<hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>Oax_Mike: <pre><p>So does the 6'6" guy - even if it's in the afternoon and I'm hiking at the end of the group :(</p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>As a tall arachnologist, this is why I usually volunteer to be up front while hiking. If I'm going to get hit in the face either way, might as well clear the path for others. </p></pre>riverwestein: <pre><blockquote>
<p>As a tall arachnologist, this is why I usually volunteer to be up front while hiking. If I'm going to get hit in the face either way, might as well clear the path for others. </p>
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<p>You, sir or madam, are a good person. As a tall person generally, I often take the front anyway because of my long strides, but I can't look at getting webs in the face as just being the good guy and clearing the path for others. For me, that's just the thinnest of silver linings, which helps to subtly offset the rage and/or panic induced when I get webbed in the face and immediately think about the spider who built the web, a spider whose day I've just ruined and now may very well be crawling around on me somewhere, with a bad attitude to boot. </p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>If it helps, spiders are pretty efficient at eating their webs and popping it out the other end, so as long as the spider is still stuck to the web somewhere, they should be able to recover just fine. And if they're on you...almost definitely harmless.</p></pre>the_real_Mark_Watney: <pre><p>Yeah, that "almost" has me noping the fuck out. </p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>I gotcha, but I didn't want to say 100% and then get railed for guessing where people live/what type of web they just walked through/potential allergic reactions, right? But, to be frank, if you are hiking, and you walk through some web that's at face level, I'd be 99.99% sure that you just leveled an orb-web, and those spiders aren't harmful to humans. Even the big ones in Australia are helplessly uncoordinated when out of their web and possess venom less potent than a bee sting.</p></pre>the_basser: <pre><p>Spiders and bee stings? That sounds like ouchouchnopenope</p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>Sounds like a good name for this hybrid I'm trying to engineer...</p></pre>Joeking1986: <pre><p>Cut it out </p></pre>SirVelocifaptor: <pre><p>Black and yellow widows</p></pre>APineappleR: <pre><p>Want another one that my teacher told me about and scares everybody? A koala-faced spidercrab.</p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>My friend calls these "spider-crab-demons", I think a koala face would help its PR.
<a href="https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1652/24543767875_8c2f580807_b.jpg">https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1652/24543767875_8c2f580807_b.jpg</a></p></pre>QueequegTheater: <pre><p>Call it a cazadore.</p></pre>Squidbit: <pre><p>I'm not volunteering for bee stings either, man</p></pre>westlyroots: <pre><p>When my mom gets hit with a web, it's like her brain was replaced with an insane ape.</p></pre>Kendoobie: <pre><p>The spiders that don't build webs are the ones you have to worry about. Typically these are spiders that burrow, but you will often find sexually frustrated male spiders like this wandering aimlessly in search of a mate. </p></pre>amethyst_dragoness: <pre><p>Sexually frustrated male anythings that live underground are aimless, with grown boys living in a gaming cave in their mothers basement included in that. </p></pre>the_real_Mark_Watney: <pre><p>Sexually frustrated spiders. Ugh. Nope nope nope. </p></pre>MeowntainMan: <pre><p>I've had two spiders drop from the ceiling on me like silent ninjas. I'm forever scarred. Fuck spiders.</p></pre>Butidigress817: <pre><p>Oh yeah, while driving, from car ceiling, right in front of my glasses. I'm actually dead right now from the horrific crash and burn.</p></pre>ShortchangeParamecia: <pre><p>Most of them are generally harmless.</p>
<p><em>Most</em> of them.</p>
<p><em>Generally</em>.</p></pre>maxdps_: <pre><blockquote>
<p>And if they're on you...almost definitely harmless.</p>
