Do you find it awkward when you go hike solo on a casual place and come groups of boomers, families or couples?

Do you find it awkward when you go hike solo on a casual place and come groups of boomers, families or couples?
Seem to be on edge when they see solo dudes in the woods.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    YES and also find it hiliarious and absurd when we are the only people around for miles and i say hello or good morning and its not like they didnt hear me, they make direct eye contact but no reply just a blank npc gaze. i guess i can understand with young women, theyre worried that any indicator of interest even a simple hello might trigger a guy to think he can chat her up. but if its a group of people then wtf theyre just being rude.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i forgot to say though, old women are some of my favourites to meet on the trail. they always like to make some small talk and shoot the breeze for a bit then carry on like a normal human.

      Ask me how I know you don't go outside.

      Go on, I'll wait.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They're posting on here

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          [...]
          Ask me how I know you don't go outside.

          Go on, I'll wait.

          >you're posting on here

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I arrived a couple moments ago from a 5mile hike where this happened, hence me making the thread asking.
        t. OP

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I experience the same shit, old men and women being cool, younger people being twats and confused boomers being twats.

        A group of 4 people 2 couples probably on tubes floated by me on the Allegheny river and they put up an umbrella to block my view of them, so I passed them later that day on my jetski going like 50.

        Oh OUT? Nah I don't backpack 2 days into the middle of nowhere.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        dunno about that OP seems pretty spot on for the west coast.

        You're not truly PrepHole if you're meeting groups of boomers or families on the trail.

        everyone who actually /outs/ with any frequency day hikes all the time. its super cringey this board acts like that isn't the case. if you don't day hike i find it hard to believe any of you actually do these "super badass bushwhacking adventures" in the deep backcountry. how do you physically train without dayhiking? i don't believe you run the treadmill every day. so what gives?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          We aren't Americans, you don't need to train when you walk and carry a lot everyday

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            well that and you guys don't have any thru hikes and very little actual wilderness with how densely populated europe is. there is a lot less to train for.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >well that and you guys don't have any thru hikes

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                i wish the DNT massiv trail in Norway connected to the E1 trail where it first goes into norway. Just having the DNT massiv trail end in Breheimen is so boring when theres a lot of potential for a continuation of it

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                holy frick that E1 looks like something lifechanging

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That E9 though too

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                very cool map, my Black person. thank you for sharing.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Is there any difference in taking an actual long distance path and just winging it? Why would anyone walk one of these paths if you could just decide where to go yourself?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                One is a flat nice path because so many people use it. The other is cutting through brush, cliffs, mud, etc. Have you never walked down a trail?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I mean that there are plenty of side paths that are equally flat. Why take this specific path?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Ease of navigation, it's faster, and usually they plan the trail out to hit most of the aesthetic landmarks.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                the difference is those routes are populated the entire way unlike america.
                there was already a thread where anon wanted to walk from spain to russia and was lamenting how little wilderness there will be along the way.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >the difference is those routes are populated the entire way unlike america.
                Not true. There is wilderness in Romania (E3, E8) and in Scandinavia (E1, E6, E10). The wilderness sections on these trails are not really different from the one's in America. And even on the American trails PCT, AT, CDT you will never walk more than 3-4 days without hitting a populated settlement. And just like in America you can make your own trail to get even more wilderness, though America has more wilderness overall.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >you will never walk more than 3-4 days without hitting a populated settlement
                PCT's longest stretch is closer to 8 days or more.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You are forgetting Alaska exists.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                and the northwest territories

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That's not the america they're talking about don't you ever claim leaf territory you greasy burger

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                america can refer to the country or continent. one of the trails you guys were talking about spans mexico and canada so i figure they count.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >america can refer to the country or continent.
                im canadian and nobody refers to the entirety of north america as just america, dont frickin kid yourself amerifat. we are not the same

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                South Americans do, and they get butthurt about people calling the USA America.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I actually do train on a treadmill. I work in a gym. I walk on the treadmill at medium incline with all of my gear on. I also use a stair master.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Based but holy shit dude that's gotta be fricking embarrassing lugging gear to and from the gym every day.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Wait what? I thought day hiking was a part of outdoors

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            it's just trannies, don't mind it. raiding trannies from troony lefty/misc/ communities do everything they can to disrupt the hobby boards on PrepHole; they have free buxx to buy VIP to spam disruptive shit and clog the catalog with bot generated posts, and 24 hours a day of spare time to ruin things for others which is pretty much the only reason why the israelites have brought these worthless creatures into popular culture

