I've taken to surfing Trip Advisor and Yelp to find annoying reviews. It was an amusing day when I realized that people write online reviews of trails. When writing a review, it's best to think about how the review will reflect on you. For example, when ranking a trail that small children can do, complaining about it being ranked "moderately difficult" just makes you look lazy and out of shape. It's amazing learning that there are people out there that will jump on their smart phone to complain about a 2km trail being falsely advertised as moderate before they consider that maybe the problem isn't with the trail, but that they maybe could benefit from moving every so often.
I also enjoyed the review that talked about how they wore shoes with no tread and brought their little white dog on a trail described as "rigorous". They did not care for the many "opsticals" (things like rocks, roots and ground...or as most people call it "the trail"), or the fact that there wasn't a sign to guide them to the humongous lookout that the trail follows for a significant period.
It brings me sadness that more idiots aren't posting their negative trail experiences on the internet, because it's like reading train wreck restaurant reviews, except when they're ranking a trail I know that no waiters were harmed in the making of my entertainment. People raging against nature being nature-like makes me giggle.
In honour of these brave souls writing their tragic man-vs-nature tails, I hope (unlike Miss Moderate-was-too-hard, I admit to my shortcomings...in this case my issues with follow-through) to start a series of trail reviews on this blog.
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