Dumbest biggest thing you've ever carried

[Ramble~On]

Biggest Dumbest thing I ever carried......DEBT!

[Roland]

Biggest Dumbest thing I ever carried......DEBT!

Ironically, for many hikers, a thru-hike leads to just that.

[wvgrinder]

A 12 pack to Eaglesmere Lakes, CO.

That's not dumb.

[Bronco Carl]

3 bottles of wine. But on a hike way back in 1974 I ran across a guy with a trombone. I asked him why a trombone, his answer was so pure I have never forgot it. He said "it is the only thing I know how to play". Made perfect sense. We sat around the campfire that night while he played tune after tune. What a strange night that was.

[gravityman]

Tubaman carried carried some instrument. I just can't seem to remember which

[Del Q]

A 5lb weight

[Walkintom]

The Wife...

[Wise Old Owl]

Some of those older GPS m315 etc. - Heavy boots, external 4 lbs packs 4lbs sleeping bags...Coleman stoves BS Mess kits. Extra clothes....That Really BIG Knife.

[33leon]

A mini keg up to McAfee Knob. Didn't mind carrying it up, or drinking the contents with 2 other thru's. But on the way into Waynesboro something inside the empty keg came loose and started making a klunk noise with every step. Once the buzz wore off after tinker cliffs and the headache started it was miserable.
Oh, and proof

[hikerboy57]

The Wife...

should have left her in a hiker box

[SunnyWalker]

I an't remember ever carrying anything dumb in my backpack. At the time it was all very necessary and important. One time in NM I felt I had made a mistake in carrying a gps as I was on the trail the entire time.

[turtle fast]

I had a stone I picked up on Springer Mountain in my pack. I ran into a hiker in 08' Charlie, a British guy who had a Cricket bat. He had picked up a large rock from the Pigeon river with Curtis from Standing Bear Farm and was going to hike with that too.

[Old Hiker]

should have left her in a hiker box

I thought that's where he got her in the first place!

[lancelot606]

I wonce carried out a truck inner tube, found it in the middle of the woods, the true question is how it got there

[topshelf]

First time I hiked I fell to the ole rock trick. I was going out to be with friends who hiked and I had never been out. I borrowed one of their packs and sleeping bags. Come to know it they had already packed the sleeping bag and my food. The sleeping bag turned out to mostly be a 10 pound weight and a summer bag, not the winter one I needed.

Later that night I played it off and did show my anger. Carried it the whole way and never complained.


I also once hiked with a guy who carried a full case of Mountain Dew. He was one of the ever prepared boy scouts. He was 90 pounds soakin' wet and his pack was 75.

[Half Note]

A tick for 6 days.

[Ashevillian]

Mini bar with a battery operated blender to make snow daiquiris.

[Harrison Bergeron]

Time will tell how dumb this really is, or even how heavy it is, but I'm sure to get lots of ribbing for this next year.

I'm making fleece pajamas for my AT hike. Here's the theory. You need warm dry clothes to wear in camp, right? What's warmer for its weight than fleece? So I'm thinking that a one-piece fleece union suit is just the ticket. I couldn't find any for sale, so I'm making it. So far it looks like it's going to weigh about 18 ounces, which is about the same as the dry clothes it replaces. But it also eliminates the need for a sleeping bag liner, so effectively it's only 10 ounces -- the same as a pair of long pants.

Theoretically, I even could make it with footies to wear inside my crocs, which would probably be lighter than a spare pair of socks, but somehow I think that's more than even my battered 56 year old ego could stand. I left off the footies.

Dumb idea?

[TnSlowPoke]

In Summer of 2000 my partenr and I went on the At from Damascus,Va. When we got to Campbell Shelter ther on the table was a BOWLING BALL
with a not on it that said " Iam going to Maine please help".

Now that ball stayed there i guess after we left the shelter. Has anyone seen it?

[Old Hiker]

Theoretically, I even could make it with footies to wear inside my crocs, which would probably be lighter than a spare pair of socks, but somehow I think that's more than even my battered 56 year old ego could stand. I left off the footies.

Dumb idea?

Saw Crocs with internal removable fleece type socks INSIDE this weekend. $34.99.