"Eagle"

We met Eagle last week while recuperating at The Hiker Inn. He's a retired guy and has time & money to be able to do a thru-hike comfortably. He said that last year after he got his driver's license picture he thought he looked like "Jabba the Hut" in his picture. He decided he had to do something to lose weight and a friend suggested that he go hiking, so he planned to hike the whole AT in order to do so. He has never had any backpacking experience before, so he bought all the stuff for it and started his AT thru-hike the beginning of this month. We saw him about 2 weeks into his trip and he'd already lost 15 lbs.
At camp one night - in the shelter - he was putting himself to bed and struggling to get situated and comfortable and he shouted out "do people really do his for fun??!!"
We're all out here for different reasons, his reason is exclusively for weight loss. Very cool.

Renée