Hot ticket on the other site

“Sunglsses ... I just broke another pair.


I kid you not!”

“I must have missed that one,,,,**yawn**”

“naw, the hot topic is something about board games in camp.”

“That was another one. Guess you have to have something to do in camp if you lose your sunglasses.”

“But what would one do about the glare off of the monopoly board?

Such a conundrum!”

“Which other site?”

“HPM: Monopoly board is drawn on floor of tent. Less weight. Everybody's favorite campsite pastime when they're not looking for their sunglasses.”

“So they go outside to spent time inside a tent?

Interesting.”

“i hope you get better soon. so bored you're spending time over there.”

“Pretty silly, eh? Why would anyone, say......sit in their tent playing cards?
Hee,hee,heh...”

“they stay in their tent when it rains.”

“I have no idea.

Well we have more important things to discuss. Like ostrich jerky, what music we are listening to and starbucks coffee. ;)”

“don't forget beer.”

“Ah yes, beer.”

“That was the question I posed HPM. I thought one went to the wilderness to be in the wilderness, but some people go to the wilderness to play Monotony in their tents or look for their sunglasses.”

“Be careful, you may get off subject here.

Personally, I spend as little time as possible in my tent. If I had that much spare time I'd be doing something. Exploring, fishing, taking care of gear, taking care of feet, cooking, eating, cooking eating.....”

“A: Great! Very successful! I bought up Park Place and Boardwalk, and I found my sunglasses.”

“I call it "escaping from the bugs" when not indulging in a campfire.”

“Monotony, nice one Geo.

Be the first on your block to go into the backcountry and climb a 14er AND pass Go AND collect $200!

Coming this fall, Extreme Monotony Eco-Challenge.”

“So which other site are you talking about? OAN? The Backpacker? Backpacking Lite?”

“Yeah, the best way to pass the time is by taking a pull off the pint of 151...”

“LMFAO HPM!

Or maybe the wilderness version of Monotony:

Get out of the bog free
Pass the trailhead and collect two water caches
Take a ride on the shuttle
Free tenting
Go directly to the bog; do not pass the trailhead; do not collect two water caches”

“Backpacker, where silly questions beget serious answers. The antithesis of this site.”

“When you buy campsites you can upgrade them from primative to tent pad, full hook up and then hut/lodge.

Of course when you land on someones campsite you have to pay. Unless you have the highly coveted "Stealth Camp" card.”

“I always buy the slumming row of KOAs and stick a bunch of double-wides on them to collect the max rent with the minimum investment.”

“How do you handle Free Parking? Around here free parking at the trailhead is hard to find.”

“Oooohhhh...good plan Rosey!

Most folks run like hell to buy Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon and put fancy lodges on them.”

“One thing I've noticed on other sites. They have absolutely no clue when you're joking or trolling. Every silly post is answered with a straight face, and sometimes people get unglued and real bent out of shape cause they don't know you're having fun. I mean, literally no "sense" of humor at all.”

“I'm trying to whittle a racecar.”

“Dangit!
Tilt got the racecar!”

“I had a pair of magnetic sunglasses that stuck to my bifocals, but I lost them last week.”

“You forgot to tell everyone you started the thread about breaking your sunglasses :)”

“I just went over to the OTHER site and enjoyed their discussion on high end tents. So not all of their threads are about nonsense.

So what color is everyone's earplugs?”

“Orange.”

“Yeah?!?!?

Well, not all our threads make sense either!!”

“I meant BEFORE you put them in your ears!”

“Orange....”

“I left a pair of broken sunglasses at a campsite in the Winds. I stopped back by a few days later, but they were gone. Some poor cuss had to pack out my broken sunglasses... oh well.

Heck, I'm AT LEAST even in that regard.

I drew a dartboard on the wall of my tent. Didn't work out so well...”

“I don't need earplugs...I've got ear wax. Actually, I finally got all the wax out (a few months ago) and I can hear great now.”

“If you use earplugs, you can't hear the bears?!”

“THERE IS NO OTHER SITE...JUST THIS ONE!”

“Years ago this guy told me he didn't need CHAPSTICK because he had earwax.”

“Why must you children behave this way. Sure, we take our sport seriously though we will, on occasion, slum it by dropping in over here.”

“That is right, if you don't hear them, then they aren't there!

That reminds me of the last time I went backpacking with RichB. We camped next to the stream, and fully expected to have lots of four legged visitors during the night due to the drought. Also, we were near a ghost town where miners used to live. Shortly after we turned in, we heard a coyote howl. It was so close, that I called to Rich, asking how far away he thought the coyote was. Rich thought it was about 50 yards away. When it heard me, it stopped howling, so after that I tried not to call out when I heard noises. At one point I heard all this walking around going on around my tent. I saw Rich flash his flashlight all around, but since he didn't say anything, I assumed he was just walking around. The next morning he asked if I heard the deer walking all around my tent. I said no, because I forgot about the time I woke up. Since I thought that it was him, I wasn't afraid. If I was out there all alone, I'm sure that I would have been having a heart attack, because the walking around certainly didn't sound like deer to me. Getting used to the noises in the woods is really hard.”

“Deer are noisy, bears are much less noisy.”

“Slum it???

I like to think of this forum as a microcosm of life, it's circumstances and especially what's on folk's minds other than hiking. Sure we discuss backpacking issues, but just like around the campfire there is soooo much more to talk about than just hiking.”

“Somebody named TinkleDrinker around our fire???”

“Oh how nice!

Thats a good laugh!!!!

8)”

“"I had a pair of magnetic sunglasses that stuck to my
bifocals, but I lost them last week."
bacpac
12:37:52 PM
09/24/02

they stuck alright but don't let him fool ya they were stuck to that plate in his head.........just ask my sister




hehehehe”

“bacpac and Tex went hiking together????!?!?!?

bacpac and Tex went hiking together????!?!?!?

OK, what is the engagement status then?? C'mon bacpac, ya asked her on here!!!

Let's play CHUTES AND LADDERS!!!”