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Introductions "Take thou no usurly of him, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee." Lev 25:36 About 30 years ago a woman gave birth to twin boys. Being a poor unwed mother from an unnamed state she was unable to care for both babies so she was forced to give one of the boys up for adoption. That woman was my mother and I (Nigal, "n+eye+jole") was that boy that was given up. I do not begrudge my birth mother for what she had to do. I've had a good life with my adopted family here in Ohio. I recently found out about my twin brother after my birth mother was killed in a bizarr farming accident (don't ask) and her last wish was for her two boys to be reunited. That's when Darrel (Dirtbag Darrel as he's known back home) came into my life, for better or worse, and moved here to Ohio. He doesn't quite fit in here in the Buckeye State. People consider him to be somewhat of an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an idiot. "Watch it! I heard that Nigal!" "Quiet Darrel, I'm talking!" Darrel and I were as different as night and day but we found we had two things in common. One of these things was hiking. We had very different styles when it came to hiking and found that we fought all the time about who's way was better. Thus we fell into a love/hate hiking relationship. When I told Darrel I was making a web site touting the virtues of lightweight backpacking he guilted me into sharing the site with his twisted hiking style known as 'dirtbagging'. "That's 'dirtbaggin' Nigal!" "Shut up Darrel! I'm trying to write and explain the site to the folks!" Anyhow, as I was saying, we spent so much time fighting over the content of the site that we agreed that we would have a special format for the site. I would have the lightweight side (the left side) with all my own poignantly stated info and Darrel would have his own sorry, ragamuffin pages (the right side). "Hey! That ain't no fair! I gots nice pages!" "Yea, whatever you say Dirtbag..." In order to make the navigation of this site easier we have installed two navigation bars on each side of the pages so you can check out both our pages and get around easily. The info on these pages is not meant to teach you how to backpack but are merely how we do it and to show what works for us. Of course my techniques work better than Dirtbag's. "Dadnabbit Nigal! I done told ya that I wasn't gonna stand fer you to be talkin' smack on how I do my stuff!" "Yea, this coming from the guy who uses a stick for toilet paper on the trail!" "If our mama was alive to here ya talkin' to me that way she'd take you out behind the woodshed and teach you a thing or two!" "Oh really? Sorry to rain on your parade Darrel but, we don't even HAVE wood sheds here in Ohio. Look Dirtbag, I don't begrudge the fact that our birth mother gave me up but that doesn't mean I love her. I just like to talk about her to get under your skin. Hey, do you still have that issue of Hustler she posed for? Haha!" "All right ya just went too far! Let's just get on with the hiking stuff and quit makin' fun of Mama!" OK, enough talking then! We hope you enjoy the site and please stop back regularly as we will be adding to the site all the time. We will have trip reports of our hikes together (and apart!) and will add any new information pertaining to our particular styles as we learn from them. Be sure to drop us a line and let us know what you think of the site. Enjoy!
[Dirtbagger's Disclaimer: Please understand that this site is merely parody and a reflection of my two, sometimes opposing, hiking styles. The interaction between Me and Darrel is not a good example of a healthy sibling relationship. It's all in fun. Heck, Darrel doesn't even exist...thank God for that!]
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