A thread for all your crazy, awesome, or downright odd misadventures in the wild. What happened in the woods stays in the woods no longer.

Does it half to be the woods?

**have .-.

>>2 No, anywhere you've been camping at all. That part was just flavor text to make it longer.

This is a downright odd misadventure that happened not so long ago... I was hiking with my grade somewhere in the Great North Walk (NSW), and we had just pitched our tents, had dinner and were settling down for the night. And in the middle of the night I woke up and had to go to the toilet. And my camp was in the open. Next to the teachers' one. So I walked in the light from the stars, trying desperately to find a bush.

While I was walking around, I heard rustling. I turned back, but saw nothing, so I headed in the direction of the bushes and did my thing. As I was walking back, I happened to look back... and saw a bush turkey thing stalking me. Lucky that didn't come into the bush where I was doing my business...

And that is my downright odd misadventure...

>>5 I'm not going to lie, that's pretty awesome. But I imagine it'd be creepy to be stalked by some bush turkey thing, lol.

If you were with me and some friends on our last trip, you'd understand "Oh god, he's looking us in the eye!"
"Quick! Do something gay!" lol. We developed a theory that wolves are allergic to gay things.

>>6 I'll keep that in mind when I see a wolf around me then ^~^ and yes, being stalked by a bush turkey is not your best midnight experience ever. And did I mention that it was a cloudy night, where all the stars were hidden?

Anyway, an awesome misadventure that I had was at my very first camp (ah, the nostalgia...). It was the very first night that I'd spent away from home, and I got woken up by the sunrise. The sunrise was those that were peeking out from behind a mountain and being reflected off the river, which was really beautiful (the time was about 6am). So here I was, staring in awe at this awesome sunrise, but the curtain was blocking the way.
So I drew aside the curtain. And woke everyone up thanks to the light. And got screamed at for the next half-hour about respecting sleeping people. But that was an awesome sunrise, and it's the most beautiful one that I'd ever seen to date.

And that is my awesome (though slightly awkward) camping moment.

>>7 The sunrise is pretty cool when you're in the mountains.

If you want to talk about respect, my friend put an unopened can of soda on a lit fire.... Facing our tent. The entire top blew off the can, and Dr. Pepper managed cover an impressive 15 feet... Whilst soaking our tent... And the rain cover wasn't on it....

>>8 oh man, how did you sleep in your tent afterwards? Though I hope that it didn't smell bad or feel too damp...

And finally something crazy. This also happened on the Great North Walk trek, and it was the second day of the hike. There was a fork in the path, one leading into the bush, and the other leading into the rock. The sign (situated in an unseeable area) actually pointed us to the top path, but the bottom path seemed more obvious, so down that path we went...

Soon enough, it became really rocky, and we had to climb over a few outcrops of rock, but we weren't worried until we reached a break in the rock shelf. About 3 metres (10 feet) long. So being the leader (for some godforsaken reason) I decided to try go on a lower ledge of rock to get to the other side. Which was when I lost my footing and nearly tumbled down the cliff-face (which was about 10 metres or 33 feet down). Luckily for me, only my walking stick fell down, and it was a few seconds before I heard a *crack* as my walking-stick broke. One of the members of my team finally realised we were going the wrong way, and so we headed back.

I'm telling this as crazy, because if I'd fallen, I'd most likely have a broken leg/arm at best, a brain haemorrage (if that's how you spell it) at normal, dead if I was slightly unlucky and unrecognisable in the worst-case scenario. We were also one of the last groups to set out, and it was at an early stage in the hike, so it would've taken a few hours for a teacher to even be informed (bad reception for phones) and a few days at best for anyone to rescue me.

And I think that's my craziest camping experience ever. And I'm pretty sure I don't want that to ever happen again...

>>9 That's terrible D: I'm glad you didn't fall.

But yeah, the Dr. Pepper got on my friends stuff, but mine was okay. We just slept in the other side of the tent instead lol.

But then I threw a glass bottle with some lemonade into the fire.. Glass went everywhere...

>>10 Lucky it didn't get onto your stuff then... though I hope your tent was big so there was enough space for you guys to fit in... and hope that glass didn't cut anyone either...

I will now tell of something very bizarre. Now, at all the camps that my school holds, we're normally allowed to choose out cabin-mates, and this was what happened as a result of this...

The night before I went off to camp, I had this weird dream. It was that I got abandoned by my friends and then I had to go borrow a tent and sleep in the large football field behind the campsite. I dismissed this as merely a dream.

When we got to camp and had to choose our cabin-mates, I asked my friends whether I could be with them. And they said no. So I went to ask my other group of friends. They were also full up. And no matter who I asked, they said no. Luckily enough for me, the teacher got all the rejects and shoved them together in the last remaining cabin. But the strangest thing of all was, when I went to the cabin and looked out, there was a solitary tent in the football field behind us. Weird or what?!

And that is yet another bizarre thing, though not really a misadventure... I think I have too many misadventures at camps...