The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-08-02
HIKING Down The
LONG BROWN PATH
Vacationists With Shelter Tents
and Tin Cow Learning to
Walk All Over Again.

Walk All Over Again.
Obi It's not the pack that you carry on !
your back
Nor the rifle on your shoulder, o,oroa
Nor the five inch crust OF Khahi-eo'oie"
That makes you feel your limbs are
And it's sI not The hike on the hard turnpike
That drives away your smile,
Nor the socks of sisters that raise the
blooming blsters-
It's the last long mile.
Stringing out from the suburban
transit terminals of New York every
Sunday and holiday goes the army of
khaki-clad mixers. There may be an
automobile for every twenty of the
country's population, but host OF
city folks disprove the theory OF a
future leg-enfeebled citizenry and are
learning to walk all over again.
To the more casual minded, the hike
is Just exercise, but to those who
catch It's real significance the hike
means a great deal more. 1t is the
cheapest form of recreation ana
therefore appeals to those living in
crowded districts and unable to avail
themselves of the more expensive
amusements. And these people, be
it noted, are just those the country
is so anxious to have spread out and
settled in the farming sections. The
hike, indeed, has possibilities as
real starter for the back 70 the farm
movement
Douehboy and Boy Scout Lead Way
Just brief survey of the rollcking
groups which move off from the out
living terminals on holidays estab-
fishes few general types. There is
the eX-servce man and his friends
who will hear from him the story
of more serious excursions on tho
muddy roads of France. He tight
ems strap here and another there
on the blanket roll adjustment or the
shelter half" in which the commits
sary is packed for the mid day fest
by the roadside. Expert directions
come from him on the method Of
| singing the pack SO it will not feel
so heavy or interfere with the free
! body movement. He will pass along
the information, gained in his army
days, of how that same pack was
I evolved after numerous experiments
| tn Arr NO 81 IF "a
the heaviest load With results he
now compliments but which he char
acterized when douglI9y as a
"blanbety-blank total failure"
Then there are the boy scout par
| ties, adept at everything pertaining
to "shanks mare" travelling and wood
craft. The eX-service man and the
boy scout are pioneers in the hiking
game Listen to one Of them right
off the train and making ready for a
twelve mile jaunt; Get that can
teen over to the side, Jimmie and
1t won't keep bouncing off your leg
every step. Is it filled? Well, then,
we drink. How about the eats? Let's
check EN- Off You got the spuds,
Bill the bacon Jimmie. Who has the
coffee and the Borden tin cow?'
Fright here" announces a freckled
comrade of the road, patting his KNAPP
sack "Sntched the mocha and the
can of milk when Sis wasn't looking"
''Well, then, let's go!' snaps the
! commander of the expedition.
distance. Another must expect to
| make shorter hitch or else be count
ing greatly on its power of endur-
| e. Perhaps the camp is not far
| Off because the group is equipped for
an overnight stay with heavy blanket
rolls hatchets, lanterns, canvas wa
| terpails, rubber p0nchOs. kettles, pots,
new tangled tircStand, etc, etc. The
blankets are laid out for better
packing of the bags and cans of food.
! When the party commences to load
UP the members bristle all over with
camp tools ana equipment.
Back TO the Farm
The veteran from the crowded CITY
tenGMents has found a new territory
to roam and one alrsost unknown to
his associates He is Introducing them
to this newly discovered land and
teaching them how tp be independent
Of anv transported on but their own
good legs and of any sales.--future hu,
what they can. carry and prepare
walk, and cook your own" Is Ills
motto.
{ Who will So he icavan thus fer
menting i'2i city crowds will no,
bear i - Il keener appreciation OF
r""t..ry delights, especially as these
are added to by increased comfort:
on the farm. With his radio htcheC
up, the farmer listens in on the bes
entertainment the country has t,
offer. Modern home devices wipe on
many hardShips formerly imposed
upon isolated dwellers. There is. /,
short, rapid cutting down Of tn.
differential between farm and cit,
life