hey, just thought i'd ask about my other favorite hobby, but does anyone here backpack? i do a whole heck of a lot of it, i've mainly been going to my homes appalachain mts, virginia has the longest stretech of the appalachians so i've gone hiking quite a bit on the appalachian trail and our other numerous trails. i've also been to the rocky mts in colorado, those mts make ours look like hills!
i'd like to go to thailand......oneday and backpack the jungles there.
Spare Parts
For non-modeling topics and those without a home elsewhere.
For non-modeling topics and those without a home elsewhere.
Hosted by Jim Starkweather
anyone backpack?
Mech-Maniac
Member Since: April 16, 2004
entire network: 2,240 Posts
KitMaker Network: 730 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 12:03 PM UTC
Plasticbattle
#003
Member Since: May 14, 2002
entire network: 9,763 Posts
KitMaker Network: 1,351 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 12:07 PM UTC
Quoted Text
i'd like to go to thailand......oneday and backpack the jungles there.
Not recommended at the moment. There was a warning today from the Swedish embassey in Thailand warning Swedes to stay away from several areas there!
Sounds like hard work to me!
Hollowpoint
Member Since: January 24, 2002
entire network: 2,748 Posts
KitMaker Network: 841 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 12:51 PM UTC
Quoted Text
Subject: anyone backpack?
Used to. Then I left the Light Infantry and went Mech.
SpiritsEye
Member Since: May 09, 2004
entire network: 1,041 Posts
KitMaker Network: 0 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 01:39 PM UTC
yup, i agree that backpacking in Thailand now is not advisable...
keep updated on the situation in Thailand to see if it improves.
keep updated on the situation in Thailand to see if it improves.
Mech-Maniac
Member Since: April 16, 2004
entire network: 2,240 Posts
KitMaker Network: 730 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 01:54 PM UTC
Quoted Text
Not recommended at the moment. There was a warning today from the Swedish embassey in Thailand warning Swedes to stay away from several areas there!
Sounds like hard work to me!
well, i'd put down the swedes for ruining my fun, but i am part swedish myself! so thanks to myself for ruining my own fun?! i dont know but thats a bummer, i guess. but i'll end up backpacking around and riding the eurail around europe after i graduate HS in 2006 w/ my friend travis. ya it can be hard, the occasional UP comes here and there, but its fun, gets me away from life and i can just enjoy the outdoors without the nusiance of tvs cdplayers, cars going by.....where i can just be ZEN....
Quoted Text
Used to. Then I left the Light Infantry and went Mech.
pfffft...slacker haha only kidding, dont think the military calls it backpacking, neither would i w/ 80 lbs. of gear on my back, i'd call that a hump!
even if some of you guys dont backpack like i do, i'd recommend doing a local nature hike (if available) its pretty relaxing.
-happy hiking!
-Shain
Grumpyoldman
ConsigliereMember Since: October 17, 2003
entire network: 15,338 Posts
KitMaker Network: 5,072 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 02:22 PM UTC
Join the Infantry..... you'll love it......
I prefered the Navy.... 3 hots and a cot everyday...... :-) :-) :-)
And we got to wear those great old 'Cracker Jack" suits......
13 button pants and a real cute dixie cup hat, and always carried our napkins around our necks....... :-) :-) :-) :-)
I prefered the Navy.... 3 hots and a cot everyday...... :-) :-) :-)
And we got to wear those great old 'Cracker Jack" suits......
13 button pants and a real cute dixie cup hat, and always carried our napkins around our necks....... :-) :-) :-) :-)
Mech-Maniac
Member Since: April 16, 2004
entire network: 2,240 Posts
KitMaker Network: 730 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 02:49 PM UTC
DAVE! you're just the man i'm looking for, wanna do a backpacking trip? we'll just do an old dayhike i did once, we'll start at harpers ferry (nice civil war history) and end up at skymeadows....i think the milage was 21.4 miles, this is just a dayhike so what do ya say we do this thing i'll carry the lunch
i'll carry the lunchGrumpyoldman
ConsigliereMember Since: October 17, 2003
entire network: 15,338 Posts
KitMaker Network: 5,072 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 04:24 PM UTC
Shaine.... I live along the Jockey Hollow Trail ..... and did it three times..... once as a scout, and twice as a scoutmaster..... of course I was a lot younger and lighter on my feet back in the days of teeth and hair.......and also a wonderful specimen of youthful manhood......
