Hiking Kilt

“You better get your virgins instead.”

“O.K. Virgins w/eye-droppers.”

“Chips, I keep asking about hiking in a skirt too. But then again . . . I'm a girl. I guess guys have alotta' sweat issues in this area of the body, so maybe a kilt is the answer for 'yaz. I'll try a skirt out on the Montanapalooza and let you know. But then again . . . I don't really have major crotch sweat issues. My opinion may not be important.”

“Ya gonna wear undies? If not, I'm goin'!”

“Will you go if I don't wear undies?”

“(gag, gasp, choke, retch, puke...)”

“Is that a yes?”

“Whew! That's a visual I could have done without for the rest of my life. Sure glad I haven't eaten anything yet today!
Nah, chips, that's a definite negatory. I think I'd rather deliver a calf!”

“'CROTCHRASH' caused'CLINTONSFAULT'.”

“"I think I'd rather deliver a calf." - Father Goose

Now that is really sayin' somethin'!”

“I just read this thread and I couldn't breathe, I was laughing so hard.

Chips, if you are 6' 3" and 260 lbs, I doubt if anyone is going to laugh at your kilt or call you a chippy to your face.

Just be careful not to catch your skirt in your waistband when you stop for a potty break.”

“LyndyS, makes a very good point Chips.”

“Actually, this reminds me of a folk tune (surprise)...

The queen she came to Call on us
She wanted to see All of us
I'm glad she didn't Fall on us
She's eighteen stone!

(
a 'stone' being equal to 14 pounds, this comes to 252 pounds
)”

“Skirts land Deptford boys in detention

Tuesday, February 04, 2003

By Jeanette Tallantjtallant@sjnewsco.com Gloucester Co Times

DEPTFORD TWP. -- For the administration at Deptford High School, boys in skirts are just too much of a distraction.

But when Jim Hamer and his buddies got dressed for school Monday morning, donning plaid skirts for the fun of it, they had no idea their unconventional attire would land them in detention.


"I totally disagree with it," said Hamer, a senior who was forced to change his plaid skirt and face punishment. "At first it was just for fun, but now there's a discrimination."

The boys have been exercising their creativity all year by establishing unique holidays that add a little excitement to their school days. A few weeks ago, the group celebrated Spoon Day, passing out plastic spoons to classmates. This Friday, they plan to observe Anti-Winter Day and wear shorts and other spring-like clothing.

"We like creating the holidays to eliminate some of the blandness from the school day," said Chris Taydus, who didn't actually wear a plaid skirt Monday because he doesn't own one. "It creates a little bit of fun."

One by one Monday, the boys in skirts were sent to the vice principal's office, where they were told to change out of their plaid garb and that they would face administrative detentions for violating the township school district's dress code.

"The guidelines say that school attire (should) preserve the learning climate to acceptable standards of dress and basically, young men wearing skirts to school was a distraction," said Principal Joseph Canataro. "In the scheme of things, it's harmless, but, nonetheless, it was a violation of policy."

The group contends their skirts were of proper length and caused no distraction in their classrooms until word that detentions were being handed out started swirling.

"I walked into first period, everyone laughed then we just got down to work," said junior Josh Taylor. "No one made a big deal about it. My biggest thing is that it's not a big deal, it's just a skirt."

The boys feel they are being discriminated against because the girls who wore plaid skirts Monday faced no consequences.

"We believe that it's also a violation and discrimination based on gender," said Hamer. "Girls can wear pants and skirts. Equality of the sexes should work both ways."

Canataro said the dress code allows for a students' rights relating to dress and self-expression to be protected to a certain extent. The boys' plaid skirt stunt didn't qualify.

"We have a written policy you have to follow. We can't decided to follow it one day for one student and not another," he said.

"We respect a student's right regarding fashion and customs but we did not think their one day decision to wear a plaid skirt was a custom or style or fashion."”

“By crackies, if'n they wanna wear skirts, let 'em wear tampons, too!!!”

“i bet that's where atrex went to school......


they should sue the PANTS off of that school!”

“If girls can wear pants why can't boys wear a skirt makes sence to me!!! Less material too!”

“It's like what I overheard a father telling his son this morning as dad was trying to explain the "One Way" sign. Dad says,"That means cars can only to that way on the street." Kid, "Why?" Dad "It's the law."”

