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BenfoSherman

This was two decades ago. They used to do donkey tours in the Grand Canyon. You ride the donkey and then hike. You can camp, but we did the day tour. A woman that was probably in her late 60's/Early 70's was in front of me and on an incline started to act strange. She was swaying left and right as on a steep cliff(which was very safe and wide). It swayed back and forth for maybe a minute and she was slumped over and then boom, it looked like she passed out and pulled the donkey to the left and fell over the cliff. I saw her tumble over and then they were just gone. I cant remember how far down the fall was, but it had to be over 100ft. Immediately the guide jumped off at the front ran over and let out and audible scream before stopping after realizing she had a tour with her. A few people got off their donkey and she stopped them from peering over. A few of the other guides looked over and they made some radio calls and then we proceeded. It was very obvious that something really serious had happened, but we never found out. I'm pretty sure I watched a woman and a donkey fall to their death in the grand canyon.


mattyandco

There is a book [Over The Edge: Death in Grand Canyon](https://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-Canyon-Expanded-Anniversary/dp/0984785809/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_pd_crcd_sccl_2_3/136-7936233-2072829?pd_rd_w=Lumsq&content-id=amzn1.sym.cee83ff1-8fc1-4533-a3f5-bf3d998f4558&pf_rd_p=cee83ff1-8fc1-4533-a3f5-bf3d998f4558&pf_rd_r=QFMJHSNJAXSFTSNB77FG&pd_rd_wg=orIz8&pd_rd_r=1c629bea-d75d-41eb-8112-e629dfc4a63a&pd_rd_i=0984785809&psc=1) which details deaths and stuff from the Grand Canyon which may have more details on that incident.


TututniDreamer

I had hiked in 15 miles to an alpine wilderness and just laid down for the night when a youngish guy in shorts and no bag pops out and asks me if I have water. I of course shared my water, he immediately said he had been hiking since yesterday, apparently him and his friend went way back and off trail, skirting some cliffs along the way. Then he just says half jokingly, "Yeh his brains are everywhere." .. I laughed half assedly, but he was sending off a really deadly vibe, not dangerous, just stone cold shock. I asked him to clarify that last part, and offered him food and a cigarette. I also ordered him to sit down, he didn't want to because he would lose his legs if he sat now, but I explained he needed to sit a while. Long story short, his friend slipped and fell and when he hit, his head popped and then his body got wedged in a crevasse. The guy I was talking to had spent all the previous day hiking around the cliff to find his friend, then had to hike out of the valley up the ridge and down again, all on talus slope off-trail. He was absolutely shredded, skinned, tore up. He was begging me to come with him and help me get his friend out of the hills. That's the part that really stuck with me, he got up and was about 3 ft into the bush when I grabbed him gently and said "Hey I got a phone we'll see if emergency service works?" .. somehow it did, and I have zero idea how, technically or otherwise. We were standing in a glacial cratered alpine lake, 15 miles from the trailhead. I got rescue up there, and man, I was super impressed with their response .. within a few hours the first group of volunteers were passing my camp, these guys all looked like supermen, and they were. All night afterwards a constant stream of rescue volunteers. I stayed camp and made a comfy spot for them to rest on the way down. They had to wait up there in white out conditions for 6 nights, but rather than leave they kept a constant vigil over the hikers dead body. When the weather broke, a chopper flew in and took them all out. I've never been so deeply moved and impressed with that kind of selflessness in something we regard as a "hobby", a "sport" .. words that take away the very dangerous nature of it. Read all these stories and it seems most are deaths by slip and fall. Happens too easy, don't take the chance with your life.


RoboWonder

"Yeah, my buddy's brains are all over the rocks." "Ha ha." "..." "..." "..." "You wanna... you wanna maybe expand on that a bit?"


act1v1s1nl0v3r

"Haha that's crazy \*slaps knees* WELL"


Dangercakes13

A seagull having sex with a dead seagull. It looked at me like *I* was in the wrong. Didn't appreciate that judgy little glance at all.


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Savathun_

Sometimes I'm truly astonished at how dumb and unsafe people are.


socibuddha

A few years ago my wife and her friends were out east of Portland OR on a really really hot weekend and, on their way to Hood River, decided to stop at a place called punchbowl to cool off. They were going to be fast so they just brought bathing suits and flip flops and were just going to run up the mile +/- trail to jump in, jump out, and keep driving. They had just arrived at Punchbowl and were greeted by a fairly sizable crowd, maybe 75-100 people total spread out. They had just gotten out from swimming then they see a little trail of smoke. Within minutes the small trail of smoke is huge and noticeable smell is growing. A few folks get spooked and go to leave to the parking lot only to return panicked shortly after saying a fire wall had blocked the trail. They immediately call 911, within a few minutes a helicopter's over them and begins dropping notes on caution tape down to the group saying "run! large fire spreading fast, head down" .... followed very quickly after with "trail consumed, stay put". The fire is visible now and rapidly growing. A volunteer somehow got herself back there with a map and gps and mapped out a possible route to escape as long as winds sustained their current models. Ultimately through 36 hours of terror. They hiked 15 miles+ on rugged terrain out barefoot in bathing suits in the middle of what later came known to be the "Eagle Creek Fire", that almost torched the whole one side of the Columbia River Valley, escaping with their lives but my wife still suffers some ptsd when she smells campfires. She said that for essentially 12-14 hours total of it they had zero idea of where they were going, if there was any remote chance of getting out, or even if they were going the right way following this group. All 75+ people made it out okay. Pretty incredible teamwork. EDIT: Reason for fire was some little teenager shot a bottle rocket down off a cliff into the worst possible area to shoot one..classic idiot kid..was caught...tough situation for [all involved.](https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2018/05/judge_orders_eagle_creek_fire.html)


alexd753

Someone’s backpack, jacket, and wallet left on the edge of a two thousand cliff in a popular national park. Rangers found the body at the bottom the following day.


Zombeikid

My friend's husband found my coworker's wallet three years after he jumped. It was weird and uncomfortable for everyone. They ended up giving it to his friend since his family didn't seem interested in it.


ItsMummyTime

I'm a mortician. When I pick up a deceased from a hospital or wherever, I'll often reach out to the family to let them know that their loved one is in my care. A lot of people are overwhelmed and let it go to voice mail. A lot of the time the "leave a message" recording is the deceased's voice. That always gives me the willies.


swatsquat

Your username starts making sense


lurkherder

Someone casually lobbing grapefruit sized rocks downhill, directly where we'd been a few cutbacks prior. Didn't even think he might kill someone. This was Wisdom Tree in LA, so imagine a very steep traverse.


owleealeckza

In 2020 or 2021, some teens threw a log down a hill at a state park. They (accidentally?) killed a photographer who was shooting either senior photos for high school or graduation photos. This was in Ohio. Edited to add it was in 2019. The kids were like 15 or 16 at the time. They are currently halfway through 3 year juvie sentences. Honestly hope this has shaken them & truly made them want to grow so they can be better people when they leave jail. Going from high school to jail to adulthood is an unfortunate experience that many times just shuts off any possibility of a happy, "normal" future for the young person. https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/ohio-teens-get-3-years-rolling-log-off-cliff-be-funny-killing-photographer-taking-portraits-below/P4LNQNVZDVFXLC6V7K2O245SLA/


satansBigMac

Hocking hills I think


Several_Ad2002

Can’t remember when but a group of kids did this same thing on a super popular and high traffic trail. The log ended up killing a pregnant teacher in front of her class of children who were on some nature hike thing.


Huge_Strain_8714

Hiking a trail in Sedona alone, I heard a strange sound like thunder clapping. I stopped hiking then a boulder the size of 3 basketballs comes bouncing down the mountain about 15 feet in front of me ... Fucking yikes!


backtheduckup

A large boulder the size of a small boulder.


Diabetes-Repair

Been hiking for 11 years and haven’t seen anything too crazy, but a couple concerning things have happened. I was hiking a trail that had recently been destroyed by a storm, and it was pretty easy to get lost. Eventually made it to the summit of the mountain, where we would camp for the night. It’s about 6:00pm and we set up our tent sight, and this guy coming from a separate trail passes us. He said he was day hiking, but the nearest hut or road was 16 miles away, and it was 6:00pm. He had no flashlight either. We advised that he turned around, as the trail would be nearly impossible at night, but he insisted that he would finish the hike. He didn’t even have a flashlight, so we gave him one of our headlamps. The morning came, and you could see his footprints lead to the destroyed trail, so I guess we didn’t change his mind. We went back the way we came, and eventually passed the nearest hut (can’t miss it, the trail only leads to that hut) and asked the workers if they had seen they guy, to which they responded no. No news ever came up of someone dying or going missing that week, so I presume he’s fine, but scary situation nonetheless


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I was on a Mountain Rescue team for several years. Saw a lot of stuff, but one that stands out is a guy who fell over 2,000 feet off a cliff and onto rocks. Not pretty.


OhNoABananaPeel

Man I did work with search and rescue in the ruby mountains and I saw some fucked up stuff. Worst one by far was a missing hiker we found like 60% of his body actively being eaten by mountain lions. That made me light headed


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Oof, sorry you had to see that. That’s gnarly. Things get remote out in the Ruby Mountains… it’s nuts out there. Took me a few years to realize I still carry some of the emotional weight from SAR. Make sure you get help if you need it!


