View Full Version : Just to be fun.... Do you have any weird hiking habits?
Mavs00
06-02-2006, 04:28 PM
Okay, I usually get annoyed at these threads, but we always have such serious discussions, I thought I'd lighten the mood. :D
Do any of you have any particular habits of rituals that you do when you hike? It can be either pre-hike, during hike, or post hike. We're talking stuff the odd, unique to hiking, or if it doesn't happen, things just don't feel right.
It could be a particular stop or food for breakfast. Hiking behavior or post hike beverage waiting in the trunk of the car.
I'll go first. Mine's more quirky behavior than anything. I'm not one prone to OCD (okay, maybe a touch :oops: ), but at least 1-2 or more times a hike, I'll have the sudden thought that my pack is open and my keys/wallet/camera has fallen out. I zip em securely in my pack and no way they'd really ever fall out, so it's really irrational.
Usually it goes like this. I'll be strolling along, and get the thought, and I'll immediately ask the nearest person "is my pack open?" or if noones around I'll stop and have to look myself. I try to act nonchalant about it, but It usually is a real panic.
By the way, I've never lost a keys or wallet in the woods and this behavior only happens hiking, not in my everyday life. Weird, aren't I.
Add yours below.
cantdog
06-02-2006, 04:36 PM
Tapping the USGS summit marker with a trekking pole. (I know this irritates some people, so I try not to make a big spectacle out of it)
If possible, standing on the highest available or reasonable place on the summit. (height of land, top of cairn, top of huge boulder, top of fire tower, etc.)
I have this weird, totally disgusting thing I feel I have to do over and over again while solo bushwhacking. It's gotta be the grossest thing you've ever heard of. I'm sure it goes way beyond anything you think you could imagine. Wanna hear about it? Wanna see the pics? Shall I write it up as a TR and put it in the new private section?
:smile:
Actually, to be serious for once. I eat flies. At least 15 or 20 per trip. I like the big bluebottles and that explains why so many of my hikes take me past a privy where they are very easy to harvest, especially on cool mornings while they are still sluggish. I have a little net and a small nalgene I carry for the very purpose of catching and storing them. Then I nibble on them.
Now for the quirky part: I eat them progressively, putting them back into the nalgene after biting off a portion. I tried spiders for a while but they didn't do anything for me.
Willie
06-02-2006, 05:25 PM
I love Wise potato chips! They don’t sell them in Chicago. So, when I’m packing a lunch for a day hike in the ADKs, you know I’m bringing Wise potato Chips—a BIG BAG of Wise potato chips. And I pack the bag in my backpack, the way you would pack fine china to be sent through the mail. The payoff is at lunchtime on some summit—not one broken potato chip. Although my hiking partners give me the eye as I pull out my bag of potato chips, I know they appreciate eating them ... almost as much as I do. :p
hillman1
06-02-2006, 05:30 PM
I bring reeses peanut butter cups. I also have the lost key obsession after a few episodesd of other losses during bushwacks. I still have a pair of glasses in the case somewhere up on the gray-marcy ridge...Hopefully will find them in the upcoming weeks.
neighbor
06-02-2006, 06:14 PM
Okay, I usually get annoyed at these threads, but we always have such serious discussions, I thought I'd lighten the mood. :D
Do any of you have any particular habits of rituals that you do when you hike? It can be either pre-hike, during hike, or post hike. We're talking stuff the odd, unique to hiking, or if it doesn't happen, things just don't feel right.
It could be a particular stop or food for breakfast. Hiking behavior or post hike beverage waiting in the trunk of the car.
I'll go first. Mine's more quirky behavior than anything. I'm not one prone to OCD (okay, maybe a touch :oops: ), but at least 1-2 or more times a hike, I'll have the sudden thought that my pack is open and my keys/wallet/camera has fallen out. I zip em securely in my pack and no way they'd really ever fall out, so it's really irrational.
Usually it goes like this. I'll be strolling along, and get the thought, and I'll immediately ask the nearest person "is my pack open?" or if noones around I'll stop and have to look myself. I try to act nonchalant about it, but It usually is a real panic.
By the way, I've never lost a keys or wallet in the woods and this behavior only happens hiking, not in my everyday life. Weird, aren't I.
Add yours below.
ha ha ha, i used to do that alot!! :banghead: for some reason, i don't do it as much anymore. :D
peak_bgr
06-02-2006, 06:25 PM
Tim/Neighbor-
I still do it all the time while I'm hiking. "hey Bri did I zip my pack". I always have, but for some reason I don't think I have.
