I'm not really the evangelical type. I don't go out of my way to convert others to my way of hiking. I will answer questions, when I am asked.

I sometimes get a fair amount of interest from the other hikers I meet when I tell them I am out for a week and plan to hike what seems to them a huge number of miles (maybe 10 or 11 a day), but my pack obviously isn't a monster and I don't look like a superman (not hardly). I am sure I've planted a few seeds of reconsideration.