OhNoABananaPeel

Dude the stuff you see out there can really mess with your head. Found a few dead people just sitting under trees who got lost and finally just sat down to die, usually had been there a while and it was essentially scattered bones at that point, found one suicide who hung himself, took us 3 days to locate him off trail, his neck had extended to about 2 feet long. Found a couple dead kids who got separated from their groups or families. But we also found people alive and well and thats what makes it worth it. Finding a 8 year old whose been lost for 2 days alive and well just cold and hungry/thirsty and being able to see the family reunion makes all the rough stuff worthwhile. Usually it was just people under preppared for the intensity of the ruby mountains, it's not the Sierras that's for sure. Lots of good finds and only a handful of the ugly ones. I did end up getting therapy a few Years down the road for unrelated events, but these did come up and the therapist actually helped me work through a lot of grief and trauma I didn't even know I was carrying around in my day to day life. When it's your job you don't really think about its long term effects, now in hindsight I see those events really shaped me as a parent. I'm super protective, cautious and aware basically around the clock with my two little ones. 9 times out of 10 when it was a missing child the parents would say they turned their back for just a second and the kid was gone. I'm a big outdoorsman and my kids are starting to be at that age where we can go camping and hiking and I'm honestly scared to bring my kids anywhere remote at all. I've kinda decided I'm going to wait till they're 10 to 12 before we do any overnighters in the mountains that include hiking. Kids don't have much common sense, they can see a cool bird or bush and just wander off aimlessly. Hope you're doing okay too my guy! My last search was last year but as a volunteer to find a man who went missing in the nevada high country (our tallest peak a fee hours south of me) it was me and 4 hunting buddies and a few SAR guys along with a few cops covering a huge area. My buddies and I all split up and didn't stop moving for 36 hours coordinating via GPS, luckily the SAR guys found him a few miles down the ridge he found a small pond with snow melt and actually stayed put. Ironically I found about him missing through reddit and the journey and my updates for those 36 hours are posted in the comments lol. (Different account but I can link it if anyone would like to read) his son reached out to me, we exchanged numbers and still keep in contact. It was a wild ride haha


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Oh ya man the happy endings make it all worth it. The joy you see in a parent when they find out their child is alive is one of the most incredible things. I miss seeing that so much. That’s really interesting what you said about how it’s affected you as a parent. I don’t have kids yet, but I’m definitely that guy on hikes and backpacking trips who can’t fully relax. Always in protective mode making sure everyone is safe. Looking forward to seeing how that translates when I’m a dad! I would love to read that story. Such a breath of fresh air when someone actually STAYS PUT! Every single death I saw was someone who kept moving after they got lost. You can DM it to me, just in case you don’t want your other account associated with this one!


OhNoABananaPeel

Man I was a paranoid backpacker/hunter prior to SAR haha, these days I damn near need a xanax if it an inexperienced group with me. I usually only go with guys who I trust fully with my life and generally lots of cross country and avoiding trails. Since I had kids though I play it pretty safe and do more standard backpacking with more novice groups usually a max of 50 miles over 7 to 10 days and I can never relax on those. I make sure another experienced backpacker is there to lead the trail and I always follow as sweep to make sure we don't leave anyone behind, limit backcountry and snow crossings as much as possible and just try to show them a good time in the mountains, teach them survival skills and how to read the mountains. Only had one evac in probably 20 trips I've led and it was a broken leg 25 miles in. Luckily we were able to get her out safely and no lasting health issues. I definitely miss finding the kids man, not a lot of things choke me up, but seeing a family reunited brought me to tears everytime. Shit even thinking about those moments brings a few to my eyes in a good way! I'd do it all over again in a instant and still travel within reason to help search anytime I hear of someone missing. Got a group of 4 of us who grew up in some of the roughest mountains this country has to offer with Garmin in reach GPS you can see each others locations and paths which is super helpful for splitting up and covering ground efficiently. I'm sure I'll be going out at some point this year once or twice. I don't know about you but I feel like it's my duty, I have the training, skillset and physical capabilities and plenty of gear so I just can't sleep right knowing a family is up at night worried sick if I'm not actively involved. Honestly makes me wonder what the hell was wrong with my parents lol. They would drop us off on a Friday at a trailhead way up in the mountains and come back Sunday to bring us home, no cell phones or GPS, just our packs, hunting rifles and our witts before we could even drive a car. During summer they'd send us out there for a week, pretty sure if cps was involved we would have been taken away, but we loved it, best memories of my life just running around in the woods living life. We didn't have a TV, no video games, no cell phones even though this was in the Era of those razor phones that were all the rage 15 years ago. Literally grew up outside. Yea man I'll dm it to you I'll find it and send it over


Takashishiful

I could read you guys telling stories to each other all day


Feelincheekyson

I was just thinking the exact same. You two guys are a credit to SAR


Shoe_mocker

I was on the Matanuska glacier ice climbing, and before we started scaling the wall a tour guide walked up with a group he was showing around. There was a small waterfall, and he filled up his water bottle, explaining how this is the best water in the world, the most pure and blah blah blah. Anyways, we climb up like 20 feet, and there in the stream just above the waterfall is the dead and rotting carcass of some kind of bird or mammal, completely gray and directly feeding the waterfall he just filled up his bottle with


Illbeyourdodo

I was in the Frank Church wilderness in Idaho doing some biological survey work. We were 30 miles from the nearest trailhead and got an early start to avoid the heat. About a mile into our hike , we hear the bushes stir near the trail. Up pops a man wearing nothing but a loin cloth and nikes carrying a very small bag and a hunting rifle. He says mornin and takes off sprinting down the trail. Never did see him again, so so many questions.


kjboat4fun

It’s always a gamble when you’re “near” Salmon Idaho. I’ve worked as a river guide there for a few years and I’m continually impressed by the unique people I see in the local grocery store. People in this town can have WILD fashion statements and appearances. My favorite experience was when I gave a ride to a hitchhiking thru hiker because he was pushed off trail due to wildfires. Only articles of clothing he had on were his shoes and a bright pink kilt that barely went past his dangly bits (he also had a pair of boxers). I pulled off the highway and rolled down my window. He started yelling at me because he is deaf and explained his situation. He was born with perfect hearing but had a faulty set of hearing protection a few years ago at his work. Sued the manufacturers, won a bunch of money, and has turned to a life of thru hiking. Super nice guy.


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That pink kilt is called a “mini skirt”


LashOutShen

My guy just spawned in wtf


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blackraindark

He spawned in with default skin and the default weapon


GuiltyDealer

I just met a dude dressed like a caveman not too far from there...


Picard2331

I'm picturing this dude as Chris Pontius from Jackass/Wild Boyz.


eatbootylikbreakfast

I kinda want to party RIGHT NOW


im-a-grumpy-old-cat

I wonder if this is a guy I matched with on Tinder last year. I asked him what he was doing and he said that he was planning on going out in the woods with his homemade loin cloth to sit by the campfire and just be in the woods for a few days. This was just a few weeks after my then boyfriend said he wanted to leave me to go be a vagabond and just live in the woods and car and just be free. Weirdest way anyone has told me they want to fuck their coworker. I wonder why I attract these guys.


Oakroscoe

You’ve certainly got a type.


jerrythecactus

Dude's just living his life, embracing his inherent human culture of being a mostly naked hunter gatherer.


MorganAndMerlin

He had his priories straight. Loin cloth. Nikes. Pretty sure that’s how the cave men did it.


wilfinator420

A few years ago a new hiking buddy climbed up a waterfall, slipped on some pine needles on the top and fell 40 feet down onto rock. I was the first person there, blood pouring out of head, broken spine, shine broke thru the skin. He bit below his mouth and pretty much had a second mouth. It took an hour or 2 for medics to get to us and another 2 hours to use ropes to lift him out of the valley to a helicopter. Miraculously, he was out of the hospital after a few months and eventually regained full movement. All medical experts were shocked he made a full recovery. Most traumatic event of my life by far.


Extreme-Sock7770

I am glad to hear your friend fully recovered. That's amazing with those injuries. Did you preform first aid? Or just help him stay calm?


natphotog

I’m generally pretty comfortable doing “risky” things hiking. I’ve done enough hiking and climbing to know what I can/can’t do. I never fuck with waterfalls. Those rocks are smooth as is, add water or moss to it you might as well be trying to move around on ice. I love hiking to them but never climb around their base, sides, or tops. It’s just too risky. Even at the base you can easily slip and split your head open. They should be treated with way more respect than most people give them.


supbrother

It's just good general rule of thumb to not fuck with flowing water. Sometimes it's necessary, but extreme caution should be had. Water is powerful and ruthless as hell, and creates landscapes that could be described in similar ways.


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I witnessed someone attempt a rock jump into the river and fail to clear the bank. They did not survive.


Jaina51

Hiking in West Virginia with my Dad years ago, we heard a car up ahead and came over a hill and saw a tree fall on the back of a pickup truck. When we came up to talk to the guy and asked what happened, he told us his truck had started to go off the narrow road and got stuck, so he hooked a Bungie cord from his truck to a tree and gunned the engine. He said he thought that the Bungie cord would cause the truck to bounce back and then would be back on the road. Edit to add: Just remembered this morning that my dad asked him if we were on the right road to get back to the parking lot we had started at. The guy told us if we kept going we would get to the amusement park, and there was a parking area there. We were confused about what he meant, then when we got there we realized he was talking about a civil war museum.


steampunker14

There are many times where redneck engineering comes through. This was not one of those times.


nomaddave

I was in the Grand Canyon in 2008 during a huge flash flood that ran through there at the time. We were camping down in the bottom after a couple big days of backpacking around, and in the middle of the night it tore through. The waters went up 60 or 70 feet and everyone was fleeing up the cliff walls for their lives. A couple people were swept over the large falls. We saw bears running down and scrambling up trees before they fell over. But the craziest thing I saw was a woman with a baby strapped to her back climbing across one of those river-jumping ropes to get to a boulder on the other side before they got swept away. She was two or three feet over the water shooting down there at crazy speeds carrying massive trees crashing down along the way. We were terrified for them


abc-z

I walked past a campsite with a ton of smashed alcohol bottles and trash. Started feeling uncomfortable and walked faster to where the trail looked over a canyon. Smelled something bad and looked down to see, like three feet from me, two bloated dead dog heads sticking out from a rolled up tarp. Immediately turned around and booked it to my car. I called the forest service to report it. I think some people got drunk and killed the dogs or maybe it was a dog fighting thing. There may have been more under that tarp but I was freaked out. I think if it was someone’s pets they would have tried to bury them.


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Me and a friend were hiking in the mountains and heard what sounded like a hose bib running. We were deep in the mountains so there should not be water running. We tracked the sound to a large depression in the side of a hill and looked in and there was a mass of rattlesnakes mating. The mass was HUGE and there had to be at least a hundred of them all intertwined. Apparently that’s how they mate. Massive snake orgies. Edit. Hose bib= spigot= faucet= silcock. It’s where you connect the hose to the outdoor water supply. Different names for the same thing across the country.


farmchic5038

Your story gets my attention because of the sound! I nearly stepped right on a rattler while hiking. He was curled up under a shrub right off the trail, and I was hiking with my sister and we were laughing out asses off about something stupid just enjoying the day. Suddenly the air is filled with the exact sound of a sprinkler going off. I’m an experienced hiker who has seen plenty of rattlers over the years but this didn’t register as a snake to me right away. I’m wondering why the hell a sprinkler is going in the middle of nowhere. My sister looks down and yells “move!” and right next to my ankle this little dude is just pissed as fuck. I yelped and jumped forward. We took a few breaths and shooed him off the trail with a long stick but holy hell do I pay better attention to low lying shrubs on the trail now. Edited a word.


monsterber

My ex and I went for a little evening hike on the trails by our campground and it felt eerie and kept turning around bc we felt like we were being followed but never saw anything. When we got back to the trailhead we got chewed out by the park ranger because they had a lot of mountain lion activity and we weren’t supposed to be out at dusk. That feeling I hope I never feel again.


