Rude AT hikers - Appalachian Trail

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#21

I hope you don’t rant like that on the trail. You seem like one of those people that I avoid and move well past on the trail.

Blaze Fairie

#22

Yes,I can’t wait to corner you in a shelter & indoctrinate you into my non-party, non-religion, non-corporation…I guess it’s ok for Jason to make snide comments though!

inchworm plumber

#23

I think I get what the plumber be spoutin’: if we keep borrowing from the 1% instead of taxing them (to pay for things they want like occupations & cost+ no-bid contracts) then pretty soon they will demand the government sell its public lands to pay down those loans.
The national forests & BLM lands will be sold off at firesale prices first; then the national parks will be completely privatized or sold off to corporate interests;
when that doesn’t cover what we owe to the 1% for all the money they loaned us instead of paying taxes; then we will have to give them our houses, if not already repo’d in the last 4 years. Regardless, there won’t be no mo long distance trails to meet, or avoid, other hikers on.(BYE BYE AT & 8 other lovely treks).

gingerbreadman

#24

What happened to working hard to do something you like? Why hike the trail with nothing, and expect everything? Get a job, save some money and hike.

Hiking is a privilege, not a right - just like spandex.

I met some twits - but I am a 6"3 kick boxer who has no problem saying back off weirdo or NO THANK YOU. A girl befriend me in the hopes to get free stuff along the way, a guy smoking crack in a shelter in PA (nice gear, and a nice guy on vacation from his family - weird), a hermit in the woods (Armed) included police involvement. But I’d hike again. The good with the bad – don’t live such a narrow minded I’M RIGHT lifestyle – I know it’s hard.

Meet some of the best people on the trail - and some hostel owners were excellent - Byrd’s in North Adams is an example.

The trail is easy access (not easy hiking) once the people who are “just there” realize that - they turn sour quick and get miserable. I had an observation on these people once they turn sour it’s about 18 days til they rot and fall off the trail. Good Riddance.

-A

Acidalias

#25

@inchworm plumber & Jim
Ya know, if the shelters and trail heads have become centers for proselytizing to go with the handouts and you don’t like it, put your (empty) hand back in your pocket and take your tent on down the road* – you don’t have to put up with that stuff!

Um, you DID bring a tent, didn’t you?

*That’s called “I’ll show you, I’ll hurt me.” Makes sense until you think about it … or it starts raining.

LexingtonNC