What's the most obsolete/useless/inapropriate item you saw on the A.T?

[Sarcasm the elf]

Most useless thing people bring on the trail with them?

Their egos

[rocketsocks]

Most useless thing people bring on the trail with them?

Their egos

I don't know, what else are you gonna do for 9 hrs. in a rain storm. I kinda like legos, better than blocks, lighter too.

[Sarcasm the elf]

I don't know, what else are you gonna do for 9 hrs. in a rain storm..

Can't answer that, my response would be violate the site TOS.

[rocketsocks]

Not hard to do these days, hehe

...It's cool, I just use my twisted imagination...ooh your bad!

[Rolls Kanardly]

AT Maps: Are you a SOBO, nope, crap I am hiking the wrong way.
Watch: It is light out start hiking. It is dark out stop hiking. Rolls

[squeezebox]

Farmer Chef
Carrying an accordion is even crazier than carrying a tuba.
the bellows are made of cardboard and tape.
reeds can rust.
The worst instrument to take out in wet weather
If lucky it might last a week.
notice my trail name squeezebox..

[lemon b]

My Kelty Super Tioga Backpack. Guess partly an ego error. Just didn't trust internal packs for rideability, denial of age etc.
But after thousands and thousands of miles I finally noticed that almost ever other serious backpacker had switched to internal. So I went to an Outfitter in Amherst, Ma. with the fully loaded Tioga. Walked out with Altmos 65. Shed something like 8 pounds. My knees are still thanking me. Plus I take fewer balance falls.

[Hikemor]

My Kelty Super Tioga Backpack. Guess partly an ego error. Just didn't trust internal packs for rideability, denial of age etc.
But after thousands and thousands of miles I finally noticed that almost ever other serious backpacker had switched to internal. So I went to an Outfitter in Amherst, Ma. with the fully loaded Tioga. Walked out with Altmos 65. Shed something like 8 pounds. My knees are still thanking me. Plus I take fewer balance falls.

Won't argue that lighter is generally better but that's exagerating it a bit. The listed weight of a Atmos 65 is 3 lb, 9 oz. The listed weight of a Kelty Trekker 65 (simlar to the the Super Tioga, which is no longer manufactured) is 4 lb, 14 oz. (For reference, I have a Super Tioga that I estimate at 5 lbs.) The Atmos is then 1 lb, 5 oz lighter. You may have eliminated another 6 lbs of gear to get 8 lbs lighter overall but there is no way the weight difference can be attributed to the pack itself.

Most useless thing I carried (for a short while): can of Sterno. I was worried about the availability of white gas. Gas stove has since been replaced with alcohol.

[searust]

I also saw a guy carrying a 5-gallon bucket in his hands while he hiked. Said it had something like 40 uses (don't recall). First one I thought of was camp chair. Second thing I thought of was..."Boy, that's going to be fun in the Whites..." Looked for him at TD to see if he was there and still carried the bucket.

I am going to think long and hard about this one.... I have actually been looking for a camp stool. How much does one o those buckets weigh and will it fir in my pack?

[lemon b]

Hikemor I had one of the older Super Tioga's had metal rods on the inside. (Still have it). If I get a chance I'll step on a scale wearing each. I know the eight pounds was the difference, do not remember any other change of equipment that day.

On the seeing on someone else. Last year that rubber chicken Bomber (pyroman9) on whiteblaze hauled outside his pack has to take the cake as useless.

[Rain Man]

"What's the most obsolete/useless/inapropriate (sic) item you saw on the A.T?"

Weapons.


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[Sarcasm the elf]

"What's the most obsolete/useless/inapropriate (sic) item you saw on the A.T?"

Weapons.


.

Speak for yourself, on my last section hike I slayed six orcs and a worg using my +4 Battle axe.

[flemdawg1]

You brought your Mother in law?

[Mags]

Speak for yourself, on my last section hike I slayed six orcs and a worg using my +4 Battle axe.

[QiWiz]

Saw a hiker in Georgia with a tomahawk. I heard he used it once to cut a steak up into cookable chunks on a tent-peg skewer over a fire. Guess what his trail name was. Never saw him again farther up the trail, so don't know if he kept going with it.

[Ricky&Jack]

when I did the approach trail 2 weeks ago with my dog, my mom told me (yeah, i know. Im 30yrs old) that I need to take my tazer.

So I charged it all night.

I forgot to take it with me. But luckily it was charging where she couldnt see it and realize that I forgot to take it.

So glad I didnt take it. didnt need the weight since I was already over-packed with 37lbs for a 1 night trip.

[Sarcasm the elf]

Takes one to know one.

[Mags]

Takes one to know one.

The boonie hat is dorky. Nerdy would be a guy who knows that 42 is answer..but we do not know the question!

[Sarcasm the elf]

The boonie hat is dorky. Nerdy would be a guy who knows that 42 is answer..but we do not know the question!

The question is "What's 6 times 9?" It was revealed in the third or fourth book of the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy.

(Was there ever any doubt that i would know that?)

[flemdawg1]

6*9=54

42/6=7