You know you're a hiker when...
Just wanted to have some fun.
Needed some laughs and smiles! Give it your best shot!
....soft beds and clean clothes feel uncomfortable.
Moses
You're afraid to shower for fear you won't be able to adjust to the "new" odor.
you're comfortable with the idea of wearing the same socks for more than two days...
...when you have a heart attack and they implant an ICD and your biggest concern is whether or not it will interfere with your shoulder straps.
'Slogger
The more I learn ...the more I realize I don't know.
that's hardcore.Originally Posted by Footslogger
your shuttles already left,and your done crying.
(I think 'slogger's answer tops any we are likely to give)
You know you're a hiker when you buy an infant-size toothbrush, cut off most of the handle and drill holes in what's left.
when powdered milk taste just as good as the real thing.
You try and read MS's posts, just in case he has stumbled onto some really cool thing.
When you feel a little self-conscious when someone going in the opposite direction catches you laughing hysterically at yourself for no apparent reason (only applies when you're solo).
You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.-- Author Unknown
...you're too busy hiking to have time to post to an internet message board.
Whoa, Max Patch, that was a blinding flash of self-awareness
...when you can go on a week long backpack trip with just the stuff in the back of the Jeep.
...when you finally clean out your pack from last Fall's last hike - and eat the loose M&Ms.
...when you have a new $1500 range in the kitchen, and you're out on the back porch cooking Liptons on three different tincan stoves instead. And timing them.
...when the Camp-mor catalog has finally run out of things you really, really, "need".
Teej
"[ATers] represent three percent of our use and about twenty percent of our effort," retired Baxter Park Director Jensen Bissell.
when you're hitchhiking, get picked up, and all the windows in the car automatically zoom down within 5 seconds!
When you hear how far a destination is - you can easily calculate in your head how long it would take you to get there on foot. Be it on trail or off. "I know someone in Winchester ... that's 70 miles away ... if I really had to - I can be there in 5 or 6 days" etc.
You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.-- Author Unknown
when you're regular everyday wallet is a ziploc baggie....
when you can put peanutbutter, pepperoni and tuna on the same sandwich...with honey.
When you go to the grocery store and try to figure out how everything you see would cook on the trail , and go by the section that has all the meat, fish, chciken in pouches to see if they have anything new.
If you don't make waves, it means you ain't paddling
.....You can't remember the name your parents gave you!
Moses
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