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Stupid Hikers you've seen

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Horn Dog said:
Hikers with flip flops and no hats are idiots. But they're teenagers and one of them belongs to me.
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Seriously? I hike barefoot or in flip flops alot. And I don't wear a hat. Guess I'm just a dumbass :rolleyes: Just like Cody Lundin...
 
dougo83 said:
Seriously? I hike barefoot or in flip flops alot. And I don't wear a hat. Guess I'm just a dumbass :rolleyes: Just like Cody Lundin...
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Cody who? Bear Grylls doesn't wear one either. If you get skin cancer on your face in later years, the hat won't seem like such a bother. It really helps to keep me cool down here. My feet just aren't tough enough nowadays to hike barefooted.
 
Horn Dog said:
Bear Grylls doesn't wear one either. If you get skin cancer on your face in later years, the hat won't seem like such a bother. It really helps to keep me cool down here. My feet just aren't tough enough nowadays to hike barefooted.
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He's doing a TV show - a hat would cause shadows on his face - something you want to avoid in TV.
 
dextersp1 said:
He's doing a TV show - a hat would cause shadows on his face - something you want to avoid in TV.
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Right. Why didn't I think of that? Ok, TV hikers without hats may not be idiots. Lunatics, maybe, in Bear's case. I still stand by my statement about teenagers, though. :D
 
i hike barefoot sometimes, i guess im an idiot too, but hey, there is a diving spot i try to hit at least 10 times each summer and it involves about 30 minutes of hiking down a rocky trail, then we dive/spearfishing and work our way back to where we parked (3-4 hours)

what should i do with my shoes so that i wont be called an idiot?? :)
 
Horn Dog said:
Cody who? Bear Grylls doesn't wear one either. If you get skin cancer on your face in later years, the hat won't seem like such a bother. It really helps to keep me cool down here. My feet just aren't tough enough nowadays to hike barefooted.
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Cody is someone who I can guarantee knows a touch more about hiking, suvival and the outdoors than a good 90% of the people here could ever dream to. As far as cancer, a hat ain't gonna prevent it. However, I have this cool stuff called "sunscreen" that does a much better job of blocking UV and I can just toss it in my pack.

Also, how does putting something on your head, where heat is released from the body, keep you cool? I have lived in TX for 26 years now and have yet to see wearing a hat, even though I own a few, as an effective cooling method...If it does "cool" you, it isn't a very apparent change in temperature, certainly not one significant enough to make the claim that those of us who don't wear hats are "idiots."

dextersp1 said:
Acknowledging it is the first step in recovery.
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FAIL. Welcome to the ignore list.
 
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A broad-brimmed hat shields your face from the sun. This can reduce your risk of skin cancer. The same hat, keeping the sun off your face, will keep you cooler by doing so. It also keeps the glare down, which might not mean anything to you, but some of us are more sensitive to glare than others.
 
dougo83 said:
Cody is someone who I can guarantee knows a touch more about hiking, suvival and the outdoors than a good 90% of the people here could ever dream to. As far as cancer, a hat ain't gonna prevent it. However, I have this cool stuff called "sunscreen" that does a much better job of blocking UV and I can just toss it in my pack.

Also, how does putting something on your head, where heat is released from the body, keep you cool? I have lived in TX for 26 years now and have yet to see wearing a hat, even though I own a few, as an effective cooling method...If it does "cool" you, it isn't a very apparent change in temperature, certainly not one significant enough to make the claim that those of us who don't wear hats are "idiots."



FAIL. Welcome to the ignore list.
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there are many that feel that sunscreen is also a cancer causing agent too......

just saying....many before us never used sunscreen and never got skincancer
 
I am the most stupid hiker I have ever met. Hopefully I have learned from my mistake, which was complacency. I went hiking with my mentally challenged niece to a locally well known area, and assumed the trail was easy, which it was. What is wasn't, was familiar to me, and it got dark quickly. I would have been fine with myself, but went into panic mode because of the extra responsibility of my niece and the rapidly fading light shrouded the leaf covered trail. We got out OK, but if it was not for a car finally passing so I could determine direction, it would have been a very embarrassing night of needless worry for my brothers family.
 