I always carry my lucky rock.
Actually, to be serious for once. I eat flies. At least 15 or 20 per trip. I like the big bluebottles and that explains why so many of my hikes take me past a privy where they are very easy to harvest, especially on cool mornings while they are still sluggish. I have a little net and a small nalgene I carry for the very purpose of catching and storing them. Then I nibble on them.
Now for the quirky part: I eat them progressively, putting them back into the nalgene after biting off a portion. I tried spiders for a while but they didn't do anything for me.
Glad to see you got 'serious' for once! :D And here I thought you were going to talk about how you wear that thong and the two pieces of duct tape on your nipples! :D
During-hike ritual: I have a fetish similar to Tim's and Doug's. I'm always checking for my car keys, sometimes only minutes between checks. Sometimes I'll check the wrong pocket (subconscious intention?) and get a brief twinge of panic until I remember they're in the other one. They're ALWAYS there, of course. I get the same feeling about my lunch (that I've forgotten it). The difference there is that on one or two occasions I have forgotten it!
Pre-hiking ritual: muffins.
Post-hiking ritual: none I'm aware of.
Dick
I have a little net and a small nalgene I carry for the very purpose of catching and storing them ...
With a little practice you'll be able to abandon that net and nalgene ... just pluck 'em right outta the air as you go along!!
:tup:
You guys and your stupid keys! Sheesh! Get with it. I had a piercing job done on my navel and clip my key ring into that. End of story.
Ribbit.
You guys and your stupid keys! Sheesh! Get with it. I had a piercing job done on my navel and clip my key ring into that. End of story.
Ribbit.
Following the maxim that every piece of gear should serve two purposes, I suppose that clip also holds up that thong, right? Or to store extra flies for a snack?
I always read one of Neil's TR's just before leaving. Then no matter what happens I won't feel stupid.
Mavs00
06-02-2006, 09:22 PM
I always read one of Neil's TR's just before leaving. Then no matter what happens I won't feel stupid.
:D That's AWESOME Hawk :D
Following the maxim that every piece of gear should serve two purposes, I suppose that clip also holds up that thong, right? Or to store extra flies for a snack?
The thong has its own ,er, support mechanism. I clip the Nalgene along with the keys to the belly button ring. You know what really hurts? When bushwhacking and the bottle gets caught and it rips that ring right out of there.
Boreal Chickadee
06-02-2006, 10:12 PM
I USED to have the key searching habit when I carried them in my shorts pocket. I'll bet I patted the pocket more than 50 times a day. It got so annoying and worrisome that now I pack them in the bottom of my pack securely tethered. Can't be too sure! :rolleyes:
My other quirk is I have to shower before the hike. It wakes me up. When I start out without showering,it's like I never really started the day. This can be problem when backpacking. Hmm... a little OCD creeping in?
I always read one of Neil's TR's just before leaving. Then no matter what happens I won't feel stupid.
Hawk, if my TR's prevent you from feeling Stoopid then I guess they've done a small service to one segment of humankind.
pete_hickey
06-02-2006, 10:38 PM
You guys and your stupid keys! ... yeah... travel by bicycle, and you don't have to worry about keys.
Do I have any weird quirks or anything? Not that I can really think of... But I'm not really an objective observer. You'd have to ask anyone who hikes with me. As far as I'm concerned, everything I do is normal.
neighbor
06-03-2006, 07:40 AM
i've been seen on the trail emptying my pack of all it's contents, looking for my money. :eek: only to find it at the bottom of my sleeping bag! :banghead: it was a curious site to some thru-hikers last year!! :rolleyes:
Sparky
06-03-2006, 08:26 AM
Only 1-2 times. I do it probably every 15 minutes. It's so vivid I can even picture my pack open with things hanging out of it. :oops:
I carry a bottle of Coke for the last few miles, as a pick-me-up to get me back to the trailhead.
I'll go first. Mine's more quirky behavior than anything. I'm not one prone to OCD (okay, maybe a touch :oops: ), but at least 1-2 or more times a hike, I'll have the sudden thought that my pack is open and my keys/wallet/camera has fallen out. I zip em securely in my pack and no way they'd really ever fall out, so it's really irrational.
