Super Powers

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#1

Hey all, just sitting here reminiscing on the trail, (a popular re-entry avoidance technique common amongst hikers this time of year…) and had flashbacks of an ongoing discussion between Junkfood, Tuff Guy and myself. If you could possess any super power while on the trail, what would it be?
JF would kill bugs with her laser vision, while Tuff Guy wanted the ability to trade places with any hiker at any given time (ie switch positions with someone at the top of a difficult climb when he was still at the bottom.)
I would choose the unique ability to cause engine failure in passing vehicles. I know this would be useless most of the time, (or should be…don’t get me started on trail poaching dirtbike and ATV riders) but it would have brought me great joy while hitchhiking. Especially with the forty five year old dork who still finds it amusing to race by giving the thumbs up!
So… What would your power be?

Gesh

#2

Gesh, that just reminded me of your entry about trail magic. You know, the one where you wanted to give something back to the trail…by leaving attractive girl blow up dolls at the road crossing to help the fury, bearded, long-haired scrary thru-hikers hitch a ride into town? Very funny.:smiley:

My super power would be the ability to turn water (unfiltered) into Dr. Pepper.

Hydro Heidi

#3

I told you once and I’ll tell you again. Mine would be the ability to just not care anymore. Oh yeah I would also like to be able to teach Marmots to smoke cigarettes, so Chuckwagon would always be able to find something to bum a smoke from.

Guino

#4

To be able to sing a whole song through completely in my head instead of just the chorus.

Farsang

#5

HEY, I am 45 and I hike, I ride bikes, and I am a trucker.
If I am not working, I am planning or gathering hiking stuff or people who do hike.
Now, after reading your post twice I can only surmise that the dork rode by without giving you a ride. At first I assumed that you were just passing by a trailhead and maybe he assumed that you were just crossing the road or maybe you had a bad experience with a 45 year old man? Or maybe you don’t like thumbs?
Its funny how that particular motorist was a male at age 45?
I in turn, dont like how stinky hiker punks think that the world owes them a free ride.
Sorry, too long in foreign countries that barely have enough drinking water and no sanitation whatsover.
Wait ! this is a hiking thread sorry -I am 45 and my time here has been difficult and complex. and so is the world.

I wished to have the power to enlighten people that I meet.
(I think I will go lay down now -snif)

rico suave"

#6

Geesh, talk about thin skinned! The “thumbs up” was probably a salute, a “way to go dude!” from the elderly gentleman. As we decline into our dotage ( a process which begins in the late twenties) we sometimes spot a spry, comely youth who reminds us of our former self in some way, and can’t resist acknowledging them in a positive way.

So, lighten up dude! Gramps was just trying to be nice, not the arsehole you assumed him to be.

Kbatku

#7

Dude like half the freaks that pass us hitching give the Thumbs back at us cause their lame o’s. Peeps just dont care anymore. I dont want to care anymore. The best thing to do on the hitch is to stand out where they can see you like on the white line or beyond it. That way they have to slow down and they deffinetly see you. PS GESH ROCKS!!! HEy is it Whitefish man? I’m here in Mammoth driving the biggest damn bus on the road now for this ski area and it’s awesome!!! GOing to go ski the “WHite Ribbon of Death today” then take a hike!!! Hit some HOt springs, and go like UHHHH!! With Hydro

Guino

#8

Of course my second super power would be the ability to “beam me up scottie” and actually have it work.

And don’t worry Gesh you know what the thumbs up will be from now on, don’t you? They will be saying nice chick. And then they will stop to pick us up. Hopefully before car 364 that is…

Guino… teaching marmots to smoke, thats a new one.

Junkfood

#9

Oh wow…it’s like the Team Porka and Team Gameboy thread.

Hydro Heidi

#10

I think either the power to turn my Ramen into whatever meal I wanted, or the power to turn water into Beer.

taildragger

#11

My girlfriend wishes for the superpower to be able to effortlessly carry a 40lb. pack (as opposed to making me carry 15 of those lbs.). Mine would be to have silky smooth, instantly-healed skin. This would take care of all blisters, bug bites, abrasions, cuts, etc.

p.s. congrats on your hike, Gesh…from one of your avid readers.

markv