Book Pilgrim
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That’s more like it.
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Why is this so funny?
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Hiking To Mordor Day One. Not Even Out of The Shire.
Whatever.
2 miles out of 1500. I have to say something. Running a mile or walking around the neighborhood makes your mileage go up so fast. But the motherfucking mountains are all CURVY and STEEP. I walked for a damn hour for what? 2.10 miles according to my iPod touch.
According to the book, I haven’t even made it to Farmer Maggot’s damn poop farm.
Climbing mountains is hard. And there were all these people with dogs this morning, too. For good measure, I ran a little and pretended someone was chasing me with the ring, but it didn’t add any real distance. Got caught, killed, and now the ring is back in Mordor.
New respect for Frodo.
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Hike Into Mordor?
The “on a scale of” thing (see below) got me thinking. I live in the desert, with many, many mountains. What if I walked, over a period of time, the distance to Mordor for the laughs and for the ripped calves?
I did a little Googling (thank god, think of how complicated that would have been), and it’s not “so” uncommon. People have at the very least gotten to Rivendale. They even have markers for different locations as per the book. Although while I will just be having a Clif Bar on some rock, Frodo was like, getting drunk with elves.
The total distance to Mordor, the way Sam and Frodo went, is about 1560 miles. Frodo allegedly walked 8.6 miles a day, but it took him a long ass time, and he ran occasionally.
I could probably do like. 20 a week? Hiking, mind you.
On the downside, I’m about 98% sure no one would want to do this with me. Chris, who I’ve begged to be my little Samwise, refused me. I wish I could clone myself, then we’d both wear cloaks and Vibrams and eat nothing but hard tack.
What do you think?
