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crowdog said:
Hmmmm this sounds strangely like the old joke about waking up in the woods covered in vaseline...
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I wouldnt know about that joke coffee, is this an old memory of yours slippin out?[/QUOTE]

I always forget that I have sneakers older then you are.... no, the joke is:

If you woke up in the woods naked, covered in vaseline, would you tell anyone?

Answer yes: you would?
Answer no: wanna go camping?
 
Not embarrassing, but when I was little we went catfish fishing at my family's camp and caught a good five or so. When my dad cut off their heads to clean them, he set the heads on the railing of the porch. The catfish heads then proceeded to open their mouths and croak at us! Five friggin' catfish heads just sitting there croaking. So bizarre. I'll never forget it.

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MrCoffee said:
I wouldnt know about that joke coffee, is this an old memory of yours slippin out?
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I always forget that I have sneakers older then you are.... no, the joke is:

If you woke up in the woods naked, covered in vaseline, would you tell anyone?

Answer yes: you would?
Answer no: wanna go camping?[/QUOTE]

Wait ...are you wanting to take someone out to the woods and rub them up with vaseline? This just got really weird.

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Mine would not really be called embarrassing but more stupid. I was about 14 or so.

Me , my little brother and a friend used to all be in the same scout troop well they disbanded but we still had access to all the gear we used. So we all would load up a tobacco trailer (pulled with a tractor) with tent, cooking gear and fishing rods and head out in the woods to our favorite spot. There was a pond near by so we always had dinner. Great camping trip we caught some fish told some lies and hiked around some.

Well we were on our way back home and I was standing on the tongue of the trailer messing with my brother when I fell backwards and caught my arm on a piece of metal where a light used to be. Ripped it open good, I could see the muscle. Thankfully it did not bleed much but I never went and got stitches so i have this big scar on my forearm as a reminder of that trip. Still a great time!



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Stormstaff said:
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Not real embarrassing but I took my son camping, decided to show him proper use of a saw. Let my mind slip away, saw jumps out of the groove. Trip to the doctor for 5 stitches followed.
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Interesting, my dad did that today with his christmas tree, but without anyone watching ...
 
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My most embarrassing moment camping........The only thing I can think of was when i was about 14 i was hunting and at that point i didn't tie the bottom of my treestand to the top (i kno it's stupid). So i'm about 20 ft up and somehow i loose the bottom it shimmy's alll the way to the ground. I sat in that stand for a LONG time expecting someone to come looking for me. I guess they just thoguht i was hunting hard. I had no handgun to signal anyone as i was 14ish and it was bow season. Finally i bear hugged the tree and slid all the way to the ground. I ended up using a fallen sapling to knock the top of the stand loose. It was fun stuff.
 
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I was Hiking the AT in NC, Awoke from a very restful night sleep when the urge hit, you know what I'm talking about. So I look around for a good place to drop the kids off, out of the way of hikers. I settled in for the deed, its going good when all of a sudden two hikers come walking up . It was a guy and his girlfriend out for a hike that day. In my searching for the perfect place to take one I apparently missed that I was only about ten foot from the trail. What do you do, I'll tell you, you say hi and carry on about your business your already committed.

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PayetteRucker said:
I begrugingly went on a youth group trip with my church to Devils Lake, a beautiful glacial lake in southern Wisconsin surrounded by 400 foot cliffs. We were going to do some hiking and rapelling and top it off with some swimming. I didn't have my own backpack at the time and I asked my mom what I should take. "Take the SwissGear backpack I used as a carryon for our trip to Colorado." OK. So I packed all the basic essentials a 15 year old would need for a day of hiking and a 2 hour bus ride. Halfway through the hike we were climbing some rock stairs and a kid tripped and caught himself with his hands but scuffed them up pretty good. I had a first aid kit in my backpack but instead of taking it off I had one of my other friends look in the front pocket for me. Well apparently there was an even closer front pocket I hadn't seen, and I heard about 30 kids busting out with laughter. Someone behind me says "Ben, did you have an operation we didn't know about?" I turned behind me to see what he was talking about and he's holding two maxi pads that my mom must have packed for the colorado trip. I tried desperately to explain how they got there, but I took flak for that for the remainder of my high school career... Which taught me a lesson, that even a majority of "Christian" kids are just as big of assholes as everyone else at school.
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I know a lot of loggers, and sawyers on the fire line that carry a couple of the heavy flow models in case anybody slips up with a chainsaw. They are sterile and can absorb a lot of blood. Just some food for thought.
 
