The GAB story:GAB stands for "Gay Association of Back-packers."Though none of us are gay (as far as we know...there have been a few peculiar incidents) the group came to have that name in response to accusations from our girlfriends at the time GAB was founded. Originally we were called BLO which stands for the "Back-packin Lip-Smackin Orginization." The name changed shortly there after.We were a swarthy crew of 16 year old stoners who liked to go back-packing together and when various girls decided they wanted to come on the trips as well, we ran into a bit of trouble. One of the guys had a girlfriend that wanted to come but whom we didn't think would really enjoy hiking 10 miles burdened with a back-pack full of gear. We feared she would become moody if subsequently forced to sleep in a tent, pump her own drinking water and not have access to a toilet.We worried that her moods might affect our good time negatively so we all decided that no girls were allowed on the trips in order to avoid suspicion from her if we allowed another girl and not her. This compelled the rest of the girlfriends to complain that we were "a bunch of fags who just wanted to hike out to the woods, smoke weed and fuck eachother in tents."Though this graphic fantasy never came to pass, the story perpetuated itself among them until they were all convinced. I'm pretty sure that if we were gay we could have fucked eachother anywhere we wanted, not necessarily out in the woods. This was beside the point.So we said: "Yes, we are gay. We are the Gay Asociation of Back-packers. Now let us camp in peace."And that is the story of GAB.