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<p>pfff tell that to my girlfriend.</p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>Sure, what's her number?</p></pre>NikNakZombieWhack: <pre><p>The smoothest of operations, sir</p></pre>Surrealle01: <pre><p>I never knew they recycled webs.. Cool. TIL</p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>Yup, spider silk is made up of proteins, and when radio-labelled, researchers have found 80-90% of proteins from an old web will show up in their new web (Peakall, 1971). And they do is super fast, too. Spiders are pretty good at being spiders...</p></pre>Surrealle01: <pre><blockquote>
<p>Spiders are pretty good at being spiders...</p>
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<p>Crazy how that works.. </p></pre>Retskcaj19: <pre><p>It was good luck for them to be born as spiders. Imagine having all that talent and then being born as a duck. </p></pre>iEatBabyLegs: <pre><p>huh TIL spiders eat their webs for refills.</p></pre>MTBaller: <pre><p>Hmmm, that explains where all of Spider-man's webs go
TIL thank you</p></pre>Abrad0lf_Lincler: <pre><p>Oh great, so not only do I have a spider web on my face now but it is a pooped out spider web!?</p></pre>oneneedsHope: <pre><p>Yup, first thing I do when I walk through a spiderweb is do the knees-up shimmy exercise. Then I ask anyone, literally ANYONE nearby to inspect me for spiders. I once dragged a postal service worker off her route.</p></pre>muddyrose: <pre><p>"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"</p>
<p>The only exception is when <a href="/u/oneneedsHope">u/oneneedsHope</a> needs spoder inspection </p></pre>oneneedsHope: <pre><p>I resent that. I've already had one. And for your information, I was labeled a "yes."</p></pre>iamreeterskeeter: <pre><p>Instant kung fu skills when it hits you in the face, though.</p></pre>Bigdikguy: <pre><p>Who has time to think about the poor spider, when theres webs all over you and your busy trying to find and kill every possible creepy crawly on ya</p></pre>bingybunny: <pre><p>It's a 2 foot stick or twig you use to bring down the webs when you're walking in front. Hold it out in front of you, maybe swish it up and down a little. I call it the web rapier.</p></pre>rytis: <pre><p>I use a walking stick during my hikes. It's also known as Sting. It has quite the reputation in the spider world.</p></pre>allredb: <pre><p>I also take Sting with me hiking, when he is up front singing "Roxanne" the spiders just run away. </p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>I'll often hold out my hand, but ya know, some slip past my defenses from time to time.</p></pre>disILiked: <pre><p>You ever wonder why Gandelf has a staff taller than himself? </p></pre>Elite_Slacker: <pre><p>I came to the comments to describe the proper use of a spider stick but you nailed it. </p></pre>Oax_Mike: <pre><p>If you like spiders and critters, you'll love <a href="http://imgur.com/r/travel/asljU">this album</a> from my last hike.</p></pre>Jagged11: <pre><p>Hey bud, it's saying the album doesn't exist, although it may be because I'm on mobile </p></pre>no_egrets: <pre><p><a href="http://imgur.com/a/asljU">This link should work.</a> Or even <a href="https://m.imgur.com/gallery/asljU">this one, which is mobile-specific.</a> The above link is via imgur's subreddit image browsing feature, so I guess they've never implemented it in mobile.</p></pre>TenCrownCoffee: <pre><p>Worked for me- that album was awesome!</p></pre>Numba1CharlsBarksFan: <pre><p>Its working fine on desktop, maybe it is a mobile thing. Definitely an interesting album, there is a really weird black and white worm in there, and spiders that are way too large.</p></pre>MerryMisanthrope: <pre><p>'S broken for me too.</p></pre>oshtep: <pre><p>Can someone explain what the leopard print penis from <a href="http://i.imgur.com/xhHDVTL.jpg">this picture</a> is? </p>
<p>I just have no idea what I'm looking at and google let me down. </p></pre>rebelolemiss: <pre><p>Well, you probably shouldn't have looked up "leopard print penis" :P</p></pre>muddyrose: <pre><p>Identifying leopard-printed phallic objects: this is what Bixby was made for</p></pre>Vladimir-Pimpin: <pre><p>probably just some weird caterpillar tbh</p></pre>bingybunny: <pre><p>Those are some cuddly monkeys</p></pre>SmellsLikePneumonia: <pre><p>I loved that chubby little lizard! He looked well fed for sure! </p></pre>kakanczu: <pre><p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/B2pL4eC.jpg" rel="nofollow">This one is a real keeper... "Don't worry my little darling, I won't hurt you"</a> </p></pre>MiffedCanadian: <pre><p>Well this certainly puts the photos of dandelions I took from my last hike to shame.