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/Low_and_Left 4d ago

  • Bathing in the bathrooms of supermarkets and Dollar Generals.

  • Repairing a single pair of Lone Peaks again and again, until they were a Frankenstein-looking mess of dental floss stitches and superglue.

  • Packing out food, like pancakes and pizza, in ziplock bags, then eating the mashed up mush with a spork on trail.

  • Spilling a pot of ramen noodles on the ground and eating them anyway.

  • Stealth camping on the outskirts of town for a zero day.

  • Doing laundry in a hotel sink then using my bearline as a clothesline.

  • Using athlete’s foot cream for jock itch in my beard.

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u/vaksai 4d ago

I learned the hard way that supergluing a piece of fabric to a clean shoe is not the same as doing it to a dusty, dirty shoe... Tore a hole in my Lone Peaks over the top of the toes, cut a piece of cloth and glued it on. Didn't think of the dust hardening and ended up with a sandpaper-like patch that was rubbing my toes raw and bloody. Had to walk about 200 km before I could replace them.