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They're posting on here

        >nu-PrepHole seethed at this
        lel it's funny but also sad

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No thanks, I'm not interested.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        How do you know know they don't go outside

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No they aren't. I refuse to talk to ANYONE who says words at me unsolicited. You cannot trust people

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >i guess i can understand with young women

      Young women are more likely to say hello no? Couples too. It's the older men sometimes that are weird

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Opposite. When I walk past old people in the mountains they always stop to ask questions and socialize. Young people are all awkward and stuck up.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've literally never come across boomer or gen x men who don't at least return your greeting if not greet you themselves first when met on a trail.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        boomer men dont normally say hi back because theyre homophobic and are afraid they will seem gay if they say hello back to you. its fricking hilarious and pathetic

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The frick. Is this what life in commiefornia is like? Just gays and aversed to them people who are so brainwashed they forget how to be human beings? Are you some kind of a troony who keeps mistaking brotherly love for muh homoeroticism?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            youre the one who called them gays..

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It is unironically like being a woman. Not wanting to seem like an invitation from an overly aggressive man

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >boomer men dont normally say hi back because theyre homophobic and are afraid they will seem gay if they say hello back to you.
          This is literally not a thing outside your drug-addled brain.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          its because you're a troon freak and make everyone around you uncomfortable, they don't want to participate in your fetish.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know where you live but this doesn't happen

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It really depends on where you are

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ask me how I know you are a manlet

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        kek. Short people don't deserve basic respect. Especially if they're brown.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >i say hello or good morning

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Refuse passage until they reply

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Normal behavior in pnw

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      dude there are so many people on my trails that if i said hello to everyone i’d get an aneurysm

      i’m there to relax not do customer service

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i forgot to say though, old women are some of my favourites to meet on the trail. they always like to make some small talk and shoot the breeze for a bit then carry on like a normal human.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'll second this as well. Old folks are the only people I have had decent conversations with while travelling. Families always seem pissed off at my presence (My wife is usually with me too, so it is not like I'm some creepy loner guy) and young folks probably just see my wife and I as a couple of hobos because we look like shit when we are PrepHole.

      Twice while camping in Jasper AB we had dinner with 70+ yo hobos who were some of the most interesting people I've ever met.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It probably doesn't help me that I'm all alone and I'm wearing complete camo (including my bag) with a face cover.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i had a weird one yesterday, a girl on horseback was trotting along an adjacent trail which intersected mine, and i could see we would meet at the T intersection so i naturally slowed down in order to let her and her horse go past because obviously a horse can move at a faster pace than a human so i say hello and she says good morning or maybe it was the other way around but then she and her horse continued to walk just a half-pace ahead of me so i had to awkwardly walk behind them trying not to focus too intently on the horse-girls thicc thighs in her riding pants (she looked reaaaal good). i think she eventually got the point that it was making things awkward so finally klicked her heels and it made the horse start moving ahead faster. maybe next time ill just power on past them and speed walk the rest of the trail to avoid walking behind the horse-girls-ass

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I would welcome the view if a fat ass in riding pants on a hike. Thats what sunglasses are for. Did you consider trying to make conversation?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the first glance is permissible everything after that is lascivious lust

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          man if my head is in a direction im looking at whatever the frick is in my field of view. everyone else can eat a dick.

          >Did you consider trying to make conversation?
          no because im not a pick up artist trying to have conversations with every female i meet. it is weird for people to not greet another human if they pass each other in the wilderness but its equally weird for a guy to continue to try and talk to young women if they clearly are not interested in conversation and are wanting to continue with their hike

          having a conversation with someone who is going the same direction as you is not the same as being a homosexual pick up artist. i start conversations with people all the time because you never know what interesting information you will learn. about half the time its nothing, but the other half its fun.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >having a conversation with someone who is going the same direction as you is not the same as being a homosexual pick up artist
            Indeed
            >i start conversations with people all the time
            Extroverts impress me greatly

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You can learn to talk to people.. The introvert/extrovert thing is a dumb hoax. It's just social experience.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Learn what introversion/extroversion means.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You can learn to talk to people assuming a certain minimum threshold of intelligence

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Did you consider trying to make conversation?
        no because im not a pick up artist trying to have conversations with every female i meet. it is weird for people to not greet another human if they pass each other in the wilderness but its equally weird for a guy to continue to try and talk to young women if they clearly are not interested in conversation and are wanting to continue with their hike

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      RAPE
      RAPE
      RAPE
      RAPE
      whos going to hear them or come to help realistically? the implications.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I wish it were possible to search for porn like this. It's clearly not, after trying...

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        equestrian perhaps

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That horse was trying to get you to stare at her ass.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >that pic
      You just KNOW

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Anon, your self inflicted brain damage is showing, stop cooming

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Funny. I was in a similar situation where a chick on a horse passed me on a trail, I made eye contact, smiled and said "Hi" and she just stared daggers at me for a couple seconds like "How dare this lowly dirt person think he can speak to a beautiful one such as me!"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        if you spook the horse, I don't think you can be held legally liable for any harm that may come to her.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You're not truly PrepHole if you're meeting groups of boomers or families on the trail.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I just finished a 40 mile loop in GSMNP on Sunday. It started and ended at Clingman’s Dome, so one of the most popular attractions in one of the most popular parks. The Appalachian Trail connects to the Dome tower path that leads to the parking lot.

    During that half-mile walk from the dome back to the car, I was stopped four times by friendly, smiling people asking about my hike. It wasn’t awkward at all because I’m not mentally defective.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I’m not mentally defective
      aren't you the moron that wanted to throw a stick at some broad for not returning your greeting on the trail and made a whole thread about it?

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >make eye contact
    >squat
    >take a shit
    >leave

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    strangely enough, the only place i didn't sense people were at least slightly wary about me being a lone male in the backcountry is death valley wilderness. kinda weird because you can find some strange characters there, but maybe they see me and are like "oh thank god this guy seems normal weird not freak weird."

    everywhere else i notice an obvious increase in friendliness when i'm with at least one woman.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what if you had two women?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        there's not really a difference in friendliness with more women, but it does change how other hikers interpret my role in the group

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No. They're always nice and polite to me. Maybe I'm just better looking than you.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've had people completely ignore me and just walk by like they didn't see me. I say "hello" and nothing. They don't even look at me. I've worked in retail so I've got used to people doing this to me but it's weird when PrepHole. It's like one in every 25 people say nothing.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I go out of my way to stay a healthy distance behind women on the off chance they go off trail so I can hear them poop.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      bruh

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They should be worried, as if nobody ever been raped and murdered in the woods

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If I'm hiking solo, then I'm fishing and people's reactions are always one of two things: they ignore me or the age ol' "catch anything?"
    If I'm with the family, then I'm staring intently at you out of jealousy. Sorry anon.

    This does remind me of a story from a few years back that still pisses me off to this day
    >just got my first fly rod, go down to a nice wide open creek
    >practice casting for awhile, notice some tubers coming down from upstream
    >stop my casting to let them pass
    >theyre all drunk and hollering, with a radio playing too
    >they all smile and wave and ask the age ol' question
    >except one b***h
    >this trailer trash c**t for whatever fricking reason goes insane, starts shouting "i hate fishermen!"
    >jumps out of her tube, begins thrashing around in the water, presumably to scare any fish away (the water was unusually low and no more than 3ft deep at best)
    >all of her friends are in shock, im equally assmad as confused
    >it take two of the guys to wrangle this drunk prostitute
    >they turn their radio off and float away, with her being pinned down and still ranting, while two or three of them are trying to apologize
    >i sigh and keep practicing my cast

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      At least her friends knew she was moronic, if they supported her it could've been worse.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just get a gf haha

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    gosh stop staring iam a girl ok frickin creep

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

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    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Where did you get my sister's picture from and why are you posting it on PrepHole of all places?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Still not asking for it, incel.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Come out into my woods wearing that and see what happens. I don’t care if she’s asking or not, I’m taking.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

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    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      urge to bury my face in her ass

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Women are the worst but feminized cityfolk are just as bad. Apparently a new hobby of theirs is to go fashion hunting in the woods in September: City gays grabbing guns, "hunting fashion" clothes from those outdoor outlet stores, and renting a cabin, and shooting at everything that moves. Its really bad. We need gun laws for these twinky gays or they will get what's coming.
    >"are you going fishing?" (me wearing natural colors, not even camo)
    >"are you sure its just 200km? I think its a lot more"
    >"what on earth do you eat all the time if you dont go fishing? you cant be alone all by yourself? You have no one to share with."

    Then they crowd around you and look all depressed and concerned at you.

    >"Why are you doing this (to yourself)? Are you mentally unwell?"
    >"Are you never afraid to be out all by yourself?"
    >"There is bears here you know."
    The only thing you have to be careful of is other "people".
    >"Oh no, you cant say the [F, B, N, J] word"
    >"Oh no, how dare you criticize [insert city ideology]."
    That's how you get them to leave.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >City gays grabbing guns, "hunting fashion" clothes from those outdoor outlet stores, and renting a cabin, and shooting at everything that moves. Its really bad. We need gun laws for these twinky gays or they will get what's coming.
      That last statement ties is very well with the premise because 1) nothing that normies pick up on is organic 2) they want to keep people out of the outdoors, so having inexperienced morons with guns potentially shooting at you is a great way to actually make it dangerous 3) excuse to push gun laws that have nothing to do with morons in the outdoors
      just try to get in the israeli mindset and everything makes sense

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Where do you live that citygays just randomly take up hunting? I've been wanting to get into hunting for a long time but as a citygay with no friends or family who hunt it seems like a daunting learning curve. I always assumed that most people who hunt picked it up from their family.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why are you dreaming up scenarios in your head just to get mad?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It really happened though it was three different occasions on the same 14 day trip condensed into one for your enjoyment.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No I always have great interactions with locals in my area. We get alot of visitors from other areas, so I like to chill in the hammock near a popular nature trail and give people general knowledge about the area when they seem lost or confused about where to go. I love interacting with other people in the woods and I've never really met anyone nervous about seeing some lone dude

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I like to chill in the hammock near a popular nature trail and give people general knowledge about the area when they seem lost or confused about where to go

      you sound like a dirty hippy

      you aight tho

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    That's the best part
    Are you afraid to be a man?

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lamo, this happened to me the other day. I was chilling on a log in the woods smoking my hash pipe and listening to Korn quite loudly. (Bare in mind I look like an obese Johnathan Davis) These two old people came by with a massive dog and they just stopped and stared at me for a good 30 seconds without saying anything eventually they carefully continued down the trail. While nervously taking glances back at me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >smoking my hash pipe and listening to Korn quite loudly. (Bare in mind I look like an obese Johnathan Davis)
      anon this is the year of our Lord 2022, the 90s are over, you finished high school long ago

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You're like this guy but stuck in high school instead of middle school

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        > Toker Poker

        This is a man of culture. That thing is so goddamn handy especially for even tobbaco smokers. The pick for digging around your cherry, the packer for tapping down your bowl and the hemp wrap for lightning more natural way.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. I normally smoke a joint or eat some mushrooms before wandering around and get really self-conscious when I meet kids with normal family units as a 35ish yeti-looking person. Youths are cool and grey nomads are cool but there's something really threatening about 26ish nuclear families with a mum and dad and 2-3 kids, like I know that I look like the person their kids are scared of with the long hair and wizard beard, and I fall into some drug related hole of existential dread

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dude I get this but most of the time those kids are thinking we look like hagrid it's what I hear all the time.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >be me
    >all alone
    >walk past a bunch of 5 teenage girls
    >they go all silent and look scared
    >i look at them all
    >start making eye contact with each one
    >they freeze up
    >i open my mouth
    >it's the israelites
    >i turn away and walk off
    >i elaborate no further
    >say not another word
    >soon they are fully gone from my vision

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >>be me
    >>all alone
    >>walk past a bunch of 5 teenage girls
    >>they go all silent and look scared
    >>i look at them all
    making eye contact with each one
    >>they freeze up
    >>i open my mouth
    >>it's the israelites
    >>i turn away and walk off
    >>i elaborate no further
    >>say not another word
    >>soon they are fully gone from my vision

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't find it awkward at all because I don't care what boomers or other people in general think.

    I'm hiking in a public woods. If other people doing the same are bothered by people they pass on the trail, they should either work on getting over that or stay home. They need to realize that not every place on the planet is like the cities they live in, where thugs are hiding behind every piece of cover waiting to bash their heads in and rob their corpses.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Seem to be on edge when they see solo dudes in the woods.
    You dress like a terrorist with an AR at low ready. What do you expect?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Frick you, I’ll have you know it’s an M1 Carbine and it’s slung over my shoulder 80% of the time.

      Unless they look like hipsters and I see them first, then I fix the bayonet and go low ready just to frick with them.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Old dudes give me the cold shoulder a lot too. One druggie while I was in town shouted across the street "YOU A GIRL?"
    I started working out after that. Broader shoulders and obviously male musculature should be enough for people to stop thinking I'm a troon, right? I haven't been directly asked since but old dudes still look at me funny. Could it be the hair?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Good sir, post hair. I will examine.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        [...]

