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Thought maybe people could talk about positive experiences while hiking which involved meeting other people out on the trail.
Mine is a simple one from one of the very first backpacking trips I ever took many years ago at a lean to near Tirrell Pond. I ended up sharing a lean to with another hiker I didn't know and in the course of one of our talks I showed him my new compass that I had recently purchased. Somehow he ended up keeping it by accident (neither of us realized it). When I hiked out several days later, there was my compass attached to my car. He had sought out a ranger who helped him to locate my car. I don't know how long it took him to find my car, but that simple act meant enough to me that over 40 years later I still recall it. That first impression of the kind of people we run into while out on the trails in the Daks will remain with me forever.
Mine is a simple one from one of the very first backpacking trips I ever took many years ago at a lean to near Tirrell Pond. I ended up sharing a lean to with another hiker I didn't know and in the course of one of our talks I showed him my new compass that I had recently purchased. Somehow he ended up keeping it by accident (neither of us realized it). When I hiked out several days later, there was my compass attached to my car. He had sought out a ranger who helped him to locate my car. I don't know how long it took him to find my car, but that simple act meant enough to me that over 40 years later I still recall it. That first impression of the kind of people we run into while out on the trails in the Daks will remain with me forever.
We thought maybe someone had an air compressor or a can of fix a flat or something. That was pretty cool!
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