Skyclimber
06-03-2006, 09:19 PM
Check to make sure I locked up the car, a couple times before starting the hike. I too, am a Key Fanatic!! Must check my pockets, 25 times a day. I have to have a diet mountain dew, waiting back at the car. Of course Stewart's on the way home, for something salty to eat. Or if it's Saranac Lake, must stop at Mickey D's, for my Big Mac and Salty Fries! Ah so many "bad habits." :D
Hitched Hiker
06-03-2006, 10:23 PM
Key checker, backpack zipper checker, car door locked checker, re-checker, and once more just to be sure. I think OCD might be contagious in this thread.
I have the urge to make chocolate chip cookies the night before I go hiking. The weird part is I'm usually wearing my headlamp while whipping up these delightful treats. I'm busy packing while cooking (hence the headlamp). I usually try to figure out how to take 2 dozen cookies in my pack- just in case I have to stay in the woods longer, I don't want to be cookie-less.
And can you believe I can't find folks to hike with me? I have cookies!
cantdog
06-03-2006, 11:09 PM
Key checker, backpack zipper checker, car door locked checker, re-checker, and once more just to be sure. I think OCD might be contagious in this thread.
I have the urge to make chocolate chip cookies the night before I go hiking. The weird part is I'm usually wearing my headlamp while whipping up these delightful treats. I'm busy packing while cooking (hence the headlamp). I usually try to figure out how to take 2 dozen cookies in my pack- just in case I have to stay in the woods longer, I don't want to be cookie-less.
And can you believe I can't find folks to hike with me? I have cookies!
I'll be in NY next month and you are certainly welcome to join us. I'll eat your cookies.
Boreal Chickadee
06-03-2006, 11:11 PM
Haven't lost my wallet (shucks, I don't carry a wallet) or keys but we did find a wallet coming back from Iroquois last year.
The first high peak we did was Cascade (no surprise there) and this fellow had a Subway sandwich on top-the whole thing , that smelled absolutely delicious. We ate our PBJs and ended up adopting them going over to Porter (they would only go if we went because it was getting late). I have too frequently remembered the smell of that sub, drooling with my memory, on many other summits. I've since graduated to bacon sandwiches or at least PBJ on homemade bread.
randomscooter
06-04-2006, 07:36 AM
Anyone ever actually lose their keys or wallet???? I often think to myself when approaching the car after a looooong hike, ...... "what if the car keys fell out of my pack on the summit?!?!" :rolleyes:
A few years back my wife and I climbed Cascade, then Porter. We were travelling light, and I had my keys in my pants pocket. After a nice relaxing break on Porter we headed down. As I reached the parking lot and reached into my pocket I instantly knew exactly where my keys were...on the summit rock of Porter!! :oops: :eek: :banghead: Just as I began pondering my second ascent of the day a hiker walked out of the woods and said, "Hey did you folks lose a set of car keys? There's two hikers right behind me who found a set up on the top of Porter." Whew!!
Mavs00
06-04-2006, 10:25 AM
Not a wallet... but ADKatie, back in the days she left her purse in the car at the trailhead :eek: , did just that prior to a hike of UWJ, Armstrong and Gothics. For some unknown reason, perhaps in case we ran into a hot dog stand, she thought "we better have some cash with us" and slipped a $20 in her pocket for the hike.
Sure enough, there is a wayward twenty-spot floating around up there somewhere.
Hitched Hiker
06-04-2006, 08:00 PM
Got milk? :D
Home-made chocolate chip cookies ...... dang ...... I'll hike with ya. ;)
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!12climbup - you'll have to bring your own milk! I'll see you and Cantdog on the trail. You'll be able to tell who I am by the smell wafting from my pack. My brother thinks I'm a bear magnet!
ADKatie
06-04-2006, 08:46 PM
Not a wallet... but ADKatie, back in the days she left her purse in the car at the trailhead :eek: , did just that prior to a hike of UWJ, Armstrong and Gothics. For some unknown reason, perhaps in case we ran into a hot dog stand, she thought "we better have some cash with us" and slipped a $20 in her pocket for the hike.
Sure enough, there is a wayward twenty-spot floating around up there somewhere.
He ALWAYYYYYYS tells this story wrong.