Wanderlust said:
I know a lot of loggers, and sawyers on the fire line that carry a couple of the heavy flow models in case anybody slips up with a chainsaw. They are sterile and can absorb a lot of blood. Just some food for thought.
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A lot of folks have those in their med kits in general--not just loggers! Very effective for how little they cost. :cool:
 
Ever have a moth somehow crawl inside your ear and beat incessantly on your ear drum! It does not make for a pleasant night around the camp fire. We were far from any help and I could not imagine spending the night with it in there. The worst part was I did not know at first what type of insect it was. We finally flushed it out with water. Rat pack #355!
 
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Few years ago, on 12 days wandering Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park for chasing lesser apes. After two days walk, came to the last encroachment area, had to set up a camp for a point count, which has requierement at least 2 km for the border of the forest cover.
Walk in the ridge, fallen into a pit fall trap. It was really well made pit fall trap, can't recognize. My colleague, a forest ranger, shouting from distance, no one pay attention. Unfortunately he had almost a similar experience with me. Just about came into the trap, his leg hook the log.
When it happened, it so fast. Can't realize, about 3 meters of depth. Just saw a square of blue sky, totally dark inside.
Came up to the surface with mud all over of my body.
I am lucky, no spears inside of the trap. No injuries, no bones cracked.
Just friends laugh at me!
 
Wanderlust said:
I know a lot of loggers, and sawyers on the fire line that carry a couple of the heavy flow models in case anybody slips up with a chainsaw. They are sterile and can absorb a lot of blood. Just some food for thought.
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Aye, Marines started getting tampons in their care packages during the Battle of Fallujah and were improvised to plug wound channels from bullets. Saved many lives...
 
when i was a kid i used to sleep walk some. like really sleepwalk, out the door and down the street sorta sleepwalk. anyhoos, in girl scouts we did some great campouts and once i did a sleepwalk on one of these. (weird thing about sleepwalking is yr usually "dreaming" what yr doing so even tho yr asleep you wake up remembering mostly)
crawled outta my tent and was trying to crawl into another-never found my way in-went back to my own tent and resumed sleep i guess.
next morning the gals in that tent were talking about the big animal that was trying to get in their tent and they were terrified and couldnt sleep the rest of the nite. i was too embarrassed to tell em it was me sleepwalking. tho i have to admit i got some sense of amusement that it scared em that bad(they were the cliqish type and hated camping-complained about everything about being in the woods the entire time)
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Alright mine happened in 2003 when I went out to Philmont, NM with a local scout troop. As you might all know, the climate there is very dry air but for some odd reason, things do not dry as quickly as you might think. Halfway through the trip I tried doing some laundry since I didn't have many extra clothes. I hung my clothes out to dry at the camp for the day and while my synthetic shirts and pants dried quickly, my cotton underwear did not. I ended up having to hike the next day with tighty whiteys pinned to the top of my pack so they could dry. I'm sure my buddies walking behind me loved me that day and I got a few odd stares walking into the next camp :eek:

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an embarrassing camping story? well i dont know if this is embarrassing or just funny. when i was little our family went camping at El Kapitan State Beach in CA. after our first day there me and my Dad went walking around. we were walking down a trail and make a turn to see a huge raccoon in the middle of the trail. we yell at it to go away. when doing this the bugger got on its hind legs and hissed at us. we then proceeded to run away from the evil raccoon. :D
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The most embarasing camping story i have was from when I was about 12-13 years old.

Me and a few friends went out to the back 40 of my Great Grandfathers farm and made a real nice camp. We had our gear all laid out around a blazing fire and we decided it was time to eat. I went with a can of Campbells Bean and Bacon soup. I laid the can in the fire and waited for it to heat up. I can't remember how long it was in there, but we all heard a whistling noise like incoming artilary! We got up and started to run in the dark as fast as we could. We all got about 15 or 20 feet away when the huge explosion was heard. The fire was almost completly blown out and there were embers on our sleeping bags. The worst thing though was the Bean with Bacon soup splattered all over everything! We all got a good laugh out of it, but I will never again forget to vent a can of anything I put in a camp fire!!!
 
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one year when me and a bunch of buddies were going to a reenactment event for a week, I had the truck, so I got to haul everyone's gear.
Somehow, the buddy that was helping me load gear forgot to toss mine in the truck, so when we arrived, everone else had their stuff but i was missing the bag with most of my camping stuff - I had a ruck with clothing, my possibles bag & the stuff in it, and my oilskin bedroll - made for an interesting week.

to make matters worse, on the way home a week later, I blew the engine in my truck.

have been much more careful ever since to make sure I had everything before starting any trip, including vehicle maintenance.
 
Mine is simple and short.

I was drinking all night on a one nighter with some buddies and since we were very short on cash we bought a ton of Milwaukee's Best. Needless to say I got up to stoke the fire around 6 am and promptly sharted. Thankfully it was a fishing day that day and I got to wade it out.

No shame in my game.
 
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