this woman/movie is going to kill people
20 minutes and i keep getting amazed by one stupid decision after another. as former infantry and as a hiker and mountaineer (though baby mountains) i can't believe how moronic this woman was.
you don't have to be an experienced hiker to know that you should take all of your equipment out of the box and pack your bag PRIOR to getting to the trail head. seriously, that whole hotel scene where she's taking brand new items out of the boxes, and is clearly demonstrating that she doesn't know how to use half of them means this woman was nowhere near being read for a hike around the block let alone the PCT
and then there's a scene where she's clearly putting up a tent for the first time. again, why wouldn't you check out how to use ALL of your equipment PRIOR to starting your hike? would you buy a brand new pair of shoes and then run a marathon? of course not, you're not an idiot - you'd use them and break them in first. if you buy a anything, don't you make sure that all the pieces are there and that you know how to use it PRIOR to the day you actually need to use it?
and then we find out that because she failed to plan ahead for anything, she didn't bother to figure out what kind of fuel her stove used and brought the wrong kind!?!?
i've just got to the scene where she's now run out of food. at this point i don't know where this movie is going, and i can't understand why so many people i hike with were inspired by this movie (one actually went off to the do the PCT within a month of watching the movie - he made it a little over 500 miles and is on way back now). because if people follow her example, they'll end up dead.
just like "in the wild" morons are going to be inspired by this story and think that they too should go for a 2,650 mile walk to "find themselves". meanwhile, what keeps happening to those people that go searching for "the magic bus" - you know the spot where the guy from "in the wild" got trapped and died? THEY KEEP GETTING TRAPPED and or die
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/another-round-of-hikers-rescued-after-trip-to-mccandless-bus/article_db7426ce-dfc9-11e2-8a42-0019bb30f31a.html
BE YOURSELF and stop looking to others for inspiration, but more importantly, for the love of god, PLAN AHEAD
my online writing style is one of speed and apathy, NOT ignorance