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 Big pack hiker who sleeps with bears in tent and falls on slippery logs
Langley, BC
Canada
7344 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 11:27 AM
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Someone at work brought in a copy of the Sierra Club Wilderness Handbook (orig print 1950, reprint 1971). Couldn't help but scan a few pages to share with you all.
It is quite something... The women on CT will get a chuckle out of it. 
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 Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards
LOGAN LAKE, B.C.
Canada
8579 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 12:01 PM
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Cool, Jim. Fun to read how they viewed hiking those days, and the style in which this is written.
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Alberta-based choss climbin', flame throwin', rappel lovin', ass talkin' hater who doesn't like "Gumby" for a descriptor
4770 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 12:26 PM
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| I stopped reading when it said that 25lbs was the upper limit of what women could carry. Hard to beleive that some people were, and still are for that matter, that ignorant. |
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Coquitlam, BC
Canada
99 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 12:34 PM
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the view on women changed drastically in the past few decades.
interesting how people viewed women this way only a few decades ago. |
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Mountain Grammar Police
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Sardonic sandbagging scoundrel, Cascade Climbers lobotomized spraymeister, space blanket flyer, new millennium vulgarian betaboy and friend to all squids
Climbing, a mountain
Canada
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Posted - 02/01/2010 : 1:05 PM
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Originally posted by 0bakasan
the view on women changed drastically in the past few decades.
interesting how people viewed women this way only a few decades ago.
wasn't "people" so much as it was men. some of them anyways.
not so funny, especially when you consider this was written more than a dozen years after Phyl Munday climbed Wadd for instance. but funny to laugh at today. |
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
437 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 1:32 PM
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rockies, alberta
Canada
45 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 1:38 PM
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| oh this makes me laugh indeed! 15 years ago when my children were young and starting to hike I counted myself lucky to carry under 50lbs. at 5'2" and of the soft and round type I guess I was more "sturdy" than I knew! I'm glad this book has come to light once more as I just got back from a short walk this morning and was feeling very out of shape...maybe not as bad as all that after all! lol thanks for the laugh! |
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Spruce Grove, Alberta
Canada
895 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 1:52 PM
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| There's actually a few bits of very good advice in there. The notes about 'Don't let her get bored, tired or scared' and 'Make sure she's having fun' apply to every kind of person in every kind of exercise. |
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
714 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 3:05 PM
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| Fun stuff. I think the rule is to carry no more than 50% of your body weight. Perhaps women weighed less back then? |
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
149 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 3:56 PM
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Trail running, bike hucking, fast packing, beer drinking collector of pine cones on a day pass
AKA
Dances with Trees
Forest Gnome Cabin
Canada
10983 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 4:09 PM
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How'd you get a copy of Grachman's Hiking Hints for the Ladies, Jim? 
That stuff is beyond ridiculous |
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 God fearin' music packin' animal BBQin' funny trip reportin'.... cheese lovin' MH lover who skinny dips in Ling secret lakes
On route to the Promised Land, somewhere between Egypt and Canaan
1296 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 4:34 PM
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(Ok, I'll play nice.)
Soooorry, Kman.
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Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
4988 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 5:10 PM
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LOL! I think I like the advice given here. "Don't let her get tired.....don't let her get bored." This one is going to be required reading for every man I trip with henceforth  .
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Too close to the city, BC
Canada
656 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 5:45 PM
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Gosh, I appear to be extraordinarily husky. *flexes*
"Fresh air and warm sun... are natural cosmetic aids for complexions." Oh man... with every line, this gets funnier and funnier! Thanks for sharing. |
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Trail running, bike hucking, fast packing, beer drinking collector of pine cones on a day pass
AKA
Dances with Trees
Forest Gnome Cabin
Canada
10983 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 5:47 PM
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Originally posted by wilderness_seeker
LOL! I think I like the advice given here. "Don't let her get tired.....don't let her get bored." This one is going to be required reading for every man I trip with henceforth .
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various locations, bc
Canada
857 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 5:59 PM
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| Lol!!!!!!!!! That's awesome,so funny!! I always knew I just couldn't handle being labelled a "ball and chain" , that's why I never head out with those bloody cannonballs!!! |
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Qualicum Beach, BC
Canada
671 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 6:07 PM
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Originally posted by peter1955
There's actually a few bits of very good advice in there. The notes about 'Don't let her get bored, tired or scared' and 'Make sure she's having fun' apply to every kind of person in every kind of exercise.
This sort of sounds like pretty good advise, regarding taking anyone out on a date, whether it be hiking & backpacking, or to dinner and the movies. If your date's bored, tired or scared and not having fun... you flop... whether you are male or female.
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Calgary, Alberta
Andorra
2292 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 6:10 PM
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*gasp* They advocate hiking in JEANS! Made of COTTON! :D
Clearly, thinking changed because all these types died. Of cotton exposure. |
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N Van, bc
Canada
584 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 6:21 PM
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| is there going to be a "hen party" sign up board? |
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Fleece thong wearin, Buntzen Lurkin, mystic poet mountain man and international spokesman of the friends of the white squirrel society
Port Moody, B.C.
Canada
5555 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 6:31 PM
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Yes the world has gone to hell. Ever since women got to vote things have changed. 
Things to think about;
I’m not one of those namby pamby girly men that has to pee inside a tent. (b.t.w. these are the same guys that wear spandex racing tights , pink shirts , or flip flops, ) When I need to go instead of going behind the tent I have to WALK AWAY- cause the WOMAN inside thinks it’s gross !!!
Oh and I get “Hug me , I’m scared” , “Hug me I’m cold”, “ Boy it sure is isolated out here – I’m lonely , I need a hug”, “That was such a good meal , let me give you a hug “ !!
Now I admit I give good hugs but come on for crying out loud… Enough!!!
Then there is the looking for a pee bush every 20 minutes or “do these shorts make butt look too big ??
Better yet “Hey dear, those spandex shorts look great on you ! “ and she says Naw , I’ll just go with the baggy sweat pants. ( Drat ) !!!!
You trip , fall and gash your leg ! Do you get sympathy? Noooo !
Everyone knows women can stand more pain than men can. That is why they have babies. If it wasn’t for them we would have died out as a race long ago.
So there you are bleeding to death , your buddies would get you a drink and light you a smoke SHE SAYS come wimp let’s get going !!!
So you smile and put up with them on the trail. You have a nice dinner , pull out the wine that you broke your back lugging with you. You look up at the stars – it’s romantic you feel – well kind of funny !!! You ask her where the toilet paper is (she said she would pack it) ? She smiles sweetly and says “Oopsy I forgot to bring it “
Yup the world has gone to hell !!
I could go on but I don’t want to offend anyone |
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North Vancouver
208 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 6:56 PM
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"the view on women changed drastically in the past few decades".
So have women. |
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Hiking the good ol days. Don't be too offended...
