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mweinstone
09-23-2010, 19:37
the dark? running out off stuff? other hikers? the wild? navigation on such a trip as ours? wha?


matthewski weinstone.........fear:being told to leave the trail for some reason.

Llama Legs
09-23-2010, 19:41
biggest fear: my dumbass somehow injuring myself...

Carbo
09-23-2010, 20:03
biggest fear: my dumbass somehow injuring myself...
That is #1

#2 is running out of water.

In the beginning, the bears and timber rattlers here in NJ were #1 , but they seem to just want to avoid us as best they can.

tlap
09-23-2010, 20:20
Vertigo. I don't mind heights but do not like edges and ledges.

Sarcasm the elf
09-23-2010, 20:49
As a section hiker:

1) Being told by my boss that I have to work a weekend when I have a trip planned.

2) Getting to a camp site late and not getting a good shelter spot/tent site... no idea why this worries me, but this seems to be a pre-occupation while I'm hurrying down the trail:D.

Luddite
09-23-2010, 20:49
biggest fear: my dumbass somehow injuring myself...

Not really scared of anything else except a terrible debilitating injury while on a solo hike in some remote part of the country.
A sprained ankle in the middle of Escalante would suck. Having to be rescued would be embarrassing.

topshelf
09-23-2010, 20:54
Biggest Fear: tenting next to someone who didn't bear bag and having a bear try to enter you tent on his way to theirs. (It happened)

Luddite
09-23-2010, 20:58
Biggest Fear: tenting next to someone who didn't bear bag and having a bear try to enter you tent on his way to theirs. (It happened)

Don't camp at Camp 4 in Yosemite. :D

waywardfool
09-23-2010, 21:14
I wish I could give credit to the author...but there was a journal somebody linked to a couple of months ago...great quote in it, went something like:

"What you pack reflects what you fear. I apparently fear..."

I hope the author comes forward, and sets this straight in case I really mangled it. (and gets credit).

Luddite
09-23-2010, 21:16
I wish I could give credit to the author...but there was a journal somebody linked to a couple of months ago...great quote in it, went something like:

"What you pack reflects what you fear. I apparently fear..."

I hope the author comes forward, and sets this straight in case I really mangled it. (and gets credit).

I think AWOL mentioned something like that in his book AWOL on the Appalachian Trail.

Pony
09-23-2010, 21:40
I never feared anything except not eating enough and being too weak to finish the trail. Truth be known, I was too weak and finished on adrenaline.

yari
09-23-2010, 21:40
Vertigo. I don't mind heights but do not like edges and ledges.

Ditto. And then some.

lonewolftrekker
09-23-2010, 21:51
I never feared anything except not eating enough and being too weak to finish the trail. Truth be known, I was too weak and finished on adrenaline.

Ditto... us Skinny guys got that issue.

Pony
09-23-2010, 21:54
Stumblewolf, what's up bro?

IronGutsTommy
09-23-2010, 21:55
same here, with the vertigo. i can do heights but wont switch from hiking to mountaineering any time soon, thats for sure. hate ledges, even balconies for that matter. Also have a curiousity, not really a fear, of all things spooky and haunted, and have a list i compiled of over 20 sites along the trail that fall in these categories. hope to spend a night or two at some spots along the trail.

reddenbacher
09-23-2010, 22:08
running into a matti at nautical dawn,in the woods and nowhere to hide

Lone Wolf
09-23-2010, 22:21
matthewski weinstone.........fear:being told to leave the trail for some reason.

not bein able to spank it in my tent without viagra?

Don H
09-23-2010, 22:36
Ticks. I hate the little buggers!

IronGutsTommy
09-23-2010, 22:57
lol spanking in the tent. once shared a tent with a guy for a few nights, his developed a bad leak. on night three he asks out of the darkness "do you mind if i..." . you know the question. im like hell no. if he didnt mention i might not of noticed if he was ninja style, but once it was in the air how could i possibly not notice his heavy breathing wasnt an asthma attack?

IronGutsTommy
09-23-2010, 22:59
btw night three was the last night. i told him sleeping in a leaking tent is just good experience on the value of setting up a new tent in the yard and sealing it up before hitting the trail

4eyedbuzzard
09-24-2010, 11:13
Ticks. I hate the little buggers!
Meeee toooo
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tagg
09-24-2010, 11:29
1. afraid something will happen at home and i won't know/won't be able to help
2. lightning
3. widowmakers

sbhikes
09-24-2010, 14:16
My biggest fear was hurting myself enough to end my hike.

Morning Glory
09-24-2010, 17:14
I'm scared to death of heights. I couldn't go out on Charlie's Bunion. I started shaking I just grabbed hold of a rock and turned around. Just looking at the pictures of people sitting on McAfee Knob with their legs dangling over the edge almost makes me sick. I don't know how I will handle some of the trail up in Maine and New Hampshire. I have hiked a little in Maine and there was one spot where I had to just ignore the drop off to my left and just look straight ahead and at my feet and go. I feel so silly admitting this.

Spokes
09-24-2010, 17:45
My biggest fear?

Friendly people in Kent, CT and an outfitter there that actually stocks AquaMira..............

AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

George
09-24-2010, 17:57
As I sez before greatest fear is running out of booze - have to search the woods for a still + hear banjo

Red Hat
09-24-2010, 18:25
biggest fear: my dumbass somehow injuring myself...

That is precisely why I got off when I did. I had done all the miles and knew that every rock climb was a potential injury. Maine puts "fear" in the Biblical prospective. It is beautiful, powerful, awesome, amazing, and dangerous...

Nean
09-24-2010, 18:55
I wish I could give credit to the author...but there was a journal somebody linked to a couple of months ago...great quote in it, went something like:

"What you pack reflects what you fear. I apparently fear..."

I hope the author comes forward, and sets this straight in case I really mangled it. (and gets credit).

Ray J was the first to come up with something like that as far as I can recall.

As a ultra light speed hiker my biggest fear is not being able to keep up with Jonses, not beating the trail, not reaching the almighty destination. My fear is based on what you won't find in my pack.:eek:

Kernel
09-24-2010, 19:27
Lightning above treeline.

Feral Bill
09-24-2010, 20:04
Lightning above treeline.

Is that fear or just good sense? Either way I'm in.

Namaste
09-24-2010, 20:20
Lightning freaks me out and everytime I led a canoe trip or a hiking trip there would be at least 1 or 2 days of this s**t. Above tree line, in the woods, on the water lightning is my #1 anxiety.

veteran
09-24-2010, 20:50
Having a tree fall on your tent while you are in it.



http://www.timesunion.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=250133&width=628&height=471

DapperD
09-25-2010, 19:53
This looked kind of scary:D:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0PomAwjG18

kayak karl
09-25-2010, 20:55
i've been married and divorced 3 times, ain't nothing in those woods that can scare me.

Elder
09-25-2010, 21:13
This looked kind of scary:D:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0PomAwjG18

:eek: if Matty could learn to use a pair of Leki's he wouldn't do that!


Just sayin..;)