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TankHiker
10-18-2004, 12:03
I always enjoy hearing about the pranks that long-distance hikers pull on each other. And I realized that I don't think I've ever seen a thread on that subject.

So tell me, what are some of the funny pranks you have seen or been a part of on the trail?

Grimace
10-18-2004, 13:02
On our SOBO hike somewhere near Big Bald we came accross a shelter that was at least 2 days from the previous road crossing. The register had these funny drawings in it warning us not to go to the privy. My wife goes to use the privy and comes back with a 6ft tall inflateable green alien. A hiker who had been through a week earlier, Dude was his name, had left it.

Anywho, the water source was a good .25 mile from the shelter and just as my wife heads for the privy a hiker we had just caught up with and barely knew started heading down the trail to the water. We took the alien and put the guys backpack on it, tied his treking poles to the arms, and tied his bandanna around it's head and we hid the woods. How randomly funny would it be to show up after slogging down and then back up hill from the water to see a 6ft tall green alien wearing your gear?

The guy gets back, starts cursing up a storm and chucks gear, alien and all into the shelter. Who does that? He ripped all his stuff off, kicked the alien for good measure and hiked off.

I still think the best part is the that some guy hiked for 2 days with 6ft tall inflateable alien

rocket04
10-18-2004, 14:40
There were some guys doing some major trail magic at the RPH shelter this year on a weekend, and I was lucky enough to be there at the right time. They had tons of food, including watermelons. There were a bunch of us there and we were eating like crazy. When I was done eating, I went to put my pack on a bunk because I was going to spend the night, and it felt rather heavy. I wondered if it was just me being tired after all the food and ready for a nap. But when I opened the pack to take out some stuff, I saw another thru had stuffed a whole watermelon in it!

chknfngrs
10-18-2004, 14:43
I can't think of anything funny, for what I say could end up happening to me one day. Like back in college my insane roomate yelling at me at 2:30AM one morning to "Wake up!!! It's time to go to sleep!!!!"

Flash Hand
10-19-2004, 09:46
I read somewhere in this forum, that one hiker put some slices of cheese on a sleeping hiker, which bothered him all night by hungry mices.



Flash Hand :jump

rocket04
10-19-2004, 10:10
I read somewhere in this forum, that one hiker put some slices of cheese on a sleeping hiker, which bothered him all night by hungry mices.
Flash Hand :jump
That's just mean!!! :D

Doctari
10-19-2004, 10:42
I heard of one, regret not being a particapant or at least seeing this (best I remember it):

At Hawak Mt shelter, two "Thru hikers" arrived, #1 had what apeared to be a day pack, in the days before Ray J. #2 had a pack "the size of a VW bug" #2 began unpacking, pulling out many things not tradionally carried by a hiker, when he got to the 3 piece suit with tie & good shirt, someone commented to the effect of "Why on earth would you carry that!?", his reply "I'm planning on going to church every sunday, Arn't YOU?!" They finally admitted they were locals who wanted to give the thru hikers something to talk about, then the 2 pranksters pulled fresh Pizzas & cold drinks from the enormous pack & a feast ensued.

Great fun.

Doctari.

TankHiker
10-19-2004, 10:43
I can think of 2 that come to mind.

I stopped at Bake Oven Knob Shelter, which is one of the few without a privy. I knew that one of my hiking partners was about 3 hours behind me. I wrote a note in the register that someone had left a cooler full of beer down near the privy. He told me later that he spent a half hour looking for that privy.

When we hit Fahnstock State Park, I went for a swim while that same hiking partner stayed behind. He came down to the lake about 20 minutes later, and immediately told me to be careful with my foodbag, as the rangers said bear activity was especially high this year. After my swim, I went back to my tent, only to find that he had hung our foodbags about a foot directly over my tent. When he got back from the lake, he thought it was pretty funny that I hadn't taken down the foodbag - until he realized that I had just switched our tents, so that his was now directly under the foodbags. Incidentally, the rangers hadn't seen a bear in the park in 15 years.

