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Originally Posted by JLarson
This mental image made me laugh.
And yeah, my first backpacking trip was at age 8, dad brought myself and 2 of my brothers to the Davis Path in New Hampshire. I did that trail again a couple years ago - can't believe I did that at age 8! Go me! Definitely a lot of great moments. No exploding spaghetti O's though.
Few years back, some of my siblings took a trip with their friends. My brother Dan was kind of known for his fanatical weight lifting, so my sister Becky stuck a dumbbell in his backpack as a prank. Dan starts to put the pack on, realizes it's heavy and unbalanced, opens it and finds the weight.
Not realizing that it's a prank, his buddy Dave Buckler says "Wait, you're bringing that on the trail?!"
Without missing a beat, Dan responds that yes, how else is he going to keep lifting?
With a look of utter despair, Dave says "no wonder you Larsons are so fit, you're crazy! I'll never catch up with you!"
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When I was in the Scouts. We had a black family of 3 boys (the Cables) join the troop. They knew NOTHING of the outdoors and the woods. Been city kids all their life. They was a riot to watch them doing stuff.
We had the teach them everything. Well...........we went to scout camp for a week. Told all the kids no food and snacks in the tents because of the wild animals. First night, I'm laying in my cot with the flaps of the tent open. I could see all around our camp site. Just about to fall asleep...................then I smelled something...........OH...............NO........... .SKUNK!
That smell got my attention right NOW!. I looked around the camp site. I spotted a whole family of skunks. About 6 of them. They went from tent to tent looking for food. They came into my tent. I didn't move, and they left. They hit the Cables tent next. I heard screams. One Cable was trying to run in his sleep bag through the campsite. The other 2 was frozen in the tent. And the smell was unbearable. All 3 of them had been sprayed.
The scouts masters running around like clowns. They didn't know what to do.
I just stayed in my sleeping bag in my tent and just watched the show.
Poor Cables. They had to send them home in the morning because they smelled so bad. I really felt sorry for them. We all got yelled at in the morning about have food in the tents.
In the Cables tent. It looked like a mini mart with the snacks in it.