5 Worst Places You've Backpacked or Clim bed

“5. Glenville Area, Cleveland - Car broke down there in 93'. the nearest gas station was 3 miles away through a crack/gang/whore infested neighborhood. It was the scariest hike ever!

4. Ohio Power (OH)- You know the guy that crushes a pabst can and leaves it on the trail? This is where they originate and have family reunions. Scenery consists of: Ratt T-Shirts, camoflauged conversion vans, redneck chicks in daisy dukes. The off the path ponds were cool though.

3. Love Canal (NY) - I haven't hiked it yet, but i hear your shoe soles wear 1,000,000% quicker than any other trail.

2. The path to the alter - I haven't tried this one yet either. It sounds like a scary climb!

1. bacpacs backyard - I hear you get shot for trespassin' on his land. Much more dangerous during deer season.”

“You need a hike dude!”

“"crack/gang/whore infested neighborhood"

What is wrong with this? Sounds like a great place to take the wife and kids on vacation.”

“1.Yellow River State Forest-Iowa.
2.Hoist Lakes-Michigan.
3.Adventure Hiking Trail-Indiana.
4.Shades State Park-Indina.
5.2 lakes loop trail-Indiana.


8)”

“Never been to the 'love canal', eh Buddha? Man, that's pathetic... ;-)”

“The five worst places I've ever hiked or climbed were all in WYOMING!!! THAT PLACE SUCKS! That's all I have to say at this time.”

“All mine are in the Smokies...
650 miles into getting all the trails completed - these are the ones that I don't ker fer:

1: Cooper Road to Beard Cane...
2: trail to Abrams Falls - eek!
3: Cabin Flats was trashy so it ruined my outlook - filled a trashbag full and packed it out!”

“Yep, I'm still a virgin when it comes to the Love Canal!”

“Brings to mine a line from a Kristoferson song:

"Ever since the first I had
The worst I had was good"”

“SHADES!

Ha Ha!

Mike, you car camp there lately?”

“CAR CAMPING SUCKS NUTZ!!!!”

“CAR CAMPING SUCKS NUTZ!!!!”

“CAR CAMPING SUCKS NUTZ!!!!”

“Hey Crazy Mike... you have a couple imposters posting under your name, darn copy cat losers. I'll try and run their ISP numbers and track 'em down for ya. Yer welcome.”

“Thank you!!!!!


8)”

“Hey honney, pack up the car, we're going to S H A D E S this weekend!

MMMMOOOOOHHHAAHHAAHHAAAAA”

“Matagorda Island, TX. All the trash from the Gulf must wash up on this one island...even abandoned large screen TV's.”

“Shades just sucks!!!!


8)”

“*Smoky Mountains, TN & NC
*Southern half of the North South Trail, Land Between the Lakes, TN
*Skyway loop trail, Talladega NF, Alabama
*Licklog Trail, Big Frog Wilderness, TN
*Smoky Mountains, TN & NC”

“1) San Gabriel Mountains: When I used to dayhike, once I had to duck when bullets were flying by. It was hunting season, and I didn't know.

2) Bear Creek, Sierra Nevada (western side) in July when its warm and raining and the bugs are out

3) Trail to Bear Paw Meadow from the west side. It was pretty flat, and kept going on and on for 11 miles. Plus I "forgot my hiking boots" and had to drive 50 miles to the nearest town, and only found kids boots that fit, but caused ankle pain for a month after.

4) Kennedy Meadows, Sierra Nevada, CA (southern end). Deer flies, had to pump water (scooped out with a cup into the pot) from a small puddle surrounded by cow pies.

5) Gladys Lake, on the JMT: no outlet at this lake, water was low, and hoof prints/horse $hit all around the lake”

“1. morgan monroe state forest
2. adventure hiking trail. lost trail several times. poorly marked and blazed
3.shades state park backpacking trail. the day use area kicks all major forms of ass, but there are way too many tourons. the backpacking trail and campground are lame, however
4. garden of the gods, illinois. multitude of unnamed trails that leave you guessing whenver you get to a trail junction
5. land between the lakes. maybe im prejudiced because my one trip there was rain-soaked, but its also boring and not worth the miles and miles”

“You don't like anything in the Smokies? :(
Once you get out 10 miles, there aren't many people. I've been on trips where I haven't seen a soul...and it's beautiful! sigh...”

“The only hike I really didn't like was Pinto Mountain in Joshua Tree National Park - I didn't make it to the top, but it was an ugly area with a typically beatiful park.

I'm headed back to Joshua Tree this weekend.”

“Don't listen to CMB!! Many people come to Yellow River State Forest and enjoy backpacking there. :-)

Twopoops, I agree on Garden of the Gods. Was always guessing on trails.”

“5. Downtown Memphis between Beale and North Pinch district on a Saturday night. I don't know what was worse, the fear of being mugged or stepping around all the puke deposited by the drunken partygoers.

4. Everglades National Park. Mosquitoes, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes, sawgrass, mosquitos. Screw that, always take an airboat ride if you want to see it.

3. Arkansas Ozarks, my third year of law school. I took a classmate who #&%!$ed and whined every step. If I knew as much about criminal law then as I do now, the #&%!$ would be decomposed by now.

2. Up I-75 when my son was about 6 months old and the water pump went out. Ironically enough, I bought my first cell phone about a week later.

1. Up the aisle with my ex wife.”

“Damn, and I thought the question was the 5 worst hikes .”

