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    Default Strangest/creepiest thing you ever found on the trail?

    In VA, I went about ten paces off the trail to do my necessary, and I found a plastic shopping bag full of old pornographic magazines. This stuff was pretty raw. It looked like it had been left there just recently. I didn't want to risk meeting the kind of guy who takes a bag of stroke books into the woods, so I looked around, moved out of there at a brisk pace, and did my business elsewhere.

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    Don't know if this counts but I once found a pack of about 20 people yelling "Pudding! Pudding! Watch your pudding!" and by found I mean they woke me from my sleep at four in the morning. It wasn't until later that day I realized they were yelling to watch their footing, not pudding. At the time it was very strange and confusing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KTX View Post
    Don't know if this counts but I once found a pack of about 20 people yelling "Pudding! Pudding! Watch your pudding!" and by found I mean they woke me from my sleep at four in the morning. It wasn't until later that day I realized they were yelling to watch their footing, not pudding. At the time it was very strange and confusing.
    Almost spit out my coffee laughing at that one.
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    Besides people (myself included), I found a kids fishing pole that had absolutely no business being where it was and a mother grouse that just gave birth right on the trail. She came after me wings all spread and hissing and I thought I was going to have to be in a swordfight with my poles and her.
    - Trail name: Thumper

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    How about a prostitute? I asked how she got her trailname, "Quickie," and she said, "You got twenty bucks?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by garlic08 View Post
    How about a prostitute? I asked how she got her trailname, "Quickie," and she said, "You got twenty bucks?"
    Now that's work their way up the trail!
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    Not creepy at all, but strange for sure. I was dayhiking by myself on the AT in the Smokies in September 2009. A peahen was hanging out at Icewater Springs Shelter hoping for food from hikers. I returned the next day and the next weekend with some gear and some help. After some effort and a lot of patience, we managed to trap her in a net. Carried her home and turned her loose after a few days. She took up with a flock of wild turkeys for a bit, then found herself a boyfriend on the other side of our ridge.

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    1. A rottweiler snarling and growling at me while it's owner who was swimming in the creek below the trail yelled "get away from my dog it will bite you!".
    2. A group of hikers fully blocking the trail while standing still staring at little devices with electronic screens.

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    In May of 2013, I was southbound in NH. Just North of Trapper John shelter, as I was going up Moose Mtn, I came upon a "stomach" laying in the middle of the trail. At first I thought it was the placenta from a deer or moose, but it was not. I looked around and there no obvious signs of a kill. It was pretty fresh and intact. I did poke it with my pole. Freaked me out, I got the heck out of there. A few days later, I met my wife in Woodstock, VT and found out that there was a hiker "brown blazer" which had apparently written some pretty disturbing things in journals. Always wondered if there was a connection.

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    Found a mylar Happy Birthday balloon stuck in a mountain laurel on top of Standing Indian mountain.

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    Hogback Ridge Shelter near Sam's Gap. I used to day hike there a lot. One time there were 10-15 dead mice someone had killed lined up on a log sitting staring at the fire pit.
    One year there was also a green inflatable alien that had been tied to the privy there. He hung our for most of the year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by garlic08 View Post
    How about a prostitute? I asked how she got her trailname, "Quickie," and she said, "You got twenty bucks?"
    I think I met her. Met a prostitute on the AT and PCT. Both solicited me. No comment.

    I woulda said what do I get for two packs of Ramen and a ProBar.

    Near Duncannon as you cross the Susquehanna River NOBO there's a brightly lit bar with a porn store adjacent. Went into the bar for food. Upon leaving was solicited by a guy in a PU "coming" from the adult store/peep show.

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    Watch your pudding.

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    In 2015 on a LASH from Springer to Franklin, NC. I found a laptop computer at a shelter with the heavy transformer cord and a note with passwords. I laughed for a few days everytime I thought about it. Someone just left a $300 plus laptop because it was heavy. *** was someone thinking?
    There are wonders out there, now to find them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by daddytwosticks View Post
    Found a mylar Happy Birthday balloon stuck in a mountain laurel on top of Standing Indian mountain.
    I have found those balloons all over the country. In the Whites, on the Long Trail, high Sierras, Northern Cascades, New Mexico Desert, Southern San Juans. Florida swamp. My pet peeve.
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    The Northeast Airlines that crashed in 1954 on the AT Boundary near the summit of Mt Success in Maine is pretty spooky to walk around in if you are alone.

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    On at least two occasions, I've had hikers just stare at me when we met/passed on trail. No "hi how ya doin'?", nothing, just a blank stare. Very weird. One of them seemed to look right through me, it took him a moment to realize their was another person on the trail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogwood View Post
    Watch your pudding.

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    Four pairs of women's jeans, neatly folded, on a rock on the way in to Hurd Brook lean-to. Three days later, on the way out, spotted three of those green Coleman propane bottles on another rock near the jeans. Sobos dumping dumb stuff, probably.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deadeye View Post
    On at least two occasions, I've had hikers just stare at me when we met/passed on trail. No "hi how ya doin'?", nothing, just a blank stare. Very weird. One of them seemed to look right through me, it took him a moment to realize their was another person on the trail.

    Ironic from a person going by "Deadeye", don't ya think?

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