-Tank

Lone Wolf
10-19-2004, 10:48
In 86 on my first thru-hike my "friends" put a rock in the bottom of my pack. 5# more or less. I carried it for 18 miles or so into Duncannon, Pa. I got a room at the Doyle Hotel, unpacked my s**t and found it. Very funny. :D

steve hiker
10-19-2004, 12:06
Some mouses have it fat with too much food and free time on their feet. They like to run across hikers faces at night and poop in their snoring yaps just for funs. You can often hear them up in the rafters, yukking it up and laughing their tails off about how this hiker jumped out of his skin and bragging about scoring a "hole in one" (the mouse who pulls off the latter stunt wins the "Arnold Palmer" award of the night). :D So beware, some hikers are pranksters but mice are old pros.

Sleepy the Arab
10-19-2004, 17:56
In '01 I took a zero at Upper Goose Pond Cabin and hiked out to Lee to resupply. While in town, I bought a soda, which I later drank once I returned to the cabin. As I sat on the porch sipping away, a sweaty, tired and thirsty SOBO arrived.

"Wow," he said, awestruck, "This place is huge."
"Yup," I said, "They got bunks upstairs."
"This is awesome!"
"And they'll cook pancakes in the morning," I said.
"Really?"
"And there's a soda machine out back." I held up the can and gave it a gentle shake.
"Sweet!" he said, hands tearing into his pack to pull out a ziploc wallet. Then he spun around and ran to the door. I bust out laughing when he had the his hand on the handle, and then explained that there was no coke machine.

If I could have held out a second longer, long enough for him to run to the back porch, it would have been perfect.

Jack Tarlin
10-20-2004, 01:59
Nice story, Sleepy. And you wonder why your father won't talk to you anymore.

Actually, that was pretty amusing......but then, those SOBO's will swallow anything.

A-Train
10-20-2004, 02:23
Couple pranks that went down at Miss Janets-4/1/03- April Fools Day

First Miss Janet went out giving shuttles to hikers. She calls her house from a payphone saying she was at Sonic and needed help since her van broke down. I was one of the only ones who realized it was April Fools but went down anyway to see all these fools run to the rescue like they were on a bad 70's detective show. I mean, who wouldn't help Janet out? So about 10 hikers run down the block, to Sonic, to find Janet sitting there, eating breakfast laughing. She ended up buying the tricked ones food, which was most gracious as always.

Later that morning a huge Brick was put in the pack of Poptart, a women thru-hiking who is all of 4'11, 100 lbs, maybe. Well I guess some people felt bad and told her about it. Before leaving Miss Janets, someone snuck it back into the bottom of her pack. Needless to say, the hill out of Erwin was a little harder than normal for little Poptart, and she wasn't a happy camper when she got to Curley Maple and realized what had happened. Luckily none of us were around for it !

TakeABreak
10-20-2004, 04:42
I read somewhere in this forum, that one hiker put some slices of cheese on a sleeping hiker, which bothered him all night by hungry mices.



Flash Hand :jump
Now I would kick someones ass over that. That is not even funny.

Pencil Pusher
10-20-2004, 17:06
Not a thru hiker scene, but on a local group climb someone passed out sunscreen. I can't remember if it was at the end of the day or over a few beers until we found out it was mayonnaise.

steve hiker
10-20-2004, 18:25
Not a thru hiker scene, but on a local group climb someone passed out sunscreen. I can't remember if it was at the end of the day or over a few beers until we found out it was mayonnaise.
Bears like hikers "fully dressed."

Kerosene
10-20-2004, 19:51
Not a thru hiker scene, but on a local group climb someone passed out sunscreen. I can't remember if it was at the end of the day or over a few beers until we found out it was mayonnaise.As a fair-skinned lad of Irish heritage, all I can say is "ouch!!!".

zeroAT2003
10-23-2004, 13:14
we had a guy from austin hiking with us, who had worked at REI. we met someone on the trail who had been outfitted there or was somehow connected with austin. so every so often, we would find a southbounder or two, and tell them to tell our hiking buddy that they recognized him from the REI in austin. wow, what a small world!

he never caught on and when we reached katahdin, we finally told him it was us! :p

The Eleven
10-25-2004, 13:22
If I found out someone put a brick in my backpack, I would tie the brick to the pranksters whatever, and toss it over the edge. NOT A FUNNY JOKE. That is what you call A**hole-ism.

minnesotasmith
10-25-2004, 16:29
I'd say the best way to do the "rock in the pack" trick is to put in such a huge, heavy rock that the prank target will get suspicious when he hoists his pack before setting off hiking again, and checks the contents of his pack. Other than the prank target losing a couple of minutes of time finding and removing the rock, no harm done that way.