“Hmmmm can I take a peek under that hiking kilt?”

“I'm the very same chips76 who started this post last spring. I had asked ya'll 'bout whether you'd consider wearing mountain hardware's hiking kilt. I did eventually purchase the kilt, and wore it during the summer while I was on the AT for a couple weeks. It was absolutely marvelous!!!! The air circulation was heavenly, and I received zero (no) heat rashes on my thighs, a problem that had tortured me during previous long-distance hikes. I really recommend this product to anyone who has the same problem.

I'll see y'all this weekend at Red River Gorge. Unfortunatly, I won't be modeling the kilt for you...its too damn cold to keep my twigs and berries exposed.”

“Did they ever start making it in a tartan plaid?”

“so have you tried asolos high-heeled approach shoes yet?”

“Did you make your backpack look like a backpack and yell "it's crap!" to people, as I originally suggested?”

“Gott sei dank.”

“Errr, make your backpack look like a BAGPIPE... Gimme a break, I just woke up.”

“LOL artex! I knew what you ment.

lawyergary: it's not that cold, you can wear it.”

“It might surprise you, it did me, but I received no negative comments 'bout what really did look a short skirt. In fact, I heard stories of other thru-hikers wearing sarongs. Several people I met actually were thinking of ordering one themselves. Thru-hikers tend to be pretty open-minded 'bout stuff like that. Their mentality is "I'll do whatever it takes to keep going." As for the weekend warriors, well, I think they were afeard.”

“that sounds cool but I don't think I have the legs to pull that off.”

“id wear one


WHEN I GET ELEPHANTITUS”

“AYE..it arrived. Apparently I am going to have to take matters in Me own hands to end "Casual Friday" April 6 is National Kilt Day. So the Kilt arrived today (Sportkilts.com) and I think this will work.”

“Nice! You'll love it.

Green Monkee sporting his:
”

“caption: Look at me, I'm an attention whore!”

“If we had signatures here, that would be yours mutt.”

“My favorite.....still hoping to meet more on the trail. TN Renn fair isn't until May!”

“Hey rock, I will probably be in one on the Cave trip”

“LOL..what was it in Poland they are not allowing men in Kilts...apparently the crime of drunking flashing has hit an all time high?”

“Really? Which trek are you doing? I guess it doesn't matter if we all camp together....”

“Probably the 17 miles, but we will see. We can shave a few off of this if need be to be more in the neighborhood of 14-15.

We will pretty much all be camped together, although if the YES count continues to grow, we will need all the backcountry sites they have.”

“im taking the route stomper takes.

wk, take cmb on the buttkicker and were him out would ya?”

“Sure thing nut magnet”

“oh, and make sure he doesnt twist an ankle or somthing.....

its been a while in the basement for him.”

“This past weekend I was camping with a bunch of thruhikers from 2006. I am so happy that the kilts a few of them had came with snaps on the hem to keep from blinding the guy sitting across the fire from them.”

“Hey, hyway! How was your hike? Did you make it back to Springer? Looked for ya, didn't see you along the trail anywhere. ;)”

“it was great to be in the woods, but I had newish boots and picked up 3 blisters on my heels. That was painful. The people we were meeting up with didn't show till friday afternoon so we got a late start. Only made it as far as woody gap saturday night. Thru hikers are crazy. Couple dudes left the trail midway and showed back up at woody gap with a couple cases of beer :).

Anyhoo, we had a 9 hour drive back home from springer, so sunday morning my hiking buddy and I hitched back to Springer. Only saw 2 cars going our way but thats all it took :). easy hitching along the AT.

We saw a thruhiker suffering heat stroke on the mountain between cooper gap and justice creek. I hope he is ok. I can't find any news on him.”

“Hey hyway...who were you hiking w/from '06?”

“wildbill, bravefriend, dufresne, rematch, squarl, dub, scoot, and a few extras whose names have slipped my mind. Also there were 2 new 2007 thrus.

These guys all started way before you. They finished Aug 27.”

“Fifth arrest made in the Glasgow airport incident where luckily no one was kilt.”

“Stovie... what are you doin' to me?? Here, I thought someone else had taken the plunge.

I must add, Green Hornet is very please with his and has been sporting it since VA. Yet another convert. ]:)

”

“Puns are fun. ;-)”

“You're a very punny man. :p”