dumb, dumber, dumbest.

[max patch]

Your point being that he was living in the past?

No point. Just conversating. If you want a website where every post needs to have a point I'd suggest checking out Trailplace. Every question is answered promptly and accurately by all 5 or 6 active members. It has a great signal to noise ratio, unlike WB.

[Wise Old Owl]

slow as molasses over there... I like it from time to time.

[max patch]

I like it....but its even deader than Groups are here.

[rickb]

No point. Just conversating. If you want a website where every post needs to have a point I'd suggest checking out Trailplace. Every question is answered promptly and accurately by all 5 or 6 active members. It has a great signal to noise ratio, unlike WB.

Just making a joke regarding the change in grooming habits of the modern woman, mixed with a touch of nostalgia for the hirsute days of yore.

To wit, The notion that MS's observation is rather anachronistic.

[aficion]

Just making a joke regarding the change in grooming habits of the modern woman, mixed with a touch of nostalgia for the hirsute days of yore.

To wit, The notion that MS's observation is rather anachronistic.

Perhaps, thereby, reflecting significant passage of time since getting "lucky"? Aesthetics differ and change, like global temperatures.

[Rasty]

I like it....but its even deader than Groups are here.

You made a funny!

[aficion]

You made a funny!

Yuc !

[max patch]

Just making a joke regarding the change in grooming habits of the modern woman, mixed with a touch of nostalgia for the hirsute days of yore.

To wit, The notion that MS's observation is rather anachronistic.

Now I see what you mean. Sometimes I can be sloooow. Now that I get it - that was a good un!

[Sarcasm the elf]

No point. Just conversating. If you want a website where every post needs to have a point I'd suggest checking out Trailplace. Every question is answered promptly and accurately by all 5 or 6 active members. It has a great signal to noise ratio, unlike WB.

Presumably snail space has far less of a sense of community then?

When I created my account at WB, I needed answers to questions about backpacking and I got them promptly...along with a lot of noise and thread drift. Before long I had most of the answers I needed, but the noise and drift kept me thoroughly entertained and kept me signing in time and time and time again, and all of that off topic nonsense is how we built friendships beyond the singular subject of backpacking.

Fast forward a few years and I've now met and hiked with a half dozen of the better characters on the blaze, and I look forward to meeting many more.

[Rasty]

Presumably snail space has far less of a sense of community then?

When I created my account at WB, I needed answers to questions about backpacking and I got them promptly...along with a lot of noise and thread drift. Before long I had most of the answers I needed, but the noise and drift kept me thoroughly entertained and kept me signing in time and time and time again, and all of that off topic nonsense is how we built friendships beyond the singular subject of backpacking.

Fast forward a few years and I've now met and hiked with a half dozen of the better characters on the blaze, and I look forward to meeting many more.

Just remember it's not a popularity contest around here.

[hikerboy57]

Just remember it's not a popularity contest around here.

cant have too many friends.

[hikerboy57]

Presumably snail space has far less of a sense of community then?

When I created my account at WB, I needed answers to questions about backpacking and I got them promptly...along with a lot of noise and thread drift. Before long I had most of the answers I needed, but the noise and drift kept me thoroughly entertained and kept me signing in time and time and time again, and all of that off topic nonsense is how we built friendships beyond the singular subject of backpacking.

Fast forward a few years and I've now met and hiked with a half dozen of the better characters on the blaze, and I look forward to meeting many more.

you can find the answer to any conceivable at question by using either the search function or the articles on the home page. but whiteblaze is supposedly more than just an informational resource, its a community.

[1234]

Dad and son lighting a stove.
Whisper light, they do not read any directions, the shelter is full and so is the picknick table so they are off in the woods about 25 feet away,

they get it together pump it up and dad turns on the fuel like wide open and lights it, the cup run over great big ball of fire, so dad yells defective stove she is going to blow, he jumps up and kicks it into the woods, gas on fire spewing out the whole way.

Lucky there were lots of people around, everybody starts stomping the leaves that are on fire out. One guy runs over and turns the fuel off. NOW everyone explains how the stove works. Dad says to son, "WE should have read the instructions" . Next they put up the tent............ it never ended.

[Sarcasm the elf]

Just remember it's not a popularity contest around here.

I had just assumed that we are all equally unpopular.

[grateful 2]

Attachment 24632 uhhh no comment....

It's ok. She's on her cell phone.

[Dogwood]

what's the dumbest thing you have seen on the trail?

I tread lightly in calling anyone else dumb(ignorant) as I've done, still do, and will continue to do many dumb(ignorant) things. Ignorance or being dumb is simply defined by me as not knowing about something. I also know NONE of us is above some level of ignorance.

[jefals]

Me. Back in 2001 I weighed 195 lbs and my pack was 65+ lbs. In 2014 I'll be 155 lbs and my pack fully loaded with food and water will be under 30 lbs.

don't know if that was the dumbest thing, but probably one of the smartest things was losin that weight! "Weigh" to go, Weatherguy! ( Although, I don't know, 155 ... you might have overdone it a little???)

[Mags]

There was once a person on the trail who had a Rambo "survival knife" (in New Hampshire no less) attached to his pack, enough canned goods to stock a 7-11, an old school western style canteen and wore work boots. Looked to be out of shape, too.

The shmuck forget his map too, became a little lost and ended up where he started earlier that day a "big" 12 miles later.

That guy was me on his first backpacking trip.

[hikerboy57]

there were 3 people who started from springer this march wearing monks robes, one with a hatchet, another with a machete, and one wearing a basketweave backpack. no sleeping bags, a coupla blankets, no tent..i called them the friars club,and they were absolutely clueless. they were off the trail after just a few days, which is good.

[Sarcasm the elf]

There was once a person on the trail who had a Rambo "survival knife" (in New Hampshire no less) attached to his pack, enough canned goods to stock a 7-11, an old school western style canteen and wore work boots. Looked to be out of shape, too.

The shmuck forget his map too, became a little lost and ended up where he started earlier that day a "big" 12 miles later.

That guy was me on his first backpacking trip.

Did you at least remember to bring a can opener?