Idiot Near Trail

[tiamalle]

I see several names used now and then.Thanks Max.Idiots are what they are.Rednecks,Yankees,Hillbillies,and several other names that people use
like this and raciest names don't discribe people who does this kind of things
These are Idiots.Sorry friends,I know lots of rednecks who are great people.
I know lots of Hillbillies who are great people,I know lots of yankees who are
great people.Poeple like this could be your brother from anywhere on the globe and he would be an idiots.

[justusryans]

I see several names used now and then.Thanks Max.Idiots are what they are.Rednecks,Yankees,Hillbillies,and several other names that people use
like this and raciest names don't discribe people who does this kind of things
These are Idiots.Sorry friends,I know lots of rednecks who are great people.
I know lots of Hillbillies who are great people,I know lots of yankees who are
great people.Poeple like this could be your brother from anywhere on the globe and he would be an idiots.

Thank you, my thoughts exactly!!

[gumby]

Or he could take up bow hunting, I guess.

When we shut down the ranges at Eglin AFB to hunters after 9/11, we ran into an issue because some of the nearby families hunt for food. Not like supplementing their income, but they actually relied on hunting to feed their families, and by closing the ranges to civilians we were significantly impacting their ability to do that.

Do you think exceptions should be made, on a case by case basis and for certain violations only, for people who honestly rely on hunting to feed their families?

Yeah but on the Eglin range you have the Holley boys to deal with, they are the best poachers I've heard of. I lived in Navarre, actually in Holley close to where they were from. Talk about rednecks, their family tree was a telephone pole, no branches. They captured some green berets on a training exercise on night.

gumby

[Newb]

It'll be a heck of a lot harder for him. There are a few felonies in there and that automatically makes it illegal for him to own or possess a firearm in the United States. While federal law does not include muzzle-loaders in that defiition, many state laws do, and of course purchasing ammunition and powder for muzzle-loaders is also prohibited (depending upon jurisdiction).

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Didn't you see the Dukes of Hazzard? He can get himself a composite bow with dynamite arrows!

[Just Jeff]

Talk about rednecks, their family tree was a telephone pole, no branches. They captured some green berets on a training exercise on night.

Better'n a wreath, I reckon. Where they really Green Berets? The Ranger training school is there...brand new students tromping through the woods all the time. What was that huge gator's name they kept as a mascot? He died while I was there.

[tiamalle]

Yeah but on the Eglin range you have the Holley boys to deal with, they are the best poachers I've heard of. I lived in Navarre, actually in Holley close to where they were from. Talk about rednecks, their family tree was a telephone pole, no branches. They captured some green berets on a training exercise on night.

gumby

Gumby,I grew up in a home around back country hillbillies,
rednecks and blacks in the old south.It made me understand the feelings of others.Some of them were the kindess people in all the world and some was
trouble makers.I've Stayed in Los Angeles,Dallas,different parts of Florida.I
have traveled lots like a lot of you.I have found really good people in all those places and bad ones too.Look at Tv daily and you see these weirdos
everywhere but they never tell about the comman good people.Like the post you made defending yourself I thought was good.But everytime a
remark is made by the world that is bad the don't use the name idiots
very often it's rednecks hillbillies wets yanks.I heard people talk about
being afraid on the trail of hillbillies in the south.Erwin,Tn has hillbillies
like is told about the hills of Tn.Look how highly respected Ms JANET is.
When you meet these people you will get a new concept.I've heard remarks
of people in Ga are so stupid it's hard to tell the difference between the
Ga crackers and the crumbs.But all of you who Hike the southern AT in Ga
knows these are some of the nicest people on earth.Mexicans tell me they
don't like american food.All they ever tried was fast food.I tell them our
discriptipo of mex food is taco bell,del taco.They say,"amigo no es comida authinico,por favor comer adintro authnico".Which is "O friend you never
eat real mex food try home made".I say"amismo aqui,same here.

[Just Jeff]

people in Ga are so stupid it's hard to tell the difference between the
Ga crackers and the crumbs.

HAHAHA!!! Now THAT's funny!! (I'm from GA so I can say that!)

I figure if I grew up redneck, I can make fun of my own! Not that I'm a redneck anymore...grew out of it like I grew out of my mullet when I was 10.

Actually, I make fun of everybody and I don't get upset when they make fun of me...as long as it's all in fun. It's how some people are, and it's not offensive to everyone...it brings us together.

[Seeker]

there are rednecks everywhere, if defined as poeple who do as they please, regardless of law, and who take pride in their ignorance... found some in germany, somalia, and haiti too... plenty of them up north... the south just has the reputation... but they are alive and well...

speaking of the hunting kind (of redneck), there are families in and around fort drum, ny, who refuse to acknowledge federal jurisdiction over property that was 'stolen' from them to create camp drum back during WW2. they still hunt and fish in the impact area. they also managed to get the gate off post into governeur, ny, closed to traffic by shooting at hmmwvs that went by... nice place... (to visit).

[Seeker]

jeff,

notice the paragraph markings... they work now, for some reason...

oh wow! and my smilies work again!!!

[Just Jeff]

Much easier to read. Except for the whole dancing banana part. Some redneck should shoot that thing dead.

[tiamalle]

HAHAHA!!! Now THAT's funny!! (I'm from GA so I can say that!)

I figure if I grew up redneck, I can make fun of my own! Not that I'm a redneck anymore...grew out of it like I grew out of my mullet when I was 10.

Actually, I make fun of everybody and I don't get upset when they make fun of me...as long as it's all in fun. It's how some people are, and it's not offensive to everyone...it brings us together.