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
I may even have an old Jockey Hollow Medal laying about.
Would love a short day hike, as long as we talk models and chase women......... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
I may even have an old Jockey Hollow Medal laying about.
Would love a short day hike, as long as we talk models and chase women......... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
SpiritsEye
Member Since: May 09, 2004
entire network: 1,041 Posts
KitMaker Network: 0 Posts
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 07:34 PM UTC
Quoted Text
i've done alot of backpacking around the world mate, been through the middle east and South east asia, including Cambodia and Vietnam.... as for warnings about thailand...hmmm well haven't heard anything about that som perhaps someone could fill me in?
errrm... currently, the radical Muslims in the country are creating trouble for the Thai government... it all started when the government arrested those troublemakers and squeeze them into the army trucks, alot of them were suffocated.
keenan
Member Since: October 16, 2002
entire network: 5,272 Posts
KitMaker Network: 2,192 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 01:42 AM UTC
I have been known to "12 pack." Does that count?
Sorry, couldn't help it...
Shaun
Sorry, couldn't help it...
Shaun
SpiritsEye
Member Since: May 09, 2004
entire network: 1,041 Posts
KitMaker Network: 0 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 03:17 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Spiritseye,
thanks for the up date..but aren't most of the Muslim population in the southern part of thailand?
i could be wrong as its been about 4 years since i was last out that way... if so people can still go too northern thailand and do some hiking up near the laos border area...marvelous scenery out there.
yup, the trouble are stirred up in the south.. But, no one can be too complacent!
airwarrior
Member Since: November 21, 2002
entire network: 2,085 Posts
KitMaker Network: 559 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 04:17 AM UTC
Hey shain,
I love hiking, went on a 20 miler last april. That was a fun trip, I did the entire hike with a scout backpack from (I'm pretty) 1911, and a couple millitary bags. Rained like a (female dog) on the first day, and on the second day I slept outside on the top of the mountian. We even had some sailplanes buzzing us for a couple hours on the top. We will have a short hike this month, we're staying at millitary barracks and hiking around a mountain pretty fun, if it gets here in time I'm probably gonna do the entire hike with some repro WW1 millitary equipment I bought in like august....
If he can't come, I might find a way to go. I know a couple scouts who'll go as well.....
I love hiking, went on a 20 miler last april. That was a fun trip, I did the entire hike with a scout backpack from (I'm pretty) 1911, and a couple millitary bags. Rained like a (female dog) on the first day, and on the second day I slept outside on the top of the mountian. We even had some sailplanes buzzing us for a couple hours on the top. We will have a short hike this month, we're staying at millitary barracks and hiking around a mountain pretty fun, if it gets here in time I'm probably gonna do the entire hike with some repro WW1 millitary equipment I bought in like august....
Quoted Text
DAVE! you're just the man i'm looking for, wanna do a backpacking trip? we'll just do an old dayhike i did once, we'll start at harpers ferry (nice civil war history) and end up at skymeadows....i think the milage was 21.4 miles, this is just a dayhike so what do ya say we do this thing i'll carry the lunch
If he can't come, I might find a way to go. I know a couple scouts who'll go as well.....
Marty
Member Since: June 16, 2002
entire network: 2,312 Posts
KitMaker Network: 871 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 04:23 AM UTC
Quoted Text
and always carried our napkins around our necks
Hey Dave, I thought that was a bib! :-) :-)
As far as backpacking goes, I used to do it 3 months out of a year. When I was 17 - 19 years old I was a troop leader for two co-ed scout troops. We had around 100 kids (teenagers is more like it) in total and every year when school ended in the summer (early June) we would pack our stuff and either travel north to the Baltic Sea and Lakes region or south to the mountains and trek all over the place until it was time to come home in late August. We would do the same although more of stationary camp in the winter during the 2-week winter school vacation.
Oh man these where the times! I miss that a lot
Once my daughter gets a bit older I am going to introduce her to the fine life of camping, bivouacking, hiking and being one with mother nature.
