"I found it in a hiker box"
What's the best thing you found in a hiker box?
At Kincora: a pair of scissors, the perfect size for hiking use & sharp (& well made) enough to cut Mole skin. I made a holster for them when I got home, & they go on every trip now. I shall forever wonder why they were left there.
Curse you Perry the Platypus!
I remember those...I left them at Kincora after I used them to perform an emergency appendectomy.....Originally Posted by Doctari
At Kincora: a pair of scissors, the perfect size for hiking use & sharp (& well made) enough to cut Mole skin. I made a holster for them when I got home, & they go on every trip now. I shall forever wonder why they were left there.
If you don't have something nice to say,
Be witty in your cruelty.
I've got that beat, at least from my point of view. A container of used Q-Tips.
They would probably make a pretty good fire starter.
What? Me worry??
Some people were not raised right.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Oh, then it IS a good thing I licked them clean before using them. That also explains the taste, thanks for clearing that up.
Curse you Perry the Platypus!
At Mountain Crossings, last year. We'd forgotten Mudpie's knee brace and to cut sit pads from some old blue foam. In the hostel hiker box we found a knee brace and, next to it, some cut blue foam. (And the staff loaned us some reading glasses to replace the one's Mudpie lost).
Sailor
A water bottle full and I was thirsty
Food, glorious food!
At Vermillion Valley Resort out on the PCT this summer I pulled 4 snickers bars, half a dozen Emergen-C's, half a roll of TP, and a pound of Pistachios out of the hiker barrel.
Sat there that afternoon and ate the pistachios at the bar along with a nice cold beverage.
Also pulled a synthetic t-shirt out that was printed with a "Philmont Ranger 2009" logo on the chest.
Pistachios!
Snickers!
Clean Clothes!
What? Me worry??
I stayed at Vermilion Valley 7 years ago. Did you also notice that some of the hiker box food was obviously put out on the shelf for sale? Crushed and wrinkled packs of Ramen and Liptons dinners...I dunno. They made up for it by getting me drunk on whisky with cowboys round a barrel fire, one of the most memorable places i've ever zero'd.
in a hiker box:
Camelbak cloudburst
3/4 length ridgerest
nalgene bottles
pair of boots, just my size, and almost new
maps
guidebooks
books
along the trail (clean up SOBO hike after all the northbounders go thru in March):
water filter (still use to this day)
nalgenes
wicking t-shirts (still use to this day)
fleeces
books
maps
guidebooks
i know I've come across other stuff as well...cant remember it right now though. ironically, i've never taken food from a hiker box.
Two unopened "Backpackers Pantry - Pad Thai" dehydrated dinners. Those are the only ones I can stomach.
up over the hills, theres nothing to fear
theres a pub across the way with whisky and beer
its a lengthy journey on the way up to the top
but it ain't so bad if you have a great big bottle o'scotch
A book I had been looking for for years (amazon, ah no), just after Ihad finished my only book due to poor planning.
Also I forgot, in the Inn at the Long Trail, there was a small bottle of brandy.
Looks like somebody was a quitter.
up over the hills, theres nothing to fear
theres a pub across the way with whisky and beer
its a lengthy journey on the way up to the top
but it ain't so bad if you have a great big bottle o'scotch
LaJunta, CO - Koshare Indian Kiva/Museum: Pair of running shoes from their Lost/abandoned box (taken with permission). This was the first time I used running shoes to backpack, they worked great for the Kansas/Missouri/Illinois/Kentucky road walks. Were finally replaced in Damascus.
Here's the worst thing I have found in a hiker box.
Here's the worst thing I have found in a hiker box.
That's Food!
"Going to the woods is going home" - John Muir
"Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truely get into the heart of the wilderness" - John Muir
At Shaw's someone that I was there with got a nice laptop cover. Hopefully they mailed it home instead of carrying it all the way to WV.
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