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March 20, 2019 7:05 AM

Comedian Miel Bredouw reenacts 35 hiking interactions in 38 seconds (SLYT)
posted by duffell (36 comments total)

Tag urself I'm *panting* "hello" at :14 and "beautiful!" at :18.
posted by duffell at 7:06 AM on March 20, 2019 [8 favorites]

I'm definitely a "Mmmm" or a replying "Heyyyy"/"Hello"/"Hi" as determined by the other person's initiation of said interaction.

That of course excludes situations where I feel I can pass on information that is of otherwise noteworthy import such as "Snake around the corner" or "The water source on the map you're coming up to in a half mile is improperly marked" or "If you see my friends coming behind me tell them I said they're assholes" or stuff like that.
posted by RolandOfEld at 7:17 AM on March 20, 2019 [11 favorites]

I always wind up nodding and saying hello to the hiking dogs and maybe the humans. Maybe.
posted by Celsius1414 at 7:18 AM on March 20, 2019 [5 favorites]

Missing: Hooowdy!

Also, I'm assuming the "I can't even feel anything yet!" is a reference to mushrooms or something, but maybe I just live in Washington.

Also Miel is pinging my gaydar so hard I'm pretty sure she invented flannel shirts.
posted by loquacious at 7:38 AM on March 20, 2019 [5 favorites]

After hiking in the Swiss Alps I have permanently added a loud enthusiastic sing-songy GRUEZI!!!! to my greeting repertoire. I do not really use it when hiking though. Only to shout at partner from across the house when he returns from work.
posted by little cow make small moo at 7:44 AM on March 20, 2019 [4 favorites]

> Tag urself I'm *panting* "hello" at :14 and "beautiful!" at :18.

I'm "sorry, thank you" at about :13, except if I've set foot in Canada at any point in the previous year "sorry" will inevitably come out as "suerry!"
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 7:45 AM on March 20, 2019

I would be at best a nod or a "sorry" (because Canadian). However, if someone told me a joke as the passed me I'd totally assume they had just murdered someone and had ate them.
posted by Ashwagandha at 7:52 AM on March 20, 2019 [8 favorites]

Ashwagandha, I aspire to be Weird Bad Joke Guy. But uh, without the murdering.
posted by duffell at 8:03 AM on March 20, 2019 [1 favorite]

She missed the one where they would mumble, "Too much eye contact," and trip off the side of the path and fall down the canyon.
posted by 80 Cats in a Dog Suit at 8:04 AM on March 20, 2019 [5 favorites]

But uh, without the murdering.

What they all say.
posted by biffa at 8:11 AM on March 20, 2019 [2 favorites]

I'm firmly in the "nod, maybe say hello" camp, except when hiking without my wife, in which case I understand I'm under a marital obligation to ask for any dog's names and report back.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 8:13 AM on March 20, 2019 [6 favorites]

She missed the one where they would mumble, "Too much eye contact," and trip off the side of the path and fall down the canyon.

I feel like it is storytime. Don't be shy.
posted by RolandOfEld at 8:14 AM on March 20, 2019 [2 favorites]

I aspire to be Weird Bad Joke Guy

I come from a culture where strangers being overly familiar and/or telling you unsolicited jokes in remote areas is a red light flashing brightly. YMMV.
posted by Ashwagandha at 8:15 AM on March 20, 2019 [4 favorites]

I'm "nods / walks past silently" or "responds with a sound that might have been intended to be 'hi' but is just an almost inaudible grunt."

However, they forgot the one where it's a bunch of guys, inevitably white and well groomed, on mountain bikes, on a trail explicitly marked no bikes, and you're like O_o and they're like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Also forgot the one where the dog is off leash and ill behaved and the owner doesn't give a shit.

Pretty on point otherwise.
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:19 AM on March 20, 2019 [8 favorites]

No “sorry for ruining your PR, but I found a piece of someone’s shoe and do you know if there’s any garbage cans around here?”

No maybe that’s just me.
posted by Yowser at 8:21 AM on March 20, 2019 [3 favorites]

and you're like O_o

This marks the moment where I know what the O_o actually signifies rather than it being, as I thought up until now, a representation of an audible "Oooh" or "Ohhh?"

Thanks for making today a special day.
posted by RolandOfEld at 8:22 AM on March 20, 2019 [22 favorites]

British walking types seem limited to:

1: totally ignoring
2: silent nod of acknowledgement
3: hello/ good morning/ afternoon

Clashes between types no doubt mean paranoia over being over/under familiar.