</p></pre>PuraFire: <pre><p>I'd rather keep that link blue thank you very much </p></pre>Acer_Scout: <pre><p>You a are a brave person, but why do this to yourself? You can wave a stick to easily clear the path ahead.</p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>I just think I'm addicted at this point.</p></pre>adamsworstnightmare: <pre><p>Why don't you just hold a stick in front of your face to tank the webs for you? Worked for me.</p></pre>10bMove: <pre><p>protip: spider webs taste like bacon.</p></pre>_Soon__: <pre><p>We honor your service and duty to this country.</p></pre>Corrupt_id: <pre><p>I used to have to walk 5 blocks every day at 4:30am to get the train for work. In the <em>Suburbs</em> and I learned my lesson quickly; to walk in the street, where there's nothing close enough together for spiders to build a web</p></pre>Commie_Salami: <pre><p>Good thing those bird-eating spiders only exist in the Amazon, huh?</p></pre>krkonos: <pre><p>Exactly what I was thinking. I'm 6'6 as well and do a lot of hiking. Even if I have someone walking directly in front of me basically step for step I still always end up with a face full of spider.</p></pre>idosillythings: <pre><p>That's why you carry a stick to wave around in front of you. </p></pre>Grayskis: <pre><p>I love being 5'5"</p></pre>pspahn: <pre><p>When fishing/hiking mountain streams, I always walk with my rod in front of me and I wave it a little bit whenever I go between tree trunks a spider would like to web up.</p>
<p>Spider in the face happened once as a kid. Never again.</p></pre>leomarvin1976: <pre><blockquote>
<p>I always walk with my rod in front and I wave it a little bit</p>
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<p>Pretty sure that's why I got arrested at Applebees...</p></pre>AbominableShellfish: <pre><p>More of a waffle house move</p></pre>Odell_Strangehams: <pre><p>Exactly my technique. I look like a fool but less foolish than I would if someone saw me stripping off my clothes and running screaming through the forest to jump in a lake. </p></pre>Acer_Scout: <pre><p>If hiking in the woods, sticks come in handy.</p>
<p>Just check the sticks for spiders.</p></pre>Odell_Strangehams: <pre><p>Check before and during. I always check it periodically as I'm hiking to make sure I didn't knock down a web with a spider on it and the spider decided to stay on the stick, climb up my arm and bite my face. </p></pre>spaceLobsterInc: <pre><p>Hold it like a sword. If people ask, say its a training technique for fencing. </p></pre>finnknit: <pre><p>I went canoeing on a river with summer camp once when I was about 11. I was in the front of the canoe, and ducked when I saw that we were heading for a branch full of spider webs hanging over the river. My canoe partner did not have my reflexes, and was not pleased.</p></pre>bingybunny: <pre><p>Yeah this. I use a stick. After half a mile of getting caught in the face every second tree you start to improvise!</p></pre>tingly_legalos: <pre><p>I feel like this is one of the country things city people will never understand. No matter how smart or dumb you are, everybody in the woods figures this out eventually.</p></pre>jakev91489: <pre><p>If there's nothing available, you can hold your hand out like a shark fin in front of you!</p></pre>tinygraycells: <pre><p>Whenever someone tried to motivate me with that 'early bird' crap, I liked to remind them that the early worm gets eaten </p></pre>Toofuckinglaz: <pre><p>Haha! That's the best comeback I've read in while. </p></pre>_bashy: <pre><p>Can also say the 2nd mouse gets the cheese </p></pre>waitn2drive: <pre><p>3rd bird lives, first two are killed by the stone.</p></pre>ChiisaiMurasaki: <pre><p>Well, that 3rd one makes up for it. It's worth twice as much in the hand.</p></pre>Eb403: <pre><p>I've got my bird in my hand right now, what's that worth?</p></pre>510Threaded: <pre><p>1 over par, or 4 strokes</p></pre>waitn2drive: <pre><p>Moral of the story, stroke your bird four times, get results.</p></pre>510Threaded: <pre><p>3 is inadequate, 5 is absurd</p></pre>John_Philips: <pre><p>1, 2, 5. "3 sir, 3"</p></pre>RenaKunisaki: <pre><p>Five is right out.</p></pre>NorthernWard: <pre><p>x+2 is right out</p></pre>IamEclipse: <pre><p>Trick with that is small birds, big rock</p></pre>Tony_Chu: <pre><p>It depends upon a false symmetry and falls apart under inspection. </p>
