People on the trail: Sunset (Posted 10 May 2012, 09:29pm)
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Marcus and Sunset


We are meeting lots of interesting people along the trail. It is nice getting to know them and then like meeting a long lost friend when they reappear a few days later.

One such person is "Sunset". His trail name is where he is from - Sunset, South Carolina. When we first met him he joked that he was from New Jersey in the thickest Southern accent I have ever heard.

It emerged that he is "triple crowned" which means he has walked the three major walks in America - the Pacific Crest Trail, the Appalachian Trail and the Continental Divide Trail - around 7400 miles in total. He has walked the AT twice and this is his second time on the PCT so if he walks the CDT again he will be double-triple crowned! He is a mine of information about hiking and it is always a delight to run into him on the trail. Long may it continue!

His legend only grew recently when he told us he flicks rattle snakes off the trail using his hiking pole...

A sunset for Sunset.

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