Biggest fears

“LOL, Leatherneck. My reaction, too.”

“Im afraid of falling, I know that sounds stupid for a hiker but I fell once and got hurt pretty , and now i get pretty unsteady around uneven surfaces. Ill have to work on this one.”

“Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

As I was falling asleep last night, my wife noticed a moth in the bedroom. I knew she didn't like bugs in general but I never knew she was so afraid of moths.

It couldn't be left alone because "it would fly into her mouth" during the night. I spent a good 5 minutes chasing that sucker with her acting like there was a rabid squirrel loose in the house the whole time.


(I mailed it to Idaho.)”

“Heights - I get vertigo. Although I might not be afraid of heights if it wasn't for the vertigo. Just found out that both my sisters have the same problem, the oldest is seeing a doctor about it.”

“By the way everyone is laying off the voices remark, you must think I was serious. They don't think you're serious. Yes they do, now shut up.”

“dayhiker -

We're all used to the voices by now.


Mine's heights. I've confronted it by forcing myself to do things like rappelling but it's still there to some degree. I used to get that bridge thing like Lyndys but after years of commuting over a high one I?m over it. It is one fear with a useful purpose I suppose.”

“"Confidence is: Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword."

Zig Ziglar”

“Live chickens - I was attacked by one as a child. The only good chicken is a DEAD one. Also, forest fire while hiking.”

“Recon that was Col. Sanders motto?”

“I ain`t afraid of snakes, or bugs, or toads, or worms, or mice
and the things that girls are afraid of I think are awful nice
I`m pretty brave I guess you`d say, but yet I hate to go to bed
cause when I`m tucked up snug and warm and when my prayers are said
granny tells me happy dreams and takes away the light
and leaves my layin` all alone a seein` things at night

Well,...that`s not so, but when I was little I feared the things of the dark and the things I didn`t know. I don`t know who wrote the poem, but it`s a long sucker and the only one I know.

For myself I fear nothing, but for my children, I fear the world they`ve been turned out into and the things that might hurt them yet.”

“It's that time of year here in Canyon Country where flash floods are always on the back of your mind. Also, when I first moved here I was way paranoid of getting bit by a black widow or a scorpion. Now I have a black widow living under the stairs to my apartment.”

“1) TTers thinking I'm not real
2) getting lost
3) getting giardia (I thought I had it once after a trip to Catalina Island -- I was puking in the toilet for hours. It was exactly 1 week after I got back...couldn't blame it on food or alcohol or anything else!.. The buffalo crap in the water there. I used iodine pills, but the water was so cold...probably didn't dissolve)”

“My biggest fear is that newgirl is some guy making me look like a fool.”

“HAHAHA!!!!!”

“I does kinda skeer me that one day Matt will post that he's pulling thebackpacker.com off the net and we'll all be lost.”

“Biz, you should be afraid of Giardia. I've had it and it's none too fun.
My biggest fear is getting injured to where I can no longer go out and do fun stuff. That would suck if I couldn't hike or bike.”

“"That pair of empty pale green pants with nobody inside..."

Theodore Seuss Geisel”

“Sharks, gators, snakes, grizzlies and wide eyed psychos... hmm, why do I backpack?”