What to take on an all day nature hike?

[Steve U]

That

[neuroanatomist]

A rolled ankle at 4:00 pm when you still have a 3 mile "hike" back to the vehicle, makes you appreciate torches, $3.00 emergency blankets, compression bandages and mobile phones and so on.

LOL. Several years ago, my wife and I decided to take an 'all day nature hike' from the Yosemite valley floor up to the summit of Half Dome and back. 18 miles round trip from our camp site, and 4,800 feet (1460 m) of elevation gain. The hike up was great, but tiring, especially the cables. Picnic with a nice Nalgene bottle of red wine at the top, then the trip down. About 5 miles from camp and long past dark we'd had it - we did have torches (of flashlights as they're called here, 'torches' sets off fears of forest fires and now that I'm in New England, witch burnings), but no emergency blankets. So, we planted our backs against a rock face to sleep for a while...just before turning off our lights, we saw a gleam on the trail - which turned out to be a group of scorpions approaching. Adrenaline took us back to our tent, but the blisters took a few weeks to heal.


Sorry, Denise - have a great hike! [:#]

[ddt0725]

SCORPIONS!![:|]

My wonderful daughter just said to me, "Well, if all goes wrong you can give your own horror story"! Maybe I don't want to be out there at sunrise?!

I am going with one other person that doesn't know anymore about wilderness survival than I do and that person doesn't even like photography! I DO NOT want to see anything furry (I'm eventerrified of little mice), anything crawling or anything slithering unless it is a worm! I just want to see pretty birds! [:'(]

My oldest daughter is the outdoorsy type and has gone mountain climbing up Mt. Rainerand come home all battered up, she camps and comes home with all bug bites. Man, this sounds like heaps of fun! [8-)] Boating and fishing is more my thing!

Photography is opening up a whole new world for me!

[andnowimbroke]

DD, I don

[thekingb]

Wish I could go too! You