hiking is primitive, lonewolf is modern.

[mweinstone]

it takes alot to be comfortable in ones own skin.we are primatives living in, and operating, a modern world. it leaves us giddy, oft times drunk with power, sometimes in control, and seldom ourselves.
hiking , on the other hand. is not life as we know it. its life as we used to know it. as our forbearers knew life. sometimes lonewolf points out that ridiculusness hikers seem to exude after even one trip to the wilds. we come back all weirded out and acting like asses sometimes. hikers suffer from attitudes and weird afflictions . like gear buffs and knowitalls and holyer than thous and bossy people and not just a normal crossection of weirdness mind you. hikerdom has a big percentage of inspector gadgets and missguided dreamers. to a point where its not only funny. its also not funny. it gets sad. it even makes otherwise sane folks outright angry what with the things hikers do and say and how they act. we are not a groupe of chess players meeting for a match. we arent doctors or lawers when were in hike mode. were downright weird when we're doin what it is we do. all stinky and farting on each other and eating swine. lonewolfs calling a spade a spade is normal. he sees us when were comming off trail all pumped up and stupid. lets face it. were the weirdest organized group of anybodys anywhere. we need lonewolfs crits. he speaks as a modern. to primitves who are really just weekend skitzos.

[Appalachian Tater]

Shelters suck. Hiking poles are for weenies. Real men don't filter water.

[Yahtzee]

Tater,

Sounds like you drank the Kool-Aid man. I'd like to stage an intervention. Maybe get some of these LW mantras out of your head. I live by Lincoln Center, I would be glad to meet with you and take you somewhere to get some help.

It is child's play to mock the earnest, but LW has decided to make it a daily habit. Come back to the light, Tater. You don't have to be a snark to be cool. That's only in Brooklyn.

[Appalachian Tater]

Actually, L. Wolf is paying me to say those things to save him the trouble. It's inevitable, might as well just give in.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

::: Dino awaits LW's arrival so she can watch him go medieval on somebody's hinney :::

[gold bond]

"When I'm hungry...I eat, When I'm tired....I sleep, and when I gotta you know...well, I, you know!"

[Dances with Mice]

"When I'm hungry...I eat, When I'm tired....I sleep, and when I gotta you know...well, I, you know!"

Juggle five flaming torches in continuous backcrosses?

[Dr O]

Juggle five flaming torches in continuous backcrosses?

All while taking that leak.

[Skidsteer]

"When I'm hungry...I eat, When I'm tired....I sleep, and when I gotta you know...well, I, you know!"

Juggle five flaming torches in continuous backcrosses?

That's rarely happens. Well. Okay. It sometimes happens after an evening appetizer of jalepeno okra.

[Nightwalker]

All while taking that leak.

Through the pants, down the leg.

[Dr O]

Through the pants, down the leg.

and calculating ounces lost.

[Roland]

Some of you have way too much free time.

[mweinstone]

tater zips up and notices roland in the next urinal,"yeah, just took a 2 pounder" gonna hike sweet today!
roland dumps pack in trash can and thumbs home never to hike again.

[Lone Wolf]

Shelters suck. Hiking poles are for weenies. Real men don't filter water.

'bout time you realize that city boy

[Dr O]

Some of you have way too much free time.

That's a safe assumption when spoken on a forum about a six month walk.

[redtail]

Shelters suck. Hiking poles are for weenies. Real men don't filter water.

Yeah, it's like a broken record. When a record skips, it's annoying. Even if it's a good song.

[Dr O]

Yeah, it's like a broken record. When a record skips, it's annoying. Even if it's a good song.

Ever play it backwards?

[octogon]

I think theres a lot of pressure on the trail to out-eccentric and out-hippie other long-distance hikers to gain acceptance within the group. Theres always seems to be an unspoken competition between hikers for the oddest trail name or register entry that kind of gets on my nerves sometimes. Honestly, I find about 80 percent of the thru-hiker type people I meet are downright obnoxious. I doubt these people are that annoying in the real world, but theres something about the annonymity of the trail and the increase of energy hikers gain that really makes some people go bat**** crazy.

[mweinstone]

tater is that you fake posting?

[Appalachian Tater]

No, you lost me on this thread with your mysterious post at 05:25 on 6/27 but I must say, your posts have started to become perfectly intelligible to me. I am afraid that one morning when I look in the mirror I will have Eraserhead hair just like you.