>>620974Hikers that rubbed me the wrong way: this one hiker that shared a lot in common with me. He was pretty nice and fun to talk with, but he was incredibly indecisive and leechy. He would ask everyone else where they were going and doing, say something opposite to just be a contrarian, and then you would wake up to him having camped right next to you. Also he always ran out of food, whined because he didn't have the right gear, etc. etc.
There was this one girl that was simply the personification of liberal arts tumblr. Everything she said involved race, sex, and minorities. Her average conversation would start "hey I was listening to this podcast about how asian girls have a really hard time dating white guys because they fetishize them, isn't that disgusting? You must think it's disgusting, right?" There wasn't a single other hiker I saw that fueled her fire or gave her the attention she was seeking. I did get her to cry once though. It involved Black Lives Matter.
The worst was this guy, his trail name Daydreamer. He was the moral police of everyone, including me. If it wasn't funny to him, it just wasn't funny. He had previously hiked part of the AT and went into hiking the PCT looking for a sponsorship. A self-labeled professional hiker. Started at the Southern Terminus barefoot to show he was hardcore shit and injured himself within the first week. From there he skipped around the PCT and never got his sponsorship.
The last was this one guy that I hiked with for a huge duration. He looked like Seth Rogen, laughed like Seth Rogen, and smoked just as much weed as Seth Rogen. Problem is, he ran out of weed. The kid had some serious anger issues. Like he was clearly a bully in high school and had a temper like no other.
