Funny Hiking Hats

Every hiker coming down the trail has told every hiker going up that they are almost there. It is never true, it is always kind, and the false summit that follows is a small betrayal everyone forgives by the next weekend. On the 14ers forums it is simply the running joke: only ten more minutes. These funny hiking hats are for the people who keep going up anyway. The one who has told that lie on every switchback from the trailhead to the top. The one who will admit, if pressed, that the entire hike is an elaborate plan to eat a sandwich sitting on a rock. And the one who has quietly drafted a one-star review of a perfectly beautiful mountain, somewhere around the fourth false summit, because the trail was mostly uphill. They make easy hiking gifts and work as real trail hats: embroidered, unstructured dad hats that keep the sun off on the climb, pack flat in a daypack and do not mind a little dust on the way down.