Czuwaj!
mikeli125
Member Since: December 24, 2002
entire network: 2,595 Posts
KitMaker Network: 1,079 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 05:34 AM UTC
I like a bit of Hill walking, only time I do tents is when I need one on a scooter rally (once a year) the dogs like hill walking as well good exersize for them, However I have done the west highland way when I was 15
Mech-Maniac
Member Since: April 16, 2004
entire network: 2,240 Posts
KitMaker Network: 730 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 08:35 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Shaine.... I live along the Jockey Hollow Trail ..... and did it three times..... once as a scout, and twice as a scoutmaster..... of course I was a lot younger and lighter on my feet back in the days of teeth and hair.......and also a wonderful specimen of youthful manhood......
I may even have an old Jockey Hollow Medal laying about.
Would love a short day hike, as long as we talk models and chase women.........
well we can talk models! and there are more and more women hiking these days, and A LOT of em' are pretty cute
Quoted Text
if he can't come, I might find a way to go. I know a couple scouts who'll go as well.....
awsome, its much more fun to do in the spring/summer months than winter, as it is very cloudy in the winter up in the mts here and you cant enjoy it nearly as much, if you wanna do this, let me know and i can find the maps and such
tankysgal1
Member Since: January 28, 2004
entire network: 1,430 Posts
KitMaker Network: 0 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 10:12 AM UTC
Backpacking can be a lot of fun, I just moved here from South Carolina where we have the Great Smokey Mountians in that area. And after just recently this week , traveling to Colorado and vacation right outside the Rocky Mountian National Park, i would agree with the comments about the mountians..
Mary
(++)
Mary
(++) 
cardinal
Member Since: October 05, 2003
entire network: 1,008 Posts
KitMaker Network: 492 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 11:06 AM UTC
Backpacking & modeling doesn't really go together but I like them both. That's why during the summer months here in the northeast I put all my modeling stuff on the shelf & hit the trail with my wife. We did a bit of camping last June in the Adirondacks & it was great. I used to go with a mountaineering group hiting the trails & climbing some mountain when I was back in the Philippines. Our dream is to hit the Appalachian trail (from Georgia to Maine)& maybe go on a white water rafting adventure down the Colorado river someday.
Mech-Maniac
Member Since: April 16, 2004
entire network: 2,240 Posts
KitMaker Network: 730 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 11:10 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Backpacking & modeling doesn't really go together but I like them both. That's why during the summer months here in the northeast I put all my modeling stuff on the shelf & hit the trail with my wife. We did a bit of camping last June in the Adirondacks & it was great. We even went to the west coast to scout for some camping sites there. Our dream is to hit the Appalachian trail (from Georgia to Maine)& maybe go on a white water rafting adventure down the Colorado river someday.
thru hike the AT? sounds fun, i'm a section hiker, dont have time to do the AT as i am in high school and it takes 3 months at a steady pace to complete it. i've been to colorado and white water rafted down the Arkansas river, a lot of fun,
Grumpyoldman
ConsigliereMember Since: October 17, 2003
entire network: 15,338 Posts
KitMaker Network: 5,072 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 01:34 PM UTC
Quoted Text
and always carried our napkins around our necks
Quoted Text
LOL yep, used for that too...... in memory of Lord Nelson by the way.....Hey Dave, I thought that was a bib!
As for the camping gig..... that's more my style..... except today I drive the truck to the campsite, not carry the campsite on my back....... and yep, I even bring the portable shower along.....
and the laptop, to watch movies on....... LOL LMAO
Manchu34
Member Since: March 08, 2002
entire network: 493 Posts
KitMaker Network: 82 Posts
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 06:55 PM UTC
Done a lot of backpacking over the years. Spent two weeks backpacking through the New England states, back in my youth when I lived in Mass. Did even more in my 20 years in the US Army with 11 being a Lighter Fighter with the 7 Infantry Division Light. With them I did it Korea, Panama (Just Cause), Ft. Bragg, Benning, Hunter-Liggett, Ord, Chaffee (Arkansas), Hawaii, and that's just naminmg a few.
Now, the years are catching up with me I have cut back to a few a year with my boy Scout troop.
Now, the years are catching up with me I have cut back to a few a year with my boy Scout troop.
 |
WEB HOSTING BY
Copyright ©2021 KitMaker Network and Kitmaker Network, a subsidiary of Silver Star Enterprises
All Rights Reserved. Please read our Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy.
All Rights Reserved. Please read our Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy.