What are you afraid of

[Hairbear]

The thing I fear the most......sting weed!

When you come in contact with nettles ,and start to feel the burn, stop remove the outer skin from the plant the juice under the bark of the plant will stop the burn.

[Hairbear]

The thing I fear the most......sting weed!

When you make contact with stinging nettles,stop cut the skin off the plant,rubbing the juice on the sting it will stop.

[Hairbear]

sorry for the double post site is giving me a migrane with the horse race to post before it cuts you off in the middle.

[gratefulbob]

Sleeping without my Tempurpedic...

[bigcranky]

The only thing I am worried about is getting into towns. I wouldn't feel very safe hitching rides. And I am thinking of Franklin NC just as an example.. if i hiked 10-11 miles to get there, had to resupply, and then hike-10-11 back to the trail, and then hike another few miles to get away from the trailhead.. I don't think I could do that all in one day. I will figure it out as I go, but towns are the only thing that worry me.

You can't -- you need a ride into Franklin, and most other towns too. As Grampie said, the best way is to hook up with another hiker. It's really not that big a deal overall. Hitching is safe enough along the trail corridor.

[Another Kevin]

Hitching is safe enough along the trail corridor.

True enough. The excessively law abiding might want to avoid doing it in NY. While there's no state law against it, it's illegal in every county that the AT visits.

In NJ, on the other hand, every cop 'knows' it's illegal. Whatever the legislature says. You gotta problem wit dat?

[XANGO]

Did anyone say lightening? I was caught in a bad lightening storm on Blood Mountain in Georgia and never shook the fear.

[Stir Fry]

Failure is terrifying!!!

My bigest fear is also failure.

[The Cleaner]

If you fear the things in the great outdoors it probably best to do your walking in a city park or just stay home and watch TV.

+1..........

[hikerboy57]

was probably the tv that created the fears in the first place

[hikerboy57]

news and media create an atmosphere of fear. less tv is one of the benefits of hiking

[Pathfinder1]

Hi...


CAUTION: snakes are more slippery than snow...!!

[Papa D]

I've spent a few nights in dark so black that opening your eyes and closing them results in no net difference - - so silent that you long for a plane to fly over or just some noise or you say something to yourself to just hear a sound - I've been in areas so remote and so dark and cold and remote and by myself that it can be scary as hell - - in time, you can learn to appreciate it but you long for sunlight or the sound of an animal or even the wind and learn to really appreciate it.

[spinach]

I'm afraid I'm not going too come back.

[johnnybgood]

I've spent a few nights in dark so black that opening your eyes and closing them results in no net difference - - so silent that you long for a plane to fly over or just some noise or you say something to yourself to just hear a sound - I've been in areas so remote and so dark and cold and remote and by myself that it can be scary as hell - - in time, you can learn to appreciate it but you long for sunlight or the sound of an animal or even the wind and learn to really appreciate it.

Blue blazing trails can do that. Inescapable silence can be unsettling,lying awake just to hear the usual nocturnal back woods sounds

[Deadeye]

Bees... and dreadlocks.

[JAK]

Being an Nothingness

[Venchka]

If you fear the things in the great outdoors it probably best to do your walking in a city park or just stay home and watch TV.

I can think of many city parks that are a whole lot scarier than anyplace that I have ever been in the Great Outdoors. Miles from anywhere.

Wayne

[jgerres]

I am afraid of getting on the bus in Knoxville and getting off in Atlanta then having to get on the MARTA train. I do not do well in a city (to many people not enough trees) and have never been on any kind of city public transportation. Once I am away from all that citified stuff I will be able to actually relax a bit.

[Wise Old Owl]

Did anyone say lightening? I was caught in a bad lightening storm on Blood Mountain in Georgia and never shook the fear.

had that coming down all around me while in a bivy and no tarp. -

Mine... taking bed bugs home.... ( I inspect mattress)