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Just watched your Slickrock vid and recognized so many places.

2:00 South Lead's Cave.
2:40 Favorite reststop on ridge finger.
4:05 Hangover Mt clearcut which happened in 2007.
7:00 I call...

That pic is of Little Mitten and by gosh she's wearing a hood.

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Thanks for sharing this pic of chairs and/or discarded chairs. It reminds me of my experiences---

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Saw this one on Doublecamp Creek which somebody hauled out and left.

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Found this...

I left camp in crocs because just a couple hundreds yards further I had to cross this creek---

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Excellent. And the bigger and heavier the pack the better the chair.

The only drawback is when a hunting dog swings by and pees on my pack---which this cur did---
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I always take a few single dollar bills just in case my cellphone dies and I hitch out to a store that has a payphone so I can get change to make a call. It's alot easily than trying to get change...

Fortunately this thread is not in Straight Forward so I can tout the beauty of using my pack as a "chair" in lazy-boy style when leaning back to rest. I do this many times a day during reststops. ...

I can go a month without nail clippers afterwhich things get weird.

One good thing about winter in the Southeast mountains is we don't have many deaths because we don't have a "4,000 Footer" club or a "5,000 Foot Peak" club whereby individuals try to reach every peak...

It really depends on elevation in NC and VA. 5,000 feet and above and things can get tricky.

Ridgetops commonly get 2-3 feet of snow and just hiking is tough---think arduous postholing or if deep...

I drank the Patagonia thermal weight capilene hoody kool aid and love it and it goes on most of my trips. Here's a pic from my last trip---

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It offers several advantages---
** You can...

Toenails and finger nails---esp for a 3 week trip.

Filters are great for those of us who got giardia back in the '70s and '80s---when few backpackers carried any type of filter.

And Deadeye is right about more humans in the woods. I was...

To me "cursing" happens more when backpacking than boredom. What is cursing? When a boot sole comes off. When a tent pole breaks. When I leave tent pegs under the snow. When it rains for 150...

Amen brother. Something I've agreed with for years.



A tent shelter can save lives. Reminds me of an AT backpacker who didn't bring a tent and suffered an injury and couldn't reach a shelter...

When I find lost spoons and tent stakes on a trip I cache them under a known rock in case I break a spoon or a peg and will know where to go for spares.



My pack has been loaded so many times...

Yes, you remind me about making my "wallet" for a trip---folding money wrapped around my license/medicare card with rubber band and placed in hefty bag (with zip closure cut off).



I also take...

For some reason your post reminds me of this song---What Condition My Condition Is In---(Kenny Rogers!)

I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag...

To me boredom is over-saturation of the 5 senses---too much television, too much food, too much of almost anything and we are satiated and ask ourselves in exasperation "Now What!!??". This is a...

That's a good question. Despite hauling a heavy pack I'm always excited to get moving every morning and happy to be a self-contained unit out for the duration. To me a foot trail is a labyrinth...

I sometimes forget stuff too. Several years ago I had 18 fresh eggs all ready to go and left them in the fridge. One time I forgot my pack cover. Never forgot anything major like tent poles or...

What things do you do to prepare for a backpacking trip?

Here's my list---

** Pull out laces/insoles and wash off boots---dry---and coat with boot grease.
** Wash all backpacking clothing...

There's another aspect of a mentality interfering with a backpacking trip---and not just boredom. It's the worry over home concerns and/or the beginning of a new relationship in courtship mode when...

I'm a fan of Total Pack Weight---heck it even has my initials---TiPi Walter.

I've always been easily bored since I was a kid---but two things never bore me---backpacking out in what's left of pristine nature; the beauty thereof---and playing music on various instruments.