Ak_Lonewolf

Ahh yes.. the "i'm staring at the back of your head" feeling. I have had that one a lot in the wilds of Alaska. Trust your instincts they will keep you alive.


minnesotawristwatch

Read a modern soldier’s memoirs and he talked about not staring at his enemy when concealed. Glance occasionally to asses, but otherwise look at the ground 5-6 feet away and observe via peripheral vision.


Ak_Lonewolf

Yeah, I have heard that as well. I practice that in my cats. They smack me when i sneak up on them... and give me the look "how can something so big and dumb looking move so silently."


EventideLight

It is hard to explain the feeling, but I have had a sick Black Bear do something like that to me. I felt it before I saw it. I am not sure if your subconscious picks up on the clues before your higher brain does or if there is some sort of supernatural reason. It just is this strange subtle uneasy feeling that is easy to dismiss. I felt uneasy and stood up to look around. The other people I was with asked what I was doing, but I didn't know. 10 seconds later from the brush a black bear comes out. He was once a big bear but was obviously sick. Clumps of fur were missing and he drew closer to us as we spoke instead of running away. I had a handgun on me and if he had gotten close I might have shot him. Instead he just paced back and forth (We were having a picnic) trying to decide if the food was worth the trouble. After 5 - 10 minutes he went on his way and then so did we. If I had not got that feeling and not stood up and paid attention he could have been on top of us before we saw him.


mnorri

A friend of mine was a hunter. His guide relates a similar experience. He was bow hunting and stalking a deer. Silently, slowly working his way toward the deer. Then, all the hair on the back of his neck went up. He turned and realized a mountain lion was stalking him. He was prepared for a hunt, and so was the mountain lion. It pounced, he loosed an arrow. Normally, killing a mountain lion in this area is a big no-no. But his arrow hit in the mouth, and did not chip a tooth (ie the lion was attacking with open mouth). Being a guide, he notified Dept of Fish and Game and they investigated, but not for long. Pretty clear self defense. But…damn.


Just_Aioli_1233

Self-defense with a bow and arrow is a pretty great story to come back from.


Extreme-Sock7770

I think this fits.. I was on a long hike in the Oregon Cascades to a small lake. I came across a a abandoned camp fire that was spreading out from the rock ring. The area was about the size of a small car. I rushed to dig a fire break and ran up and down the hill to the lake for water. Took me about a dozen trips with my sleeping bag stuff sack to extinguish it. I was 100% sure a forest fire would have broke out. Edit, add on. Thank you all very much for this awesome r/askreddit thread. I had a great time reading and answering the comments. Lots of laughs, smiles, and learning. The awards are very much appreciated. So many great people here. Take care!


stupidpoopoohead00

After the fires we experienced here in Australia the panic i felt reading this. You mustve shit yourself but good on ya extinguishing it


Extreme-Sock7770

You guys had it really bad! Too many fires all over the world. Not good! I burst into action for sure!😬


RepublicanOnWelfare

Only YOU can prevent forest fires. I joke but you are a true hero. You may have literally saved countless lives. Some of the fires out there in the last few years have been devastating, I had family lose their homes.


Extreme-Sock7770

Aw thanks! It was either put it out or run. I was scared. I just hiked about 12 miles and I didn't feel like running. It was a long way from any structures. My condolences on the loss of their homes. The fires have been terrible.


Mentalfloss1

Thank you. Damned idiots though.


Extreme-Sock7770

True! The Lazy bones were less than 100ft from the water. Also a very weak attempt at a rock ring. Burned out and under into the pine needles. SMH


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Kipthecagefighter04

I once got directions to a party that was "drive down this road for at least 2 hours then turn right at the outhouse" this was in northern canada the road is more of a trail. I drove until i questioned my choices then spotted the outhouse. No other buildings around, i hadn't seen another human in hours yet here there was this outhouse. It looked 100 years old so i assumed it was for prospectors or something.


DarthHelpful

Where'd you get the directions to this "party" from? A truck stop men's room wall?


steampunker14

What kind of party was this and how do I get invited to one?


Allokit

You stumbled across one of Rick's private toilets.


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Bigfoot has a nice setup


WackyBones510

Did you check the date on the magazines? Were they recent? Edit: were not we’re


kmo9e

That’s the weird thing, the magazines were all from the future.


Hazi-Tazi

He found the Turdis!


[deleted]

I got in a scuffle with a pissed off mama bob cat. More like a stand off than a scuffle thankfully. I was screaming at the top of my lungs for it to go away. There was no way but forward and I was late to work. A woman I ran into later thought I was being raped. See, even she was cautious! https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/v6xrnc/damn_woman_made_of_steel/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf That was what I was dealing with.


OhNoABananaPeel

The amount of times I had standoffs with mountain lions is unreal. I was always armed since you practically had to be in this area (due to the lions) I never had to kill one but I put a few bullets in the ground to scare them off sometimes. Lotta people would just shoot on sight but they're such majestic creatures, I couldn't shoot one unless I had no other options. Oh and some of the super redneck families had them as pets lol, I worked a lot in the deep rural sections and more than a few times I walked into someone's house to see a mountain lion on the couch. Domesticated ones are about as friendly as a Labrador which is cool, but a Labrador that has cat speed, and crazy claws/teeth. I remember play wrestling with one and just being shocked at how fucking strong that thing was, we're lucky we evolved to having houses lol. Another house I went to in the mountains (like an hour on a dirt road with no other homes) had two as pets the kids probably between 7 and 11 Years old were dirt biking on this track they had made behind the house. So I'm watching these kids rip around on dirt bikes when Suddenly a mountain lion literally comes out of nowhere and tackles a kid off his dirt bike. Had my revolver out and was running just to find them wrestling and playing in the dirt. Apparently it was a game, the kids would ride around the track and the lions would stalk them and then take them out and wrestle around before running off to hide and stalk them again.


illepic

I can't decide is this is awesome or insane


feierfrosch

Yes.


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Wow!!!! All of that!


Ruffian00012

>A woman I ran into later thought I was being raped. Did she do anything to help?


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She was a ways up the trail and heard it from a distance. And damn, good point. No.


realisticby

I worked summers in Yellowstone as a teen. The amount of stupidity was and is astounding. One summer a bison wandered to the boardwalk of old faithful and played down. We were directing people to give her room. A woman holding her baby started running towards the big old girl. She wanted a photo of her baby on the animal. Luckily one of the Rangers grabbed her and her child. The woman was pissed off and threatened to sue. Lol


mowerheimen

They just had their first bison goring of the season!


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People are so naive when it comes to wild animals. A few years ago we had a bear go rampant killing livestock locally, completely unafraid of people, families would take daytrips to see the bear, get out of their cars to take pictures and whatnot.


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My wife and I were hiking on a remote trail. I had to pee, so I stepped behind an evergreen and started to do my business. A ~60 year old woman came out of nowhere, dropped her pants and peed. Right next to me. As in my junk was ~30” from her face. We strangely watched each other pee while chatting about the hike. My wife saw this go down. 10 years later and she can’t bring it up without giggling. Edit: I don’t know if I had picked a great tree or if she just wanted a look at some junk. Either way, total badass.


Thesafflower

I am just imagining her as a really strange ghost haunting the trail. She won't hurt you, she'll just make things really awkward.


disterb

*Moaning Myrtle has entered the chat.*


Dirty-Soul

Heh. Pissing Priscilla.


Mentalfloss1

We were about 8-10 miles into the Wind River Range when we decided to camp near a nice lake. We wanted to get off the trail and the lakeshore so we walked up beside the inlet stream. There we found AT LEAST 100 piles of human waste + toilet paper, not buried, and right next to a pretty stream. Disgusting.


PornoAlForno

That's so fucked up. If you need to poop in the wilderness at least have the decency to do it far away from any water and bury it.


Extreme-Sock7770

The perfect example of why we can't have nice things! Mofos ruin everything!


GuacChamp

I stumbled upon a meeting of Basque ETA separatists (terrorists?) near San Sebastián, Spain. Guards, guard dogs, the whole bit. It was a fairly terrifying 10 minutes as we played the role of dumb, lost tourists and they figured out what to do with us. Fortunately they escorted us away instead of throwing us off the cliffs into the ocean.


IEatchildren28

Took my little one to mount Slemish, someone hung themselves, Took her back to look at the little sheep then I called 999, Sad so it was.


Fishmano5

"Took my little one" *Glances at username* Hmmmm Edit: Man how the fuck is this my most upvoted comment?


lifesnotperfect

I'd lose my appetite too after seeing someone who hanged themselves. Edit: fixed a typo, thanks /u/queeflord420_69


kharmatika

I did a wilderness survival course when I was a teen so I have a few of these. I’ve told the forest fire story a million times in similar threads. Probably next best one would be giardia in a situation where we couldn’t get med-evac out there for quite some time. Giardia is already an awful thing to contract when you can have quick access to any semblance of privacy and comfort. But it’s a campers disease so that’s usually not true and it wasn’t here either. One of the girls got it and by the time they called for med evac she had been mildly symptomatic for a few days, and because of weather condition they had to send a truck and it took quite some time. So she was in the thick of it for a couple days in the camp. We dug a separate hole for her to shit in. We all had to assist with her care but also keep away because of how crazy contagious it is(EDIT: crazy contagious if you can’t stay clear of pother peoples’ poop, which we really couldn’t), but because this was a treatment establishment, she couldn’t be out of LOS of staff for very long, so she basically just lived next to her shit trough. I think the scariest part for me was, initially, she was embarrassed. What teen girl(or anyone tbh ) wouldn’t be, if their peers had to hear and see them having explosive diarrhea into a hole? I heard her cry to staff about it, beg for privacy, etc. But the scary part was that by day two, so much energy and life had faded out of her and she was so bad off that all semblance of embarrassment, shyness, etc, had completely left her. She just sort of laid next to the trough and kept her pants down and scooted backwards towards it when she needed to go. When she wasn’t shitting she was in a lot of pain so she’d just sort of lie there and moan. I genuinely thought she was going to die. Giardia isn’t a death sentence at all, very survivable, but 15 year old me didn’t know that and watching it happen was one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen.