<p>The principle of the early bird getting the worm is predicated by the assumption that the worm is to be had by whichever bird gets there first - if the worm shows up later there will simply be more birds waiting to eat it. </p>
<p>The late worm is therefore rent apart by a squabble of violently hungry birds. </p></pre>Cautemoc: <pre><p>Then the absent worm lives happily ever after.</p></pre>AzoicAntithesis: <pre><p>So what you're saying is don't do shit, don't go outside?</p></pre>scubadger: <pre><p>couch potato worm never gets eaten</p></pre>milkand24601: <pre><p>This is poetry</p></pre>HowRiskyIsDatClick: <pre><p>The first guy through the door gets shot, but someone has to go first.</p></pre>Sanctitty: <pre><p>Is there a subreddit for great comebacks? Inlove things like this</p></pre>Sayajiaji: <pre><p>But worms usually only come out at night, so wouldn't it technically be a late worm?</p></pre>lets_move_to_voat: <pre><p>The worm who never comes out of his house never gets eaten. That's my motto</p></pre>adlerhn: <pre><blockquote>
<p>The worm who never comes out of his basement never gets eaten. That's my motto</p>
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<p>FTFY</p></pre>climber_g33k: <pre><blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>The worm who never comes out of his mom's basement never gets eaten. That's my motto</p>
</blockquote>
<p>FTFY</p>
</blockquote></pre>istartedi: <pre><p>Tom Landry?!? Don't come out of the hole. You'll get whacked!</p></pre>tinygraycells: <pre><p>It would indeed be a late worm [HGTTG] </p></pre>tonefilm: <pre><p>rip</p></pre>staypuftmichelinman: <pre><p>You can be the early bird, or you can be really really REALLY late bird. I choose the latter.</p></pre>Zeig_101: <pre><p>"Second mouse gets the cheese."</p></pre>TheRedmanCometh: <pre><p>Not with my traps.</p></pre>JimmyB28: <pre><p>At my ex's house. Field mice found their way in at the start of winter. I made a live trap out of a clear plastic tote and an empty paper towel roll. Filled the bottom with cotton. Baited it with fiery cheetos. It also served as mouse jail (with sign) to hold them until I had them all. Then I took them to the golf course down the street and set them free. </p>
<p>If I ever find myself stranded in the wilderness, I expect the mice to return my kindness. </p></pre>TheRedmanCometh: <pre><p>Yeah I hope that gold course was pretty far away.
I do my duty and end them, but it makes me feel fucking terrible. A little mouse looming up at you from the trap, and you knowing he's gotta get got.
Heartbreaking.</p></pre>JimmyB28: <pre><p>You can buy plastic live traps too, and drive them somewhere else. I mean, if it really makes you feel horrible. </p></pre>whizzer0: <pre><p>Honestly, I'm still trying to work out what happened to the first mouse.</p></pre>botcomking: <pre><p>Mousetrap.</p></pre>whizzer0: <pre><p>(I was referencing Iron Man 3)</p></pre>Renwuad: <pre><p>He got cheese too, but the second one also gets cheese</p></pre>HolycommentMattman: <pre><p>Yeah. His "cheese" was just clamped tightly around his neck. </p></pre>PM_ME_UR_VULVASAUR_: <pre><p>"Say cheese!" <em>snap</em></p></pre>PolishingTheKnob: <pre><p>The second mouse gets the cheese</p></pre>784670: <pre><p>No, even without the actually-its-a-late-worm thing, in order for the early bird's worm to be a special circumstance, it means that the later birds get no worms for some reason. This could either be that the worms run out, which means all the worms are fucked anyway, or that the worms hide later on, in which case its the not-hiding that fucks the worm</p></pre>CaptainZapper: <pre><p>So maybe we should redistribute the worm wealth to all birds so not only the early bird gets it.</p></pre>_AlreadyTaken_: <pre><p>I remind them the late bird doesn't have to eat worms</p></pre>MentionMyName: <pre><p>Related story: I don't take my trash out at night anymore... if I forget during the day, guess it's going to wait another week. Last time I did, I ended up walking into a spider web made between two cherry trees that are roughly 10 feet apart. As soon as I felt it, I backed up and the line was so thick that it just pulled off me like nothing happened. I freaked the fuck out, grabbed a flashlight, and searched for the what I was assuming was going to be a massive spider. I was not let down. It was the largest orbweaver I've ever seen. Thing was about the size of my fist. Fucking scary.</p></pre>mechapoitier: <pre><p>That's pretty horrifying, but I'll never forget the time I took the garbage out at night and there was a ~400lb bear about 15 feet away from me by the time I saw it in the dark. I slowly put down the garbage can, backed away as slowly and calmly as I could, watching it like a hawk. Its head was low, just staring at me. As soon as I was out of line-of-sight I ran for the door. </p>
