Coolest names: Met a couple from Chekoslavkia in 95'. Chekmates! 96' Nexmo (couldn't wait till next motel)
Coolest names: Met a couple from Chekoslavkia in 95'. Chekmates! 96' Nexmo (couldn't wait till next motel)
E-Z---"from sea to shining sea''
Balls Deep was doing a 2-month section starting at Katahdin last year. He was navigationally challenged, so when he got to a reroute where some bog bridges had been submerged, he didn't dare try to follow the reroute because he would undoubtedly get lost. He thought to himself, "How deep could the mud be?"
When he was telling this story to the group, Grazer said, "That's your new trail name." And so it was.
He did find later that what is funny to a group of adults sitting around a campfire is pretty inappropriate when introducing oneself to a family with children.
Marta/Five-Leaf
If not NOW, then WHEN?
ME>GA 2006
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?trailname=3277
Instagram hiking photos: five.leafed.clover
Balls Deep comes under cool names
E-Z---"from sea to shining sea''
If not NOW, then WHEN?
ME>GA 2006
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?trailname=3277
Instagram hiking photos: five.leafed.clover
I know of a a couple of trail names people were saddled with but hated. "Diamond Doug" carried a note pad and left notes all along the trail. A log crossing the trail at pack level would have the note "duck", and anytime he saw anything intresting he left a note for those behind them. He soon became known as "Diamond Doug, The Litter Bug". I really liked the guy and his notes but it was littering. A father and son team argued and fought their way up the trail. While they went by one set of trail names all the hikers refered to them as "Archie and Meathead", Once Meathead left the trail the father got his trail name back and still uses it today.
Don't eat the yellow snow. O
I remember one hike where that note would have been useful. My hiking buddy just about got a concussion. I was about 20 feet behind him and noticed the log and managed to shout a warning but the sounds left my mouth about two milliseconds before the loud thunk of his forehead against the log. Ouch. He was hurtin'.
[quote=totally Boagus;343805]in 03 there was a young couple that whent by Snotrocket and Dingleberry.
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Summitted with a hiker named SnotRocket in 2003 (October 9th). He wore ONLY a black jock strap during his summit ...a sight not soon forgotten.
'Slogger
The more I learn ...the more I realize I don't know.
Sorry guys, but these are all for the most part pretty original and cool, to me stupid names are ones such as Gandalf, Hobbit, Frodo, Strider, anything with the word Turtle or Hobo in it. If you can say you have met several people with the same trail name.....then it's a stupid trailname. If they have to identify themselves as Turtle '05 because there are 4 or 5 Turtles every year.
Names like Monkeybutt, Balls Deep, etc. are cool because they stories associated with the naming is funny and they are original!!!
Best name I have read about so far this year is Golden Shower, if I remember correctly, he either was pee'd on or his sleeping bag was pee'd on by another drunken hiker.
Walking Dead Bear
Formerly the Hiker Known as Almost There
I always thought "Weary" was a terrible trail name. I inherited it from a 9-year-old grandson who walked 280 miles with me in Maine one August. He asked every through hiker he met to give him a name. One finally suggested "Weary Wanderer." Since he had trouble writing, I took to signing the registers as "The Weary Wanderers."
Two years later on the summit of Springer I made the mistake of using the same name -- which quickly got shortened to Weary.
Midway Sam
AT Section Hiker
"Adventure is not outside man; it is within." ~ Georg Eliot
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau
I dont know if this will qualify, but my nickname was Beatle Bailey, originally given because 'you looked like Beatle Bailey', but later explained it was given because I was the laziest guy to thru-hike the AT
Did some fishing with a guy who called himself 'poo maker' once /shrug