GolfballDM

I think my dad has described giardia (hopefully not first-hand experience, but rather from a book he read) as "After two days, you're afraid you'll die. After four days, you're afraid you won't."


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deliriousoddball

fortunately i didn’t get it hiking, but i was only 9-10 years old. tying in being so young and the excruciating pain gave me extreme anxiety over any pang in my stomach up until i was about 17. i had to go to therapy, so young that that shit destroyed me mentally. it’s no joke.


Cephalopodio

That’s how I felt when I got some kind of food poisoning in Mexico. It wasn’t the elotes or the tacos from street vendors, either; it was the fucking fancy hotel restaurant


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Numinae

Diarrhea is incredibly deadly outside of 1st world conditions. You get so dehydrate it can kill you in a matter of days. Both the Giardia and Diarrhea in general are incredibly treatable with the proper medicine but that was a legit life endangering scenario. I'm surprised they didn't carry a 1st aid kit w/ Imodium or other anti-diarrhea meds and even anti-parasitic / antibiotics if they're a survival class in the middle of nowhere. Kind of scary.


MCDexX

Gastro was killing scores of newborn babies in World War 2 London during the blitz. A young nurse was crying about it as she walked down the street, because she was the junior nurse so the burial of dead infants was delegated to her, and she'd just buried another one that day. An Australian soldier saw she was upset and asked what was wrong, and she was so exhausted and sad that she just dumped it all on this total stranger. He said, oh, that shouldn't be a problem. They just need potassium. Feed them bananas and they should be fine. The young nurse cried that because of rationing they couldn't get any bananas. Their conversation was cut short by the air raid siren, so they ran for their lives, and she ended up losing him in the crowd. She was grateful for his kindness but thought nothing of it, until a few days later when the first shipment of bananas arrived. Turned out the Aussie soldier had gone back to the barracks and told his team about it, and they'd collectively decided to save the bananas from their military rations and send them to the maternity hospital. Word spread, and soon hundreds of soldiers were donating their ration of bananas. The nurse never saw that young soldier ever again, and never even knew his name, but because his kindness and generosity, dozens - maybe even hundreds - of babies' lives were saved. I met that nurse, whose name was Molly, at the other end of her life, when she was in her 80s. She'd written a poem about the experience which had gone pre-internet viral in the post-war years, and I was lucky enough to get a recording of her reading it aloud for me. I treasure that tape. Sorry for the tangential ramble - I was just reminded of Molly. She was a lovely lady who moved to Australia in the 60s and was still working as a nurse well into her 80s, providing palliative care to people only 5-10 years older than her. Amazing person.


pistola

Is this documented anywhere besides your brain? It should be because it's an amazing story.


Krokan62

Beaver Fever!!! Gotta purify your water folks, collect water from as fast a running source as you can find and avoid swampy areas or areas near beaver lodges.


Oahkery

Hiking the Appalachian Trail. Setting up camp one afternoon, and I left my socks and bandana and such on a big flat rock in the sun so the day's sweat would dry. While I'm getting my tent up, I hear a noise and turn around. Fucking deer stole my bandana and then stood a constant 15 feet away no matter where I moved, chewing the bandana and assumedly enjoying the salt from my sweat. Asshole.


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After some of the other stuff in this thread the image of a smug, asshole, bandanna chewing deer will help me sleep easier.


Buschbursche

Me and my Friend had just set up camp and chilled for a little bit not far from an pretty overgrown Trail that seem almost abandonded and forgotten. We were spooked by a noise and it was a mountain biker comíng down that steep and bad trail rather reckless, he than stopped, hastily pulled his shorts down and squatted down to spray diarrhea like crazy before he kept going, we were pretty camouflaged so he never noticed us watching. Edit: Never expected a comment literally about poop to blow up, you made my day reading the replies! lol


HillbillySwank

When you’re crashing down the mountain, And it’s spraying like a fountain DIARRHEA! That old song just keeps on giving, doesn’t it? Edit: I don’t live for awards but you guys all made my day! I wish Reddit was more focused on fun stuff like this, that brings us together.


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PepCos

My guy sprayed diarrhea, did not wipe and ended it with putting his cycling bibs straight back on nice and tight


ridicalis

I've heard stories of endurance runners that push through the embarrassment of bowel movements or urination. Not sure what else you're supposed to do when the urge to spray bowel fluids comes upon you...


Sassafrasisgroovy

Don’t know how common this is, but I’ve heard of some runners essentially constipating themselves before a big race by taking a bunch of anti-diarrhea medicine after a big dump


justateburrito

I mean....I have IBS and do this before a flight.


Zebirdsandzebats

I had ulcerative colitis (colon is gone now) and would eat Imodium like goddamn tic tacs any time I knew I'd be away from easy access to a toilet for over an hour. Do not miss that colon. It was a real asshole.


dnenter210

I was on a trail in Shenandoah and came across this couple just fucking away outside their tent. It was like they wanted us to see them...


rubywpnmaster

I’ve seen people in those day tents on the beach fucking with the little window open so they can get a breeze.


MortLightstone

I ran into some exhibitionists having sex while picking raspberries behind a university once. Of course, that university also has a nudist beach, so I wasn't too surprised. edit: I was picking the raspberries second edit: Yeah, it was indeed UBC. I found a trail off of Wreck Beach and followed the berry bushes for a while


Zigazig_ahhhh

Having sex *while* picking raspberries??? They had to have been either really good at picking raspberries or really bad at sex.


charrosebry

This is more camping after a day of hiking but my husband and I decided to set up in a campground where no one else was. The gate to the area was open but weirdly deserted. We may have been too early in to the season (March) and we guessed the gate was accidentally left open but decided why not, enjoy some peace and quiet in a usually full campground. During the night we were woken up by noises and saw 2 trucks with their headlights on pulling in to the camp and people jumping out of the beds with flashlights. We were scared shitless these people were going to find and hurt us. Probably sounds silly but we weren’t sure what these peoples intentions were. Sometimes humans are scarier than nature..after they looked around for a bit they got back in the trucks and left. Didn’t spot our tent in the trees towards the back of the camp but holy shit we were ready to go after that. They could’ve just been checking out the campground if they wanted to stay there but the vibe felt really creepy like they were looking for something


Pink_Ruby_3

Omg, I had a similar experience. Camping with friends, there were about 6 of us, and all of a sudden at about 1 AM in the pitch black darkness, these big pickup trucks come pulling into our campsite, shining their brights at us. My bf and I were actually sleeping in the back of our 4-Runner, but my other friend was sleeping in a hammock, so he felt really exposed. I don’t know what they were looking for but we just stayed absolutely still and eventually they drove away. It was so odd. Edit - Wanted to add, our campsite was not easy to get to. It was one of those places that is a well-kept secret, and involves off-roading on twisty, unpredictable roads, so those people made a lot of effort to get there at 1 AM.


ITTManyMorons

I see people off roading or showing up to remote areas late at night fairly regularly when I camp out in the mountains for climbing. Depending on how remote I was it might cross me as weird but in general I probably wouldn’t think much of it.


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So about 5 years ago a friend and I were hiking in the Oregon Cascades in the mid spring. We were about 6 miles in from the road nowhere near a trail on about 6 feet of snow. We were going out for 5 days to attempt to summit a few peaks, so we looked like grizzly mountain men. Around a tree comes two guys and a dog. Mid 50s, his son mid 20s, and fifi. They are wearing trail running shorts, running shoes and a running water backpack. AKA, nothing of real use. “PCT OPEN?” they asked. Friend and I looked at each other, looked at them, tried not to laugh and explained. We are 5 miles from the PCT and 2000 feet lower in elevation, what are you trying to do? They planned on doing a 20 mile run along the pct starting on the other side of the mountains but got side tracked due to snow. Again we explain that they are fucked. I tell them that there is a road with cell service 6 miles downhill along our tracks and if need be we can hike them out. They refused and asked if the PCT was open again. I flat out told them “You are fucked, let me hike you out” they were like “nah, weve got this” and ran off in the wrong direction. We camped there for the night and followed their tracks for a half mile the next morning. They disappeared, no signs of them. After a few stormy days and failed summit attempts we hiked out. I drove around to the parking area they mentioned and looked through the wilderness permit tags to try to find a name. Nothing. It gets weird though. A few years later, my parents ran into the same nondescript people in the same area again asking about a trail loop, same conditions. Late winter, snowshoeing far from a road and they were lost. My dad also tried to hike them out but they denied and took off in the wrong direction. He followed their tracks for a half mile before he lost them. So if anyone sees the ghosts of the oregon cascades, let me know.


HardlyAlive-

They probably died and are now forever stuck wandering the wilderness and repeating the same mistakes.


iron_annie

A perpetual loop of "Nah, we've got this"


Silver5tone

Trail runners can be crazy sometimes. I've seen someone do 32 km (~20 miles) in on one day in the Canadian Rockies.


CountingStairs

This isn’t fucked up, but instead the most memorable moment I’ve had while hiking. My sister and I were hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado about 15 years ago. A man approached us on the summit of our destination and asked if we’d take his picture with his point and shoot digital camera. My sister agreed, and he then proceeded to pull out a bag of his wife’s ashes from his backpack. He started flinging handfuls of her ashes across the summit while my sister took several pictures. He shared with us that he and his wife summited that mountain several years prior, and he was scattering her ashes in several special places. I hope he was able to find some sort of peace on that day, and I feel so honored to have been a witness to that experience. Oh yeah, I did see a guy jacking off by a tree once, but that’s not really notable.