Ladies, help me out here! I didn't want to bring my purse along in the car with us. Not the best idea when leaving the car at the bottom of the hill of the Ausable Club Road, with a 10-hour hike ahead of you. Thought it best to leave back at the cabin, but we ALWAYS stop for sodas after the hike, so I just pocketed a Twenty and left the purse at the cabin. Forgot to stash the bill in the car before we set out on the hike and realized it was there in my pocket somewhere along the way. Rather than stop, take off the pack and bury it in the pack, I left it in my pocket and checked several times (in a very OCD fashion, as many of you describe here) that it was still there. After some butt sliding down portions of the Beaver Meadow trail, I checked for it and alas, it was gone.
Tim likes to insist that it's so funny to say I expected a hot dog stand up top, when really it was quite logical. He takes HIS money in his pack! What's so weird about that? Better than leaving it in the car!
So there.
cantdog
06-04-2006, 08:54 PM
I'd give you a green square if I could, but you'll have to settle for a green circle with an arrow inside.
Mavs00
06-04-2006, 08:57 PM
He ALWAYYYYYYS tells this story wrong.
Ladies, help me out here! I didn't want to bring my purse along in the car with us. Not the best idea when leaving the car at the bottom of the hill of the Ausable Club Road, with a 10-hour hike ahead of you. Thought it best to leave back at the cabin, but we ALWAYS stop for sodas after the hike, so I just pocketed a Twenty and left the purse at the cabin. Forgot to stash the bill in the car before we set out on the hike and realized it was there in my pocket somewhere along the way. Rather than stop, take off the pack and bury it in the pack, I left it in my pocket and checked several times (in a very OCD fashion, as many of you describe here) that it was still there. After some butt sliding down portions of the Beaver Meadow trail, I checked for it and alas, it was gone.
Tim likes to insist that it's so funny to say I expected a hot dog stand up top, when really it was quite logical. He takes HIS money in his pack! What's so weird about that? Better than leaving it in the car!
So there.
:blah: :blah: :D
pete_hickey
06-04-2006, 09:01 PM
- you'll have to bring your own milk! ....! Does beer go good with Chocolate chip cookies? I've been known to hike with that. In keeping with the thread, is that an odd quiirk? Carrying beer and pilsner glasses?
Boreal Chickadee
06-04-2006, 09:07 PM
Katie- I'll let you in a Mom secret: I carry a twenty in my pack! Must be the Girl Scout still in me.
About 9 or 10 years ago I had someone offer to buy our head nets in the high peaks. I foolishly did not sell. You'd get a yes now because I also carry bug shirts so the head nets are definitely for sale!
Pete- My PBJs are on homemade bread-does that count? Nitrite free bacon sandwiches? Just not as exciting.
OK, not exactly a pre-hike 'ritual,' and I don't mean to turn the thread too serious, but there is something I do just before almost every hike, and have done so for as long as I can remember. Panic. Not tremble in your boots, sweat pouring off the forehead panic, but a definite nervousness about the hike, regardless of whether it's a new area or a stroll to Marcy Dam. Panic might be too strong of a word, but it's a definite anxiety, usually felt the night before, and I often don't sleep well before a hike. Strangely the feeling is also coupled with an eager excitement of the day(s) to come, and I admit that I might be misreading that emotion. Once I start hiking, I'm fine. So am I weird or what?
Katie- I'll let you in a Mom secret: I carry a twenty in my pack! Must be the Girl Scout still in me.
Sounds more like mad money if you ask me.
One thing I like to do is let blood. I open a vein on the inside of my left ankle and let a half pint spill out onto the ADK turf. It apeases the bushwhacking gods.
Mavs00
06-04-2006, 09:19 PM
So am I weird or what?
I may not be an elder statesman my friend, but I am old enough to know NOT to answer a question like that. ;)
Skyclimber
06-04-2006, 09:44 PM
OK, not exactly a pre-hike 'ritual,' and I don't mean to turn the thread too serious, but there is something I do just before almost every hike, and have done so for as long as I can remember. Panic. Not tremble in your boots, sweat pouring off the forehead panic, but a definite nervousness about the hike, regardless of whether it's a new area or a stroll to Marcy Dam. Panic might be too strong of a word, but it's a definite anxiety, usually felt the night before, and I often don't sleep well before a hike. Strangely the feeling is also coupled with an eager excitement of the day(s) to come, and I admit that I might be misreading that emotion. Once I start hiking, I'm fine. So am I weird or what?
I have a friend like you, who does the same thing. She must wake up three hours before a hike. Even if the hike is getting on the trail for 6:00 a.m. She also has to do her hair first as well!!
Me I just jump out of bed and get in the car!
