Do we have card players on the trail this year? I hike with a collapsable cribbage board and a deck of cards; but no one seems to know card games in years past. If anyone one wants to learn; I’d be more than willing to teach ya! (yahoo also is a good place to learn). I don’t play for money. Maybe for peanuts or raisins; but not money.
Big Boy
Cards, golf, pool, chess, tennis…
Someone once said “if it ain’t worth playing for money, it ain’t worth playing.”
I will have to teach you how to play for money. Bring a 52 card deck, a willingness to play, and lots of money. 5 card poker, the sky is the limit. Did I mention to bring lots of money.
See you out there. :lol
Maintain
im a meaaan canasta player. dont know any of the other games. i play standard/old canasta (not canasta american rules. there is a big difference!!)… beyond poker/blackjack, canasta is the only real card game i know 
used to know some 500 but forgot it all now…
Bloody Cactus
can’t play cards when I am hiking, no time, after all I am filming fishing videos along them thar streams an pons.
Bill Dance
i know cannasta; but i figured the odds of someone else knowing it or 500 would be a bit out of the park. as for playing for money; games get awful unfriendly if u do that. i’ve got no problems playing for money myself; but your average thru-hiker usually is trying to exist on a budget that wouldnt last for 2 months; let alone 6. so thats why i stick to raisins and peanuts. besides; chips and quarters and nickles are heavy to carry.
Big Boy
Forget carrying cards… Fart Baseball and Yogi - Bingo are the way to go!!!
Peace and LOve,
ASWAH the IGNORANT
AswAh
Myself and my hiking buddy played and activley encouraged fart tennis in shelters. Out in the woods there’s no barriers.
Damn, we’ve been playing fart tennis for years. Thought it was our invention. Never mind, it’s a cool game anyway. (Not sure how the females feel about that?)
15 - love
15 - 15 . . . . . net !!! (a failed attempt at a fart)
etc etc
Ross
I hiked with a cribbage board and cards too! I picked them up in Boone and regrettably sent them home a few hundred miles later when I couldn’t find anyone else to play. I’ve also wasted many hours at Kincora playing Euchre, and can remember several games of Hearts and Spades in the early days of the hike. No one in the real world seems to play card games anymore, unless they can command the poor slob sitting across the table to “drink!”
Sleepy
I grew up on Cribbage and would love to have people out there that know how to play. As far as other games, i’m willing to learn, but not for money. See you March 1st.
C-Giddy
“…I was tired by the time I got to the shelter. But there was a lively group there which kicked me into party mode. Seven of us ended up playing Fart Baseball for 3 hours. For those of you looking for nature related stuff skip to my next entry. Fart baseball is a game best played after a chili dinner. Each time you fart you get a single. If you burp-that’s a foul. If someone else farts within 5 seconds of your fart-it’s an out. If someone expresses disgust it’s a double. The group playing included Eagle Eye, Grizzly (who thru hiked in '99), Fireball (who hiked 900 miles in '99), myself and 2 other thru-hikers (sorry didn’t get their names). I realize it sounds disgusting but out here it’s entertainment. We cracked jokes and partied for awhile. …”
Aswah
Jeff and I carried 5 dice and a couple score sheets so we could play Yathzee on our hike. It’s pretty light entertainment, you can have lots of players, and the rules are pretty simple. It was fun, cheap entertainment on the Trail!
Chipper
My hiking buddy and I always play Cribbage. Sometimes pinochle or two handed spades. At home with the wives we play bridge, hearts, spades, pinochle and cribbage. Got the miniature card deck and the foldable cribbage board. I also have tiny backgammon and chess sets that weigh no more than 2 oz. each.
Alligator