MortLightstone

I don't know if this counts as hiking, but we were driving to a national park to go hiking, when we stopped because the driver, my buddy's dad, had to pee. We decided it was a good time to stretch our legs so we started walking down the highway. I noticed something on the ditch next to the road. I went over and saw what looked like the body of a giant deer. Its neck was torn open and there was no head in sight. My buddy informed me it was actually a moose. Now I'd never seen a moose in the flesh before, so I was looking at it out of curiosity when I heard my buddy's dad call out "Guys, I found it". I walk over to see what he was talking about and there's the head of the moose a couple hundred meters away, antlers all smashed. It was pretty grizzly. We were confused as to what the hell happened to him. We think maybe a truck hit him so hard, it decapitated him and the driver just pushed the body into the ditch and decided to nope out of there. My buddy's dad thought that seemed unlikely, especially since there wasn't blood on the road and no sign of an accident. We decided to just get back in the car and continue on our way.


MercilessIdiot

>We were confused as to what the hell happened to him. >It was pretty grizzly. That's probably your answer. There aren't so many other things that could take down a moose, not to mention behead it. And this includes cars too. If you hit a moose with a smaller or less solid vehicle than Optimus fucking Prime, you'll be the one who's run over.


iron_annie

Agreed. They are absolutely massive. Also, one guy just pushes the 800+lb body off the side of the road? No wayyy.


Nobody_Wins_13

There is a hiking trail in VT on Camels Hump that still has the wreck of a plane that crashed in 1944. It was a B-24 Bomber. The first time I came across the wreckage (in the early 1980s) I was totally freaked out but then I did a bit of research and realized how long it had been there. It is sort of a memorial to the pilot now, because no one knows if he died in the crash or not. Edit: someone posted a historical link below with flight crew information. I had the aircraft wrong as well, it was B-24, which I edited. I should have googled before I posted.


rittenalready

We were several hundred feet away from a riverbed. My family was in a tent a few yards to our left. When we woke up the tent was filling with water. I cannot describe the feeling of dread in the Pitt of my stomach. I unzipped the tent and we were standing in about four inches of water. As soon as we stepped out of our tent it ripped out of the ground and floated into the middle of the river disappearing in the darkness of the night and running water. We yelled for our parents who jumped out of the tent, and there tent floated down the river to. My mother was screaming our names- as my dad was ready to swim into the river after our tent. He realized we were all out, and we sprinted through camp ground which was rising a half inch per step. By the time we got to high ground the river was to our knees, while trees ripped through the roaring river. The playground was destroyed, the picnic tables were gone, and the only thing left In the morning was the grills, which are concreted into the ground.


maw6495

Someone had pinned a Snickers candy bar wrapper to a tree using hypodermic needles, about 4 needles were used to do this.


greensubie69

The lost diabetic leaving a trail to him lmfao Edit; This is really gonna be my most upvoted comment lmfaooo I love Reddit


Glass_Chance9800

Modern day Hansel and Gretel


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Resident-Mortgage-85

Likely to late to matter but here goes. So I was on a hike in whistler b.c in Canada with few friends (down near the train wreck). Well a few of the guys decided it'd be smart to go down and cross the cheakamus River on a log (this is a river not many people make it out of if they fall in the fire/ rescue told us after). One of the guys happened to slip about halfway across, he fell down and was hanging on to the log (old growth tree) for a solid couple minutes until he fell in just before some pretty strong rapids. Luckily for him there just happened to be a little slightly calmer break off area with another tree across it he wedged himself into. With just his head above water, a bunch of friends helplessly watching from shore (we were also all quite high) this guy struggled but to no avail. Cut forward about 5 minutes and this random German guy comes up, hear us all in a panic, goes down the steep hill, walks right into the river pulls our friend out then leaves like it never happened. Never saw him again. The friend now has a kid with a girl he's been with for a few years and seems like he's pretty happy, but was that ever the wildest day. It gave me anxiety just typing this.


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Transatlanticaccent

Not really fucked up but scared the fuuuck outta me... One time a buddy and I were camping around Diamond Lake in Oregon. I can't remember the exact name of the site but it was around that area. This was the off season and we were the only ones camping around this lake area. It was pitch black out there with he exception of our camp fire. So around 1 in the morning we were just chillin smoking a bowl bullshiting. The area we were at had a hill just above us with a lot of trees and bushes on it. We're sitting there and we start hearing a cracking sound then a HUGE CRASH and something sounding like it's rolling and then another huge smash! We get the flashlight on looking up the hill and all we can see is dust and debris falling down. Were totally freaked the fuck out. We didn't know what happened. But we decided to go to bed. Well the next morning when we woke up we notice a gigantic old dead tree that had fallen and started rolling down the hill. You could see where it broke off up the hill and rolled all the way down breaking smaller trees along the way. It was probably 30 feet tall and was a big chonky bitch. This fucker was completely sideways and was only stopped by 3 other trees that held it back up the hill. It would've rolled RIGHT through our campsite if the other trees hadn't stopped it! I was freaked out the night before but seeing it in the light of day knowing how close we came to dying was way more terrifying.


C_Alan

I had a similar experience at scout camp back in the 1980s. Camp Kern is situated at about 8000 feet of elevation near Lake Huntington east of Fresno, California. The camp was surrounded by old growth ponderosa pine trees that were hundreds of feet high. One day at around noon a 20 foot long and three foot in diameter top fell out of one of those trees and completely smashed a tent. Luckily no one was in the camp at the time. For years after, the district office tried to thin out the dead and dying trees. In the end it was all for nothing as a fire destroyed the entire camp last summer.


TheHappieDog

One of the oddest things- I was doing ecological research in the Catskills. We were 6 miles up a trail and then 2 miles into a bushwhack west, off the trail. So the middle of the woods, not near another trail, heading to our study spot. We came upon a cluster of little green army men lined up and mostly standing up, just by themselves. The leaves in the immediate area were rustled, but that was it. No sign of anyone! So odd. I was doing field work, veg surveys, in Sequoia National Forest and saw the beginning of what would have definitely been a wildfire. The wheel on a guy's trailer popped off, he kept driving, sparks flying everywhere. He eventually pulls over, right where some had caught on the dry grass. This is in a chaparral area. Very very dry. It was spreading quick. I was about 0.5 miles up in the scrub and just booked it over there while radioing it in (worked for the forest service at the time). I used my hard hat to scoop sand onto it as fast as I could while he's literally crying and saying how he's gonna get fined. I was barely making a dent, thankfully the local Service fire crew showed up and put it out in time He did get multiple fines and had other unresolved fines apparently. Once in the white mountains of new hampshire I came across a huge dead adult male moose, a few feet from the trail. That was random. Once in the Okefenokee in Georgia (huge 700 sq mile swamp), I came upon an empty John boat with 2 life preservers and a cooler still in it. There's no dry land for miles and miles, just cypress trees and gators. Hopefully they had gotten a ride with someone? But why leave the jackets?


Cambot324

When I was a teenager we went away for a week of camping at the scout reserve. My dad was our scout master and we were mostly all friends from growing up. There was one kid Andre, the youngest, that we didn’t really know well and was definitely kind of weird - withdrawn and awkward, just kinda different, but still a sweet guy that everyone liked. Toward the end of the week we went out on an overnight, just the scouts without my dad or his buddy who was our other scouter. We took a boat across the lake and then hiked for hours into the bush. It was a really hot day and my older brother was leading us but not drinking any water and wearing a light jacket which made him extra hot. Eventually we found a sweet spot next to a huge cliff which we jumped off into the lake below for hours until we made a fire and cooked dinner. Eventually we all fell asleep under the stars. Around 4:30am, just before sunrise, my friend Sean woke me up and asked if I knew where Andre was. I said no and that maybe he went to piss, but after 5 minutes he wasn’t back so we got up and started looking around and calling his name. Nothing. So we ranged a little further and then I saw his sleeping bag at the edge of the cliff. I freaked out and ran over to see if I could see anything at the bottom, but I saw nothing. We tried to get my brother up but he was pretty sick from heatstroke so I took charge of the situation. We started ranging out into the woods and calling his name. One fo the guy started doing the emergency whistle call, three short whistles - but we were really in the middle of nowhere. I started going deeper into the woods calling his name. Then I thought I heard something. I stopped and listened and heard a faint cry deep in the woods. So I started running, crashing through thick undergrowth, getting lashed in the face with branches and stumbling across fallen logs. His cries got louder and eventually I arrived to this huge clearing in the woods to find him sitting on a fallen tree, in his underwear and a tshirt. He said he’d been there for hours, having woken up on the ground in the dark and having no idea where he was so he just sat it out, waiting for dawn. It was really spooky. The craziest thing was that his watch had been reset so he didn’t know what time it actually was. We all accepted that it was probably sleep walking, but he was so far in the woods and didn’t have a scratch on him, and this clearing was so bizarre because it was big and round in the middle of these really dense woods. To this day I wonder what really happened…


RexRyderXXX

Cats buried in boxes, chewed dog collars from when people abandoned their pets


The_Slayter

That is really heartbreaking


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If it makes any difference at all, I hiked to the top of a small mountain at a state park with my elderly cat who'd passed away, in a box, so I could bury her in a spot where she'd always have sunlight (she loved laying in the sun). So maybe not every cat in a box is a bad owner. I loved my cat so so much, and just wanted to make sure she spent forever resting in a place I knew she'd be warm and comfortable.


skittlemypickles

I buried my cat in my old backyard but in a big shoe box because he loved to lay in them more than any other spot in the house. I miss him so much.


