Less BS more Hiking

“LMAO, Twiggy!

No more whiny "No more (fill in blank)more hiking" threads that include photos of mountains where the valleys possibly remind you of the cleavage of some ex-girlfriend you'll never have.... cuz your indoors, sitting at your computer, whining about hiking too much.

LOL! Hey, Comrade Earthinski, take a hike. Those mountain photos are getting you too hot and bothered, me thinks!!

;-P”

“"some ex-girlfriend you'll never have"

lizs
8:31:52 AM
12/08/04

wouldn't someone have had an "ex" girlfriend?”

“i'm doing the santanonis (adks) in jan.

anybody interested?”

““i'm doing the santanonis (adks) in jan.

anybody interested?”
sacco
8:33:26 AM
12/08/04
ignore this user

Possibly”

“i wonce hade a girlfreind,like this past summer



She dumped me for some chick : (”

“Maybe it wouldn't have happened it you knew how to zip 3 sleeping bags together.”

“I for one like BS and think he's a great guy. I don't know what he ver did to any of you? I wish he posted more...

:) Going out this week if I can keep from getting sick.”

“Note to self: figure out how to zip three sleeping bags together.”

““I've been backpacking and hiking longer than you've been alive dahlin'...as have many people on this board.

so bite me kid.

=D”
twigeater
10:28:23 PM
12/07/04

I'll have a bite of that!!

ENS is such a squirrel!

I'll see ya in West Virginia, where the squirrels are that much bigger.”

“zac, i'm going with lee from adkforum.

just sent him a note asking him if he wants me to post a trip to get more folks in it

it's really his trip so i didn't wanna say much until i checked with him, but i'd be very surpised if he didn't want more people.”

“LOL... yeah Bison, I bet he has an ex-girlfriend.

BUT... I am talking about some girlfriend he'll never have cuz he does too many of these "Less/more" threads... and posts that one mountain photo. How can a girl compete with that cleavage and such nice valleys? LOL!

Anyway, if he never has this future girlfriend, he'll never have her as an ex-girlfriend either.

I dunno, it made sense to me. :-) But Shakespeare I'm not. I'd write a sonnet to that mountain if I were......... LOL! ;-P”

“Sacco, I have found nothing ruins a trip faster than opening it up to TTers. I'd keep it private and have a good time. :)”

“That's what editors are for lizs :)”

“wow, never thought about the whole sleeping bag thing

Backpack naked (its fun) : )”

“Not enough shake spear?”

“The only Shakespeare I'm interested in when I'm in the backcountry is my ultra light trout rod.”

“nigal, ha ha! your kiddin right? so far everyone i've met has been great.

seems to me the only people who are jerks around here are people who never go on trips!

guess it's easier to be an ass to someone if you never expect to see them in person.

note: most of the people on here who don't go on trips are o.k. too(lyra)”

“You can call it a trout.”

“Good points, Sacco.”

““nigal, ha ha! your kiddin right? so far everyone i've met has been great.

seems to me the only people who are jerks around here are people who never go on trips!"

I'm not talking about personalities, I'm talking numbers. Let's face it, a trip with 20 nice people still sucks. I have had a hard time finding trips where there won't be any drugs either. So I rarely do them any more.”

“gotcha nigal.
i'm not too worried about a january trip into a trailess high peak area of the adirondacks filling up too fast.

LOL”

“anybody ever backpacked naked, its great”

“As a SWELL member in good standing, I no longer post to any hiking or gear related threads. I don't tell when I go hiking, biking, yakking or whatever. If I slip, please slap me...LOL...

Less outdoor topics, more bull#&%!$!

=D

PS - Nigal's right about the large trips...”

“OK, so it's not a sonnet....

There once was a mountain so tall
in love with its shape I did fall
It called out my name
I came and I came
...now I suppose you'll say, "Oh the gall.."

hahahhahaha. LMAO!”

“I like BS - shared a shelter with him once on Mt. Rogers too bad he doesn't post more often”

“I'm not talking about personalities, I'm talking numbers. Let's face it, a trip with 20 nice people still sucks. I have had a hard time finding trips where there won't be any drugs either. So I rarely do them any more.”
Nigal
8:58:46 AM
12/08/04
ignore this user

I normally post trips with crazy miles, crazy elevation gains, and on rough trails. That generally keeps the numbers down.
8D”

“lmao that was good ; ) lizs
last edited: 12/08/04 9:19:11 AM”

“Dang twigeater, "...slap me..." ??

WTF, what happened to "bite me"??

I like that one better !”

“I'll post as many backpacking related threads as I want. I don't care how much of a whiner I sound like! This is a backpacking forum! Backpacking topics should take center stage. New comers are turned away because all the stupid threads about unrelated BS dominating the board. That hurts Matt's business. Unrelated topics should be at the bottom and backpacking topics at the top!”

“I agree.”

“ENS, you are a good man. Hike ON!!!”

“i agree: ) if anybody gives a dam abought what I say”

“I have the odd ex-girlfriend that I'll never have.”

“:-) LOL, Gremlin, ya got it.

