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I was going to make fun of the trail runner I encountered who was talking on the phone as she ran up the mountain, but then I realized that she was easily able to carry on a conversation while running uphill. She gets a pass.
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I remember reading some journals of old American explorers who blazed some early trails in the Alaskan interior and they all universally whined about how bad the bugs were. They had to sleep with burlap sacks over their heads just to escape mosquitos, and their horses barely slept because they spent all night running around from how badly they were being bitten. Some people chose only to travel by winter just to avoid the bugs. So basically hating bugs is a universal experience, that even the hardcore explorers of the past had to deal with. tankadillo fucked around with this message at 17:15 on May 9, 2016 |
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I often go canoe camping with a group of dudes that have over 20 years experience doing that sort of thing. Week long treks through the Ontario Wilderness. The worst piece of gear was a personal kayak that one of the guys got for Christmas, he opted to not take a spot in a canoe, since he figured his Kayak would do the trick. When he showed up, it was a heavy lovely stubby plastic ones you get for 80 bucks at Cosco, he didn't even make it to dinner on the first day before we had to start towing his rear end around the lakes and rivers. Portaging the drat thing was also a pain, seeing as it was designed to sit at your cottage and boot around in the lake.
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*admiring the insect swarm so dense people are literally sucking mosquitos into their lungs and throwing up/coughing* ah the despoiled beauty of the wilds
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May 10, 2016 01:18
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go late summer/early fall and there will be far fewer mosquitos
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May 10, 2016 01:25
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Or just go like literally almost anywhere else on earth.
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i unironically think that all the dead birds were a justifiable cost of using DDT, especially considering how many millions (of humans) die of malaria every year
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May 10, 2016 06:21
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out on my last hike we were heading back and another group came up and it was a narrow walkway so we stopped to let them pass and this guy tripped on a rock and almost fell off the ledge (about 60 feet of 65? degree jagged rocky incline into a roaring creek). He had a beer in his hoodie apparently open and it shattered/spilled everywhere when he hit the ground, he scrambled up on his own and was red faced and quickly ran off down the trail. Poor dude. Anyway, pay attention to where you are walking when hanging over chasms stay safe all.
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ok so I fail at most stuff in this thread... except for this one quote:"I hosed a bear in a wind suit"
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Aug 18, 2016 04:12
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A thermometer? You're outside, you'll know if it is hot or cold!
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Epitope posted:A thermometer? You're outside, you'll know if it is hot or cold! maybe they have congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis and can't feel that, or any pain or the need to urinate. i admire their dedication to the outdoors despite adversity, but that is a really hard condition to manage.
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Levitate posted:dude have you even ever been high?!
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I once went for a hike on trail designated for snowshoeing. However, it was early spring and all the snow on the trail was hard-packed, so we just wore our hiking boots. Got a kick out of all the tourists asking us how we were managing without snowshoes like the ones they paid money to rent for the day.
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Nov 28, 2016 04:05
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im going for a two hour hike on a mild spring afternoon, better make sure im wearing a brand name base layer
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OMGVBFLOL posted:im going for a two hour hike on a mild spring afternoon, better make sure im wearing a brand name base layer This honestly bothers me. Who in their right mind pays $100+ for a pair of long johns?
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You can peel my thick merino leggings from my cold, dead, but surprisingly stink-free, thighs.
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Hobophobe posted:This honestly bothers me. Who in their right mind pays $100+ for a pair of long johns? Those aren't for hiking! Those are for wearing in the city when you go to the coffee shop across the street from the yoga pants boutique that has sterile outdoor scenes plastered on the wall. Recently there was this guy skiing uphill in freezing weather with snow coming down in only a cotton t shirt and jeans amongst all the downhill goers clad in down. Then, after a 2000ft ascent, he put on a windbreak and tried to ski back down, tumbling as this was his first skiing experiment. That guy was me 
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meselfs posted:Those aren't for hiking! Those are for wearing in the city when you go to the coffee shop across the street from the yoga pants boutique that has sterile outdoor scenes plastered on the wall. Haha I am totally the asshat in a t-shirt on winter days but that's because I radiate a poo poo ton of heat when I'm physically active. I don't even do my coat up when I go outside until it's -20 or else I roast to death.
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I just buy multiple pairs of the $20 merino underlayers you can get at Costco. If it gets really cold I just double up. Less expensive and more versatile. I don't know if a pair of Icebreakers would be superior to wearing two pairs of far cheaper long johns, but I really doubt it.
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If you guys want a business idea, start a merino wool base layer company focused on motorcyclists. There is so much bad plastic underwear/ tech shirts/ cotton crap produced for that market. Get a Harley Davidson branded merino t shirt out. Though, you'd need to educate a whole other group of people.
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Hell, market it as the "won't melt to your skin" alternative.
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Picnic Princess posted:Haha I am totally the asshat in a t-shirt on winter days but that's because I radiate a poo poo ton of heat when I'm physically active. I don't even do my coat up when I go outside until it's -20 or else I roast to death. Ha, you too!? Wait, you're making fun of me. Wait, which thread am I in?
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meselfs posted:Ha, you too!? Wait, you're making fun of me. Wait, which thread am I in? I am totally not making fun of you. It was -25c today and I still didn't do my coat up.
