ITT: Times your /out/ing excursions have gone terribly, terribly wrong

Planned a trip on the AT. 4 days.

Week of the trip my boss offers OT.
I start working doubles. Work one the day before my trip.
Get home Im whooped. Crash and sleep 14 hrs.
At some point my friend called and asked if I was still going.
Me still asleep told him "no, I'm working tonight."
They leave without me.

I'm so messed when I wake up I go into work and they're like aren't you off for a week?

By the time I got my shit right my group was already a day ahead on the trail.

>visiting some mountain in Virginia about 10 years ago, can't even remember the name now
>stomach is cramping on the way up
>progressively getting worse as we reach the summit
>holy shit I can barely move
>cramp is so bad I start drinking from a stream (went through a gallon on the climb up, water subdued the pain a little) with no fucks given to disease or parasites
>have to turn around
>climb down was even worse, forced to take a knee every 20 feet
>am driven home by bf, takes 5 hours and the pain becomes unbearable
>have to go to emergency room
>gallbladder was about to burst

Essentially every time I go to VA something bad happens so now I avoid the state if possible.

>>1095826
Other than the time I drove a fence post through my thigh hunting?
>plan big coastal 4-day guided duck/goose hunt with my dad in VA, gonna get us a brant (cool looking sea-goose) to put on the wall
>2 day drive to get there
>literally 3 hours into drive, stuck behind a semi, semi throws a retread and blows out both our front tires and smashes the windshield
>8 hours at nearest autobody shop getting everything fixed and we're back on the road
>really having to make time up to get there on time, end up driving through the night first night then taking a 2-hour nap in a rest stop the second day
>get in to our hotel about 1am, had called ahead letting guide know we were running behind due to bullshit
>get up at 4:30am to meet guide, dad's not feeling very good
>guide's an hour late, he has the shits
>finally get everything going, out innabay
>don't see shit-all the first day, the three of us combined shoot a total of 4 mallards and a random snow goose (limit is 6 ducks, 3 canadas, 5 snows/ross/specks combined, and 1 brant per person). Literally never even saw a brant
>dad's getting worse
>that night he spends most of the evening puking in the hotel bathroom
>I'm starting to feel sick too
>dad gets even worse, end up driving him to ER at 11pm
>call guide and be like "we're both sick, gotta bail on ya, we'll still pay for whole hunt"
>guide is at least a bro about it too since he's sick, says he'll only charge for the 1st day of the hunt
>end up going into full-blown Menier's (inherited inner-ear disease) attack while waiting for dad in ER, end up in bed next to him puking my guts out with severe vertigo
>turns out dad has a strep infection in his stomach (wut?), he's admitted and put on IV antibiotics, I'm released the next morning but still feel like shit
>end up spending 5 days there waiting for him to recover enough to travel, get royally bitched out by work even though I let them know I had a medical emergency and would be back late ahead of time

>>1095826
>go on camping/hiking date
>eveything is going pretty chill
>suddenly, trail stops (found out later there was a fork we missed)
>huh, well idk.... this kind of looks like a trail
>gps says we're almost spot on
>whatever, bushwhacking isnt a problem for me
>1 h later
>man... we're really off trail now... fuck it, terrain is easy, lets keep ascending
>shit gets steep
>girl tells me she's actually scared of heights
>r u fing kidding me.jpg
>thats when i see the trail, about 1km away, a couple of brushy ravines separate us from it
>well shit ok time to traverse
>bushwhacking gets real intense
>after lots of bitching and moaning, get to the trail
>im having fun cause this is part of the game and I know were not going to die. Girl isnt convinced about the latter.
>descend, girl is pissed, gets over it on the way back though.
>turns out most of the brush in those ravines was poison oak. It was winter so it had no leaves and we didnt identify it as such.
>girl gets massive rash, oozing everywhere, its just awful.
>as it turns out, i'm immune


That was three years ago. Im buying a ring for her pretty soon.

>>1096665
thats adorable