What do you do on a rainy day?
Hey adventurers, its super rainy here and is supposed to pour all week long. So with that in mind, what is it you like to do on rainy days? Go!
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I'm guessing your talking about on the trail? If its really raining hard and I don't feel like getting wet I Try to stay dry, Drink lots of Coffee, and Read a book, Dwell on how to decrease my pack weight. Basically what I do at home on a rainy day.
Fugedaboudid... Just hike! Wet, schmet. Cools you off. Just keep you overnight gear dry.
Exactamundo! Hiking in the rain offers an entirely wonderful experience (camping in the rain...not so much). People are fearful of getting wet it seems, and the trails tend to be a more isolated experience. All the better! (We've had one deluge after the other here in Rocky Mountain National Park, and even though it's a "crowded" National Park, the trails are completely devoid of humans in such conditions. It's awesome!)Originally Posted by colorado_rob
Wash the car.
Dance and sing in the rain. A 1952 oldie but goodie. It always peps me up. I have it on my mp3 player always when hiking.
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On rainy days I go hiking on popular trails, usually I have the place to myself. There are a few heavily used local trails that I will only hike on if it is pouring rain.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Get this into your soul: LIFE isn't always about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Few things are as soul cleansing as a long walk in the rain. I love the woods in the rain.
I use music to inspire and energize me on hikes having a rainy day collection I always carry with me purposefully listening to it when its raining reminding me that I always should appreciate everything. Doing this helped me turn around the negative attitude about hiking in the rain I once had. Try it.
Continue to hike - anybody can do it on a sunny day.
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I pulled a long April trip with a friend and she was on a "forced march" to finish her thruhike of the BMT and so in order to keep up with her I had to hike in a week of cold April rains. Left to my own devices (and solo) I would've camped earlier or pulled in-tent zero days during the worst of the deluges and stayed dry and mainly STAYED WARM.
If you must backpack in the rain, hope and pray it's a warm rain with ambient temps in the 90s. Then it's an easy exercise in just moving forwards. Otherwise, hiking in a 40F rain for a week becomes a daily struggle with hypothermia and loss of motivation. Just hope you can find overhangs or porticos or small roofs to keep you sane.
Amy Willow preparing lunch under a bathroom's roof edge.
Trying to stay dry under the eaves of a bulletin board. Cold rain sucks.
Just spent a couple days on the Tuscarora. Monday morning around 1:30am a storm blew in while I was at Dugan Hollow shelter. 6am I was up doing my morning chores and it was still raining. 7am I was hitting the trail to hike out that morning. Rain finally stopped around 9am. Hiking in the rain is just another part of the trail experience. So is hiking in the snow for that matter. And I agree with Dogwood's last post. I to love the woods in the rain.
Twilight
Classic pictures Walter! I can't even begin to count how many times I've stayed or slept in such structures! They can be (and have been) real life-savers. The need for warmth and aridity and a roof overrides even the stench! Naturally, I detest the experience at the time, but I always look back on it, on them, with a laugh and a smile. Cooking in a *****ter...what a lovely experience!
Good post. "Hitting the trail to hike out that morning" is the key phrase. On the last day of a backpacking trip any amount of rainy crap can be endured. Why? Because I'm heading to my car or evac or shuttle and could care less about wet gear or wet clothing or anything else.
AT hikers often hike in terrible conditions because they are headed into a town to do a laundry or are anxious to reach the next rat box shelter to get out of the rain. When food resupplies are every 4 or 5 days, there's no problem with hiking in the rain as you'll soon be at a laundry mat to dry your gear.
It's another story to be out for 3 weeks with no towns or clothes dryers or food resupplies. Extra care is needed to keep dry--- Ergo in-tent zero days during all day deluges.
When we stopped at the bathroom eaves, a bloated tourist came over to use my side of the toilets and while he was struggling behind a closed door to give birth to an 8 lb turtlehead I was sitting 10 feet away eating vegetarian sausage links.
LOL. Always throwing something interesting into the mix TW. BTW holing up in a shelter isn't the only way to keep hiking under your well pointed out different than customary thru-hiker scenario.
Nothin like guttural windy noises to dine by.
I don't let the weather dictate what i do out on the trail, so i hike through it, i love hiking in the rain.
Keep walking.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General
On rainy days I usually get wet.
Simple is good.
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