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Once I met a group on a 50km trail where a significant other inserted themselves in a "friends trip" but had never hiked more than a few km and had definitely never done multi day backpacking
... It went about as well as you'd think.
We got part of the story from the couple as we checked on them, and the full story when we caught up with the rest of the group a few hours later.
The group said they'd tried to talk the noob out of it multiple times and invited them on multiple short shakedowns but no...