<p>I was maybe 14 years old at the time. Yeah, I had nightmares for a while. </p></pre>-Best_Name_Ever-: <pre><blockquote>
<p>That's pretty horrifying, but I'll never forget <del>I took the garbage out at night and there was a ~400lb bear about 15 feet away from me by the time I saw it in the dark. I slowly put down the garbage can, backed away as slowly and calmly as I could, watching it like a hawk. Its head was low, just staring at me. As soon as I was out of line-of-sight I ran for the door.</del> nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table. </p>
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<p>FTFY </p></pre>MICK_SWAGGA: <pre><p>I haven't seen that guy in a while, is he still around?</p></pre>Johnyknowhow: <pre><p>Yeah, he's just busy shittymorphing into his final form.</p></pre>madeup6: <pre><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shittymorph/comments/">Looks like it.</a></p></pre>_soundshapes: <pre><p>Glad I wasn't the only one who wasn't getting ready for a bamboozle.</p></pre>xybernick: <pre><p>Did it see you?</p></pre>Sovereign_Curtis: <pre><blockquote>
<p>it's head was low, <strong>just staring at me</strong></p>
</blockquote></pre>WolfChallenger: <pre><p>Knees weak arms are sweaty. The bear has mauled me into confetti. Never forgetti.</p></pre>iwan2gohome: <pre><p>Mom's spaghetti</p></pre>NZNoldor: <pre><p>Let me guess... Australian?</p></pre>Sundance12: <pre><p>They get big here in Florida, too</p></pre>CookieMonsterFL: <pre><p>we call them little nightmares down here.</p></pre>belleofthebell: <pre><p>Could easily be Arkansas or a number of mid continent states that have black bears </p></pre>Asphyxiatinglaughter: <pre><p>I think you replied to the wrong comment</p></pre>the_real_Mark_Watney: <pre><p>Every day I learn new reasons to never leave my NYC bubble. </p></pre>NMLT: <pre><p>I'm safe in LA. Only have homeless </p></pre>JTsyo: <pre><p>Sounds like you need <a href="https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3a35281e8b30e3eb15c2a02ef0c3904a">one of these</a> attached to your trashcan.</p></pre>Daxoss: <pre><p>I once stepped outside at night to finish off some weed before bedtime, only to find there was about 30 spiders all around the walls outside. Most of them were fairly massive too, atleast by Norwegian standards.</p>
<p>Ended up spraying down every crevice with raid. Next day there was spider corpses all over the ground and I never saw any spider congregations again.</p></pre>jedimaster32: <pre><p>"Spider congregations"</p>
<p>Those spiders were simply praising their lord together, and you murdered them all. You monster.</p></pre>Daxoss: <pre><p>They were plotting to overthrow me and build nests in my brain. I know it and they knew it. They had to die.</p></pre>2ndzero: <pre><p>I wasn't even there and now I have PTSD...</p></pre>ArmoredFan: <pre><p>Also related: I use to work in the middle of a big state park. I'd be one of the first to walk from the local college campus down a river path to my job. The bus stop only went to the college and I didn't drive.</p>
<p>Face full of webs every fucking day for 5 summers.</p>
<p>The last week I worked there I discovered an "emergency evacuation" paved road that went from the college\s furthest back parking lot into the park about 200 yards behind my job where the road abruptly ended in the middle of a tall grassfield. From the road in the park it was a dirt footpath that cut through the trees that lined the road and went about 50 yards before turning into the emergency road.</p>
<p>Every fucking day for 5 summers I could have been walking down a paved road to work.</p></pre>ShowALK32: <pre><p>What kind of orb weaver was it? I love spiders so I'm actually curious which kind could even get that big.</p>
<p>edit: ooh maybe it was a <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_pilipes">nephila pilipes.</a></em> Their overall size (i.e., including legspan) can reach up to 20cm/8in.</p></pre>lucao_psellus: <pre><blockquote>
