Ever seen anything weird on the trail?

**the goat** · 11-24-2009, 13:12

Originally Posted by Cheers

I saw a huge green inflatable alien sitting on the privy at Hogback Ridge shelter in NC back in 2001. I later read in the register that this guy (a sobo) had carried it with him because he had no company in shelters most nights, but decided to leave it at this one as a gift.

Cheers

hahahaha! hilarious, i'm glad someone else saw this! me and a buddy carried that alien for a couple of days south of there to keep his hike going.

**Nocona** · 11-24-2009, 18:02

Many hikers had encounters with the emu that lived on the AT in '98. Somewhere in N. Virginia, if I remember right.

I once saw a guy carrying a piece of luggage over his shoulder hiking down the trail. I tried to stop and talk to him, but he just kept on hiking without even saying hi.

On my thru-hike I met a family of six all carrying their mountain bikes on their shoulders in one of the rockiest stretches of Pennsylvania. They asked me if the trail got "better" further on....I said, "yeah, if you go another 120 miles or so, it does get better." There's no reason to even fuss at them for trying to ride on the AT there!

**Egads** · 11-24-2009, 18:24

Originally Posted by Cheers

I saw a huge green inflatable alien sitting on the privy at Hogback Ridge shelter in NC back in 2001. I later read in the register that this guy (a sobo) had carried it with him because he had no company in shelters most nights, but decided to leave it at this one as a gift.

Cheers

Originally Posted by the goat

hahahaha! hilarious, i'm glad someone else saw this! me and a buddy carried that alien for a couple of days south of there to keep his hike going.

He was Northbound

**kayak karl** · 11-24-2009, 18:34

hiking in new Hampshire i passed somebody going north. HE was wearing a green skirt, white sheer blouse, bra, hair tied back and blue eye shadow and lipstick. i said hi, talked about the heat and moved on.
when the other hikers caught up to me they said, CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
i said i know, blue eye shadow and a GREEN skirt

**ShelterLeopard** · 11-24-2009, 21:15

Originally Posted by kayak karl

hiking in new Hampshire i passed somebody going north. HE was wearing a green skirt, white sheer blouse, bra, hair tied back and blue eye shadow and lipstick. i said hi, talked about the heat and moved on.
when the other hikers caught up to me they said, CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
i said i know, blue eye shadow and a GREEN skirt

**squeezebox** · 11-24-2009, 22:19

I was thinking about this thread as a I was running errands tonight, and a very stupid idea came to mind. Since I'm starting a solo trip in Apr. what if I carried along a blow up kid's toy, maybe a dino. No make it a blow up porno doll !! Sure to get a trail name with her along. damn!! more batteries to carry.
Just call me KY

**Spokes** · 11-24-2009, 22:36

Originally Posted by kayak karl

hiking in new Hampshire i passed somebody going north. HE was wearing a green skirt, white sheer blouse, bra, hair tied back and blue eye shadow and lipstick. i said hi, talked about the heat and moved on.
when the other hikers caught up to me they said, CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
i said i know, blue eye shadow and a GREEN skirt

Wonder what kind of Leki poles goes best with that outfit?

**ezfiddlerfreak** · 11-24-2009, 23:40

I seened a guy with gogels on over his glasses. wonder how he kept them unfogged

**ShelterLeopard** · 11-25-2009, 00:02

Some people wear prescription goggles with no fog lenses while hiking because they're more durable and won't fall off. Not weird enough- come on, you can think of something weirder...

**ShelterLeopard** · 11-25-2009, 00:05

So, this was not on the trail, but I was kinda hiking around a city...

Moscow, RUSSIA- So, I was walking around Moscow, looking for a famous cemetery with a couple friends from my trip, and we see this passed out guy lying behind the bushes about five feet from the sidewalk. When I looked closer, I realized he wasn't passed out, he was dead. NOT kidding. Pale, open eyes, he had been there at least half a day. And the weird part is, he had his pants around his ankles (his bare rear end was sticking up in the air), and this child's pink backpack next to him on the ground. ????????

Guess he never made it all the way to the cemetery. (Seriously, weird. And we didn't know who to call. I didn't know how to say "we found a dead body" in Russian. I suppose that should've been one of the first things I learned...)

**Ramble~On** · 11-25-2009, 00:19

Weirdest thing I saw on the trail was a mirror.
There was a reflection in it of a freak with a gray beard!

**Jack Tarlin** · 11-25-2009, 00:23

Shelter Leopard:

Nice story! Kinda reminds me of something unusual I found one morning in a motel room in Duncannon, but I'll wait and tell you in person.

**TNjed** · 11-25-2009, 00:34

I met Tyvek and he was hitting on my girlfriend at the neels gap shelter. He was an odd guy

**ShelterLeopard** · 11-25-2009, 00:37

Originally Posted by Jack Tarlin

Shelter Leopard:

Nice story! Kinda reminds me of something unusual I found one morning in a motel room in Duncannon, but I'll wait and tell you in person.

I'm gonna remember to ask you that one!!!

**MJN** · 11-26-2009, 00:35

This isnt too weird but last summer I was hiking somewhere a few miles north of Bake oven Knob in PA and came to a gravel road crossing at a radio tower and i see a truck parked. I sit down on a rock to take a brake and then about 10 minutes later a couple comes stumbling out of the woods with beers in there hands just lauphing and yelling and dont really acknowedge me at all and then get in the truck and speed away.

**gravy4601** · 11-26-2009, 01:18

where they having a goo time sounds like fun to me

**Robusto** · 11-26-2009, 02:52

Had a deer lick the sweat off my outstretched hand in the Smokies. Hiked three miles with an Emu named "Reba" in Mass. She made a drumming sound the whole time (Found out her name when they caught he in town and she made the local paper)

**Israel** · 11-26-2009, 08:25

One of the most interesting characters was the man we dubbed "the psycho lone hiker." Met him on a section hike back around 1989...in the Nantahalas in December. He was hiking southbound from the smokies carrying a cast iron frying pan, a 30 degree coleman rectangular sleeping bag (nights were around 0-5 degrees!), wore blue jeans, a big wool hat that covered his eyes and most of his face the entire time...hiked into the shelter about an hour past dark carrying 5-6 large pieces of firewood since he had no stove and had to have a fire to cook his rice (not instant!) and one of my personal favorite touches...carrying a big salted country cured ham that he threw down on the shelter floor at our feet and proceeded to cut away at it with a hack saw mumbling under his breath the entire time. He kept asking us where Hiawassee, GA was since he was headed there as his aunt had mailed him a carrot cake there that he wanted to get. He had no idea where Hiawassee was at all. Definitely one of the more interesting characters I've met.

**Hikes in Rain** · 11-26-2009, 09:05

The Marlboro Man. Chain-smoked, and all of his equipment, pack, sleeping bag, tent, etc., had been obtained by redeeming coupons from the cigarettes All of it emblazoned with the Marlboro ad/logo.

**MintakaCat** · 11-26-2009, 09:35

A buddy of mine and I were on the Foothills Trail by the Chattooga River last fall. We were near Big Bend falls and found a wheel from a wheel chair right at the end of an overgrown logging road. We couldn’t figure out how it got there but we reference that logging road from then on as “Wheelchair Road.”

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