Valerie
06-04-2006, 09:58 PM
I too am a key checking fanatic. I'll check for them about 5 times the first hour and then maybe an hour later I'll be sure I forgot them and have to check again. Usually, the last mile back to the car the fear sets in again and I think I forgot them. I am always less stressed on a hike when Kevin drives.
I did drop my keys once. I used to keep them on a biner clipped to my belt so I always knew they were there. After coming off of Treadway mountain with my brother I stepped off into the woods to "use the facilities". While the belt was undone the keys fell off. After hiking on about 1/2 mile I realized my key weren't there. It was getting near dark and I had been awake almost 24 hours having worked the night before. I left my brother, a slower hiker, there and ran back to the spot. I remembered where in the trail it was because my brother had sat on a fallen tree while he waited. It took a little while but eventually I found the keys. What a great feeling that was! I now always clip them inside my pack.
Once I got bact to my car after a canoe trip and couldn't find the keys. After my friends and I teared my bags apart I remebered the last place I saw them was in my tent. I had packed up my tent with the keys in it.
pete_hickey
06-04-2006, 09:59 PM
Pete- My PBJs are on homemade bread-does that count? Nitrite free bacon sandwiches? Just not as exciting.Actually, it soulds like it would go better with beer than chocolate chip cookies. That bacon.. Sounds like it may be similar to the bacon I get from a butcher at the market. It's made by a local farmer, and contains nothing but some salt. and smoke.. not chenicals, but smoker smoked smoke.
Maybe my food is a weird thing. Past few years, I've been going to a chinese store, and buying snacks. Usually, I don't know what it is, bcause just about everything is in Chinese. I had these thing that looked like squirrel turds.. On the box it said that it is loved by children. I had this other stuff, and after tasting it, several of us were trying to decide if it was fish or a fruit... Then there is this stuff I've had in my pack for a couple years..... I haven't been hungry enough to try it yet. (the power bar beats it, but I decided that since I had carried it for 6 years without eating it, it was dead weight.
Does singing the Magilla Gorilla theme song, for hours on end seem like a weitd habit?
I have a friend like you, who does the same thing. She must wake up three hours before a hike. Even if the hike is getting on the trail for 6:00 a.m. She also has to do her hair first as well!!
Me I just jump out of bed and get in the car!
Yes, I see we're two of a kind. I must spend at least an hour in front of the mirror doing my hair before a hike! :)
Skyclimber
06-04-2006, 10:11 PM
Yes, I see we're two of a kind. I must spend at least an hour in front of the mirror doing my hair before a hike! :)
Ah you didn't get the key words, "She also" I didn't mean you. :)
pete_hickey
06-04-2006, 10:15 PM
I must spend at least an hour in front of the mirror doing my hair before a hike! Doesn't everybody? I mean, if one doesn'T try to look their best on the trail, what's the point of hiking.
You never know who you may meet out there, and it's comon sense, to look your best.
billandjudy
06-04-2006, 10:46 PM
During warm weather I HAVE to lead to make sure all the spider webs are down before J comes along. They skeeve her out :D
Boreal Chickadee
06-04-2006, 11:03 PM
I had these thing that looked like squirrel turds..
:eek: If I make the work trip where Pete cooks, would everyone remind me not to eat!
I found my bacon at Price Chopper, no nitrites, really smoked and de-lic-ious. :tup: Yours is probably even better, but what a difference the real smoking makes and no cheical preservatives.
Mark Schaefer
06-04-2006, 11:47 PM
OK, not exactly a pre-hike 'ritual,' ,,,, it's a definite anxiety, usually felt the night before, and I often don't sleep well before a hike. Strangely the feeling is also coupled with an eager excitement of the day(s) to come .... I had similar experiences many years ago when I first started going on solo bushwhacks. It seemed like I was doing the whack in my sleep the night before, and I would barely sleep as a result. This is no longer a problem though. Maybe I am too accustomed to hiking, nothing seems weird anymore.
Some might think the following is more foolish than weird. I always enjoy seeing wildlife while hiking, and black bears in particular. The last two years I have made an effort to hike at times and in areas where I expect the bears will be. I don't go looking for them -- that would foolhardy, but our paths have crossed many times. While hiking in the Catskill back country I spotted six bears in 2004, and well over a dozen in 2005. Away from civilization the Catskill bears are still quite shy and a marvel to see if you maintain a sense of caution around them.
