Anyone hiked with a Ukulele

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#1

I have a Uke and would love to take it,on the trail in March, for fun, just started playing, but I’m catching on quick!It’s fun and lite, they have soft waterproof gig bags for them, anyone ever…

Crawl

#2

Dear Crawl:

I have camped with several musicans from time to time and often enjoy the songs sung around the camp fire at the end of a long days hike. If you have a few skills I am sure others might enjoy your tunes as well, however if you are rough around the edges and do not have a list of songs to draw from or can play by ear you may find your practicing might just be annoying to others tring to rest at the end of a long days hike. (kind of like a bad radio at best) I do not intend to come accross in a mean spirited way; it is just that you may find yourself isolating yourself instead of building comraderie if others find your music annoying due to a lack of skills. Just one opinion so please take it with a grain of salt. I suppose you could try it out and if things do not work out just mail it home. If you start your hike in March of April there will be plenty of company around uke or not. Have a great trip.8)

Stealthblew

#3

Yo Crawl!

I walked all the way to Hanover without an instrument. Found a little music shop there, and picked up a Ukulele. One of the best decisions I made on the whole trip. I picked it up pretty quickly, seeing as how I have a guitar background. It’s also super light - so that helps.

I spent countless hours jamming out on mountain tops from there on out. So awesome. My only regret is that I didn’t have one at Springer. :smiley:

Low

#4

Hiking with a Ukulele is child’s play. Scott Rimm-Hewitt, a guy from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, hiked from Maine to Georgia with a brass tuba, named Charisma. The tuba added 30 pounds to his 70-pound load.

His trail name was “Super Scott the Tuba Man”. Scott took a tumble on a Pennsylvania cliff with the tuba. He fell head-first and the tuba took the blow from the rock that would have hit his head. Scott ended up with stitches in his right leg, but he hiked 26 miles the day after the operation and Charisma still sounds good.

The tuba was the center of impromptu concerts at many trail shelters. At the Lake of the Clouds he had a group of 50 people listening to him play. Scott could play anything from swing music, to a “Amazing Grace” and from Pink Floyd to Bob Marley tunes.

A ukulele, you got to go for it brother. Cool Breeze hiked last year with a penny flute. He always tented away from the shelters, but played the flute every night for his beagle “Ms. Jenny”. She seemed to enjoy it.
:cheers

Bilko

#5

A hiker carried a banjo. Said the extra 5 pounds was well worth. It helped him meet a lot of folks and share music.

rambler

#6

rejoice! I suppose if I thought you sucked, I’d ask you to please play another time, or enjoy the annoyance as it where some damn black flies that I will hike past tomorrow. I enjoyed every instrument and their person I met on a 05’ thru. Rock on dude, just no gangsta rap in Southern New England please…

fishngame

#7

First person I met on the trail had a banjo (section in MA). I had friends warn me about folks with banjos.
Hike faster, I hear banjo music! :eek:

Tattoo