I'd say the easiest way to get something into a hiking partner's pack is NOT while they are asleep. Instead, try "Oh, I'll stay and watch your pack while you take a _ _ _ _, so you don't have to lug it with you while you take care of that.".

An alternative "pack prank" might be to insert something potentially embarrassing (but very lightweight) in a fellow hiker's pack prior to his arrival at a crowded shelter that people will react to when he inadvertently brings it out of his pack in front of them. You could just put one of those "pop-up" cloth-covered springy puppets we've all seen. More insidious, you could put in something indicating incontinence ("Depends"), impotence (empty Viagra bottle), genital herpes infection (empty acyclovir bottle), pocket Koran (Al-Quaeda edition preferred) or Satanist bible (not effective hiking amongst Left Coasters such as on PCT where that would be unremarkable), copy of "why women don't need sex" type of book (for female prank target), NAMBLA literature, "101 ways to pave the Earth", "easy cannibal recipes" (there actually is a book like that one), "101 uses for a dead cat", "how to yellow-blaze most of the AT and still make people think you're a through-hiker"...

Another one could be to glue the lid on his cooking pot (make sure you have solvent with you to get it off so the poor sap can cook his meals after you have some chuckles first). Lots of possibilities for the devious and creative...

:jump

Kerosene
10-25-2004, 16:57
Oooh, I think you were just crossed over the invitation lists for future hikes, MinnesotaSmith!!! ;)

minnesotasmith
10-25-2004, 17:15
Let someone else actually do them (incurring the wrath of the target) while I still get to chuckle, I always say... :D

minnesotasmith
10-26-2004, 22:36
Reasonable pranks IMO should never involve putting anyone in real danger, damaging their property, etc. Anyone who would do something like go out to the bear cables at 0200 and lower someone's food bag to where bears could reach it easy, cut most of the way through tent lines so they break when the wind picks up, drain people's water bottles, put diuretics or cathartics in someone's food, etc., has IMO gone way over the line from light humor into vandalism. Such people would deserve whatever bad happens to them.

MedicineMan
10-26-2004, 23:21
this summer just past mcafee someone left a stuffed skunk....we all detoured but did discover it was fake

minnesotasmith
10-27-2004, 10:36
Not so funny if it were placed near the only decent water source along the Trail for miles...:confused: :mad: :(

rambunny
10-27-2004, 19:55
I cannott believe no one has told the tales of the dead animals? Blt. Jack waking to a dead ground hog,Blister Sisters oppossom,Big Daddy's goat? Cowboy's in Damascus repute of placing rocks in hikers packs compleat with the weight written on it hence the HUGH rock someone i know not who someones placed across the doors so it was difficult to open,and is there albeit not across the doors to this day. Personnally the 2 lb.roll of carpet tape,Aswah and Dennis from Dennis Cove put in my pack that i didn't discover for 14 snowy miles-thanxs. The greatest joyous from my heart laughs have been on the AT.

U-BOLT
10-28-2004, 03:06
Well, a joke is one thing, putting extra weight in someone's pack is somethin else.

DMA, 2000
10-28-2004, 03:24
The day I started from Springer, my uncle put a shot put in my pack. As ridiculously heavy as my pack was, it still made a difference. Good thing I noticed though...I think the first trash was at Woody Gap.

Youngblood
10-28-2004, 05:55
Well, a joke is one thing, putting extra weight in someone's pack is somethin else.

If you're going to sneak something in someone's pack, consider making it something that they might like and even be willing to share with you... like a six pack of beer.

