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 Disgrace
  
Location: Saint John, New Brunswick
 |  | Re: Hitchhiking into a location.
<Reply # 1 on 9/2/2005 9:36 PM >
|  | | | Not having a vehicle, I have, in the past, hitched to pretty much all of the places I've been.
Personally, I find that it adds something to the experience. The effort involved in getting to the site, the 'travel' aspect of it, can make a trip twice as interesting. The journey can be every bit as memorable as the destination, sometimes.
That said, however, it really limits your options. Some places just aren't easy to hitch to for a lack of traffic, leaving you to do a lot of walking. It also limits your timing, as hitching at night tends to be a lot harder than during the day. Of course, if you're comfortable with it, you could just bring along a sleeping bag and sleep in the location before heading home the next day.
Also for negatives, it can really be a draining effort to hitch to a location, particularly if you need to carry a lot of gear with you. It sucks when your legs are already tired by the time you get into the location, or if you're sunburnt or something like that. You may end up having to restock supplies depending on how far you hitched.
Finally, a lot of new sites will require significant scouting before exploration, compounding the problem. If it takes you two to six hours to hitch to a location(I'm talking long distance hitching here), then another one to five hours to scout a location... you might well find yourself dead tired by the time you get to entering.
It all depends. I don't have much of a choice, so I adapt. A lot of my research involves getting bus schedules and plotting on-foot shortcuts. It's even more vital to have a map with you if you're hitching to a new place, because while it's annoying to get lost in a car, it's nothing compared to finding out you've been walking for an hour in the wrong direction.
Something you might consider before plotting your route is find out just how far you can walk in one hour. Then you can use this distance to plot how long it will take you to get between certain places. Sometimes distances on a map can be deceiving to look at, and a planned one hour walk can stretch into three.
Finally, you need to be really careful while hitching depending on where you are. Hitch during the day if possible(night time brings out the drunk drivers and all manner of unpleasant sorts). Do not wear expensive equipment like cameras or music players where they can be seen. Girls need to be particularly careful, for reasons that should be obvious. Hitching in pairs is the best method. You might not get picked up as quickly, but it's much safer.
And, as always with other aspects of Urban Exploring, make sure someone knows what you're up to and where you're going.
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Watson516
   
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Hitchhiking into a location.
<Reply # 2 on 9/2/2005 10:15 PM >
| | | | While hitchhiking, you should try to be careful...
Awhile back I was driving home at night and saw a person laying on the side of the road. They looked dead but they weren't. It turns out they were robbed and thrown out of the moving car going 80km/h or so and layed there for 20-30 minutes until I saw them and contacted the hospital peoples to come down and get him.
That being said, I'm sure this doesn't happen very often. Try to keep it to day light hours and in a fairly populated area so that people can here you scream when/if you get shot/stabbed/thrown out.
If you are the driver and decide to pick up a hiker, be sure that they are not an escaping inmate before you do. 
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Disgrace
Location: Saint John, New Brunswick
| | Re: Hitchhiking into a location.
<Reply # 3 on 9/2/2005 10:21 PM >
| | | | Agreed. Always be very careful, but honestly, it's not a situation you have much control over. It's best just to look too poor and too hard a 'target' to be worth the effort and risk to rob.
And again, travelling in pairs is a great way to prevent the 'casual' cases, but there's still a risk involved.
If the area has much of a history of violence in hitchhiking, it might be best just to avoid doing it altogether. The chances of something bad happening are still quite small even in a bad area, but it's not a risk worth taking sometimes.
In any case, I summed up most of this stuff and stuck it into the Encyclopedia, for where it applies to UEing.
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A Casual Fellow
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Location: New York City
| | Re: Hitchhiking into a location.
<Reply # 4 on 9/3/2005 2:37 AM >
| | | | I was talking more about hitchhiking INTO a restricted location, not hitchhiking itself....
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