.
I heard that Joplin was doing quite well after the tornados. :???:
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I heard that Joplin was doing quite well after the tornados. :???:
Hell, sounds like it's about to do even better yet!
:evillaugh:
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You can rent a car for less than $200 a week. Rent a car and drive. Why hike?
I dunno, sounds like something I would try. I've done a small bit of the Appalachian trail, and the whole thing is on my bucket list. I did get to scratch off "Feel the Earth shake" last week.
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Greyhound is pretty expensive. A pair of tickets from Joplin to Colorado Springs is anywhere from $257-$320 (https://www.greyhound.com/default.aspx)
They can always hobo it and jump a train. I suppose if I was a hopeless grabass with nothing to lose, I would give it a shot.
That much? how about Amtrak? or EC's suggestion of renting a car I guess.
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I heard that Joplin was doing quite well after the tornados. :???:
They're doing so well in Joplin that FEMA is withholding emergency funds from them so that the money can go to the east following Irene.
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Amtrak isn't any better... they've always been expensive.
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2 people and all toll they have less than $200 between them. Well, if they shop carefully, one of them can get a fair pair of hiking boots. The other one will have to go barefoot.
Watch for forest fires to break out all along their trail.
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Nadin really needs to tell these people why this is such a bad idea, but yet she hasn't.
I'm not surprised.
You don't get much useful information when you google "hike from Missouri to Washington",
and nadin doesn't go with them freelance answers.
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It IS a horrendously stupid idea. The Dumbshits need to research the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers#1856:_Willie_and_Martin_handcart_companies) of 1856. Winter in Wyoming is nothing to screw around with, as I'm sure these idiots are about to find out.
Quiet you. Two less DUmmies is a good thing.
:yahoo:
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They could pack themselves in boxes and ship themselves to Washington, Like when Garfield used to pack Nermal in a box and ship him to Abu Dhabi.. Well, that is until Nermal returned one day as Mohamed Al Shabizi, and beheaded Garfield for his crimes.... :-)
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I heard that Joplin was doing quite well after the tornados. :???:
They were just there to collect FEMA money/aid. Now it's on to the next disaster area to sign up.
KC