Hiking Wimps

I know that not everyone who's reached that late middle age range of 60+ yearns to hoist a pack to their back and set out for a nice two week jaunt into the so-called wilderness. (So-called because there are too few real wildernesses in the world. I'll settle for a nice remote trail at least three miles from anything else man made.)

Where was I? (Digression would be my middle name if it wasn't so long and ugly.) Anyway best wife and I will escape most of the insanity that accompanies so-called civilization. (S0 called because... all right, all right, I'll let it go!) No traffic, no boss, no TV, no Internet, no Blogs, no radio, and hopefull no cell-phones. I'll have to narrowly define traffic to SUVs, autos, and such because I expect there to be some significant foot traffic. So wilderness, even near wilderness, it ain't.

I'll admit that it would take me a couple of months to plan, equip, and get in shape for a 2 week backpacking trip. It's been more than 5 years since the last time I did one. So this three day scheduled hike in New Hampshire's White Mountains is a simple thing. No sleeping bag on a hard tent floor - we'll sleep in comfort in a cabin on the mountain. No tastless one-pot meals - at the AMC Zeeland Falls Hut, meals are brought to our table.