The folks at whiteblaze.net recount some of the dumbest things they’ve seen on the Appalachian Trail.

Farmer was lighting his alcohol stove, suddenly things went bad, other things begin to catch fire, so he grabbed his ‘water’ bottle to douse the flames, but it wasn’t his water bottle but a Aqua Fini bottle filled with…alcohol…his arm went up, my sleeping pad went up and a few other things as well…funny.

My hunch is it might’ve seemed less funny at the time.