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Harmony House was my go-to for freeze dried stuff. MREs are expensive and overpriced, but I can see them being useful in a short term shelter in place situation. Datrex bars were okay as the brutalist option. Cheap, minimal packing, and sufficient nutrition for continued biological function.
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become Solid Snake and roll around in a big pile of calorie mate bars for in-house use, a more serious answer is canned soups, dried potatoes, dried beans, pasta, canned meat/fish, and cooking fuel. add spices and candy to make things more palatable.
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In the eventual hellscape I’ll live off of gorp and nutty buddies.
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George H.W. oval office posted:In heaven I’ll live off of gorp and nutty buddies.
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Check out PackItGourmet, they use to sell quite a bit of individual ingredients in addition to their excellent meals.
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gently caress me I did a dumb hike yesterday. Wanted 7000 feet of vertical in a day, got 7200. Thinking maybe I should have done an easier hike for the first big one of the year. Got cool views of the salt flats though Some flowers  A cute cactus  A precarious rock  Old mining cabin  Plus lots of cuts and scrapes and many other dumb decisions throughout the day
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Hotel Kpro posted:gently caress me I did a dumb hike yesterday. Wanted 7000 feet of vertical in a day, got 7200. Thinking maybe I should have done an easier hike for the first big one of the year. Got cool views of the salt flats though Looks real pretty. I'm not good with heights so I'm glad to be in a country where all the elevation changes are either occasionally steep but always tiny (in the south) or just big mellow ripples (in the north). The rock pic also has William Shatner's face on the left side of the rock on the foreground. Speaking of mellow ripples, here's some photos from my five day solo hike to Hammastunturi wilderness area in the Finnish Lapland. I think I managed to get the timing just right. The summer got off to a very quick start so the snow had melted enough that it was never on your way but the giant hordes of mosquitoes hadn't awakened yet either. It was part cloudy and quite warm but not exceedingly hot. No rain at all which hasn't happened to me before on a multi-day hike. The wilderness area has only some 13km of marked trail and very few actual paths beyond that so hiking there is a pretty offroad affair and requires quite a bit of navigation. I had one day of absolute dogshit terrain with uneven forest floor strewn with fallen birch trees. It was like walking on one of those obstacle courses made out of old tires. It made me rethink the plans for the latter half of the hike which ended up making the trip one day shorter than initially planned but I got to walk on the open fells a bit more which was nice.          
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Hotel Kpro how many miles is a 7k+ climb? given the climate i assume you're starting before dawn, how long does that take you? i would absolutely be withered bones halfway up the climb by the time you were coming back down lol
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Chard posted:Hotel Kpro how many miles is a 7k+ climb? given the climate i assume you're starting before dawn, how long does that take you? Strava gives a moving time of 5 hours 21 minutes, the actual elapsed time was closer to 7 hours 40 minutes. It seemed once I got above 11200 feet I started to really feel the thinner air. Normally that hits me above 12k or 13k feet, sometimes not at all. It really slowed me down https://www.strava.com/activities/5463116626 It was 12 miles one way and while I was almost able to start around dawn I ended up being a bit late on account of how far I needed to drive. I could have parked closer but that would have eaten into the elevation gain for the day    The only other time I broke 7k feet in a climb it was a shorter hike https://www.strava.com/activities/2625421487
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Hotel Kpro posted:Strava gives a moving time of 5 hours 21 minutes, the actual elapsed time was closer to 7 hours 40 minutes. It seemed once I got above 11200 feet I started to really feel the thinner air. Normally that hits me above 12k or 13k feet, sometimes not at all. It really slowed me down Well done. I would totally kudos your Strava activity but somehow that feels creepy, so kudos.
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I just moved to Seattle and went for my first ever PNW hike on Little Si which was pretty crowded (expectedly) and I conjured up this image in my head:
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I don't even get it. I'm there to hear bird calls and the faint trickle of streams. I get lost in thought or absorbed in the scenery. Obviously they're out there for different reasons, but I don't know what those are.
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I had my first instance of being a cranky old that told some group of kids to turn down their music in Capitol Reef this past November. You could hear them a mile away because their music was blasting off the canyon walls. They didn't cop an attitude or anything but it was definitely a watershed moment for me personally.
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French Canadian posted:I just moved to Seattle and went for my first ever PNW hike on Little Si which was pretty crowded (expectedly) and I conjured up this image in my head: by context i assume that's a speaker you can mount on your pack? to the devil with its creator
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Chard posted:by context i assume that's a speaker you can mount on your pack? to the devil with its creator Yes.
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"It warns bears!" they exclaim as every human they ever encounter glares at them in anger.
