Hiker Talks to Maine High School Grads

The Boothbay Register, from Boothbay Harber, ME, has an article by Frank Helman titled "Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club" in its 7 June 2007 issue that highlights a talk given to the graduates of the Boothbay Harbor Region High School at a Rotary-sponsored dinner. The talk was by

"Matt Thomson, a 2000 graduate of BRHS. Thomson attended the University of Maine at Farmington and is now Youth Outreach Director at the Boothbay Region YMCA. His talk was based on his own experience of life after high school, which included hiking 2,000 miles of the Appalachian Trail (he still has to do the segment from Rangeley to Katahdin) and biking across the country from Oregon to the East Coast."

One of Thomson's points to the grads was that

"if you seek adventure, do it now - just don't be outrageous. Thomson noted that the other hikers he encountered on the Appalachian Trail tended to be either in his own age group or retirees."

That's been about my observation, too.