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    11 Types of People You Meet on a Hike

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    How true! I met 9 of them on my last outing.

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    Yep, and I like them all.

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    Yup, I've met a few of them too. Then there's the dreaded Rambler, I'm not sure if you have them in the U.S or whether they're peculiar to Britain. They wander the countryside in large flocks, have an inflated idea that they own the place and take up the whole path and NEVER give way. They even have their own website!
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    Isn't that so and would you want to know which category people are putting you in.

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    There'll have to be a new category created just for me & Mr. B. Can't see myself in any of the 10 above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BENESSE View Post
    There'll have to be a new category created just for me & Mr. B. Can't see myself in any of the 10 above.
    So you can see yourself in 1 of them? There was 11 listed right?

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    You forgot the "mooch", the "Hey, Ya got any water left?" or "I left my knife back there some where. ......do you have one?"
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    Sadly, I'm all 10.
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    you guys are hiking in the wrong areas....I never see anyone where I like to go hike!
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    I never encounter other hikers. But the lady with the puppy looks HOT.

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    Despite all the times i've gone hiking, I still haven't seen a drunken David Hasselhoff.

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    There are combinations too!

    Like the drunk in charge of the cub scouts, The awkward couple where the girl is terrified and the guy looks like the jailbreaker. And above all, the hardcore hot chick backpacker with the out of shape old man.(she's trying to hike him to death for his money)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    Sadly, I'm all 10.
    Ugh, there's 11!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BENESSE View Post
    There'll have to be a new category created just for me & Mr. B. Can't see myself in any of the 10 above.
    I think it's what others see...I'll bet the "awkward couple" has no idea they are awkward. You might be the old couple or the crazy college kids, depending on who passes you.
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    I normally don't encounter many (if any) people any more when I hike (day hikes mostly now), but over the years that seems to be a fairly accurate list.
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    One of the places i hike often is a major tourist destination (muir woods, old growth redwood forest), and going through there takes forever because of the "slow walking family" type. and then of course when you go to pass them, they see you speeding up, so they speed up too. lol
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