fear(on trail)
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.
matthewski
fear?
biggest fear: my dumbass somehow injuring myself...
That is #1Originally Posted by Llama Legs
#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.
Simple is good.
Vertigo. I don't mind heights but do not like edges and ledges.
Sometimes I feel like I am walking in my own shadow.
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.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
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.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
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.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
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. And then some.
Ditto... us Skinny guys got that issue.
stumbling goes the hippie.
howling goes the wolf.
i am stumble wolf
Stumblewolf, what's up bro?
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.
I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years bad luck but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
running into a matti at nautical dawn,in the woods and nowhere to hide
not bein able to spank it in my tent without viagra?
Ticks. I hate the little buggers!
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?
I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years bad luck but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
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
I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years bad luck but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
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