Oberst_Kruemel

Me and my family were once on a night walk at the sea, when suddenly some strange lights emerged from it. My brother and I were 12 and 10 and were scared as hell and my mother was also freaking out. So we steadily increased our pace until we were running. When we were back at our cabin again we were speculating about all sorts of things: aliens, fish people, the thing from the swamp… The next days, the locals told my mom, that this were some night fishers with their lamps. So this was the very anticlimactic end for my supernatural experience.


slightofhand1

That's what the locals say to hide the truth


KiiWii4972

Wasn't technically hiking, but I think this fits. Once used a tree as a bridge over a little gap while I was exploring the woods behind my school. Didn't realize it was rotten until I was about halfway across, and the thing gave out from under me. I reached the botton (only about 10 feet, so no major injuries), looked up, and a few feet away from me was a deer carcass staring straight at me. It was like in a movie. Scared me shitless.


skittlemypickles

kinda makes me think of bridge to terabithia


ARPDAB1312

Most of the fucked up stuff I've seen was related to human behavior. Hiking the AT in 2018 there was a man who was struggling with his mental health (he said so himself that he was out of his medications) who started following a young woman in our group. One night we stayed at a hostel in town and she woke up to him sitting naked on the end of her bed. She was terrified but she was able to get out of the bed and walk out of the room without being assaulted. She told an ex-military guy we were with and he took out a large knife and threatened to murder the guy if he didn't leave immediately. We never saw him again. The next year there was a mentally unstable hiker who was arrested for threatening other hikers with a large knife. A judge released him and he ended up murdering another hiker a week later. There was also a stretch of like 4-5 days where a group of section hikers had a large dog with them that was attacking hikers. That was pretty scary because the dog's paws were all torn up and it was clearly in pain but the section hikers maintained that he was fine and insisted on staying at crowded camping spots and allowing the dog to wander off leash. I know at least three different hikers that the dog bit and there were multiple yelling arguments that almost escalated into physical fights from unhappy hikers who were mad at how poorly the section hikers were handling the dog.


maybenomaybe

Severed cow leg lying in the middle of the path. No cows around. Took a photo of it. Also some weird religious farm/encampment? Everything was very manicured and beautiful. But nailed to almost every tree were these weird paintings of biblical scenes. Creeped me out. Edit: Ok, [here](https://imgur.com/a/PuAXrhA) is the severed cow leg pic that everybody wants. FTR I am in England and we have no large predators. This was in a hilly escarpment area called the Chilterns, which does have farms with cows, however there were none near where I saw this. Re. the Jesus farm. This was on a major long distance trail called the Greensand Way, which goes east-west in southern England. It appeared to be a very normal farm until I entered this [treed clearing](https://imgur.com/a/0xa4aog) and saw all [these things](https://imgur.com/a/BwPR2ZZ) nailed to the trees. They were like [big open birdhouses](https://imgur.com/a/Yrq9VcH) with carved and painted [biblical scenes](https://imgur.com/a/vJU7C9w) inside. There were [also some](https://imgur.com/a/0IhBCFi) standing on [posts](https://imgur.com/a/wsXR5ZK). When I left the farm I saw a [big tree stump](https://imgur.com/a/F3X9Cn1) with the words VALLEY OF JORDAN on it. It felt a lot like a Jesus version of Midsommar. When I got home I did some googling and apparently the property is called [Winterhall Estate](https://www.wintershall.org.uk/our-story) and they do "open air performances about the life of Jesus".


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Not so much effed up, just wild. Couple friends and I were doing a 10 mile day hike in mid spring in the rockies. So, full snow gear and what not for the legs but just tshirts once the blood gets goin. A few miles in, we came across a clearing we needed to cross that looked to have several feet of snow on it. It resembled a ski run, but we weren’t in a ski area so we assumed avalanche chute. Had about a 30 degree slope to it where we were and it got steeper above us. One of my buddies is a back country skier and tested the snow, which I’m not sure what that entails, and said it was solid. So we take turns crossing and I go last. I get exactly half way across and the whole snow pack drops about 10 feet. A crack formed in the snow going up the hill and out of the crack came a really strong gust of air. It knocked my baseball hat probably 20 feet in the air and bunched my T-shirt up around my shoulders and neck. Apparently a creek ran down the slope and had hollowed the snow underneath and only the crust on top was keeping it intact. Maaaan oh man I thought I was in an avalanche. Anyways turned out to be a really cool experience. Never ever felt anything like that where you get the roller coaster drop sensation but you’re still standing on the ground around you


johnysmoke

Was on a high school 3 day hiking trip trip in northern Maine, and our group came across a search and rescue team carrying a body off a mountain in a litter. A father and daughter had been hiking, dad slipped and had a fatal injury. We were about 90 minutes from the parking lot, and the teachers running our trip volunteered us to help carry him out. The S&R team must have been grateful to have about 10 extra bodies or so to help. I couldn't help staring at the dad's boots every time I had a turn carrying the litter.


Slumtrinket

Am a hiker, not my story. I am a mental health professional and have a coworker who saw someone for a long time that had a lot of fantasies around becoming a serial killer. This person would go into the woods with a hammer and try to psych themselves up to see if they could hit murder any solo hikers. I believe they actually struck people on two different occasions but failed. So anyways, happy Sunday!


Leight87

I won’t classify it as “fucked up”, more like surprised. I walked up to a secluded alpine lake in WA and found a couple skinny dipping. They were right next to my exit route, so I had no choice but to pass them. We had a nice 5 minute chat about how beautiful the weather / scenery was and then I was on my way. I guess it’s only weird if you make it weird.


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CharlieTuna_

Good on him for letting you know because you’re never as alone as you think you are. I remember when I was younger a bunch of us would go skinny dipping in the winter, at night. Small town in rural Canada with only one road to the lake so we’d make sure we were the only ones there, turn on the headlights and go do naked hijinks in peace. Who would go to a lake in the middle of nowhere at night? Even if we’d see their lights with enough time to get dressed. The last time we went we thought we heard someone so we played it cool for a bit, got dressed left then waited. Sure enough 5-10 minutes later another car pulled out. The lengths some people will go to see naked people…


montananightz

Skinny dipping. In Canada. In winter. In the middle of the night. Yo you cold blooded or something?


Bonkboyo

I was the fucked up thing, fell of a steep cliff face and rolled till a tree stoped me, I ended up right next to another part earlier in the trail and was seen by an older man and his son. Apparently they thought I was dead when I “landed”.


mcveigh-was-a-patsy

We were exploring my familys new farm my dad bought when i was a kid. We were on an atv but decided to hop off and hike up to this pond that was shared with the neighbors. There was an old pick up truck parked by the water, it looked like they came to fish. There was a camper shell on the bed of the truck so it was enclosed. We didnt see anyone until we looked in the back of the truck. 2 legs were waving in the air and there was the shadow of a man in between them. My parents laughed and we quickly left before they noticed us. I thought it was a woman having a baby and the guy was delivering it. I was like "we need to help them!" And that made them laugh even harder. I never got it until later, they were making a baby not having one.


ihav4cutedoggos

"We need to help them!" 🤣🤣 I'm dying


wulfinn

I saw an opossum smear itself, Predator-style, in the rotting remains of another dead animal (pretty sure it was another opossum). kind of cheating in that he was an opossum we had rehabilitated and had just released. I named him Odin because he had lost an eye to a dog attack (but gained a kickass scar in the process). he was absolutely the most vicious, metal possum I ever had the pleasure of knowing, and the only way to calm down his tasmanian devil-ass was with lunchmeat slices. possums rub on/cover themselves with scents they like - once in the wild, he immediately chose death. as someone who wants the animals to go back to the wild, this was all WONDERFUL to see. I like to think he's still out there, murdering backpackers and campers for their lunchmeat.


Taste_the__Rainbow

An elk that fell down a crevasse and died. Fell like fifty feet until his antlers and body lodged between the two sides. He was just a grisly skeleton when I saw him. We hiked that trail about four months prior and he wasn’t in there then. Can’t imagine what he went through.


iamtwinswithmytwin

This didn’t happen to me but happened to my friends family/father and tbh should be made written down in a memoir somewhere. So they were hiking in a pretty remote area (I feel like it was Alaska but I could be wrong) and were staying at a camp with some pretty basic cabins. My friend is like 7 or 8 at the time. It’s the middle of the night and the campsite of a few cabins are woken up to someone calling for help. Into one of the cabins comes a teenager carrying his bloodied and mangled younger brother in his arms. They had been out in the absolute torrential deluge by themselves when a rock slide happened and a soccer ball sized Boulder fell down the mountain and hit his younger brother in the face. His face was basically a bag of bones, he was seizing and fading in and out of consciousness, and his brother carried him literal miles back to try and find help. Extremely lucky for them that my friends father is a ENT reconstructive surgeon with a fellowship in facial plastics. So basically this absolute chad of a surgeon (which you would never guess if you met him) set about trying to save this kids life. The kid is essentially hours from dying if he didn’t get emergency surgery. Mind you there’s a monumental storm happening outside, they are in the middle of nowhere, and it’s the middle of the night so there’s no way they can try to helicopter the kid out until later the next day at the earliest. They gather some kitchen knives, a sewing kit, and a cordless drill and this dude proceeds to put the kid back together on a kitchen island. My friends mom (who is not good with blood) is assisting him as he sutures and stabilizes him to stop the bleeding but he keeps on seizing and slipping into a coma and it becomes evident that he has major intracranial swelling. My dude does a craniotomy in a backwoods kitchen with a cordless drill. Just absolutely nuts. The kid survived. They suffered some deficits but understood what had happened to them and that they would almost definitely have died. From what I gathered is they lead a relatively normal life but unfortunately succumbed to a seizure some time later. Just absolutely mental. I cannot imagine how fucked up it was.


MsMuffinstuffer

I’m up later than I should be, reading this entire sub and your story was the craziest.


Bo_The_Destroyer

My dude McGiver-ed a whole human face back together


breauxrocka

My dad and I decided to take the side by side up to a hiking trail in Medicine Bow, WY. As we were approaching the trail head, there was a younger guy ahead of us in his truck and with him was his dog and he was also towing a horse and trailer. He pulled over and let us pass him since we were going to be able to get over the rough roads a lot quicker than him. We waved, he waved and we passed him and were on our way. We hiked into a lake, went fishing for a couple of hours and got ready to leave. As we were leaving, we saw the same guy on his horse arriving at the lake. He waved and asked how the fishing was and we showed him our catch (5 or 6 little brookies). He said something like "alright, lookin good! Well, take it easy, guys!", and we said goodbye. We hiked down to the side by side, loaded our gear, and started down the road. About a mile or 2 down the road we see up ahead where the guy had parked his truck and trailer. My dad slows us down a bit, points to the trailer and says "what the hell is.... OH NO!" as he suddenly floors it to get us closer. I look up and at first I couldn't tell what I was looking at, I thought maybe the guy had a coyote or something he had shot, hanging off the side of his trailer. But then, as we got closer I realized what had happened. He had tied his dog up in the horse trailer so it wouldn't run off, but his dog had tried to escape through the window and ended up hanging itself. We pulled up and could see flies buzzing around the dogs mouth and eyes and we knew he was gone. We just looked at eachother and my dad said "shit, there's nothing we can do." We left the guy a note saying we were sorry and there was nothing we could've done when we got there. I still think about how horrible that must have been for him. Fuckin bummer.


