You know you're a real backpacker when.. .

“LOL @ Pennsy!”

“every weekend you feel like it was a lazy waste of time if you didn't get your boots dirty on a trail somewhere - anywhere.”

“your seriously considering buying a condo SPECIFICALLY and PRIMARILY because you would never have to spend a weekend on lawn maintenance.”

“You feel sheepish about going on a guided tour at a national park with the tourons.”

“when your cookware for camping is nicer and better taken care of, then anything in your kitchen at home”

“�You feel sheepish about going on a guided tour at a national park with the tourons.�
Ruby
9:29:25 PM

and, while on said tour, you realize how utterly lame the majority of the population is.”

“when you wear your hikin boots to works insted of steel toes”

“....when the president/ceo of Campmor sends you a birthday card each year.




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“all this sounds too familar. oh it reminds me of me”

“standing at a view off of Skyline Drive/Blueridge Parkway, as you watch people drive up, look out their window and take a picture, then drive away, the irony of the term "overlook" hits you...”

“......when you can smell the dayhikers before you see them.

(deodorant, etc)”

“You feel sheepish about going on a guided tour at a national park with the tourons.�
Ruby
9:29:25 PM

Only to find out you know more about it than the ranger.”

“When you have a campfire ring in your back yard (I do).”

“Does a fire pit work?”

“You walk through puddles on city streets and sidewalks instead of around them.”

“when you wade across a stream in 20 deg. F weather three times just because it feels good.









yeah right - I forgot my shoes and didn't notice until I was all the way across
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“"You walk through puddles on city streets and sidewalks instead of around them.�
wounded knee

I was on a guided tour this past weekend, and the Ranger cautioned everybody to be careful at the puddle as it was 3 inches (!) deep and you might get wet. Just as I approached it, he turned to face us again and tried to stop me as I walked through it in my boots. Then he looked up at me and said, "Oh. You're wearing boots." I just smiled and said, "Thank you."”

“I've not read the whole thread, so perhaps this has been mentioned already. I thought of it this morning.

You might be a real backpacker if...you cancel your subscription to Backpacker magazine.”

“"You might be a real backpacker if...you cancel your subscription to Backpacker magazine.�

And get others to buy ya one! Thanks again!

You might be a real backpacker if you use a PT Cruiser as a tent stake.”

“�When you have a campfire ring in your back yard (I do).�
techntrek
11:00:22 AM
1/18/05

Is that where you practice witch craft?”

“You might be a real backpacker if you use a PT Cruiser as a tent stake.�
Nigal
12:32:34 PM
1/18/05
ignore this user

Ha Ha! I have done that before...well not a PT Cruser, but a Winny-Bego”

“MarkO - you'll have to come to the next sacrifice, errrr, I mean campfire to find out.”

“when your house plants consist of redwood saplings”

“Only REAL backpackers and climbers will understand this:

When the building maintenance manager complains about someone "feeding the rat," and you apologize for constantly leaving your outdoor gear all over the place.”

“coming off a 3 day backpack trek, and walking past pretty women who smell so good. OMG...like the aroma of an angel...one day, I'm just gonna grab one and rub against her and let her heavenly aroma send me into spasms.”

“And, after you get out of jail, tell us all about it. LOL”

“When you plan a vacation you don't bother reserving a hotel.”

“Man, I gotta give Stikmon some credit here. He's got to be the only person on this board who actually trolls AS HIMSELF.”

“exactly!!!

not only to I troll myself, but I diddle myself too...sheesh...If your gonna play on the internet...why hide. This is not REAL...how many times do I have to say it. Its only real when you meet the people that your playing with online. And if you act the same in person as you do online, then no one will come out to play with you.

Now, will someone please send me some crak..I need a toke please.”

“....you go to the grocery, and look at everything and ask yourself "how would this taste on the trail?"...”

“LOL

You troll-whore, you. Now, go smoke some crak...”

“That's no way to talk to a lady, Phantom Soul!”

