so your hiking and a hiker tags along with you for a few days uninvited cramping your style. your way too shy and polite and unearved to simply say kindly you need to hike alone. what to do?
so your hiking and a hiker tags along with you for a few days uninvited cramping your style. your way too shy and polite and unearved to simply say kindly you need to hike alone. what to do?
matthewski
wake up before sunrise and disappear
A short story about your time in prison and the things you miss about it.
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
eat lotsa beans,and then hike in front of him next day
Stop for the day...don't unpack, when they go for water keep hiking as far as you can, the next day pull a 30...problem solved!
Stop and Yell at trees for no apparent reason.
Every now and again, open your backpack, look inside and whisper "are you OK"
Stand in a corner at shelters and continously whisper "no mama I'm sorry about baby brother, I won't swing my axe anymore"
.....Someday, like many others who joined WB in the early years, I may dry up and dissapear....
10k what do you mean? i allways have this problem. and im fast and strong. all that happens when you out hike the guy is eventually, weeks later maby, after only a couple zeros you took, he reapears huffing and puffing aand haveing hiked thru nights and zeros and now greets you with a smile and a ,"matthewski! i been chasein you for 2 weeks! whats up? how the hell are you?!". and it starts again. were not talking about anyone here, were talking about stuck like glue folks who attatch themselves to us famouse people who may have a giving problem and then its like you fed a bear and you shouldnt have. this is the serious question. whats the answer 10k? i do want your advice.
matthewski
wanna clarafy, sorry. so wish i could spell when im being serious. listen, i realize not being to generous with strangers and shutting up more and keeping to myself would be a good start. i see how my friends walk down the trail. but im not so self controlled. i treat everyone lie my brother and this action of mine makes moochers sticky and begin mooching in overdrive. its litteraly a feeding the bears situation but with a very intellegent bear who is my brother and whom i believe is my charge to keep.
matthewski
Have you tried saying that you wanted to hike alone for a while?
yes. once. after a month of being cramped. worked fine. just ruined every day getting up the courrage and made me feel uncomfortable dawn the trail when our paths crossed. he was nice and fun for a few days it just wasnt my style to be with folks much loger at one time.i need to learn how to avoid this in the first place.
matthewski
Ask them for money - more every day. They'll leave.
"That's the thing about possum innards - they's just as good the second day." - Jed Clampett
After hiking the 500+ miles on the CDT in New Mexico, I wandered into a campground and met my first fellow thruhiker. By the next morning he had made it very clear that he enjoyed his aloneness and wanted to keep it that way.
Hike the Idaho Centennial trail. Will be alone the whole way
No easy answer. Try to hike in your own space even if he's there I guess. Share your food until its gone, then hike a few more days without food and see if he learns something.
Continuously step on the back of the persons shoe as they hike along and,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
Keep repeating yourself,
.............
"Fish Camp Woman.... Baby, I like the way you smell"
- Unknown Hinson
... or you could try hiking with a real snake.
What is it about snake appearance or snake behavior that makes them suitable for use as a metaphor for people that are, I don't know, snake like? What is it to be a snake? Is it the deception? What is it about real snakes that makes us consider them to be suitable metaphors for people that are deceptive, or otherwise evil?
Foxes, I get that, in both senses on the metaphor.
But what about snakes?