Any crazy hiking or camping stories?

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BeeNee · Accepted Answer

When I was a kid, I was in Girl Scouts. We spent about 2 weeks preparing for an upcoming camping trip setting up tents and learning various camping skills. One of the ones our troop leader emphasized a lot was fire safety because we would be cooking all of our meals over an open flame. We even had a specific course to earn a badge in it where we had to bring a parent along.

Cut to the camping trip. We all get there and we are gathered near the fire. The troop leader instructed us to all get out our bandanas and tie up our hair, which we did. Not two seconds later, we hear screams and we all turn around and see our troop leader quite literally up in flames! She had failed to follow her own instructions and leaned over the fire I'm sure igniting her hair quickly probably due to the amount of hair spray in it. She immediately ignored everything she'd just taught us about stop, dropping, and rolling, so as we watched her hair burn, we managed to throw a blanket over her to finally put her out. The rest of the night was pretty awkward because I'm pretty sure she was super embarrassed.

Sirenboobzilla · Accepted Answer

Went skinny dipping once while camping; I wanted to feel fresh and clean. Friend snuck my clothes away. It was a 'fun walk of shame back to the camper... at a campground... with multiple people... it was early morning and I wasn't gonna stay in the water to catch pneumonia, and I wasn't gonna start screaming and draw all the attention my way. But, there were a good few people already awake and outside doing stuff who had a good morning view

WindAtMyBack · Answer

Don't know of anything I'd call crazy.

I hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon when I was 17. My buddy and I were taking a short rest and playing with a baby rattlesnake with a stick. (a sidewinder) While we were playing with the snake, two hippie chicks came hiking up the trail, completely topless. We tried to pretend that it was completely normal.

We were hitch hiking through Yellowstone (the same guy as above). We stopped at a campground in the park. There were probably a dozen hippies in the area, all drinking passing joints around, and playing guitar/singing around the camp fire. I woke up with a hangover and hiked about five miles to the edge of the park where we waited eight hours to get a ride. We were reading Lord of the Rings while we waited. It seemed like appropriate reading for an adventure.

A few rides later we got picked up in a western cowboy town. They told us we needed to get out of town because it was rodeo night and all the drunk cowboys would harass hippie hitch hikers.

I was hiking along the US-Mexico border, along the Rio Grande. I decided to swim across the river into Mexico. I hiked in Mexico for a half hour or so then swam back. So I suppose I was an illegal alien in Mexico for a half hour.

I used to go caving. Caves usually have water in them. I camped that night and took off my soaked pants before hitting the sack. We had freezing temperatures that night. I got up next morning to hurry and put on my pants. They were frozen solid. I literally stood them upright and they stayed without touching them. They crinkled with ice as I put them on. Then went running to the cave where it was a crispy 55 degrees warm.

I almost forgot the bears. I was camping and only had an open sided lean-to. In the middle of the night I looked out and saw a mama bear and little bear walking past me about ten feet away. Later that night I woke up to a crash. The bear had broken the window of our car and stolen a loaf of bread from a cooler. It turned out the burglar broke into five cars that night. It's actually pretty common.

I was camped in the desert in Arizona, out in the middle of nowhere. That night I heard a Rattlesnake slithering around outside my tent. I knew the stories of rattlers crawling into sleeping bags were true, so I was kinda freaked out. I made sure the tent opening was tied off as well as possible and hoped for the best. Pit vipers are very sensitive to heat, so I'm pretty sure the rattler knew something nice warm and cozy was there. I don't might having company to cuddle up with, but a rattler is my preferred partner. No it didn't come in, but I didn't sleep much.

