Fashion Faux pas

“Have you ever committed a backpacking faux pas? You know, when people laugh at you cause your gear is outdated or homemade? I personally don't care, as long as it's lightweight and it works.

I usually hike the pants off those people and they shutup anyway.”

“no, don't hike with that sort.”

“I've hiked with my pants off before.”

“I got laughed at because my rainfly was no longer waterproof and we got sleeted on. So I had no insulating layer of air since my fly stuck to my tent then froze. I think I deserved to be laughed at, though.”

“My gear is not bad, it's me that's outdated.”

“I got this through the PrimativeSkills Group and I think it fits here:

"I live in Canada and sometimes place order to companies in the States for camping goods. Well I was in the market for a four man recreational tent nothing high tech just your throw it out the back of the car basic.

Normally I never by something like a tent mail-order but given the usage I figured I will give it a try. It happens to be rather difficult to drive something back over and return mail it in the States so I crossed my finger
when I picked it up. First thing I noticed it was heavier then it read in at, but that was ok considering the use. So I put it aside till I had sometime on a weekend to set it up.

Finally I had some free time I had, had a bad day and wanted to do something enjoyable so I thought I would play with my new gear. It turned out to be the worst tent ever design it took me 1 1/2 hours just to set it up and take it down and after all that pole jamming in sleeves pole not
locking you name it. I finally got it down and now it wouldn't fit back into the bag the damn material needed a steamroller to compress it.

I have been known to have a temper but after the days events I
couldn't take anymore I went over to the Bar-b-Q grabbed some matches lit one and threw it into the piled up tent cursing at it to burn. Wouldn't you know it
had to be one of the best fire retardant tents I had ever seen the match burnt for the distance of the wood and then went out. I looked at where it sat and it barely left a burn mark go figure."”

“lol at everyone on this thread

wasn't it kinda cold in yer britches?”

“sometimes I wear plaid boxers with striped pants while hiking.”

“When I first starting backpacking with my ex-husband he had all this funky army gear. I have to admit I snickered the first time he pulled out a mosquito net-one of the ones you put over your head and tie around your neck in a little bow.

I wasn't laughing when we needed it though.

One of the dudes I backpack with is a total fashion nerd-we are always laughing at him cause he's inventive and cheap.”

“One of my friends had wooden downhill skis...the really old types with no metal edges and only leather straps to tie onto his boots. And he was using those bamboo poles with the big baskets. Of course he couldn't keep up with us...but he got a lot of attention. Big b@lls for using those skis.”

“I must be the most fashionable hiker. Everyone always comes over and checks out my new gear. I snicker at the drunks. Like the guy who sets up a leanto green plastic tarp near the fire and in the morning we find him curled around the fire ring with an empty bottle.”

“"I personally don't care, as long as it's lightweight and it works."

"One of the dudes I backpack with is a total fashion nerd-we are always laughing at him cause he's inventive and cheap."

which point are you trying to make?”

“Once I went on a 3 day trip and forgot my rainfly. I had come home from a trip with a wet tent, so I dried the tent and fly and neglected to repack the fly with the tent. Needless to say, it rained like heck on the trip. That was a big faux pas, but not necessarily a fashion faux pas.”

“that even though I'm nerdy people don't laugh at me because I'm cute”

“the last time i went backpacking, i wore a pair of pants tied around my head because it was raining. all the hot guys we passed on the trail must've thought i was ravishing, because they kept looking at me. for a long time.”

“Next time you should bring 'two' pair or pants or at least a pair of shorts.”

“now, where're those rotten tomatoes...

SPLAT!!!”

“I should send Phil some more pictures so everybody can see what a dork I am in the woods.

Once a well-outfitted Colorado Trail thru-hiker pompously stated that he could tell I was from Texas before I had mentioned such. I don't have the heavy accent of most Texians, so I figure it was the jean shorts, cotton t-shirt, army hat, overloaded boy scout backpack, and Mexican sotol walking stick.

Screw the style, all that matters is being out there!”

“Na, I'm one of the rare people that actually use their non-homemade gear for its actual purpose and use if effectivly.”

“Old Timer: There are old backpackers and there are bold backpackers..
but there are no old, bold backpackers.

Quality surpasses style in my book.”