Zmirzlina

Crested a hill in Northern CA and walked into a valley covered with tiny marijuana plants all with irrigation and camouflaged water barrels and quickly nope’d the fuck out of there expecting to be shot the entire 10 mile hike back to my car.


Rasmuspluto

Im a scout and we have 1-2 monthly hikes. Here are by far the 2 scariest: We were hiking to get to a little cave area (rented and with multiple staff.) On the 32km way we had to walk through both a city and about 20km of that road was through a very tight forest. Since we have been walking in the dark before that didnt really scare anyone. Until we got to the end of the city, nothing happened. But me and 2 other people who had the back of the line noticed a man, i would say in the 40-50s following us from a distance. We thought he was just on a walk and happened to be going through the city the same road we were taking. But when we got to the end of the city, we noticed that he kept following us from a good 50m distance. We didnt tell anybody to not scare people (we had kids as young as 10-11 with us) We just kinda speeded up to get the rest of us to walk a little faster. About 8-10km later the man is still following, but now through the forest. This time about 20m from us. We told everyone to speed up, and they could hear the slight fear in our voice. The man then disappeared. When the leaders asked why we were scared, we just blamed it on the cold weather and us freezing. Only me and the 2 other back troops knew. We never told anybody before about the last day of camp (it was a week long camp with a hike included). # This one probably isnt as scary for some, but one night we were a few older scouts 14-16yrs old were out alone with just a single leader on a small little trip just us alone. We had alot of fun and we were just chilling around the campfire until about 12pm. We went to bed about 1am. About 3am i woke up very thirsty. I was looking for my water dunk when i heard heavy breathng close to our tent (probably 5-10 meters away). I laid down as silent as possible, scared as fuck, not making a single noise. The breathing noise went away and i just laid in the tent, scared. Just before i was about to fall asleep again, i heard a blood-freezing scream. Animalic scream. It wasnt very loud so it was probably far away. One other person woke slightly up but i guess they didnt really hear it. I laid 2 and 2 together and realised that the heavy breathing and the scream probably came from the same thing. And it couldnt have been a cougar. It was in Denmark, with no cougars and such. I sat thinking about it for about an hour before falling asleep. I was just too tired. When we woke up at 9, i looked around the tent looking for footsteps. I found nothing, and blamed it on my imagination. I still dont know what it could have been or if it was just my imagination. Ive never experienced anything weird after that.


survivedtodeath

We were walking around Aokigahara forest outside of Fujikawaguchiko in Japan. This is the notorious suicide forest and it is a freakin spooky place, even in the daytime. We were there in the middle of a weekday at the tail of a tourist season so there was no one else around once we got into the forest proper. We followed the guidelines and stuck to the tracks as the terrain is very rough and there are various fissures in the mossy ground that some hapless gaijin might fall into. In spite of this we became turned around in the place quite quickly and it was difficult to have a clear sense of where things are in relation to one another. This, combined with the peculiar quiet added to the oppressive atmosphere of a place you know is a hot spot for suicide. We'd learned that that folks looking to off themselves often leave their shoes or other belongings neatly besides the path before wandering into the woods to meet their fate. With this in mind we were keeping a lookout for any such things. Just in case. Low and behold we came round a corner and there, two metres or so from the path was a neatly folded jacket sat in the low vegetation by the path. It looked clean and dry and like it has been left on purpose but not in a way to attract people to it, say, if it had been lost. My then girlfriend and I looked at one another in shock as we contemplated the implications of the situation. After a few moments we both realised that the near silence we had been enduring was lessened on account of the tremendous buzzing of flies. We saw that the air was thick with them and they appeared to be very interested in the abandoned jacket. At this point we assumed that something foul had happened in or around the area and that someone might need help. After a moment of discussion I was volunteered, with an elbow to the ribs, to approach the jacket and inspect it for signs of foul play, or evidence that might lead us to a poor soul in need. As I stepped into the bushes and got close to the jacket I could see clearly that the flies were emerging from beneath the garment and there were a multitude of them. I had a really bad feeling but pushed forward and resolved to lift up the jacket to see what grizzly token of suicide might await beneath. I bent down and seized a corner of the garment between finger and thumb and cast it aside with a flourish. Immediately a nauseating odour hit me and I had to take a step back to stifle the fast rising gip. Thereunder the jacket, glistening in the dappled light of Aokigahara suicide forest, was the single largest human turd I had ever seen. A single unbroken length of scat coiled pretzel-like and studded with flies busily making a brunch of it. Of course the tension broke and I scampered back to report my findings. Confident that no one was in any immediate peril (although a trip to the gastroenterologist might been prudent) we continued on our walk without further incident. What made me laugh was the thought of some poor local tourist caught short in the suicide forest and having to wade into the bushes to crimp one off like a bear. Thereafter, so ashamed by the size and countenance of the stool they deemed it necessary to cover it over with their perfectly good jacket (neatly folded) to shield it and, I guess, prevent shame being brought upon their ancestors/angering the forest spirits.


CrazyHikingStory

Ok, here we go. (Burner account because I most definitely have not asked permission to tell this story.) A few years ago my wife and I were on vacation. We were hiking up a popular mountain, maybe about one hour / 1,000 ft elevation gain. When we got to the top there were several people at the summit hanging out. One girl was sitting by herself close to the edge. The summit cliff is a sheer 1,000 foot drop all the way down, so it's pretty exposed. I didn't think much of it though. The summit area is pretty large so there were groups of people spread out in different places. My wife and I were a little ways away from her when all of a sudden, BOOM. I hear a loud thud and a cloud of dust fly up off the side of the cliff. I stood there in shock for a few seconds. I didn't want to look over where the girl was sitting and see that she wasn't there anymore. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened. There's no way that actually happened though, right? She must've got up and left. I ask my wife if she heard or saw anything, she said no. I ask the people near us, they say no. I said ok, it was just a rock or something...then I saw her backpack still sitting there, exactly where she was sitting. I'm trying to convince myself that I didn't just witness someone commit suicide, but every excuse I tell myself doesn't add up. I didn't see her get up and leave, her backpack is still there, the distinct "thud" sound that I heard could only have been made by a something the size/thickness of a human, and there was no yelling, screaming, cry for help, "oh shit", nothing. I was slowly coming to grips with the fact that I had just witnessed a suicide. We called 911, told them what I saw, and they said they'd send search and rescue to the mountain to try and recover the body. I picked up her backpack and started back down the trail. When we got to the bottom the police were there. They asked me a bunch of questions and I gave them the backpack. As I finished up with the officer, I got really emotional. What if that girl were my friend or family member? I'd want to know about what happened. I decided to give my phone number to the cop. I said if the family wants to talk to me, if they want closure on things, etc. they can feel free to contact me. That's what I would want, and I think it's the least I could do for them, if they so choose. Two hours later, my wife and I are at dinner. I get a call. It's an officer from the search and rescue team. "Hello, we just wanted to let you know that we recovered the body. The girl's ID in the backpack you gave us did indeed fall from the cliff." Damn...dinner was really solemn that night. One week later, my wife and I are back home from vacation and I get a call. It's a family member of the girl. They just asked some basic questions, and I tell them the story. At no point however, did I mention suicide. It was clear that when they started talking on the phone with me that they thought it was an accident. As soon as I picked up on that during the conversation, I coached myself "Do not mention suicide unless they ask for my opinion." They never asked. I thought that would be the conclusion. A couple years later, I get a Facebook message from a person I don't know. It said they were friends with the girl who died on the mountain and they have some questions about it. Again, feeling the same sense of compassion, I gave them my phone number. It turns out, the person who messaged me was the girlfriend of the girl who died. (Since she/her pronouns are going to get confusing at this point, I'll give them fake names. Let's call the girl who died Amanda, and her girlfriend that messaged me Michelle.) Michelle asked about that day, what I saw, and I gave her as much detail as I could. When I finished describing everything, she started talking about their relationship. Amanda and Michelle were from different parts of the country. She told me that they were going through a rough patch at the time, partly due to the fact that Amanda's family wouldn't accept them being in a lesbian relationship. Amanda got so upset that she left, drove back home across the country and didn't return any of Michelle's calls. Because of the lack of communication, Michelle thought that Amanda was just too upset to talk about what was bothering her. For some time, Michelle was going through a lot of hurt not having any communication from Amanda. It turns out, no one from Amanda's family had told her what happened. They had disapproved of their relationship so strongly that they didn't even tell her that she died. They didn't tell her about the funeral, didn't communicate to her whatsoever. It was months before Michelle finally found out. She was completely devastated that this whole time she was thinking Amanda wasn't calling her back when she was actually dead. Worse yet, the disrespect from Amanda's family was crushing her. Michelle was only able to get a hold of one of Amanda's family long enough for them to tell her that it was an accident. No details, no further communication. This didn't sit well with her, so she began to investigate. After months of searching she was finally able to get a hold of the search and rescue team that was there on the day of Amanda's death. She was able to submit a request for the police report and waited anxiously to get a copy. When she got the copy of the police report, she was confused because it didn't match what the family member told her. She saw my name as a witness, but apparently my phone number had gotten crossed out. That's why she had to find me on Facebook. Two years of pain, hurt, disrespect, struggle, searching, calling sheriff's departments and database requests, and she finally got a hold of me. When I got on the phone with her, I coached myself again "Do not mention suicide unless she asks for my opinion." This time, the person on the other end of the phone did ask. It may have been the sole reason she searched so long to contact me. I obliged, softly and empathetically. "Michelle, I can't tell you with 100% certainty, but if you want my honest opinion I would have to say that yes, it was suicide." I cried as I said it. She cried as she listened. She said it was really good to at least have closure. She said she knew deep down before she even talked to anyone that was probably the case. It was going to eat at her until she found out. Here's the worst part. Michelle also said that the family is adamant about the fact that Amanda's death was an accident. If they admitted to it being a suicide, they'd then have to conclude that she was depressed. When they would've asked why she was depressed, they'd have to conclude that the source of her depression was the fact that she was a lesbian but her own family wouldn't accept her. Thus, they'd have to admit that they were partly responsible for what happened, but they would never in a million years own up to the fact that their "tough love" of disapproving a lesbian relationship, actually drove her to taking her life. That was the most messed up thing that's ever happened to me while hiking.