<p>I love spiders </p>
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<p>Get the hell outta here you fifth columnist </p></pre>FanOrWhatever: <pre><p>Orb webs are made of 10lb fishing line, you're lucky you didn't get hung up in it.</p></pre>Gr1pp717: <pre><p>A related shower thought: whenever someone googles a spider they're generally trying to find out if they're dangerous to humans, yet that's generally the hardest information to find. </p>
<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider">orbweaver wiki</a>, for example, doesn't even say at all.. </p></pre>photo_phantom: <pre><p>As I read your account, my brain inserted a satisfying <em>twaaannng</em> like the pluck of an untuned guitar string</p></pre>FailingNotBailing: <pre><p>Most of the time when I'm walking through an area where I think there are going to be spider webs I start full-on marching like a Nazi with my hand raise going up and down in front of me. </p>
<p>I mean fuck, I'd rather look like a Nazi than have spider webs on me.</p></pre>BurntPaper: <pre><p>You should wear a bright red armband for visibility in emergency situations so search and rescue can find you easier! </p></pre>tommystjohnny: <pre><p>Swastikas do kind of look like spiders. Draw one on your armband so that people know you're a certified spider killer.</p></pre>RealitySubsides: <pre><p>And make sure that, whenever you pass another person, you freeze mid-stride, arm raised as a hello, and bark "hey hiker!" so they don't think anything strange is going on. </p></pre>tardis__time: <pre><p>LPT right there</p></pre>LolPandaMan: <pre><p>Early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese</p></pre>Brofistastic: <pre><p>and slippy gets shot no matter when he gets there. </p></pre>danijami23: <pre><p>Whoa! Help Me!</p></pre>Iaresamurai: <pre><p>Bogey on yer tail</p></pre>Rhys272727: <pre><p>There's one thing I've learnt from hiking. The late bird always has to walk an extra 5 miles because there's no parking spot near.</p></pre>dirtwalrus: <pre><p>That's why I always find a stick before the hike and dub it my "spider-stick"</p>
<p>I wave it around in front of me whenever I pass between two trees. I'm sure I look stupid but it beats having a face-full of web.</p></pre>Astramancer_: <pre><p>I've got a spider stick on my front porch, lol. I wave it around like the worlds saddest jedi before heading to work. They just love building between the support and the wall, right in the walkway.</p></pre>mschwartz33: <pre><p>I'm casting a "repel spiders" spell!</p></pre>dirtwalrus: <pre><p>Exspideyarmus!</p></pre>bitcoinuserinny: <pre><p>First time I ever hiked up a mountain, there was a spiderweb every 10 feet, directly at face level, and even off to the sides, so you had to stay straight on the path or risk walking into a spider web. That was a lot of ducking, panicking, and screaming.</p></pre>erroneousEmu: <pre><p>Are you Bilbo Baggins?</p></pre>blue_13: <pre><p>This one time I was with a team in Honduras fighting a forest fire. It was in the morning and hiking around to our next position I was trudging through some rather tall grass and branches. Watching where I was stepping, for some reason I stopped and decided to look up and literally 3 inches from my face was a <a href="http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk1qpgj34i1qitkrlo1_500.jpg">Golden Orb Weaver</a>. If I had taken one more step I would have been wearing this thing as a face mask.</p></pre>MexicanGolf: <pre><p>Aye, but that's a real cool looking spider so at least you wouldn't have been terrified <em>and</em> unfashionable.</p></pre>wvspike: <pre><p>Try being first kayaking through the mangroves in the Everglades. I've had my kayak covered with spiders. That's in addition to the mosquitoes, noseeums, and biting flies.</p></pre>Meriis: <pre><p>Noseeums? I'm not famous with that. </p></pre>wvspike: <pre><p>Flying teeth. Almost invisible, look like a speck of dirt when they land on you. OFF doesn't faze them. Once they get on you they just bite away.</p></pre>ThatHappyCamper: <pre><p>There are key advantages to hiking in the desert</p></pre>Commie_Salami: <pre><p>Desert Hiking:</p>
<p>Pros - no spiders</p>
<p>Cons - venomous snakes</p></pre>Tejasgrass: <pre><p>There's venomous snakes in in the mountains, too. And desert sparseness should make it easier for hikers to see them. Should be more like: Cons - carrying ALL the water. Shit's heavy.</p></pre>the_real_Mark_Watney: <pre><p>Also, scorpions. </p></pre>TerminatorCobra89: <pre><p>Pros - No gorillas </p>