Bushman5 said:
many before us never used sunscreen and never got skincancer
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many of them got eaten too fast to get it :D


I can remember lugging a bunch of water & a day pack up the first part of the Kalalau trail in Kauai with my wife, & we got passed by 3 ten year olds in board shorts and flip flops... actually one of them was barefoot... all carrying boogey boards. I had sort of a double reaction: damn kids + man I wish I grew up there. I don't know how they did it without busting their ass on the rocks.


I'm a hat wearer myself... gotta cover up that bald spot & tops of the ears from the sun. Plus, I like to soak the hat or put an ice cube in the band to help keep cool in the summer heat.
 
Me, when I relied on someone else to pack most of the food. At least I knew enough to forage enough and didn't hike out to the road in the middle of the night, hitch a ride to the jeep and drive to taco bell like two of my friends ended up doing.
 
chopchop said:
many of them got eaten too fast to get it :D


I can remember lugging a bunch of water & a day pack up the first part of the Kalalau trail in Kauai with my wife, & we got passed by 3 ten year olds in board shorts and flip flops... actually one of them was barefoot... all carrying boogey boards. I had sort of a double reaction: damn kids + man I wish I grew up there. I don't know how they did it without busting their ass on the rocks.


I'm a hat wearer myself... gotta cover up that bald spot & tops of the ears from the sun. Plus, I like to soak the hat or put an ice cube in the band to help keep cool in the summer heat.
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if you do kalalau again just remember there is plenty of water along the trail.
 
i'm a redhead, i cant even go outside when the rain here stops, i'll burn. And despite that i refuse to put chemical sunscreen on my body. Still no cancer - despite the fact my kind (YEA I'M A GINGER KID!!!! GET IT OUT OF YER SYSTEM ALREADY!) are prone to cancer.
 
Bushman5 said:
i'm a redhead, i cant even go outside when the rain here stops, i'll burn. And despite that i refuse to put chemical sunscreen on my body. Still no cancer - despite the fact my kind (YEA I'M A GINGER KID!!!! GET IT OUT OF YER SYSTEM ALREADY!) are prone to cancer.
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No worries, I think it's debatable whether it is more likely that the sun will give you skin cancer or if all the -ates and -enes commonly found in most all sun screens will if used liberally on a regular basis.
 
mcjhrobinson said:
if you do kalalau again just remember there is plenty of water along the trail.
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Now you tell me!

It was actually pretty funny. We stopped for lunch under a nice little palm stand just off the beach, & as I took off my pack, I realized I was carrying more than the guy next to me who was coming back from a week's stay at the end of the trail.

My stupidity generally goes along the lines of bringing too much stuff I don't need, and too little stuff I could actually use (e.g., a water filter on that trail instead of a 2L bottle & two 32 oz nalgenes). At least I remembered the hat & sunscreen!
 
I do most of my hiking far away from the beaten path or any path for that matter so I don't usually meet up with the un-educated or un-prepaired hiker.
Although this summer on the Fundy Footpath we had a whole troop of hikers come down the 300+ foot hill to our campsite at 10:30 at night with only 2 lights.I was suprised that they made it without breaking their necks.It's one hell of a steep hill.They set about rationing 2 packs of Mr.Noodles among 5 of them.It almost broke my heart when I had to tell them they had a FULL day at least before they were out.
 
A good breezer hat will keep your head cool by shading your noggin from direct intense heat, which heats your bodies most vital organ, the brain.
I've been told by my doctor that the face is where most skin cancer is first noticed. Truckers tend to have it show on left arms and left side of face. Anything exposed directly is at risk.
 
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