Youngblood

Boo Boo
10-28-2004, 08:16
I still can't get the smell of sardines out of my pack.

-Boo Boo GA=>ME=>?? '04

attroll
10-28-2004, 08:20
I still can't get the smell of sardines out of my pack.

-Boo Boo GA=>ME=>?? '04
Ah, You must be the Boo Boo that was in Caratunk for the WhiteBlaze get together and trail magic. I heard something about someone putting sardines in your pack on that Sunday. I don't remember who told me. How long did it take for you to realize they were in there?

MOWGLI
10-28-2004, 08:34
Well, a joke is one thing, putting extra weight in someone's pack is somethin else.

Not to worry U-BOLT. Given the current trend of backpackers turning into gram counting weenies, within a few years, people will probably be able to determine when someone has placed a feather in their pack. It'll be grounds for a fist fight too.

I HAD TO CARRY THAT FEATHER 5 MILES UPHILL!!! IT WEIGHED 1.5 GRAMS DRY, BUT IT SOAKED UP ANOTHER GRAM OF MOISTURE!! HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO ME!! :D

MOWGLI
10-28-2004, 08:45
The day I started from Springer, my uncle put a shot put in my pack. As ridiculously heavy as my pack was, it still made a difference. Good thing I noticed though...

Thanks DMA. I was a couple of days behind you and pulled that shot put out of the garbage. You know those really hard to open pistachio nuts? Well, I didn't have a problem with those all the way to Katahdin. If you think I'm crazy, you have't checked the price of pistachio nuts lately.

Little Bear GA-ME 2000

minnesotasmith
10-28-2004, 13:58
Take a can of sardines. Open. Hide them all over the inside of someone's motor vehicle, ensuring that the AC and heater each get one. They'll never find them all...
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Good idea with the six-pack of beer, Youngblood. I'd rather pick something even more universal, like a cheapie 5-pound canned ham or big carrot cake, to sneak into a friend's backpack just before hiking out of a town. There is always the option being just a touch more mischevious, say, putting in a BIG bag of gourmet undecaf coffee beans in your Mormon hiker pal's pack right before he sets out on the Hundred Miles in Maine...

Percival
10-29-2004, 04:54
An alternative "pack prank" might be to insert something potentially embarrassing (but very lightweight) in a fellow hiker's pack ... genital herpes infection (empty acyclovir bottle), pocket Koran (Al-Quaeda edition preferred) or Satanist bible (not effective hiking amongst Left Coasters such as on PCT where that would be unremarkable), copy of "why women don't need sex" type of book (for female prank target), NAMBLA literature, "101 ways to pave the Earth", "easy cannibal recipes" (there actually is a book like that one), "101 uses for a dead cat", "how to yellow-blaze most of the AT and still make people think you're a through-hiker"...
Good ones. :banana

Haiku
10-29-2004, 17:00
I left Waynesboro late Saturday afternoon and arrived at the first shelter before the Shenandoahs to see a few other hikers there. Heald said, "I'm surprised to see you here. I thought you were going to go to church tomorrow morning." I blinked and laughed, and was like, "Um, no...." Pilgrim Soul pipes in, "Yeah, I heard you were really religious." Everyone's nodding and I'm just confused because I'm not. Lulu adds, "Yeah, don't you even carry a Bible with you?" "No," I said, "But I used Mello's once." The thing is, even after all this I hadn't caught on yet. Until I noticed that at the bottom of my pack was a hotel Bible that Heald had snuck in before he left. I hope a lot of theological debates come up in that shelter, because they'll be able to resolve them now.

I don't have a problem with people putting things in your (or my) pack. If you don't notice the weight you deserve to carry it. You get a good idea of what your pack weight should be after carrying it for hundreds and thousands of miles. The only reason I didn't know right away something was wrong was because I'd resupplied in Waynesboro and was carrying more candy and cheese than anyone should be allowed to carry. I thought my pack was a little extra heavy, but I always think that after leaving town, so I didn't worry about it. So I deserved it. Besides, it was funny.

