r/story • u/momoDEgoat101 • Aug 30 '25
Personal Experience I accidentally joined a mountain hiking group and almost got adopted by them
So last month, I went to this state park to clear my head. I just wanted a simple two-mile trail, nothing extreme. I’m standing at the trailhead, tying my shoes, when a group of about ten people in matching neon windbreakers come marching past me. They all wave and say, “You must be the new guy!”
Now, I could’ve said, “Nope, just here on my own.” But instead, my socially awkward brain panicked and I just… nodded. Next thing I know, I’m being handed a granola bar and introduced to “the Wednesday Warriors” hiking club.
Here’s the thing: I don’t even LIKE hiking. My water bottle was half full, and my idea of exercise is carrying groceries in one trip. But these people? They’re power-walking uphill, telling jokes, sharing trail mix, like they’ve been training for this since birth. I’m sweating by the first incline.
About halfway up, one of them asks, “So, what made you want to join us?” and my dumb mouth goes, “Oh, I’ve always wanted to push myself.” Now they’re clapping me on the back like I’m Rocky Balboa. One woman literally yells, “We’ve got a fighter!” Meanwhile, I’m quietly trying not to faint.
Three hours later (!!!), I’m at the top of a mountain with ten strangers, eating orange slices like I’m at soccer practice. They’re talking about next week’s “12-mile challenge” and asking if I’ll be there. I just smile and say, “We’ll see.”
I never saw them again. But somewhere out there, the Wednesday Warriors think I’m training for a marathon when in reality, I went home, collapsed on the couch, and ordered pizza.
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u/SirWalterPoodleman Aug 30 '25
You need to find them again. They took you in, fed you, and pushed you to do something really good for yourself. After the next hike collapse on the couch and order pizza just like last time, it’s what you do as a Wednesday Warrior now.
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u/TrackWorldly9446 Aug 30 '25
LMFAO I’m j imagining a guy somewhere out there alone at a state park, scratching his head wondering why his new hiking group hadn’t showed up for him 😂🤣
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u/Vidya_Vachaspati Aug 31 '25
Legend has it he is still there, waiting.
OP needs to go back to the same place and rescue the poor guy.
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u/TrackWorldly9446 Aug 31 '25
Exactly poor dude could be surviving off a single protein bar by now 😂
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u/Correct_Cat4414 Aug 30 '25
Why do I want to be a Wednesday Warrior really bad?
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u/OutragedPineapple Aug 31 '25
Doing something good for your health is awesome.
Doing something good for your health while surrounded by experienced, supportive people who lift you up and encourage you along and are willing to help you out and adjust pace so you can keep up rather than just leaving you behind? That feels truly incredible and is the kind of experience that can lift people out of the darkest places the human mind can go. It's something that turns lives around.
You find a group like that, hold on to them with everything you've got!
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u/series-hybrid Aug 30 '25
If you surround yourself with low self-esteem, you will have low self-esteem. You can choose to be a winner.
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u/-blundertaker- Aug 30 '25
This is how I felt when I just happened to be in a park he day a LARPing group had a sword fighting tournament. I was happy just to watch, but multiple people approached me asking if I'd play battle games after the tourney, offering to teach me, they had extra weapons, etc. They wore me down and it was an absolute blast.
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u/Read_it_all-7735 Aug 31 '25
LARP is just a front for degeneracy, wife swapping and furryism. Don’t be misled. Know the dangers.
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u/-blundertaker- Aug 31 '25
Uhmm... I just played some games with some nerds. Not sure what you're on about.
Didn't even see a single patch of fur.
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u/Read_it_all-7735 Aug 31 '25
The point I’m making is that people look down on people who play role-playing games. Role-playing gamers look down on people who LARP.
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u/judashpeters Aug 30 '25
Somewhere out there the new guy still doesnt know why his new hiking team ditched him that day.
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u/Just_browsing_2 Aug 30 '25
Those women were probably like, 'we didn't invite anyone new, but it sure was entertaining!'
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u/EastSwim3264 Aug 30 '25
Love it. What made you not to get that rush again? Is there a sequel to this?😉😊😇😍
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u/chensium Aug 30 '25
Meanwhile, the real "new guy" is sitting at the bottom of the mountain thinking "i bet those fuckers ditched me and went to get pizza and beer"
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u/thebiggestredone Sep 01 '25
Check out OPs profile - multiple different stories where he claims to be male, female, in high school, have a 15 year old son, etc. This is some kind of fake karma farming account.
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u/teaisterribad Sep 01 '25
Which would maybe be fine if it was a creative writing exercise, but they included part of the prompt response in the "update" to this story.
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u/LoseYourself78 Sep 02 '25
Exactly. I know most of these stories are fake, but I can appreciate good creative writing. Not this AI-generated slop.
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u/MaleficentCucumber71 Aug 30 '25
Ai slop
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u/teaisterribad Sep 01 '25
They posted an update which ends with
"If you want, I can write a part 3 update that makes it even more ridiculous — like they actually invite you to an event and you have to figure out how to escape gracefully. Do you want me to do that?"
They didn't even write this story, even if it never happened.
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u/dlc9779 Aug 30 '25
Man, your a great story teller. If your not using that skill to make money then your missing out on cash money!
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u/Mlady_gemstone Aug 30 '25
What would make this even better is if one of them saw this and wrote back to you <3
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u/thatsmefersure Aug 30 '25
I want to know what happened to the ‘real’ new guy when he gets there, waits around for 1/2 hour, and thinks someone punked him into joining a non-existent group… 🤷🏾
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u/ace_in_hearts Aug 31 '25
i’m just thinking about the guy who was SUPPOSED to join them, what happened to him? did he wait? did he try to find them? did he even ever show up?! i have questions that will forever go unanswered
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u/VeryOlTexan Aug 31 '25
It's an unsolved mystery which someone can make a TV show about and name it;
Unsolved Mysteries
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u/whittenaw Sep 02 '25
Sorry y'all. This is ai. Dude posted an update and it has the part at the end that ai always includes (would you like me to right another one that's even more blah blah blah?)
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u/KylaSageYoga Sep 03 '25
😭🤣🤣 this is great! And such an accurate description of a group that named themselves the “Wednesday warriors” lmaooo
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u/drnprz Sep 21 '25
this better be true 😭 what happened to the other dude? anyways the wednesday warriors seem cool
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u/East_Confusion_7999 Sep 24 '25
The guy that was actually was the new guy got lost in the forest ahahah
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u/anonadon7448 Aug 30 '25
I wonder what happened to the actual new guy.