hiking in a group with a kilt...

[Alan H]

I took my cotton/poly digicamo reverse kinguisse hiking kilt with me over vacation last week. It was not our typical hiking trip. We usually load up the backpacks with a weeks worth of food and 40-55 pounds (40 for her, 55 for me) of gear and head out by ourselves. This time we hiked in three miles to a wilderness camp, where we stayed in wall tents, had our food cooked for us in a log house built around 1908, and then hiked in small groups with instructors (our was a geologist) for 6 days.

Yes, there will be pictures, soon.

Upshot is that half the guys in the group were intrigued with my kilt and 3/4 of the women were ridiculously "talkative" about it. I suspect that there will be 4-5 new kilted hikers in So Cal soon.

Now....the point of this post. I stopped in at a hiking/outdoors store in the booming metropolis of Lone Pine, before we drove up to the trailhead, to pick up a stick of "Glide". I mentioned to the store staff that I hiked in a kilt. Their response was...."You're not the only one!".

But I have NEVER seen another person backpacking in the Sierra Nevada in a kilt.... though that may change soon.

Have any of you come across another backpacker or hiker, seriously out in the wilderness (not on a nature trail in the park) kilted up? I know YOU might be kilted up, but how about someone else?