Just got back from a backpacking trip

[strongbad]

27 miles of having 40 lbs of shit on my back. God damn my shoulders are sore as fuck.
But it wasn't that bad. We hiked 10 miles the first day, and then camped in the wilderness. The next day, we hiked about 13 miles, and stayed in a small town at a free camp ground. The last day, we hiked the rest, and then stayed over night at a lake and went Water Skiiing and such. It was a fun experience overall, but it was definitally much more of a strain on my body than I expected.

So anybody else done any semi-long hiking trips before?

[ncba93ivyase]

i carried 40 pounds on my back all day in fifth grade for some civil war thing

it was optional and i just had to prove i could do it. everyone else gave up at lunch but i made it all day

[Hiro]

Sounds pretty hardcore.

And fun.

I'm going camping sometime soon.

[CutLess]

27 miles of having 40 lbs of shit on my back. God damn my shoulders are sore as fuck.
But it wasn't that bad. We hiked 10 miles the first day, and then camped in the wilderness. The next day, we hiked about 13 miles, and stayed in a small town at a free camp ground. The last day, we hiked the rest, and then stayed over night at a lake and went Water Skiiing and such. It was a fun experience overall, but it was definitally much more of a strain on my body than I expected.

So anybody else done any semi-long hiking trips before?

Who's the "we" you were talking about?  Your family?

Personally, I've never been camping.  I wouldn't mind going camping at all, though.

[strongbad]

Who's the "we" you were talking about?  Your family?

I guess I should of explained that.
That member... I think his name is Marsipan, but he had like 100 posts, so nobody remembers him, but he's a really good friend of mine and my father, my friend eric (marsipan lol), his dad, and myself all went together. Oh yeah and this old guy named Jeff came who looking like a fucking mountineer and dominated us all in backpacking.
Yeah.

[Trini]

My science teacher wanted to take us on a hike through Ocala national forest (In florida).  But we didn't get the minimum amount of kids we needed to pay so we could get the bus. Damn lazyasses.  edumacate;

[Socks]

Yes I have, not in the U.S. though. A few cousins of mine and I camped out in the wilderness of our native country for a week some time ago; it was pretty fun.

[Kingmush]

I've hiked, not 10 or 13 miles at a time and I didn't camp out when I got tired, me and my dad just hike like all the trails that we see when we go on vacation (which includes Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Sequoia, some of Death Valley, etc.).

But speaking of extreme hiking, my cousin last year hiked the Appalacian Trail which runs from Maine to Georgia.

[The spy who loves you]

The closest thing is I've had to drive for 13 hueres  Naperville Illinois to the deep south, somewhere in mrshippy  and stay there

And when I mean deep I mean fucking red river clay dirt road deep.

yeah

[Claquesous]

Me and my family camped every night on the way to Idaho, for white water rafting. We camped in Kentucky the first night, St. Louis Missouri the second night (and also saw the arch), near the badlands in South Dakota the third night, Yellowstone the fourth night, and in Idaho the fifth night, which was also where we would begin rafting. We spent three nights on the river, camping at different spots each night. Camped all the way coming back, too.

And my dad and a few friends hiked the Appalachian Trail once. Not the whole thing, I don't think.

I've also been camping plenty of times with my cousin, aunt, and uncle next to the river.

[Feynman]

Never.

[Houdini]

I don't do any hardcore backpacking, but I am a fan of hiking. I've done a bunch of hiking in New Mexico.