We were hiking in the mountains in Colorado. We were quite a ways from camp and it was getting late. We were at the top of a very steep snow bank. It was probably 80 degrees and a couple hundred yards to the bottom. We knew we would have a hard time hiking back to camp before dark and were getting concerned. We decided to take a short cut down the snow bank. Leaning out over the edge, it looked like it was almost straight down. We didn't know if we could get stopped before hitting the treeline. My buddy went for it, yelling and screaming the whole way. I was right after him, hoping like hell I wasn't about to die. Let me tell you, that was about the funnest things I've done in my entire life. I wouldn't do it again though, because it was also one of the stupidest things I've done in my life.

OK, I'll shut up.

Kori1236 · Answer

My roommate and I were super underprepared for our hike. We’d gone primarily to hunt fossils. We found volcanic rock and petrified wood but pressed on for the layer we figured would hold the fossils. We climbed 10ft up, found nothing, and I ended up loosing my grip and slid down 10ft of loose and jagged rock face. I scraped the shit out of my thigh (probably should’ve gotten stitches but I didn’t) I apparently cracked a couple ribs when I landed. My stomach, hands and under boob was scraped too.

After making sure I wasn’t dying we navigated our way through a canyon because we couldn’t go back the way we came. We came across a tarantula and rattlesnake and my hand unfortunately met many cacti (and again I didn’t seek medical treatment for resulting infections). After wandering for several hours we finally made it back to the car.

prensesmishka · Answer

Once we decided to go camping with friends. We always had a lot of interest, but none of us had ever camped, except for one of us. This friend of ours was a national camper, she had participated in many camp activities that were financed by the state. She had great stories and we were going to camp with her. Our tent, sleeping bags, camping chairs and table are ready, we have a variety of food to fry over the fire in our bag. We chose a very beautiful forest as a campground, but camping was actually forbidden here. In the middle of the night, we were all woken up by the sound of gunfire. It's hard to believe, but we heard gunshots 3 times. The sound came from far away but echoed in the forest. In the morning we forgot about it. We did our yoga and took pictures and went home. A few days later, I saw the news on TV that someone had been killed in that forest. I still don't know if it has anything to do with that gunshot.

Guy13 · Answer

Nothing more than spending time o the Appalachian and Shenandoah trail during the COVID people. Many people had the same idea and there were at least a 100 people in line at Mount Mitchell bathroom facilities. Get away was more like "downtown".

jennifer_bloom · Answer

The only weird hiking story I have is that I saw a green snake on one of my hikes as a teenager. My parents once went on a hike and got lost and stranded not being able to find their way back home and then a stranger told them a mentally ill woman had removed a lot of the direction signs cause she viewed the hiking people on the trail as annoying and rude so my parents had been going the right way to get back to the car but did not know it cause the hiking signs had been removed and they thought they were in another area.

CateM · Answer

When I was 12, we hiked out to a cabin and went canoeing. The wind blew the boat into the middle of the lake and my dad had to swim after it! Since it was a Sunday and my parents hate missing mass, they pulled up the readings for mass that day and my dad was chattering while reading one of the letters

Exterminatore · Answer

Got heat exhaustion once while hiking in Joshua Tree National Park. Was so bad off I couldn’t walk more than 25 yds at a time. My face actually turned purple. Had to pitch a tarp for shade and drink water and wait until the middle of the night before I could start hiking my way back to the parking lot.

Was only 7 miles into my hike. Was planning on camping and hiking for several days. That trip got ruined.

subleet · Answer

i once was at camp and thought i saw a bear, so i pretended it was right next to us to scare my sister, but then there was an actual real bear right next to me, and we ran as fast as we could

douride2 · Answer

Do you mean like the one where a German tourist was supposedly raped by a Sasquatch{Bigfoot} & was now pregnant? The National Enquirer never did a follow-up story on what the child looked like though.

RockyHammock · Answer

What happens on the trails stats on the trails haha poster, you going hiking soon?

Minahh · Answer

Back when I studied at a catholic highschool the priest had a mass on the top of the hill

ebru_turkey · Answer

Yes 😂😂😂😂a mountain dog chased me

tfan1 · Answer

There was this one time at band camp…. 😛

Gummy_Cluster · Answer

I have one.

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