Me too,I think it's a lot of fun but people saying some things like that scares other people.
There is stories I tell lots of my hiker guest when they come through and
we are all cracking up.

[CaptChaos]

Rednecks are great?????

I don't know about that but cleaning out the gene pool from time to time has to help.

I know a lady who I worked with that loves to talk like she is from the sticks. Sad thing is she was a single mom who put herself through college and worked hard and did without for a long time. But to hear here she talks like a redneck and is proud of it. As for me, I think that if she took all those years to get her degree that it was wasted on her because it did not alter her in any way.

I know that many of you might not see an issue with the above but if you do something and it does not change you for the better then what was the use. I know that backpacking has changed the way that I look at life so maybe this is why I point this out.

[Just Jeff]

CaptChaos, didn't I run into you hiking the approach trail...probably Sept 03? I had 4 and 8 year old boys with me, and you stopped to talk to my 8 year old about adjusting his pack. Unless there's another Capt Chaos. You're married to General Disaster or something like that?

I agree about cleaning out the gene pool from time to time, and idiots are everywhere...not just the red necks!

[tiamalle]

HAHAHA!!! Now THAT's funny!! (I'm from GA so I can say that!)

I figure if I grew up redneck, I can make fun of my own! Not that I'm a redneck anymore...grew out of it like I grew out of my mullet when I was 10.

Actually, I make fun of everybody and I don't get upset when they make fun of me...as long as it's all in fun. It's how some people are, and it's not offensive to everyone...it brings us together.

Jeff are you in the military in Monterey?Monterey in Spanish is Kings Mountian.Me and My Family are coming to Los Angeles for Christmas.

[CaptChaos]

Just Jeff:

No, I have not been out since I went to Spence Field in Oct.

There is another Capt. Chaos and he is much younger I think. I am 48.

[tiamalle]

Rednecks are great?????

I don't know about that but cleaning out the gene pool from time to time has to help.

I know a lady who I worked with that loves to talk like she is from the sticks. Sad thing is she was a single mom who put herself through college and worked hard and did without for a long time. But to hear here she talks like a redneck and is proud of it. As for me, I think that if she took all those years to get her degree that it was wasted on her because it did not alter her in any way.

I know that many of you might not see an issue with the above but if you do something and it does not change you for the better then what was the use. I know that backpacking has changed the way that I look at life so maybe this is why I point this out.

Capn this world turns out a lot of good ones.If you pass here again stop in and say hello.Ron Haven

[CaptChaos]

I had to think back to an event years ago but this is a true story and I consider it an "Idiots on the trail story".

6 years ago, I had dropped my sone off at Tremont for a week at camp. I went up the Mtn from Tremont to Spence Field and then to Russell Fields Shelter.

I was tired and hot and almost of of water and about 1 mile from Spence field when I heard a voice behind me say "Hello". I turned and there were two people, a man and wife, dressed in cotton shirt, cotton shorts, sneakers, no water bottle, no butt pack, nothing, coming up the trail.

The guy tells me that he did not want to scare me and he asked how I was doing. I told him ok and he told me that he and his wife were going to the top of rockytop. I looked at my watch and it was getting late and I told the couple that it might not be a good idea as it would get dark soon. They told me not to worry and they bid me a good day.

About 45 min later I get to Spence Field Shelter and I find this couple there. The are talking and the wife says that Rocky top is behind and down the shelter at Spence Field. The husband says that it is to the west of Spence Field on the AT. He helps me out of my gear and I have to get my map and show them that they are both wrong.

After 10 min, they head out and I again tell them that it is getting dark and that I will be at the shelter and that i have some extra food and a blanket that they can use so come back when they are done at Rocky Top. The husband tells me no they will be find and they head off.

45 min later it is dark and I am expecting them to come back to Spence and they never show up.

Next morning I go to Russell springs and stay the night.

Next day I get up and head back to Cades Cove and about 2 miles from Ranger Station I hear a voice yell "Hello there". It is this couple and they greet me.

Now this is no joke, this couple is bug bit, scratched up and they look like hell. They got caught on the mtn in the middle of the night and could not get off the mtn. No moon, they could not see to make it off.

Wife tells me that husband is a fool and that they almost got killed when wild boars come running down the trail. No water to drink, no coats, no food, no light, no fire, etc.. They were bug bit from head to toe. Wife tells me in front of husband, "I told him we needed to go back where you were but he would not listen". Started off trail from Bout mtn headed to Cades Cove and it was so dark they could not see each other in the darkness.

I suggested to this couple that next time at least carry the Boy Scouts 10 items and told them that the night before I go to Spence Field that it had rained for 4 hours, big drops, and a very cold rain. If this had been that night, someone could have died.

They were going to take a photo of where they were trapped and then come back to Cades Cove. I waited for them at the picnic area and they gave me a ride back to Tremont.

They were from Glasgow, KY and they are lucky to be here.

I think that they qualify for the "Idiot's on the trail" what do you think.

[Just Jeff]

Jeff are you in the military in Monterey?Monterey in Spanish is Kings Mountian.Me and My Family are coming to Los Angeles for Christmas.

Yes. Actually, I'll be near LA next week. Wife agreed to go camping if we could take the kids to Universal.

[MOWGLI]

Our Conservation (Fish and Wildlife) Department placed one of those fake deer alongside a county road -- and nailed the County Sheriff, who had shot multiple times at the fake from his squad car. No word on whether or not his shots were accurate.

The former sheriff of Sequatchie County, TN was just bagged for illegally hunting from his car yesterday - for the third time. The dude shot a "robo-deer" once too.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_77283.asp

[Nate]

Try hiking in Tennessee and North Carolina <the Redneck Capital of the world>