Haiku.

bobgessner57
10-29-2004, 20:31
My first real backcountry backpacking trip as a boy scout was a 50 miler in the Smokies. Long about lunch on day 2 one of the other boys was rooting in the depths of his pack when he discovered a fresh coconut. I still don't know who put it there but we all enjoyed it after giving him a hard time about hauling it. My kids heard the story, and now we all have to be wary of coconuts.

Boo Boo
10-30-2004, 00:48
Ah, You must be the Boo Boo that was in Caratunk for the WhiteBlaze get together and trail magic. I heard something about someone putting sardines in your pack on that Sunday. I don't remember who told me. How long did it take for you to realize they were in there?

Someone was nice enough to tell me before I left. The smell still lingers.

-Boo Boo GA=>ME=>?? '04

Dances with Mice
10-30-2004, 10:01
Someone was nice enough to tell me before I left. The smell still lingers.

Hiding seafood in someone's belongings isn't a prank, it's revenge.

http://snopes.com/love/revenge/shrimp.htm

A one time Army best bud and I had a big time falling out. This was at Ft McClellan back when there was a Ft Mac in Anniston AL. Driving along I-20 one day I picked up a hitchhiker with backpack. Homeless guy, it turned out. Quite a few beers short of a six pack. He'd been on the road a while and was as RIPE as a thru-hiker after a week in summer and his foul-mouthed chatter was driving me crazy. I needed to get him out of my truck. So I asked him if he was hungry, he said he was, so I told him that I was headed to my minister's home for lunch and he was invited. I drove by my former friend's house and told my passenger to knock on the door and tell the man who answered that I'd sent him, I was going to drive to the store to pick up a bottle of wine and would be right back. I waited until I saw the door open, then scooted off to Atlanta.

I've always felt kinda guilty about what I did to that hitchhiker. What I did to the Mormon missionaries was even worse. I'm sure I'll burn in hell one day.

Miss Janet
10-30-2004, 10:18
Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

I remember all the pranks I got in trouble for as a kid on Halloween! That makes me think of all the good pranks I have seen pulled on hikers over the years.

**** The Dead Animal Series was pretty funny... but you really had to be there!

**** I put a 5 foot long black snake in someones tent at Trail Days... NOW, that was funny!!

**** I heard about a rock named ROCK that hiked over half of the AT in packs without the hikers knowing about it. There was a fruit cake getting passed around last year till someone ate it!

**** I had 4 SoBo's buy striped inmate costumes (as in Oh, Brother...) and wear
them through the end of the hike.

Have a great weekend!

minnesotasmith
10-31-2004, 05:55
"I heard about a rock named ROCK that hiked over half of the AT in packs without the hikers knowing about it. There was a fruit cake getting passed around last year till someone ate it!"





Given the choice, I'd rather eat the rock and carry the fruitcake. I've tried fruitcake, and rocks couldn't possibly taste worse. There's no accounting for taste in food, though. Check out this food site and you'll see what I mean...

http://www.andreas.com/food.html

Summaries of above foods: http://www.spc.org.nc/coastfish/Asides/recipes/Ray's%20List%20of%20Weird%20and%20Disgusting%20Foo ds.htm

Bonehead
11-01-2004, 00:14
**** I put a 5 foot long black snake in someones tent at Trail Days... NOW, that was funny!!

Now THAT would make me shed my skin real fast!

minnesotasmith
11-01-2004, 10:30
"A practical joker deserves applause for his wit according to its quality. Bastinado* is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling**. But staking out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest."

*"A sound beating with a stick or cudgel."

** "Keelhauling was meted out to sailors for minor infractions at sea. Typically the victim was tied to a rope looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard, and then dragged under the keel and up the other side. Since the keel was usually encrusted with barnacles and other crud the guy's hide would be scraped raw and he'd think twice about doing whatever it was he'd gotten keelhauled for again."

Youngblood
11-01-2004, 11:11
...** "Keelhauling was meted out to sailors for minor infractions at sea. Typically the victim was tied to a rope looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard, and then dragged under the keel and up the other side. Since the keel was usually encrusted with barnacles and other crud the guy's hide would be scraped raw and he'd think twice about doing whatever it was he'd gotten keelhauled for again."

