Run-ins with animals? ...literally

[coolkayaker1]

You're in Lancaster, PA, newlease. Maybe you were bumped by an Amish fellow, drunk and crawling home on all fours.

[Newzy]

Feral Pigs In Pa???? About as much a chance as drunken amish, but still the visual picture in the mind works quite well

[Crash]

I had that happen to me when I was hanging at Rausch Gap north of you. It came back and hit me again several minutes later. I thought I was imagining the first time but I know I was awake the second time. I was hung up about 3' up. Never did know what hit me.

Must be something in Pennsy!

[newlease]

I think I'd rather run into the feral pigs. They could just be going about their business, but if I ran into a drunken Amishman in the middle of the night and forest I'd know he's up to no good!

[tbone]

On my hike along the A.T. and down into NYC (NOBO from harpers ferry to Harrimon state park in NY, make a right onto the NY Long path ending up on Broadway in the bronx a few days later), , I had a few animal encounters, but only one "Run-in"

My hiking buddy and I had setup our hammocks in a nice spot adjacent to a campsite. This was somewhere in Pennsylvania, IIRC. We hung our food on the bear-pole and went to sleep. Around dark-o-clock I heard something brush against my tarp, and sniff me right in the butt. I had a pretty typical hang so my *** was about a foot or 18" off the ground, and whatever bumped me did so with enough force to rock my hammock a couple of inches.

I quietly but assertively made some noise along the lines of "Whatever is poking its head into my hammock might wind up as a RUG in my HOUSE" and it promptly beat feet back into the brush.

When I woke up that morning there was a lot of rooting around in the dirt adjacent to our camp area so I'm leaning towards the possibility that it was a small pig or several. I consider myself to be pretty lucky, as I am much more worried about feral pigs then I am bears!

Hate to tell you but there are no feral pigs in PA.

[tbone]

I think I'd rather run into the feral pigs. They could just be going about their business, but if I ran into a drunken Amishman in the middle of the night and forest I'd know he's up to no good!

Everybody knows that drunken Amishmen are out driving their hotrod camaros.

[LaVista]

Hate to tell you but there are no feral pigs in PA.

I'm not from PA, thats just the presumption I made based on the rooting patterns in the mud adjacent to my campsite. Deer don't tear up the ground like pigs do.

Also these people, and the PA Game commission seem to think differently:

http://live.psu.edu/story/20602

[Rain Man]

You don't even have to be low to the ground. This summer I set up late one evening at Laurel Creek, just off the Little Wolf Creek in Virginia, then went to sit around the campfire with friends.

When I returned after dark to my hammock, there was the cutest little flying squirrel in my hammock, on my down bag, checking things out. I surely wish I had had my camera around my neck, but alas.

I'm glad neither of our animals were porcupines! LOL

Rain Man

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[tbone]

I'm not from PA, thats just the presumption I made based on the rooting patterns in the mud adjacent to my campsite. Deer don't tear up the ground like pigs do.

Also these people, and the PA Game commission seem to think differently:

http://live.psu.edu/story/20602

Well thats interesting .

[LaVista]

And you had almost put my mind at ease about being some piece of bacons midnight snack..