“You use your Gators when you are doing the snow!!!!!!!!!!


8))))))”

“LOL, Mike I did the same thing.”

“doing the snow???”

“You know, the snow thing. It involves a shovel, and boots, and sometimes gaitors, and a lot of wheel spinning to get you out of that snow bank you're parked in...

...and the best part is, when the snow plow comes around, you get to do it all over again! Yay!”

“Oh...I see....I sure miss snow : (”

“LMAO @ Mike. I got the friggin car stuck in the snow the other day and no amount of digging would get it out as it was wedged pretty good LOL We had to flag down someone with a truck who could pull us out. LMAO. It's funny now. And yes, Mike was wearing his gators.”

“You make posts like this:

"One time I wore snow shoes to work."
MarkO
2/28/07


Funny image in my head of him crossing York Rd (a local major road), but cool that he did it.”

“MarkO wore snowshoes to work ...but he works at home (LOL) seriously that comment made my day that day.

Tech would you say someone was a backpacker if they go out in freezing cold weather, in the rain, long hikes, come home cold tired, and wet...and consider it the most relaxing thing they could do?”

“Yup. I was out several weeks ago and woke up to 3F temps. Great weekend.”

“Cold and rainy days were my favorite days for going out and doing the sucky yard work in Florida around this time of year. I'd just put on the rain suit and boots and be quite happy and left alone. I'd be out planting bulbs in the rain in the back yard right now, if I knew where my rainsuit was. :P”

“How about this one.

You know you're a backpacker when, you're knee begins to bother you on Saturday night so you take 4 advil before you sleep. You wake up Sunday morning, take 4 more advil and wrap your slightly swollen slightly red knee. You hike for a couple miles and rewrap the knee. You hike for several more miles. You make jokes about your knee and how you walk funny now. It's late, it's dark, your knee is now locked up, you eat 4 more advil and continue on for what ends up being about a 14 or 16 mile hike that day with your 35lb pack which is more than a third of your weight. You friend tells you that you look like a zombie or lurch now, but that we should be coming to the end of the trek when we hit switchbacks. You hit your first switchback and jump up and down on your INCREDIBLY painful knee screaming "WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" You proceed to do this at every damn switchback you hit just for the shear joy of it! When you finally get home and unwrap your knee, it's an ANGRY RED & HUGELY SWOLLEN and still locked up. When you finally go to the doctor, the first thing you ask him is, "When can I backpack again?" You go back to work the next day, you tell everyone that this was the best trek ever and you just can't wait to do it again!!! They shake their heads and think you are certifiably nuts.”

“MarkO wore snowshoes to work ...but he works at home (LOL) seriously that comment made my day that day.

Tech would you say someone was a backpacker if they go out in freezing cold weather, in the rain, long hikes, come home cold tired, and wet...and consider it the most relaxing thing they could do?”
XL400236
3:14:00 PM
3/01/07


XL what are you talking about? MarkO is a librarian at a Library, not at home.”

“Been there, Pamela. I'm driving my doc and PT person nuts with "when can I get out again?" questions. :)”

“Pammie, last year after surgery I was told NO Work, Backpacking etc for 6 to 8 weeks. Two weeks out I got clearance to start rehab, the next week I pushed and was able to call the Doc and get cleared for full duty...(LOL) so I could go backpacking.”

“In the middle of a midnight downpour, you stop to assist a stranded motorist who is working under his hood... using a Bic lighter and a broken screwdriver.

You provide him with a headlamp, a multitool, and two feet of ducttape removed from your Nalgene. In ten minutes, he's back underway.”

“While you're sitting at a red light, the motorist beside you asks for directions.
"Pull into that parking lot" you say, pointing toward a McDonalds.

Within three minutes, using four maps, you have shown him seven different ways to get there.”

“When you get the urge to pee while driving around town running errands and you look for a big tree to squat behind.”

“You walk straight through puddles on the street most people walk around”