<p>Cons - Hot as fuck</p></pre>JustBTDubs: <pre><p>And the inevitable crawling sensation on your skin because your mind gets on the track of "well what if one of the spiders got pulled onto me..."</p>
<p>Edit: pretty sure i have spiders on me after writing that comment</p></pre>VerberMach: <pre><p>I just wanted to add that I can feel spiders on me whenever someone mentions spider webs. So thanks.</p></pre>Dunkman77: <pre><p>I was so happy to see a guy getting into his car at the trail head this morning when I went for my run. Not having to deal with miles of spider webs made my day. So far. We'll see if I actually have to do any more work today.</p></pre>McMish: <pre><p>If dew is still on the leaves you gonna need a nice Spidey-Stick. </p></pre>Sexualrelations: <pre><p>When my parents lived way out in the sticks they used to drive a truck with a 8' pole on the front of it down every trail. Then come back and go walk back down it. My dad really likes to find solutions to lifes problems. </p></pre>Philosopherski: <pre><p>Get a $3 face net on Amazon and laugh at all the peasents waving their arms every 30 seconds. </p></pre>TreyWalker: <pre><p>AT backpacker here: Nobody wears a bugnet backpacking. If they do, they're with their Korean Presbyterian Church outing wearing fresh pressed clothes and have a bijon frise in tow.</p></pre>Philosopherski: <pre><p>I don't know which section you hike but here on the NY/CT border its essentially wetlands. U can spot lots of weekend hikers and thru hikers alike using bugnets</p></pre>BurntPaper: <pre><p>They must come down to SoCal on alternating weekends, that describes my experiences perfectly. Also they all use trekking poles and the line of people starts to look like a centipede from afar. Nothing wrong with poles of course, it's just funny to see such a long dense line of people with their poles swinging. </p></pre>SirButtChin: <pre><p>Jeesh, this happens to me if I'm the first one to walk out of the door in the morning. The fuckers set up an invisible barricade across the door every night.</p></pre>oxfordcircumstances: <pre><p>Same with mountain biking.</p></pre>bogidyboy: <pre><p><a href="https://notetofred.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/spider-web.jpg">walking into spider webs</a> </p></pre>nene1019: <pre><p>good one and true</p></pre>scruffbeard: <pre><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSix8H_L_Mg" rel="nofollow">Relevant</a></p></pre>sam8404: <pre><p>lol I fucking love Archer!</p></pre>Conchobair: <pre><p>You have to put up your dukes right up in front of your face like an old timey boxer and let your forearms catch the webs.</p></pre>11211311241: <pre><p>I used to bring poles, not to help my joints, but to waggle in front of me to scoop up all the spider webs</p></pre>PixelSpy: <pre><p>I used to jog in woods on this trail near my house. It was basically a perfect two mile loop and it did a lot of twists and it was really just a really nice environment to run though. Only thing is every morning I would end up with at least 5 spider webs on my face and I would have to sit for like 2 minutes trying to get it all off of me which sort of ruins the run. Last time I went I hit a web, got it all off, and continued my run. I kept feeling something moving on the back of my neck but I figured it was just a stray piece of web. I finally stopped to see what it is and reached back to grab it and realized I was currently holding a spider about the size of the palm of my hand, it was on me for at least a quarter of a mile. Tossed the spider into the woods and just decided to run on the street from now on like normal people. </p></pre>lordvan526: <pre><p>Used to work 3rd shift security at 6flags. I was amazed at how large and how fast orbweavers put up webs.</p></pre>ScoreAttack: <pre><p>Early spider gets to span their web again.</p></pre>Sundance12: <pre><p>The price of solitude on the trail</p></pre>dan1101: <pre><p>I pick up a spiderweb stick, a branch with several forks. I keep it in front of me to catch pesky spiderwebs. It looks sort of stupid but it works.</p></pre>GoalieJohnK: <pre><p>Try being the first one on the mountain bike trails in the morning. Nothing like plowing through spiderwebs at 15mph with the spiders still in them.</p></pre>exackerly: <pre><p>Carry a stick and don't be afraid to use it.</p></pre>