I am tempted to make a joke about this by saying that in the thru-hiking community that we do something similiar by making the offending person hike through blowdowns. But, I'm not going to do that.

Youngblood

minnesotasmith
11-02-2004, 08:34
Extended hiking through blowdowns in summer clothing (thin or no T-shirt, shorts, no gaiters) would IMO eventually have the same result as keelhauling, I'd say.

BTW, what did you think of my list of possible pranks to play on a fellow hiker? :eek: :confused: :-? :)

Youngblood
11-02-2004, 09:14
Extended hiking through blowdowns in summer clothing (thin or no T-shirt, shorts, no gaiters) would IMO eventually have the same result as keelhauling, I'd say.

BTW, what did you think of my list of possible pranks to play on a fellow hiker? :eek: :confused: :-? :)

You need to be careful with pranks. There is a difference between something that everybody can laugh at and something that makes an enemy of someone... and sometimes the difference is not in what you do but in who you do it to.

For instance, the statement I made about blowdowns was intended as a prank and I hope that the person it was intended for realizes that, I mean,
that is the title of this thread. :)

Youngblood

PecosBackpacker
11-03-2004, 10:55
I HAD TO CARRY THAT FEATHER 5 MILES UPHILL!!! IT WEIGHED 1.5 GRAMS DRY, BUT IT SOAKED UP ANOTHER GRAM OF MOISTURE!! HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO ME!! :D[/QUOTE]

HaHaHa. Good one.

minnesotasmith
11-03-2004, 11:42
I didn't mean them as serious proposals, something you might actually do to fellow hikers (who haven't ever done anything to you) on your section hike in December (or whenever). They are intended as humor to talk about around the fire in the fire ring during the evening at a shelter on the Trail, saying "Wouldn't it be funny if ______ happened?". That's all I meant by them. Rarely do I actually DO anything resembling a practical joke; mostly I just come up with ideas for them, and describe the ideas to people I know. That's all.

Seraphim
12-17-2004, 23:12
:D Cans of SPAM & all rocks aside, this summer DBone and Dingle played Lil Munchkin, Gordy and I. Us BAMMs were relaxing in some falls in the 100-mile, looking for pretty rocks and eating gorp, the usual two hour break. They weren't swimming for some reason- perhaps after seeing our faces and bodies shrivel when we entered the ice-cold water! But we were in there anyway, a mere shimmy down a rock or two and you were in a nice little pool. Suddenly, our clothes were snatched, we glanced and continued playing. They fleed the scene, we were nonchalant. I got out to get a cigarette and lounged on a rock in the sun waiting for Gordy and Munchkin. Knightrider came up on us and shook his head and continued up the mountain. We finally left, expecting to find our clothes up the trail in some trees, on a rock, something. So we climb Barren Mtn., come to the shelter a few miles from the falls, Dingle and Knightrider are there. We demand our clothes, they swear they don't have them and have no idea of their whereabouts: "Ask DBone!" We keep on keepin on, Knightrider passes me and remarks: "Is it easier to hike without all that weight keepin ya down?!" Soooooooooooo, we finally get up to Barren Ledges and drop pack, where we find the boys. DBone's laughter when he told me to open my pack and dole out the clothes echoed across the entire state, I swear. I guess the only way to make that one better would be if we were thoroughly embarrassed somehow, but we Bad Ass Mountain Mamas just don't give a f--- about some bare ass.

saimyoji
12-17-2004, 23:53
From what I have found, the seraphim are the most intimate heavenly guardians of Yahwey. A Hebrew, masculine plural form of the word seraph, which indeed refers to: "...mysterious guardians, each supplied with six wings: two to bear them up, two veiling their faces, and two covering their feet, now naked, as became priestly service in the presence of the Almighty. His highest servants, they were there to minister to Him and proclaim His glory, each calling to the other: "Holy, holy, holy, Yahweh of hosts; all the earth is full of His glory."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13725b.htm

I'm curious, how did you get your trail name?

I applaud your candor, and nudity, and wish I had known you when I was 19!