Ok, you two, (Mavs and Adkatie) do you want the phone number for a good marriage counselor, or a divorce lawyer!? :eek: :D
timmus
06-05-2006, 12:07 PM
....anxiety, usually felt the night before, and I often don't sleep well before a hike. Strangely the feeling is also coupled with an eager excitement of the day(s) to come, and I admit that I might be misreading that emotion. Once I start hiking, I'm fine. So am I weird or what?
If you are weird, I'm weird too !! I can totally relate to that. When I get to the TH in the morning, my hands are always shaking, I'm very nervous, and when I'm with people it's even worse. I tend to forget things like sandwiches in the fridge, or keeping my ''driving socks'' in my hiking boots. Once I'm on the trail, everything gets smooth and relax.
As for habits, I have quite a few :
Right after saying «Thanks» to the US Custom officier, I put my Green Day CD in and shout the lyrics smiling.
While hiking, I'm always insecure about being on the right trail. Which is totally stupid, because I planned my hike so meticulously that all trails, distances and elevations are written on a piece of paper, folded with my map. When I get to a junction, I always check the trail names twice (even the ones I went by many times, like the Marcy Dam Tr/Algonquin Tr jct).
I can't stop myself from estimating the time I will take to hike a segment. Good when alone, but can be very annoying for the partners who prefer to chill.
In very hot days, when I get back to my van, I love to sit on the back, take my boots off and wash the dirt off my face with Wet Ones. It feels almost like a shower. I eat my lunch's leftovers, and think about beer. I would bring some if I wouldn't have a two hours drive in front of me.
Then I have to stop at Stewart Shops, buy a chocolate milk and a bag of chips for the road. And Root beer. When hiking out of NYS, I always miss that.
Mavs00
06-05-2006, 12:20 PM
... or a divorce lawyer!? :eek:
Bite your tougue mister. Don't you know, mischevious derision and playful indulgence is one of the very hallmarks of enduring happiness :)
pete_hickey
06-05-2006, 12:32 PM
Ok, you two, (Mavs and Adkatie) do you want the phone number for a good marriage counselor, or a divorce lawyer!? :eek: :D Wow!! thsi site is starting to get like one of those reality TV shoes.
Can WE get to vote one of the two off????
I count.
I hike solo very frequently.
As a result I sometimes have a very difficult time setting a comfortable pace and find myself surging until I go anerobic.
So, I coult steps and this helps me set a pace. That's not terribly weird, but, when I start counting steps, then I want to know the number of steps cumulatively taken through the day.
So, I take a twig that is dead and down and for every 100 steps I break off a small section and put it in one of my back pockets. Then, when I get to wherever I'm going, I count the number of pieces of sticks in my pocket and know how many steps I've taken.
As if this weren't crazy enough, a step up is only counted if the foot is placed higher than the other foot. So, if I come to a flat spot in a trail and take 50 steps on the flat or 50 steps on a decline- these don't count toward the stick count.
On occasion I have hiked wearing only my underwear. Seriously. It was very hot and there was no one on the trail and my underwear were black boxer shorts. However on Colden, going down the steep side, there were parties going up but I figured it wasn't noticeable until this guy yells out, "Hey, what happened to your clothes?" Busted.
Vona, if you want to control your pace get a heart rate monitor. On one of my underwear trips (Moose and MacKenzie) it was very hot and I was wanting to prevent heat stroke so I wore the monitor and whenever my heart rate went over 130 I stopped until it went down to 125. I was amazed on that extremely hot and humid day how going up Moose (2nd) I had to go amazingly slowly to maintain a low heart rate.
lumberzac
06-05-2006, 08:10 PM
I have this weird habit of not wanting to go home when I’m hiking.
I count.
Get a pedometer! :D
I have a pedometer! I last took it with me when I did street and nye last august- an august day when it was like africa hot and mumbai humid (I've been to both places). Anyway, I get to the three way and I pull out the pedometer and it has registered..................115 steps. LAME. I'll stick to my counting sticks!
Hitched Hiker
06-05-2006, 10:31 PM
On occasion I have hiked wearing only my underwear. Seriously. It was very hot and there was no one on the trail and my underwear were black boxer shorts. However on Colden, going down the steep side, there were parties going up but I figured it wasn't noticeable until this guy yells out, "Hey, what happened to your clothes?" Busted.
Neil, are you going to start a clothing optional hiking club? Good food manditory.