ENS, have some fun, dude. You're reminding me of Louis Anderson at a comedy show in La Crosse, Wi. He said how he was from the area, which sits right on the Mississippi, gorgeous tall rocky bluffs and all... and how much he missed it, living in LA or whatever the heck city he lives in.

He said he'd be in a bar, drinking... and would get all sentimental about it and then would cry in his beer, sobbing, as he looked across the river, "The bluffs... the bluffs!" He loved the bluffs.

It was funny as hell... but maybe ya had to be there. Your mountain reminds me of that. Maybe you're sitting there posting it with a smile, maybe you're bawling, I dunno. But I think of Louis Anderson and "The bluffs... the bluffs!" And I laugh and poke fun.

it still makes me smile.. how many threads has the mountain been on??”

“That mountain is Mt. Mitchell. I just think it's a cool mountain.”

“ENS, what u like better, mitchell or the daks??

and why?
which is more difficult??

and is that why you like whatever you choose better, because it's more difficult to u?

just curious...”

“I'm really into the Adirondacks right now. I still love Mt. Mitchell, it's the mountain that got me into backpacking. I've backpacked on the Black Mountain Crest trail 5 times now. The Crest Trail is difficult, there is no doubt about that. It's a different kind of difficult than what is presented in the Adirondacks. I'm not going to say one is harder than the other. They're apples and oranges. They're both awesome and I love hiking in both regions.

Right now I am interested in the Adirondacks and the Whites more so than the Southern High mountains because the peaks are more alpine than those in the south. Mt. Mitchell would have to be atleast 700 (7500 feet) higher to reach tree line where as the Adirondacks reach treeline around 4500 and the same with the Whites.

I enjoy hiking all mountains and as much as they are the same, they are different.”

“Would you be interested in Alaska BROOKS RANGE in 2005 july or august,,, Tree line and plenty of it. I will be Trekking approx 350 miles , all above tree line. INTERESTED???????”

“that sounds like a sweet trip! Alaska in 2005 isn't in the cards for me though. I do plan on going west and climbing Borah Peak in July. The rest of the year will be spent backpacking in the Adirondacks, Whites, Catskills, West Virginia, PA and VA. I hope to get one trip in down in North Carolina to bag some sixers and a trip to Maine to climb Katahdin.”

“are you a schmuck or something...you got that entire week off??? drive to my house then travel with me to BB and have the monster of all trips. sheesh...what does it have to handed to you on a silver platter?”

“I really need to do the Black Mtn Crest Trail”

“good answer ENS. I really was just curious.”

“I think my southern trip this year will be to Shining Rock to get the Shining Rock Sixers.”

“Man... nothing ever changes around here does it???

Got some of the same A$$Holes that have been around for years!!!!

Nigal your opinion on TT trips wouldn't have anything to do with the first Mt Rogers episode where you got lost and everyone had a laugh at your expense now would it? I didn't go on that one but I do remember the trip reports.”

“dayhiker, you missed one heck of a good trip when we did that in Oct. I want to go back and do it again next Oct. I wouldn't want to do it in the summer.”

“"Nigal your opinion on TT trips wouldn't have anything to do with the first Mt Rogers episode where you got lost and everyone had a laugh at your expense now would it? I didn't go on that one but I do remember the trip reports.”

You mean the Flat My Ass trip on the Chatooga. Me, get offended for being laughed at? LOL! I’m the type that takes a dive down a flight of stairs and is disappointed no one was there to see it. I’m never upset when people goof on me. That was an awesome trip. My main problem with group trips is when too people go I MEET a lot of new people but I don’t get to KNOW them. I often worry that I’m spending too much time talking to one person and not enough with someone else. It seems the more people that go the less focus there is on hiking. I’ve seen trips start out as backpacking trips and degrade completely down to camping a few miles in and partying. I’m also against large groups simply because in most places there are group limits. I mean, who likes setting up camp at a designated are or the only good spot around and have a group of 20 walk in and set up?

The other big problem is the drug use. I used to be easy going about it and ya know, whatever you do is ok with me. But in the past few years I’ve been on hikes where people wake and bake, and smoke at every rest stop. The last drug hike I went on there were a few times where the safety of the entire group could have been put at risk because of the smoking. It used to be fine around the fire but I don’t even want anything to do with it now. I know, I know, I’m intolerant.”

“BTW- Good to see ya SPAM. Where ya been man?”

“Sounds like old man Nigal is at it again.
jk

I completely understand and agree.”

“I do alot of lurking because I don't very often have anything worthwhile to say.I kinda backed off a couple of years ago when the Evo vs. Creation thread got me really ticked off. I got so upset at one person in particular and I really shouldn't have. I later met this person on a really big TT hike (19 people) and I found out that this Dude was really cool. I haven't had the opportunity to hike with him since but would welcome the chance to hike with him again. I love TT hikes... the ones that are ball busters as well as the ones that turn into campouts!”

“"I normally post trips with crazy miles, crazy elevation gains, and on rough trails. That generally keeps the numbers down."
-lumberzac

...yeah, but it also keeps your life expectancy down, when people want to kill you for finding out what they've gotten into. ;)”