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I have a personal announcement to make.
I've been waiting for threads to go live to make it as I could never fit it into just one spout.
My dad died six years ago this coming Dec. It was a watershed moment in my life. One day you think you're cruising along, the next your life seems pointless
10:49 PM - May 03, 2023
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It became glaringly obvious that day that I had been focused on all the wrong things. My job was taking up WAY to much of my life. Spending far to much time on time wasting activities. This was my life dammit and what was I getting out of it?
Very very little was the answer
10:52 PM - May 03, 2023
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My dad had wasted his life. Both my parents raised me in a cult. A cult that basically severed your life from the outside world. If you left the cult you were shunned, forever. When I say shunned, that included ALL your family in the cult would shun you, to shame you
10:54 PM - May 03, 2023
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I spent years toeing the line of being in the cult & getting out. I wanted to somehow make my parents see they were in something that was wrong, that they had wasted their lives.
It never worked out the way I wanted it too and my dad died without ever having lived.
10:56 PM - May 03, 2023
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I swore that day that I would not follow the same path, that I would live a life. I want more than anything to lie on my death bed and look back and say I lived.
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First thing I did was refocus on my family, they come first, always and forever
10:58 PM - May 03, 2023
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Then I started putting my effort into building a retirement home for my wife and I and stopped putting my job first. My goal is to have a zero payment, off grid home we can enjoy in our golden years.
And lastly, my announcement
10:59 PM - May 03, 2023
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I want to do something for me. A challenge that few attempt and fewer yet complete. Something I can look back on and say, "Look what I did!"
I have decided that I am going to walk the Pacific Crest Trail
11:01 PM - May 03, 2023
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It stretches 2,650+ miles from the Mexican border at Campo California to the Canadian/ Washington state border.
It's long, it's hard, it will be full of amazing highs & soul crushing lows. 120 degree heat in the desert, to 14,000 ft high mountain passes. Its 20-30 miles a day for 5+ months
11:05 PM - May 03, 2023
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I want this, more than anyone can know. I need to prove to myself that life is what you make of it, not some nameless path that someone else put me on.
This is my destiny and I will give it every ounce of effort I have to see it through
11:07 PM - May 03, 2023
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This won't be the easiest thing as I'm on the wrong side of 50. My body is not what it used to be. My knees are not as strong as they were.
I am racing a clock, father time is set against me. I hope to do this in 2026, but it should be delayed a year depending on the house building
11:10 PM - May 03, 2023
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So if anyone has any questions, by all means I'd love to share & discuss this goal.
Also I'd like to give a tip of the hat to @GSteffanos as reading his book really cemented my determination to go through with this.
Give him a word of encouragement too as he is doing the Appalachian Trail
11:13 PM - May 03, 2023
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In the near future for a second time. Nearly 40 years since the first trip.
11:14 PM - May 03, 2023
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View from Mt Whitney. Side trail off the #PacificCrestTrail
11:20 PM - May 03, 2023 (Edited)
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