[kingsnake]

Because hiking should resemble the Vietnam jungle patrol experience as closely as possible:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... trail.html

[Outdoor Lover]

Wow! Like snakes, scorpions, cactus and gila monsters weren't enough to have to watch for......

[Patrick L]

Didn't something like this happen somewhere else recently? I think it involved opening a gate or something like that. Good thing these stupid kids didn't hurt anyone.

[Alston Neal]

Holy snickers! It never fails to amaze me what people will do.
Kai, what have you done to your ears?

[azdesertfather]

Yikes!!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... TE=DEFAULT

Dangerous booby traps found on popular Utah trail

BY PAUL FOY
Associated Press
Apr 23, 8:39 PM EDT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A deadly booby trap rigged along a popular Utah trail could have killed someone if they had tripped a ground wire set up to send a 20-pound, spiked boulder swinging into an unsuspecting hiker, authorities said...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dangero ... tah-trail/

[azdesertfather]

Here is a video clip:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17829256

[joe bartels]

0:39 to 0:40 looks like a face bobbing under the water

[kingsnake]

"Only meant to catch wild animals." Yeah, I was born yesterday ...

[RedRoxx44]

Will be headed to Utah, so will be on the lookout but don't plan to be on any main trails either

[kingsnake]

Another one, also last year, just convicted: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nails.html

And he is a psychiatrist. Has anyone heard of one who isn't at least a little tetched?

[azbackpackr]

Another one, also last year, just convicted: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nails.html

And he is a psychiatrist. Has anyone heard of one who isn't at least a little tetched?

Yikes! One of my sons is a mountain biker and lives in Ashland!