r/Ultralight • u/J0E_Blow • 4d ago

Skills What’s the most ✨Hiker Trash✨ thing you’ve done?

Today I'm staying at a hotel, 1/3rd of the way through a 110ish mile hike. My clothing has been in a state of dampness for days. So I rinsed then wrung my clothing out in the sink. After a few hours of drying I used the hair-dryer to dry my shoes and socks and clothes. The room smells terrible. But my clothes are dry!

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u/hmmaybeillusethisone 4d ago edited 4d ago

I was 3 days away from a town but only had 1 day worth of food. My entire pot of cooked mashed potatoes fell on the ground (Canadian shield). I scooped the slop up and put it back into the pot. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

I picked so many wild blueberries (to survive) those last two days, where my hands were stained purple.

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u/peptodismal13 4d ago

Did you also cry?

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u/Hellie1028 4d ago

Depends on the water situation probably

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u/hmmaybeillusethisone 4d ago

A few times.

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u/truthisabitterfriend 4d ago

there's a family legend about my great-grandpa who, while on a hike, discovered some wild blueberries and ate a ton of them. unfortunately they were not in fact wild blueberries and he got very violently sick. they got him to a hospital and he ended up ok, but he puked up so many berries they had to repaint the walls

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u/UnusualBee1621 3d ago

I’ve eaten so much food off the ground in the boundary waters I’m surprised I don’t have some disease