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Re: Uncoolest Find While Hiking

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brichardsson wrote:two half naked dudes having sex on a summit. if it would have been a guy and a girl it would have been just as uncool.
I disagree totally. If it had been a straight couple, it would have been totally cool (if the girl was attractive :)).

And I would have tactfully waited a few feet below the top for them to finish up and get dressed.
I don’t care who it is or how good-looking they are, I do not need to see anyone’s backside getting chapped by wind gusts. Then again, I’m so asexual that I have to fast-forward through kissing scenes in movies and TV shows lest I lose my lunch.

As for finds, I did not come up with this one myself, but I hiked down Whitney with a guy who was carrying a bag of someone else’s poop. The bag was just lying there on the summit, my descent buddy said. I don’t know what flabbergasts me more: that someone would just leave it out for the Summit Poop Fairy to collect, or that they had enough privacy on Whitney’s summit to fill that bag in the first place.
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Jibler strikes again!
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HikesInGeologicTime wrote:Then again, I’m so asexual that I have to fast-forward through kissing scenes in movies and TV shows lest I lose my lunch.
Glad I'm not the only one.
As for finds, I did not come up with this one myself, but I hiked down Whitney with a guy who was carrying a bag of someone else’s poop.
Haha, welcome to the Whitney Zone! This is what happens when you ask people to carry bags of poop where there aren't enough people around to exert constant peer pressure. Next time you visit the Flatirons, notice the free dog poop bag dispensers at the trailheads, and how many of those bags end up full by the side of the trail.
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Dead cow on the trail to West Elk Peak:
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The live bear guarding the carcass was pretty uncool too...
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I can't find the pic, but...
We saw some hunters prowling around Mt. Guyot near Georgia Pass at the beginning of our Fall hike a few years back.
"What's in season?" The answer: "Mountain goats."
On the way down, we can across a dressed carcass, skinned and pink. IDK where the hunters went. Maybe they came back.
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Wrong. About a tenth of a mile in, all three bears were hunched over something (Goldilocks?) in the middle of the trail, maybe 200 yards further. One got down on all fours and started coming our way. I've never run so fast in my life, but it was only about 500ft to the car. We could not see or hear anything coming behind us once we got there. Whew.
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seano wrote:
HikesInGeologicTime wrote:Then again, I’m so asexual that I have to fast-forward through kissing scenes in movies and TV shows lest I lose my lunch.
Glad I'm not the only one.
Apparently we make up roughly 1% of the population, though the report I read on that came out in the early 2000s, when I was still in high school...which means it came out waaaaay longer ago than I care to think about! :X
Haha, welcome to the Whitney Zone! This is what happens when you ask people to carry bags of poop where there aren't enough people around to exert constant peer pressure.
I'm still trying to figure out when he must've summited in order to not have that peer pressure - you'd be forgiven for thinking you had teleported to the top of Bierstadt or Quandary on a sunny summer day for all the people milling about when I got up there.
Next time you visit the Flatirons, notice the free dog poop bag dispensers at the trailheads, and how many of those bags end up full by the side of the trail.
Haven't done much hiking in the Flatirons, but decorating the trail with full doggie bags seems to be pretty popular most places outside of the National Parks here. :/
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1. Carcass of a whale on the beach near Cape Alava, WA.
2. Walking into unmarked, unguarded artillery testing range and watching first morning salvo land about a klick away.
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Re: Uncoolest Find While Hiking

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Did you find bombing in Vieques before the moretoriem? Well, wherever, that is the winner so far.

Whales? that is funny, to mention in the same post. Dead bodies? I have found 3, that I can remember. People pissing, shitting and fuc***g? come on. Up your game 14ers.com.

And for best thing?

I was hiking around Mt Whitney way back in the day and a crow followed me and dropped a pair of gloves on the trail about 10 minutes ahead from where I was and this, when I was quite green and under prepared and real appreciated gloves. Of course, it was not a real pair, but two left handed gloves, an inner and outer layer, worn and threadbear, lost by someone much more experienced and prepared than me.

But come on, A crow (or perhaps a raven) followed me, watched my need and provided for me. That was pretty cool.
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Took a quick afternoon trip up Longs this past summer, someone lost their bowels and left the underwear in the middle of the trail at the bottom of the trough...I puked...
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good work folks

I thought this thread was destined for closure

only mildly gross by and large
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Sorry to add to the grossness, but the Red Gully on Crestone Peak will never have the same meaning for me after packing out someone's used feminine hygiene product.
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This thread.
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