Definition of Common Trail terms:

Definition of Terms:

1. Slack Pack or Slack Packing: Whenever you are not carrying your full pack. Nothing or a day pack is considered.
2. Nero: Do less than a full day’s mileage. Typically 10 miles or under. Typically Your Nero is a half day and you usually nero when coming into or out of town .
3. Zero: Any time you stay in town or at a Hostel or Shelter for over 24 hours. There are double-zero’s and triple zero’s all with the same core definition. IE: Christina and Melissa will be pulling a double zero when they hit trail days.
4. Yellow Blaze: Any time you get a ride for any stretch of the trail.
5. Purist: Someone that is really strict about trail rules. Always North Bound, no going SoBo when you’re a NoBo hiker, no slack Packing, blue blazing, aqua blazing, yogi-ing, or section hiking.  100% the toughest way to go.
6. Ultra light: Hikers that carry the least amount of weight possible to survive. Typically 8-10 pound packs.
7. Blue Blaze: Trails that detour the peaks but are included as miles when you get to the end. Our gang refuse to Blue blaze. they are purist to the point of hiking the trail with all the peaks and valleys included.
8. South Bounder:  Hiking the trail exclusively southward. You can be a SoBo Thru-hiker but and a purist. But only if you don’t take and NoBo detours.
9. PEG: Pointless Elevation Gain. Anytime you hike a big mountain but there is no view when you peak.
10. Aqua blazing: Skipping the trail by taking a boat.
11. Yogi-ing: You beg food out of others pack food. Some ultra lighters have made an art of yogi-ing to keep their pack weight down.
12. Hiker Midnight: 9:00PM.
13. Section-Hiker: Hikers that hike the AT in sections over a longer course of time. Technically every thru-hiker is a section hiker until they complete their first thru-hike. But they are only referred that way if they come off or are forced off the trail for some reason..

This is all they could come up with sitting around the fire. As I learn more, I'll add them to the list and refer back to it.