>>2640757This was all over a three day weekend, maybe 20 years ago, when I wasn’t as experienced. None of it was a total disaster, just a lot of crap over a short time:
>ass chaffed so bad I thought something had swam up my butthole and laid eggsI thought this was a fat guy thing, but I was quite skinny. I blame the weather and my underwear.
>very close calls (plural) with feral hogsOne leapt out of the bushes, right across the trail, 12 feet (3.7m) in front of me. I’m pretty sure another one false charged me, but I’ve heard mixed info on whether or not they actually do that. I mean, it ran straight at me and stopped short, but was pretty far away, so who knows. The entire sounder ran off, directly up the trail in the direction I was going, wedged between a cliff wall and a wide creek. I ran into that same group several more times, and every time they made all kinds of noise as they ran away.
>the fucking gnatsSomething about the weather created the perfect combination that caused swarms of gnats. They weren’t biting, but they were flying up every hole in my face, non stop, for two days. Several times I had to stop and rinse gnats out of my eyes. I was blowing gnat snot rockets onto the trail. The weird thing is I’ve been back several times and never experienced anything even remotely that bad again, and no one I’ve asked about the area has had a similar experience.
>got “lost”The trail just kind of fades off into the woods, following a creek. It’s supposed to turn, but there’s no marker indicating that it does, or even much of a trail by that point. So there was a lot of backtracking trying to figure out where to cross the creek and meet up with another trail. Years later I went back with a small group and we all agreed that the map is wrong.
