Woman Shares How Her Boyfriend Abandoned Her In The Mountains, 79 Others Chime In Sharing Similar Stories

I had a guy try to do a hike for a second date. It was over an hour away from my city, and I wasn't familiar with the area since I'd moved there from another state. I didn't drive at the time due to medical reasons...his reaction "give me gas money and I'll pick you up, and don't be paranoid I know the area really well and I wouldn't think of hurting you or letting you get hurt". I assure I don't look like a "please pick me Mr. Serial killer" kind of girl. That was the last time I spoke to him.

A friend told me a horrific story. A friend of hers husband is a photographer. She’s a stay at home mum (doesn’t like the outside which is fine) she has an autistic son - her husband took them in the mountains and left them alone along on a deserted trail - she was terrified. And for 6 hours she tried to hold it together for her boy. The fury I have towards this man is insurmountable. I will never acknowledge his existence as a human being again.

It didn’t happen to me but I had a roommate that experienced this. I asked her to accompany me to the gas station and errands and she was so quiet and pale. When we got back home, she told me she was afraid she upset me somehow and that I was going to drop her off at the gas station and just leave her there. I was incredibly confused. She had to explain it happened before

A few years ago, I was working in a retail store and it was really slow. A woman walked in who looked possibly homeless. She told me that everything she owned was in her SUV and she and her boyfriend were driving to Texas together to live there. Close to her family. The car broke down and he left. She had no money no way to fix the car and no phone. I immediately started looking up numbers to call From the store phone. Then she started bringing things in from her vehicle to see if we were we’re willing to buy anything she had. I had $21 and bought a handmade spiral notebook about coins. Then the owner of the shopping center called to ask why this woman was in front of our store. After I explained she screamed loudly “Why in the hell are you helping her??” She was livid. She wanted her out of her parking lot. She wanted to talk to my manager about me. After that, all I could do was sit there and watch the tow truck come carry her away.
I don’t know why people are so cruel.

I once was hiking with an ex who forced me onto a trail I wasn’t comfortable with (there wasn’t a safe exit). I cried the whole hike. In the car I told him how anxious it made me and he said he thought I was just crying because I was fat and out of shape (I was in significantly better shape than him). I see now the woods is where men go to take out their grievances.

It wasn’t a boyfriend but a male friend of mine. We got onto a subject he did not like and I loudly told him he was a racist. He became very angry, walked off, and left me on a hike/walk I was completely unfamiliar with. Then my bf at the time, he was more upset that I went for the walk/hike with ex friend (even though he demanded I be more physically active!!!!!!!!) fun night.

Back in the ‘90’s I decided I wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. My then husband agreed so we did 3 or 4 sections. He left me every time. He’d be waiting at the end point but he’d be pissed every time that he had to wait. The last time I ended up with heat stroke which ended my hiking career.

He didn’t abandon me because we were in a group, but he was mad at me for socializing with other group members (mostly female and I’m straight, no flirting) so when I fell on the hike he walked right past me. He continued to ignore me and the tour guides had to coax me out of the tent because I didn’t want to go to dinner to have him ignore me or be hostile to me. Luckily the rest of the group looked out for me. We broke up as soon as we landed back home.

I remember one time I drove past a woman in the middle of nowhere in Texas. She looked so out of place and lost but also, who picks up a hitchhiker?? I drove past her but something in my gut said turn around. So I did. Pulled up and asked if she was okay. She’d been riding in a 18 wheeler with her boyfriend (they’re from Kansas) and after an argument he dropped her off on the side of the road. I bought her dinner and dropped her off at a police station. I had no clue that this was a thing!

My friends and I were hiking one time in the Sawtooths at about 9000’ - up really high above treeline. We saw this woman crying and she asked us if we’d seen her boyfriend and gave us a description. We HAD seen him- two miles back as he was running down. He never told her he was leaving; she thought he was still up there. I was furious that a guy would do something like that!! It was insane. Now realizing this is common!!!

My daughter had two friends of hers that ditched her on a hike and it is extremely dangerous to leave one person alone out in the woods. Let’s just say she made it out by herself but she isn’t friends with them anymore. ( they also had to apply for hiking passes ahead of time and they deliberately didn’t buy one for her boyfriend.)

When I was in h**h school (boarding school) and had never been skiing before  some of my great pals, took me to the top of an Olympic run and left me there. I literally had to take my skis off and try to walk down the hill, crying sobbing. It was one of the worst experiences of my life and I have never been able to ski since then despite many attempts to learn. People can really suck yeah I can understand that and I don’t understand why anybody would post it for entertainment value

Omg. I actually also heard once “You ruined it” - I was naïve enough till today to think it was about me not pushing our limits. Omg
Context: I was still recovering from respiratory + 2 other health problems and insisted on stopping in a wood cabin for the night around 5 pm before the thunderstorm.
5 pm. In the mountains above the forest. Before the storm. After being ill.
Thanks to my sanity I insisted! Wtf
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Trust women, trust your gut, trust yourselves

Wow. I now realize I once drove a man who's wife did this to him. Driving home in a blizzard and saw an older man panicked in slacks and a light sweater on the side of the busy highway. She told him she wanted to drive so they got out to switch and she drove away leaving him hours away from home. He legitimately could have frozen within hours. It was the second time she had done that to him. 💔😭 what the hell?! I worry about him still.

My ex abandoned me in another country in the middle of a park. Took my keys, and wallet, and I only had my phone - no money and no way to get back into our AirBnB. Ignored my calls for hours while I wandered around France in the evening/night until he finally answered and “let me inside” near midnight.

My father took his fiancé to central Oregon under the impression that they were going away for a couple nights. He left her there, with no money or a phone, on purpose. Said he wanted her to leave him alone and that was the only way he could think of how to communicate it clearer. He did try to strangle her months later. If a man is willing to abandon you in the wilderness, he does not care for your life, and I pray these women don’t think this behavior is forgivable like my dad’s ex fiancé did.

I had a “friend” leave me behind while hiking. She was an avid hiker, I was not, way too tired to go steep incline after steep incline. She told me she was going up anyway, if I couldn’t do it go back to the car. My phone died and I got lost trying to get back. Was in the woods lost for hours. Since it was in LA I finally stumbled out onto the street and had to borrow someone’s phone to call my ex husband to get me. She left when she didn’t see me by her car, and didn’t tell anyone.
Never again

as someone who’s got some basic knowledge when it comes to hiking, you NEVER leave your group members. doesnt matter who it is: a girlfriend, dad, cousin, neighbor- you never know what could happen, it could be as simple as them spraining their ankle, something manageable with someone alongside you, but alone, could turn detrimentally dangerous. not leaving your hiking buddy is like the first thing i was taught when it came to hiking… smfh.

This happened in Acadia national park in Maine. “Let’s go watch the sunrise at the cliffs” (it is very beautiful, admittedly.)
Just ‘cause Maine is the sticks, doesn’t mean that the police can’t tell the victim was pushed.
And yes, it was on a couple true crime shows.

My ex-partner and I used to go snorkeling far along the coasts of Hawaii - he knew I was uncomfortable in shark territory and needed him to stay near me. But he would always take off on his own, out of my sight, for long stretches of time. Eventually returning but I have been traumatized by this.