“Bunyan Hill Road.....Sipsey Wilderness.....Bankhead Forest...Sweet Home Alabama......Trees down everywhere......But the company was sooo great....my GF fell down & couldn't get up ...she looked like a turtle...or Randy..... Ralphie's little brother on "A Christams Story" when he was knocked down in the snow.....just rocking back & forth trying to get up....I don't think I have even laughed so hard.....& our "guide" got dehydrated....we spent all morning hydrating him & praying he didn't start throwing up...( a lesson here....do not drink lots of beer night before a hike and eat snacks on the trail)

Hiking back out of SAVAGE GULF..TENN...I was covered with hundreds of ticks...not sure if I will EVER go back there in the summer (another lesson.... Bugs don't like garlic....I have never been bothered by ticks before.....but I had not been taking my garlic pills....)”

“Maybe I'm strange - okay, okay I'm strabge, but I've never had a bad hike - once it was over. I've had some pretty tough times, but that seemed to make for more giggles over the post-experience beer. It seemed to make better memories too. What do you guys think?

BTW, I'm not going to taalk about my ex. Phthbbbt!”

“i forgot to mention about the shades state park: on the 2 1/2 mile backpacking trail, there are literally 50 signs telling you that you are on the backpacking trail. no lie.”

“Why would anyone carry a backpack on a two and a half mile trail?”

“lol @ chili!”

“It was a 7,000 ci. pack too!”

“w/ 7 days' worth of beef jerky?”

“Heck, you could fit YAM in a 7,000 ci. pack!”

“who would want to take sweet potatoes on the trail??? yuck!!”

“7,000 cu. inches....according to my calculations, that will hold two thirty packs with enough room to spare for plenty of ice.”

“The East Fork Lake Backcountry Trail in Ohio counts for #1-#5. It sucks that bad.”

“The places I've hiked in have always been good to great, but I've had some bad hikes in nice places.

1. The absolute worst was in the Picket Range of the North Cascades. My partner had injured his knee, and we thought a retreat from the high country was prudent. We headed down a valley bottom toward a big lake where we could catch a boat. The combination of biting flies, high humidity, alder thickets and heavy packs was the worst. We were very close to despair. Several times we went into fits of hysterical laughter, and almost died of laughter when one of us slipped on an alder branch and ended up upside down in the thickets. We spend a night in the alders, in a small clearing we cleared with ice axes from the dense alders. We penetrated two miles in about 15 hours.

3-5: nothing else came close.”

“"Why would anyone carry a backpack on a two and a half mile trail?"

you hike the day-trails first, then hike back to the backpacking campsites at the end of the trail”

“THe mountains in GSMNP are beautiful for sure. I just don't have good trips there. Seems like the place just don't agree with me. I can't think of one time I've hiked there that something didn't go wrong. Once I did a 3 day trip and it was pretty uneventful but the trail was BORING. Normally I come out waterlogged, Hornet stung, deal with idiot campers, Idiot Park Service employees, I've had bear problems, No water, ect........ I'm a pretty tough and hardcore backpacker but I've had enough of it.
I can honestly say "I hate the Smoky Mountains".”

“1. Mt. Whitney Trail - WAY too many people, even with quotas and charging for permits.

2. Anywhere in the Bishop Creek Drainage, Sierra Nevada Mtns - Once again, too dang many people. Also too many horse packers leaving too much horse$hit on the trail.

3. Anywhere around Yosemite Valley in the summer - Once again, too many people. The trail up Half Dome is a traffic-jammed mess.

4. Trail up Boundry Peak, NV - Not really too bad. Its way out in the middle of nowhere so crowds are not a problem. But its hot, dry, and all on scree. Only reason anybody goes there is its the highest peak in Nevada.

Sorry, that's all the bad stuff I can think of.”

“A bad hike is better than a day at work anytime.

Lame sounding... but still true. :-)”

“Artex, that's so true.
td, Whitney in October wasn't crowded at all. Didn't have to fight for permits either. 10/12/03 was one of my best Whitney trips!

I think we did Boundary Pk in the fall too, and it wasn't too bad. The scree skiing down the middle chute was FUN!”

“only 2 bad hikes in my book...
1) Oil City SP, PA when my friend invited a dood who brought a case of beer and they both stopped on the trial and drank almost the whole thing. I fell asleep during the session and when I awoke there was a huge pile of beercans alongside the trial and they both were summoning me to get ready to hike...the pile of cans was left where it laid. Then later on that night a Ranger appeared and gave us crap because we didn't make reservations for the lean-to we were at (noone knew we had to) AND gave me crap because dogs were not allowed to stay in the shelters. Good thing there was no beer left or I'm sure traces would've left us in MUCH more peril.
2) When my transmission went out on my 1hr from Dolly SOds trialhead in Jan, and having to drive all the way back home in 2nd gear.”

“that doesn't sound fun, Walkindude!
It's the most visited park in the US so the odds of running into idiots are high...”

“I guess I'm lucky with the Smokies. I usually go in the off season so I miss most of the stupidity. Come to think of it, all the idiots I've run into were during May, June and July.”

“Oh yeah, Once I was fine on the trip but my friend blew out his knee and couldn't hike again for about 6 months.”

“The Smokies are out to get you WD.”

“clearly it had to be the WTF at the ATF



Huh. How that I think about it......you were there.....


nah that had nothing to do with it?!”

“Bear Creek.... even buggy in August.”