Jack Tarlin
12-18-2004, 16:05
If my memory is right, the seraphim were the highest of the nine orders of angesl, and sit closest to the throne of God.

But it's been awhile since Sunday school, so I may be wrong.

If so, I'm sure somone, most likely Weary, will happily correct me.

Panama Red
12-18-2004, 16:37
when i was hiking the uhwarrie trail with some friends we ganged up on one in our group who was complianing the whole time so at night we pulled him out of his tent while he was still asleep and carried him just out of sight of the camp.

one more........while in boy scouts some one brought a rubber snake and we would hide it in the sleeping bags of other scouts. one time someone hid it and we heard the screaming and came by to play along. while most of the others thought it was a real snake we knew the truth until one my friend said thats not the tent i hid it in.

wacocelt
12-18-2004, 21:45
During my SoBo attempt in 2000 I was hiking with Caveman, Redhorse, Whisperlite and Chilly. Redhorse found a rather large negligee in one of the shelters just South of Rangeley Me., it was all black satin and lacey and such. We passed that thing from pack to pack well into Vermont, quite hilarious to be unpacking your foodbag to cook lunch at a shelter with a bunch of NoBo's and pull that thing out. It was a jaw dropper to be sure.

After leaving Bear and Honeys 'The Cabin', I don't recall where in Maine they are at the moment (shame on me) I was half a day behind Caveman and Redhorse. I caught up to them early in the afternoon and they told me of a duo of Day-Hikers who had drunk a 1.75 liter bottle of Jim Beam between the two of them and proceeded to vomit all over the shelter and poor redhorses sleeping bag, then when they needed to release ballast would just stand on the edge of the shelter and let fly. Caveman got up well before they did and urinated in one of the guys leather hiking boots, he was quite impessed at thier holding capacity, as they still hadn't begun to leak as he hiked out 30 minutes later.

Panama Red
12-19-2004, 00:04
thats not a prank thats just being rude however hilariously funny it is. if that was my story those boys would be limping out of the shelter

minnesotasmith
12-19-2004, 00:24
Resembles a "Close To Home" comic strip I saw about a year ago. It showed a guy in a work uniform dropping lingerie into a suitcase, with the caption (approximately) "Bored with his job in airport luggage security, Bob would periodically drop intimate apparel into suitcases of men returning home from business trips."

Ouch. That's right up there with the FOAF that used to work in a gas station, and when he had to refill the condom dispensers (individually packaged, remember), would make the tiniest of holes in all the condoms with a small straight pin...

Seraphim
12-19-2004, 05:01
All ya'll have the meaning of Seraphim right, I'm just the wrong sex for the term. But, I suppose it fits well, I've had it for three years and almost everyone calls me that. I got it on the PCT helping an injured hiker so that he could get some attention-he'd been bitten by something and was bleeding everywhere, completely in shock and out of his mind. After carrying him down that beautiful PCT grade and into the town's hospital, he looked up at me and admits his guilt in never asking my name. I was astounded at his sudden clarity, and told him it was Sarah. He looked up at me, his eyes full of light, and said, "Like a seraph..." And thus, Seraphim was born, angel of light, energy and POWER! (among other definitions, some not so beautiful and becoming)....

Bloodroot
12-19-2004, 09:05
Yeah Yeah I got one with the womens underwear:

One night (several years ago) around a campfire several of us tied-on a good one, with me being in the rarest of form. So I pass out thinking everythings OK, right? Wake up the next morning and hike out to a shower house.

Open my pack and had a beautiful pair of lace panties that could have fit King Kong. Ha! Ha! So I continue, now taking off my boots and then my socks. Someone had painted my toenails a nice beige color.

It was hilarious, even though it was at my expense. :)

Didn't I see a pic of a whiteblazer not too long ago that was an object of some cruel game while passed out during Trashgiving?;)

The Old Fhart
12-19-2004, 09:23
Bloodroot, Actually the photo you are thinking of is from Trail Days a few years ago and, yes, I have a picture of that person. He had passed out near the fire ring down by the river and people had dressed and decorated him. He was still there mid morning the next day.