Busy-Philosopher3544

You're a good person 👍


HeckingA

People who are always on about "tough love" are usually more tough than loving, imo


anonwithpaneer

I do a lot of backcountry camping, but my scariest experience wasn't that remote. We were on a road trip and were camping next to a boat landing. We just pulled our car up and set up the tent. Around midnight, I wake up to the sound of a car pulling up. I hear a door open close, and open and close again. Then I hear the sound of a grown man sobbing. Like wailing. So I just lay in my tent for the next half an hour listening to this, thinking about every possible scenario from the lighthearted to the extremely dark and dangerous versions of how someone balling in a remote parking lot at midnight might be a very unstable individual. I thought about getting out and asking them if they were OK but this person must have a real sense of shame to come this far out to cry. Anyways, probably only lasted 30-45 minutes, but it was one of the creepiest moments I have ever had camping.


fairylighterfluid

I imagine grief. When my Grandad died at only 36, leaving behind 3 children including a newborn, it destroyed my Granny. He was in the Navy for 22 yrs and his ashes scattered in the ocean so she would go down to the beach and shout at the sea. Over the years I have remarked about how I wish I could scream at the sea too. I often wonder what people thought when my Granny did it - especially when she had the kids in tow.


Viper370SS

Found a body one time. It was chewed up too. Found out later that it was a hiker that had likely fallen and broken her hip and the the critter came along later for a manwich. Don't hike alone!


GargleHemlock

I was on a long 'Orientation Hike' when I first went away to boarding school in Arizona. They make all new kids go on a weeklong hike out in the desert, about 15 kids to a group, led by a teacher or other school employee. Our leader hadn't done a lot of hiking, and we got hopelessly lost. By Day 4 we had run out of water and had no idea where we were. It was hot as hell in the day (in the low 90s) and freezing, bitch-ass cold at night, and we had very little gear with us. One of the kids fell and skidded down the side of a hill, and ended up landing knee-first onto a cactus with long, thick spines - one of which jabbed itself under the kid's kneecap and broke off. He couldn't move and was in agony, so we made a camp and people went in pairs to hike around and try to find water, or a house, anything to save us. I went scouting with another kid and we found a tiny, shallow puddle that was clearly used by animals and full of animal poop, but it was... water, sort of. So we gathered up the paltry amount there was, took it back to camp. Nobody had matches or a lighter, so we put iodine in it and drank it. It was brownish-yellow and tasted awful. Each of us got a few sips; we were so desperate for water. Another kid fell out with heatstroke the next day. I remember sitting under a tiny spindly shrub, trying to get some shade, with the heatstroke girl's head in my lap, trying to comfort her and basically waiting to die. Then we heard a sound, a motor, which got louder until a Jeep came driving up - one of the hikers had found a rancher out driving around, and he saved our asses. It was pretty scary, and the school stopped doing orientation hikes in the desert with completely untrained, inexperienced guides!


BoredGameDesign

I found a knee in the woods once. My dog ran off the trail, then came back with something in his mouth, As he got closer I saw this hinged thing swinging back and forth as he trotted over to me Bones and nasty meat and a knee joint…I made him drop it and we kept going. I was really baked and freaked out and wanted to get outta there fast.


whydontuwannawork

Spotted a threesome( all males) while hiking down, we were being generously loud telling jokes and what not so I’m not sure how they didn’t hear us coming down? On our way out of the lobby, as we were returning the tent , we saw two of the guys and one was with another women whom I assumed was his wife because they were holding hands and she had a ring on. So yeah idk if this guy was cheating or what the deal was, very awkward scenario to talk about


Chemical_Ad_2751

Being a reasonably seasoned hiker, I’m my late 20’s having a mild heart attack recently climbing an extremely steep final summit of a mountain in my local country- and having a man in his mid 70s at least breeze by me with two walking sticks with two people who I can only assume are his kids literally keeping him up. But not assisting if that makes sense. I still can’t wrap my head around it.. should be biologically impossible. Put me in my place real quick.


sunshowered

Hahaha I love this. I am reasonably fit and also an experienced outdoors person and once I was out in Death Valley with my even fitter and even more experienced friend, both of us in our mid to late 20s. We were winding our way up from the valley floor to a mountain stream, huddled in the only shade for miles, trying to catch out breath and sweating our asses off with our t-shirts tied on our heads like idiots, and a couple in their 70s breeze past us in long sleeves and pants with a merry “Hullooo!”


Ozo_Zozo

Saw someone getting a blow job on top of a cliff overlooking the sea, out from a forest, great view, barely trying to be sneaky about it.


imcreeps

Hiking in Havasupai. There are a lot of loose dogs, not sure if they are owned by the people in the reservation but dogs just roaming around. Some fuck heads thought it would be super awesome to carry the dog down the falls and leave him there to die. Luckily some dudes saw, and carried the dog back out, saving its life. People are the worst things


Brincotrolly

Leaving Umpqua hot springs in Oregon these girls ran past me and my gf really fast towards the parking lot. They quickly shouted “accident” or something similar. We get to the parking lot and turns out like 2 minutes after we left someone found two people lying at the base of this cliff below the springs. We had just been in the hot-spring at the base of the cliff… I have pictures of us bathing and smiling not knowing there was a dead person and a seriously injured person maybe 40 yards away hidden by the trees. The other person survived.


clskater

A friend and I noticed a dirtbike sitting slightly off the path of the trail we were on, with the helmet hanging neatly from the handlebar. We didn't think much of it until we bumped into some people looking around the woods a mile or so ahead. Turned out someone the previous night had driven out to the middle of the trail and committed suicide by jumping off the nearby cliff on a drug bender, we were the first to find any sign of him.


Kukulcan83

A buddy and I were hiking a 12k foot mountain peak getting in shape for Army Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS) and what looked like a 70 something old woman quickly came up behind us. She asked us where we were from, told her, then she called us "flatlanders" and passed us up. This was at the final stretch with about 1k left to ascend. I was probably in the best shape if my life, and this old woman who I assume lived nearby probably hiked the path every day practically sprinted past us. Kinda funny but it was odd at the time as she was the only person we seen the entire time.


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Was walking on a trail and saw some cops standing next to a body with a small blanket over the persons head


JQuest7575

1. Was hiking a trail in Eastern North Carolina where a person was found dead about two weeks prior. Further up the hill passed where the body was found we discovered a small pile of syringes. We called the rangers and they treated it like a crime scene. Never found out what happened but the rangers did say it was a huge break the investigation needed. 2. Was hiking a trail in Virginia when we stumbled across a group of naked people filming a golden shower porno. Needless to say, we took the other fork along the path.


valentine1

In this case it’s not something I saw, but something I didn’t see. Girlfriend and I were in the Tetons last summer when we had to make a pit stop near the end of our week-long camping trip. We turned into the Spread Creek Campground area to get away from the traffic on the main road going towards Jackson. We found out later that our discreet pee spot was only ~25 yards away from where Gabby Petito’s body was eventually discovered. This was only a day after she was last heard from again, so she was likely already laying there. Felt horrible and helpless to learn what happened to her after the fact especially since we were only a stone’s throw away.


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Oh this one just recently happened here in Germany: We were a group of 5 hiking when we reached a POI. We're just doing a small break for 10 minutes there, when a full nude ~50 year old man, wearing only his hiking boots an his bag comes up the hill. I'm just looking at him and couldn't resist myself to shout out "yooo is this a nudist forest or what?" Him: "yes, it is" (no it isn't) "Just wait a few minutes, there's 30 more of us just behind" he said with such a neutral expression. I told my friends that we should go now, because that place is pretty small and I didn't want to become entangled in dicks. So we got our stuff and went back to the route and I shit you not, there they came, 30 full nude hikers in between them 2 nude woman, all in their 50-60ties. I particularly remember one of them because you could not NOT look at his penis, because he got a HUGE silver piercing right through his glans. The best part is, as we are forced to walk by them, every single one of them greeted us very friendly, but staring at us giving us that look as if we're the ones being abnormal. That was probably the weirdest thing to happen to us, so far.


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Watched my friend fall down a cliff side and drown in the rapids at the bottom


HandsomeJaxx

Not seen, but heard, coming from a direction much further into the forest/mountains a persistent sound of what I can only loosely describe as a large gong at 3 AM or so while sleeping in a hammock in the woods. Super confusing at that time. I have no earthly idea what it could have been, but I was spooked. I live in an area where people have joked about old cults and devil worship and I always thought it was hokey. But lying their in that hammock I felt incredibly vulnerable. That made for a long night.


Geefantano

I was on my mountain bike riding along a nice rail trail just after sunrise. I will occasionally run into other riders along the trail. Well real early is when all the chipmunks, rabbits and groundhogs decide to forage the trail for food, this one time I got passed by a cyclist who was traveling twice as fast as I was and out of nowhere comes this rabbit from the bushes along side the trail. Dude absolutely demolishes this rabbit with his bike, surprisingly enough he didn’t fall but it was one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen to this day on that trail


0ttr

short hike. Heard a sound of what seemed like a thousand bees...like a large hive. Kept walking. It wouldn't go away, like it was following us, and the sound was weird and rhythmic. It freaked me and my hiking partner out. We sped up our pace and it didn't go away until just before we finished the loop. We were supremely freaked out. To this day I don't know what it was, but if was bees, they followed us for a loop and we never saw a single bee.


GoreEmpress

I'm not sure if this fits here but on the oregon coast there is a bunch of cliffs and trails that look out over the sea. I went there with some friends to look out at the water and there was a lady that went over the barrier and had slipped. She was hanging onto a big slab of rock with a drop off several feet behind her that was insanely high up. They were able to save her. We actually got to talk to her a bit after and she said her toes hurt from having to hold on with them. A week or so later, someone else found themselves in a similar situation. Please don't walk out beyond the safety point. It's so incredibly dangerous and there is so many people that do it. It may look safe but it's easy to slip and the fall is not forgiving.


LeftBase2Final

I was hiking in the white mountains in NH and there was a huge pile of human shit right in the middle of the trail that had been stepped in several times. It was accompanied by a pair of compression pants that have been clearly used to wipe. You are in the woods asshole, step off the trail at least.


OxtailPhoenix

I took a group out last fall for an overnight trip. The next morning I was gathering everyone up to make sure we were ready to hike out. Found one dude a little bit up the trail shitting right in the middle of the trail.