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    Quote Originally Posted by trekkinghigher View Post
    Assume every hiker wants to be sniffed by your dog just because they're friendly (for the record I don't usually mind) - some hikers are afraid of dogs

    Don't assume that everyone who doesn't appreciate interacting with uncontrolled dogs is afraid. Some folks are just tired of dealing with other folks' inability to keep their problems to themselves. If I wanted a dog I'd bring one. If I wanted to borrow someone else's I'd ask. Not afraid of dogs, love them in fact, but the phrase no bad dogs comes to mind often on trail. They can't help who owns them.
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    I don't mind dogs either but a good one is not to neglect your dog on trail if you are hiking with one, think of their needs as much as yours.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LazyLightning View Post
    I don't mind dogs either but a good one is not to neglect your dog on trail if you are hiking with one, think of their needs as much as yours.
    My personal advice is "If you choose to bring your dog on a hike, it becomes your dog's hike." That one line has served me well for 14 years of hiking and five hiking dogs (not all at once )
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    If you hike with a dog, don’t get a fake service dog certificate so you can get around the rules of where dogs aren’t allowed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HankIV View Post
    For all the various problems of modern life, don’t forget to appreciate how fortunate we are to live in a time with good, light weight gear, and to be on a trail that was nurtured and continues to be nurtured by so many folk. Even when you’re cursing the route choice.
    Thank you for posting these thoughts. Yes to each, especially when enduring someone gripping about the trail rather than their own poor choice of hiking footwear.

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    Don't smoke your weed in your tent if you are camped near other hikers. It is so annoying when you are trying to sleep and someone else's smoke comes in your tent. Be respectful to non-smokers.

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    Hey, lighten up, at least they are going in their tent( and risking a fire), to appease other people..
    Or maybe they’re just running low and thinking twice about sharing their bag!
    Either way, their weed probably smells better than you!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Odd Man Out View Post
    Don't assume everyone (or anyone, for that matter) really wants to hear about how many miles you hiked today or how much your pack weighs.
    Conversely, don't *ask* everyone how many miles they've hiked or how much their pack weighs -- or why they chose those shoes, or why do they use poles, or if they've ever considered a hammock....

    I honestly don't think I can ever recall anyone giving me an unsolicited story about their mileage or pack weight, but I also can't remember a single trip when I haven't been asked. And asked, and asked, and asked....
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    Angry I'd have been glad if they had ONLY smoked a joint in the shelter!

    Go to this link about my time at Thistle Hill Shelter in 2013, and then go down to my "Big mistake!"
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    I am guilty of toking in my tent but I wouldn't in a shelter or if I was close enough to hear people breathe, or with kids around... but really I can't imagine a little ganja smoke from even a small distance being more inconvenient then a camp fire, which are pretty common and excepted. The "big mistake" story is the kind of stuff that makes all stoners look bad or makes it look like the soul fault of the weed itself to some people. A lot of people smoke it, even idiots and ignorant a-holes. most are pretty respectful in everything I've seen.
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    Don't Instagram your entire thru-hike.

    I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

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    Do not smoke ganja in your tent without offering some to your neighbor

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    Don’t share your ganga with the bears, they already have the munchies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HankIV View Post
    Don’t share your ganga with the bears, they already have the munchies.
    And huge lungs they tend to bogart

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    Quote Originally Posted by HankIV View Post
    Don’t share your ganga with the bears, they already have the munchies.
    LOL kinda like you wouldn't want to share your Ganga with Jeffery Dahmer

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    Please don't brag about being a thru hiker to everybody, and then quit at Hot Springs. I saw that happen about a hundred times...

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    Quote Originally Posted by RockDoc View Post
    Please don't brag about being a thru hiker to everybody, and then quit at Hot Springs. I saw that happen about a hundred times...
    Funny, on my thru I always felt weird saying I was a thru hiker, I would usually say I was thru hiking. Seems to me you aren’t a thru hiker until you’ve finished.

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    Don't bump uglies in or in earshot of shelters.
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