Pete, now wonder your packs weigh as much as they do with pilsner glasses in them!
Adkatie, wouldn't Tim be bummed if he summited and someone was selling beers up there and he had to ask you for some money after all this chiding!! ;) :drink:
Mavs00
06-05-2006, 10:39 PM
Adkatie, wouldn't Tim be bummed if he summited and someone was selling beers up there and he had to ask you for some money after all this chiding!! ;) :drink:
Are you kidding, I'd be too proud to ask. I'd probably break down and bust that $20 she thinks she lost along the Beaver Meadow trail. ;)
pete_hickey
06-05-2006, 10:45 PM
On occasion I have hiked wearing only my underwear. Out west, I've worn less than that.... Shoes, socks, and a hat. I did it climbing a peak in the California desert. Interesting here, because there are no trees, and you can see people a mile away.
Pete, now wonder your packs weigh as much as they do with pilsner glasses in them! They're light. They'te Lexon:
http://newmud.comm.uottawa.ca/~pete/leanto_food2.jpg
In this one, you can see some of the food that comes with it.
http://newmud.comm.uottawa.ca/~pete/leanto_food4.jpg
The glasses are light.. I wish I could say the same about the cast iron tortilla press.
Hitched Hiker
06-05-2006, 10:54 PM
Geez Pete I'm hiking with you from now on! Nice spread!
So Neil and Pete are the official members of the clothing optional club!
Tim, I picked up that twenty on my way through, sorry.
Actually clothing isn't optional in some ADK regions. Mirror Lake for instance, Marcy Dam too. Some of the thick and scratchy bushwhacks are pretty rough as well. Hard core hiking nudists wear thongs and two strips of duct tape to fend off the worst of it.
pete_hickey
06-06-2006, 08:02 AM
... Some of the thick and scratchy bushwhacks are pretty rough as well. Hard core hiking nudists wear thongs and two strips of duct tape to fend off the worst of it. Oh yeah... You just reminded me. The sharp 'leaves' of the yucca. I won't tell you where I got scratches in my nude desert hike.
lumberzac
06-06-2006, 08:14 AM
Hard core hiking nudists wear thongs and two strips of duct tape to fend off the worst of it.
Just make sure you shave before applying the duct tape :eek:
Actually clothing isn't optional in some ADK regions. Mirror Lake for instance, Marcy Dam too. Some of the thick and scratchy bushwhacks are pretty rough as well. Hard core hiking nudists wear thongs and two strips of duct tape to fend off the worst of it.
In May of 2002 I was hiking Nippletop-->Dial and when I entered the burn zone on the shoulder of Noonmark I saw a guy right on the west edge of the burnzone, just before it drops off. He was absolutely and completely naked and it looked like he was doing some sort of yoga thing. Somewhere I have a photo of the Great Range from the burn zone and in the bottom left corner is a naked guy with his back to me :eek:
Skyclimber
06-06-2006, 10:47 AM
He was absolutely and completely naked and it looked like he was doing some sort of yoga thing. Somewhere I have a photo of the Great Range from the burn zone and in the bottom left corner is a naked guy with his back to me :eek:
It might had been Neil!
I don't do yoga or tai chi. :rolleyes: Otherwise, it could have been me.
I guess it wasn't bug season, huh?
Skyclimber
06-06-2006, 10:53 AM
I don't do yoga or tai chi. :rolleyes: Otherwise, it could have been me.
I guess it wasn't bug season, huh?
Then it must of been Pete!
I don't do yoga or tai chi. :rolleyes: Otherwise, it could have been me.
I guess it wasn't bug season, huh?
It was May. Full on black flies and mosquitoes. There was generally a gentle breeze that day, but, when it was still fughedaboutit
Hitched Hiker
06-16-2006, 01:21 PM
You know Pete, everytime I think I have my husband convinced that people on this forum aren't crazy psychos you pop up with crap like this! Which makes me laugh or gasp and of course I have to show him which brings us back to my first statement here!
Did you put calamine lotion on that? :p
pete_hickey
06-17-2006, 05:22 PM
You know Pete, everytime I think I have my husband convinced that people on this forum aren't crazy psychos Hey. You've seen my avatar, right? Guess what. I'm WORSE in real life.
Did you put calamine lotion on that? :pKnow whagt happened when I went to the doctor? He just LAUGHED at me. Told me I was the funniest thing he'd seen all day, and thanked me for giving him a good laugh.
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