        I have now seen what how i look when not in a mirror. I think the problem is I just look creepy.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    just happened yesterday
    >hiking up a mountain solo with my pack while manually carrying a gallon of water that needs to last me 12 hours
    >day hiking zoomer .3 miles from the parking lot asks me boldlyif he can have some water (he still has a couple ounces left)
    >his gf immediately chides him out of embarrasment

    I try to avoid normans

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >go out on a trail back home
    >four large SUVs in the parking lot
    >grab my orange sweatshirt in case it's moron hunters
    >hear stupid little shitty kids coming up to the trailhead
    >thirty snot-nosed little shits "supervised" by four boomer-aged women and one my age
    >first three women are curt and rude when I say hi
    >last one says nothing as she hurries her dog that's not leashed along
    >the one my age stops to ask me about the trail, super friendly
    >get back three hours later
    >garbage scattered around
    >big old bag of dog shit in a plastic bag just thrown barely in the bush
    God I hate women.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Are you some kind of fruit merchant? Which guild do you belong to?

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yes they're weird
    so I just wiggle my benis at them and say 'hi'.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I am the slightest smallest frame dude and people legit clear out when I walk by on solo hikes like I am going to serial murder them. I do not understand

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Probably because most serial killers fit that description.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I always say hello to everybody. Some people say hello back and some don't. It's just one of those things. I would say that people don't really seem on edge so much as a lot of people aren't well socialized. I mean I'll say hello to everybody you know even if it's teenage girls walking by I say hello. And that's because I was taught you say hello to people when you're out on a hike. But I also say hello to my neighbors when I'm walking around the neighborhood. So I don't find it awkward and the only way you properly socialize human primates is by showing them the appropriate behavior.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I agree anon. It's good to appear sociable even if you're a chronic introvert. Hides your power level.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Tbh I find it awkward that boomers have to force conversation when they see you on the trail. It's like their little minds are physically incapable of handling the silence.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Projection.
      People who aren't awkward spergs don't force conversations, they just speak their mind spontaneously.
      The fact that you have to force yourself to talk doesn't mean that everyone else does the same.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Swing and a miss.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I live in a tiny cabin a mile inside county land. It's one of those weird spots that's private land inside of public land. A famous kayaking creek flows through the land.

    One day my husky was posting up because she heard something. I realized it was kayakers making a ruckus. We wondered down to see what was going on. They were kind of freaked when they came around the bend and this rough looking guy and his dog are on the creek's edge in the middle of nowhere watching them.

    So I said "Whatcha doin in old Gregg's waters?"

    I was trying to be funny, but I'm pretty sure I have them a Deliverance vibe.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It is bit awkward as I am assuming they are internally asking why I am alone outside. But then when I do hike with family/friends and meet solo I feel as s/he looks down on me. Therefore, meeting people is awkward in general

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Do you find it awkward when you go hike solo on a casual place and come groups of boomers, families or couples?
    Not usually. I don't think I look particularly threatening and I will usually make eye contact with people, then either give them the nod, a smile, or a short greetings if we walk by closely enough. People tend to be pretty nice usually.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    That's because everyone gets their life cues from.netflix and the MTV music awards so they expect to be brutally murdered and raped at any second and they're just weak humans to begin with. You have to ignore it

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just breath very loudly and say thanks when they get out of my way.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly this, best advice I've heard on out in a while

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    While Hiking greylock with my brother and cousins, about a mile or two in to the first part of the trail we were on. We start talking politics and assorted stupid shit. Then I said something along the lines of “you know feminists wouldn’t be feminists if they got locked in a basement for a few weeks, I’m sure after Stockholm syndrome set in they’d be functional members of society to some degree” real loud, just as two wide eyed and visibly horrified women about our age came around this large rocky hill/corner. We all had a good laugh.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yea I just went for a walk and a boomer couple were jogging behind me and the wife got tired just as they were about to pass me, the husband kept running, then stopped and came back, and they jogged past me together. lol

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    no

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i dunno, don't hike anywhere that's accessible? if you're running into boomers and families, you might want to venture further than 2km from the car park.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People are usually loud and stupid. Bigger groups are more annoying than singles or pairs. I just try to omit then, but when it is not possible a quick greetings or just smile do the job.

    If you want to be normie and listen to your fricking music loudly do it anywhenre but not in calm place.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    people in this country think that the woods are for druggies and criminals

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I was taking a piss off the side of a trail that I thought I was the only one on yesterday and a couple walked up on me. They still greeted me

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've never had an issue. I usually take my cat hiking and apparently that's pretty uncommon so a lot of people ask about it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh neat. My cat is very interested in the outdoors. She begs me to take her out on her lead. Problem is, she doesn't want to be out long and doesn't want to go far. If she smells too stinky a stinkbug she wants to go back inside. If she gets startled by a noise she wants to go back inside. Do I just need to get her out of her comfort zone? Take her out of line of sight from safety? More exposure, basically?

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