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Chard posted:by context i assume that's a speaker you can mount on your pack? to the devil with its creator If you need to listen to something you can get yourself a pair of these. Hear your music, hear your surroundings, and not piss anyone else off.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I don't even get it. I'm there to hear bird calls and the faint trickle of streams. I get lost in thought or absorbed in the scenery. Obviously they're out there for different reasons, but I don't know what those are. Unfortunately this is completely impossible in the Snoqualmie / north bend area
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jeez people, just memorize like two or three songs (the maximum allowed by yr brain) and sing those over and over *begins fifth rendition of What I Got*
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Bloody posted:Unfortunately this is completely impossible in the Snoqualmie / north bend area Not actually true. Go earlier, farther, deeper, etc.
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Here in Korea hiking is mostly for older folks, and it seems like half of them have a speaker of some sort to play their music. I hate it.
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Hey everyone! I unmarked this thread awhile ago because my inability to get out to my favorite places during covid was bumming me out BUT- Today I went on my first real hike of the year!! I got to Rocky Mountain Park at about 5am this morning and hiked from Bear Lake to Sky Pond. Counting my wrong turn and walking from the shuttle lot it was 10 miles. Got to scramble up a glacier and I broke my altitude record! 10,900 feet!    And the purpose of the trip, Sky Pond:  Gah what a day. Good to be back.
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Rolo posted:Hey everyone! I unmarked this thread awhile ago because my inability to get out to my favorite places during covid was bumming me out BUT- Ah, I thought this was Lake of Many Winds at first but I felt like it looked different than I remember and subsequently scrolled all the way down to see it was sky pond.
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My grandfather drove the Bear Lake busses for probably 10 summers when he was retired. That place is magical.
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I had a conversation with a driver grandpa cause I got there so early and he was maybe the nicest person ever. He loved being there and talking about the park. The hiking and views were fantastic but I had so many little experiences like talking with this guy that were just the icing on today’s cake.
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We booked a few nights in Colorado for some car camping to have a chance to relax between trails. We booked them about a month ago when it was looking like outdoor activities were on the menu again. Then today wife gets an email that the reservoir the campground is next to is being drained and heavy machinery will be active during the day and water pumps running all night. So that is super rad, and here my main concern was wildfire activity smoking us out.
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 This is near the top of saddle mountain near the Oregon coast. I think it looks very whimsical, especially with the wispy clouds. I’m surprised my phone was able to take a picture this vibrant. FacePox fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Jun 19, 2021 |
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There's not a mountaineering thread is there? Planning my test run in Sequoia to get ready for the Alps.
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Woof Blitzer posted:There's not a mountaineering thread is there? Planning my test run in Sequoia to get ready for the Alps. There is a rock climbing thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3522567 And I think they welcome any sort of climbing of rocky things.
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FacePox posted:
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:That's a cool area, but I've never been there in fair weather. It's a nice view on a clear day, but (like most things in the coastal range) it's tainted by patchy logged forest in every direction.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:There is a rock climbing thread here: Oh yeah that's the stuff.
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I'm planning a timberline loop hike july 9th-11th if anyone would like to join me. I'll leave the Portland metro area after work on Thursday evening so we could carpool if interested. My gear closet is full, so I can provide something if you're missing an item or want something lighter. Please be prepared and know what you're getting into. I don't bite, but I do get pretty smelly.
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Canna Happy posted:I'm planning a timberline loop hike july 9th-11th if anyone would like to join me. I'll leave the Portland metro area after work on Thursday evening so we could carpool if interested. My gear closet is full, so I can provide something if you're missing an item or want something lighter. Please be prepared and know what you're getting into. I don't bite, but I do get pretty smelly. I've managed to gently caress up my knee in the last year but otherwise I'd join you! Been wanting to do Timberline for years.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:I've managed to gently caress up my knee in the last year but otherwise I'd join you! Been wanting to do Timberline for years. That’s too bad. I hope this s503 fire doesn’t get too crazy. Might put a damper on my plans .
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earlier ITT I said I was going to Oregon. ended up spending some time at Newberry Volcanic Monument (south of Bend) which I highly recommend, I don't hear people talk about it often. did this hike which is essentially circling an entire caldera! https://bendtrails.org/trail/newberry-crater-crater-rim-trail/
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All the volcano-related stuff to do around there is a heap of fun. I guess the low point is the lava butte visit, the one you have to take a shuttle to get up to. It's not that great. But hiking the lava field is pretty cool (and will gently caress up your shoes in a hurry, that rock is rough stuff). I loved the lava river cave and the big obsidian flow as options for shorter strolls. It was extremely hard to resist walking off with obsidian samples.
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There's several spots of recent (<10,000 years old) lava flows here in NM, and the arid environment means it doesn't weather quickly. I'm not sure about the flows you'd be hiking on in Oregon, but in general if you're hiking over geologically-recent lava, it's going to be slow progress. It will tear up your shoes, but you should also plan to take longer (1.5-2x in my experience) than you normally would for the distance you're traveling. Sharp rocks and an uneven surface means you'll spend basically the entire time staring at the ground so you don't sprain your ankle with a careless step. Lava tubes and such are pretty sweet though.
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