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@LosDosSloFolks
That's not as bad as hearing Subaru Forester owner's referring to them as "trucks".

I for one am big boned.

@Alston_Neal
I am pretty sure that is the catwalk at Monteverde in Costa Rica, which I have walked across. Probably with more than two other Americans on there with me but they were all college students!

Pivo wrote: ↑Mar 24 2022 4:16 pm C617DA3D-7F2A-4E7F-80A3-F0FF8554CDE9.jpeg

Ah, memories! Some of my NJ/PA backpacking buddies used to gather once or twice a year and somebody would get stuck packing in the keg. Time hasn't been kind to that group. Several have passed, others have been laid low by age and infirmity, and others have moved far away. Some of them became another group that I still get together with in CO. That group has connections to some long-ago HAZ folks, like MaryPhyl.

Good to know

Pivo wrote: ↑Mar 25 2022 12:55 pm 7AF46EE1-B4C1-40BA-B6A8-4C2005645514.jpeg

Is it ok to poop on the rocks?

@rcorfman That’s a great question, here are some techniques for LNT ethics.

http://blog.alpineinstitute.com/2019/09 ... perly.html

@Pivo
Wait, they make bags to clean up poop?

@Pivo
I think I encountered this one in Flagstaff. Never underestimate the value of a good toehold.

Some hikers pride themselves for being slow and steady

Happy Easter everyone. Don't forget to make the little ones happy....

@LosDosSloFolks
That reminds me of being on Santa's lap when I was little. He had bad teeth and seemed really icky and scary. I have never liked him since.

@LosDosSloFolks

Thing the First:
@Skatchkins You have my gratitude. So many great Portlandia skits and "Get the Gear" is certainly well-chosen here. I had somehow forgotten the absurdity that is Portlandia...now it is even funnier. After all, It originally aired before I had joined one of these subcultures that they so playfully and mercilessly mock! I knew enough about all of Portlandia's groups to laugh but now that I am part of the Nature/Hiking/Climbing/Hang That Mother Effing Hammock from a Tree and Pull Out Your Edward Abbey Paperbacks Subculture it is so much funnier. I take so much of this stuff so seriously sometimes I forget about all of our weirdness, our own shortcomings, and our desperation to define ourselves and leave this place a bit better than we found it, or at least not any worse.

Now, I've rambled on for long enough.

Thing the Second:
I am back in SEAZ and back where I first discovered how to find the natural riches of this place. So HikeAZ, and every single contributing member, you also have my gratitude. I first learned about the Arizona Trail *here*. Planned my first real hike *here*. And although I can see great truth in a philosophy which embraces the journey, and forward movement, there are a few exceptional moments along that journey that I will always always remember; and I owe you guys for my greatest wilderness experience of all time, an intimate encounter with Mountain Lion Mother and Cub. I planned it here, discovered a place along the well-trodden route where I could escape for a day, and that was a day that I will never forget. And occasionally I WILL WALLOW in that nostalgia because life gets less and less surprising and incredible every day that I get older, ha.

Okay, now I really have rambled long enough. Sorry guys. Without further ado, your reward is the funniest nature boy/camping/hiking skit of all time:

[ youtube video ]