Libby Zangle

“I once thought that the Pacific Crest Trail Association used these trail registers to track the progress of individual thru-hikers and make sure that they are not cheating by skipping parts of the PCT.  But I learned that is not true.  The main purpose of the trail registers was to show me how many people were in front of me so that I could feel slow and inadequate.  But I could also learn the names of the people that I would pass so that I could freak them out by calling them by their trail name before they could tell me what it is.  Some people write witty things in trail registers, like “Out of food. Stalked by bear. For the love of God please help me.”  I get a lot of laughs from reading trail registers. When”
― Libby Zangle, Rabid: The Pacific Crest Trail. 'Cause therapy ain't working.