Anything else makes you a big rude weirdo.
posted by biffa at 8:24 AM on March 20, 2019 [3 favorites]

"Snake around the corner"

I got to do "bear around the corner" last year.
posted by beagle at 8:30 AM on March 20, 2019 [6 favorites]

"Just another 40 minutes to go!" when you're 2 min from the top.
posted by PenDevil at 8:42 AM on March 20, 2019 [12 favorites]

That's me with the trekking poles at the end. Not shown: my backpack with at LEAST twelve of the 10 Essentials, even for a two-mile walk through an urban park.
posted by The corpse in the library at 9:12 AM on March 20, 2019 [5 favorites]

I love this video so much. I miss hiking in LA.

I'm the quiet "hi" accompanied by a smile that looks more like a grimace. I consider myself a friendly person.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 9:17 AM on March 20, 2019 [2 favorites]

“You’re almost there.”
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 9:23 AM on March 20, 2019 [2 favorites]

i'm definitely the :} one
posted by cendawanita at 9:23 AM on March 20, 2019

There's no story because there's too many stories of me getting flustered over social contact, tripping, and falling away from perceived danger. It's my goto move like an armadillo rolling into a ball.
posted by 80 Cats in a Dog Suit at 9:23 AM on March 20, 2019 [7 favorites]

I always say "You're almost halfway there!" no matter where we meet on the trail because it's always true.
For certain values of "there."
posted by Floydd at 9:38 AM on March 20, 2019 [2 favorites]

IIRC, the title of this JMT documentary is "Mile...Mile and a Half" because that's what everyone says when asked "How much further?"

This bit is pretty spot on -- I felt like I did some hiking on our well-populated city trails today!

(Also, I hate the people with the blaring music with the fire of a thousand suns. If you're not going to enjoy the sounds of nature, at least put in headphones (or a single headphone if you're actually safety conscious)).
posted by natabat at 9:50 AM on March 20, 2019 [3 favorites]

YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS?
posted by drlith at 10:01 AM on March 20, 2019 [17 favorites]

I can't watch right now, but do they have the over-the-hill-but-aspiring-alpha-male who, when you say it took you two hours says, "really, I did it in fifteen minutes?"

Because up yours guy.
posted by klanawa at 10:03 AM on March 20, 2019 [4 favorites]

I always say "You're almost halfway there!" no matter where we meet on the trail because it's always true.
For certain values of "there."

According to Zeno's Dichotomy paradox: 'That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.'
Ergo, you can never actually arrive at the summit.
So you may as well give up and go back down.
Except you will never actually reach the base of the mountain, because of Zeno's Dichotomy paradox.
posted by Atom Eyes at 10:04 AM on March 20, 2019 [1 favorite]

What are these trails where you see other people?

Greetings from the Olympic Peninsula.
posted by humboldt32 at 10:40 AM on March 20, 2019 [6 favorites]

For anyone curious it looks like she's hiking the Echo Mountain trail in Altadena, CA

The one time I hiked it I also saw a viral video star hiking, as well as a few rattlers.
posted by JauntyFedora at 10:48 AM on March 20, 2019 [1 favorite]

I prefer dropping whatever I'm carrying, running at the person screaming "THEY FOUND US, THEY FOUND US OH THANK GOD WE'RE GOING TO GET OUT!" then collapsing at their feet in a heap and sobbing.
posted by allkindsoftime at 1:43 PM on March 20, 2019 [4 favorites]

Being excited to see the dog and dismissive to the dog's owner is solid.
posted by Pope Guilty at 2:17 PM on March 20, 2019 [2 favorites]

For anyone curious it looks like she's hiking the Echo Mountain trail in Altadena, CA

It's totally Altadena. I thought it looked like Sunset Trail/Something off the Millard Canyon/Mt. Lowe loop, but it could be Echo Mtn too.
Trail's too narrow for Henniger (which can go fuck right off forever - life's too short for that fucking schlep) or Mt. Disappointment (ditto).
Fantastic vid though!
posted by ApathyGirl at 4:30 PM on March 20, 2019

Me, clambering up some rocks:
My trousers: RRRRRRRRRRRRP
Passing Stranger: Was that sound your trousers ripping?!
Me: ... yes
Stranger: Haha! Bye!

I spent the next couple of miles on the one of the busiest hiking routes in the UK very cheerfully waving hello to walkers to distract them from the massive hole in my trousers and it might have actually worked or so I tell myself.
posted by BinaryApe at 1:06 AM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]

I prefer dropping whatever I'm carrying, running at the person screaming "THEY FOUND US, THEY FOUND US OH THANK GOD WE'RE GOING TO GET OUT!" then collapsing at their feet in a heap and sobbing.

For extra points, try this at Walmart.
posted by The Bellman at 7:30 AM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]