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being in direct sunlight or being physically active does weird things to your comfort level. when I lived in the high rockies I would often have to take my coat entirely off while working if temps went above 10F because the sun was so intense at that altitude. but as soon as you stepped into the shade or the sun went down, whoa nelly
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I seem to sweat a lot at the unnoticeable level - like, if I sit in a car on a day that's not like 68 degrees or warmer, I will fog up all the windows in a 3 foot radius. I have no idea why, but it does mean that I need to go way out of my way to watch out for how breathable a lot of materials are because walking into a building in a coat and sweatshirt can make me start to sweat buckets within 3-5 minutes. It's obnoxious as hell - maybe I'm dying, but it's been occurring to me for well over a dozen years.. Every automobile I own has the thermostat set to "defrost" 24/7/365, and if someone doesn't turn their car's thermo to "defrost" when I get in, I will bet you money that I'll fog up everything within an arm's reach in a couple minutes.
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I heat up quickly and have to really pay attention to temperature regulation as well. One time at Ranier I overheard a couple people call me a show-off douchebag for stripping down to a sleeveless tee after a high intensity burst 
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Guest2553 posted:I heat up quickly and have to really pay attention to temperature regulation as well. One time at Ranier I overheard a couple people call me a show-off douchebag for stripping down to a sleeveless tee after a high intensity burst Hey man, know that you have a soulmate in me. I hike in a t-shirt when there's snow on the ground and sometimes take handfulls of snow to rub on my face and neck from overheating too much.
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learnincurve posted:Few of the Monty python opening sequences with the "It's" man were filmed where my parent's garden would be 10 years later. The peak district is a lot like some of the places posted about here if they had much smaller peaks, actual paved paths for some of the main trails, you were never within a few hours from a bath, lots of tourists, and instead of big bugs there were midges. I think those paths are also to protect the route from you excessive erosion
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yeah the alternative to paving stones / asphalt paths in places with that heavy of foot traffic is "muddy, torn-up trail that gets washed out every winter and stays closed all spring"
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Lugged soles are an affront to Gaia. Caress your mother with supple skin
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OMGVBFLOL posted:yeah the alternative to paving stones / asphalt paths in places with that heavy of foot traffic is "muddy, torn-up trail that gets washed out every winter and stays closed all spring" And then people don't want to walk in a muddy rut 6" deep so they create a new path beside it and eventually you end up with a braided mud slop trail 20 feet wide.
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Epitope posted:Lugged soles are an affront to Gaia. Caress your mother with supple skin Come to Pennsylvania, land of a million goddamned rocks jabbing at your feet on every trail. The boots, they do nothing!
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Finally joined the gortex shell master race. Feels good. All other shells are shameful.
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i nearly died in mexico from not knowing about appropriate materials! i sweat through my cotton hoodie and when the sun went down and temp went below 60 i went hypothermic
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I get warm and a noticeably increased heart rate when I smoke the weed out. I was bush camping one summer with my down mummy bag (rated to -7 C) and must have passed out in the bag from too much box wine and dope. Woke up hyperventilating and in hyperthermia, sweating from every pore on my body, without hyperbole. Like profusely from the soles of my feet, palms of my hands, elbows, ears, eyelids, everything. We were a 2 mile hike to the car and a 15 mile drive to get into cell coverage and my wife thought I was going to die. She managed to gradually cool me down by ripping the fly off the tent and I managed to stop the hyperventilating with Kung-Fu breathing exercises I haven't done since I was 14. It was all very scary and not something I would ever want to go through again. I still smoke the occasional weed but now I have a proper summer sleeping bag.
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Poles are awesome when you're carrying serious weight, like 60+ lbs of poo poo. If you're carrying less than that, man up and stop being such a gigantic pussy. I did an hiking course with people who didn't know what they were doing(Christmas gift from the padres). 2nd desert hike out, one of the people in the group decided that because we were going to the desert, and because the desert is hot, she wouldn't bring any long-sleeves or even her rain gear  . Thankfully it was a weekender hike, but this lady was burnt to gently caress by the end of it and freezing rear end cold at night. An environment where there is literally no cover from the sun for 7 hours a day is piss poor place to rely on sunscreen. I'd rather be hot in my long sleeved shirts and pants than look like a burnished leather purse in twenty years. Also took my dad for a long day hike in Mission Trails in San Diego. He wore cotton socks and tennis shoes. When we got home, his feet had loving massive blisters on them. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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After 20 years I am finally moving back into the arse end of nowhere, which has a popular hiking route* though it. Last time I was a teenager and therefore didn't appreciate it enough, and now I'm looking forward to really annoying the tourists with short shorts and flip flops again. *It's one of those UK trails that people wear £500 worth of all weather gear for, and at no point are they more than a mile away from some sort of village, pub, or bus stop.
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pointsofdata posted:I think those paths are also to protect the route from you excessive erosion They are yes, peak national park has invested a fortune in putting nice paths and stairs along vulnerable parts of the pennine way especially in the Edale/Castleton area. It still makes it really unimpressive when people brag about walking it, unless they keep on going north and out of youth hostel range. The biggest problem mountain rescue has is idiots using google maps as a map or geocaching on a Iphone and then ending up hosed when the heavy fog comes down and oops no battery, few years ago they said that call outs have gone up 180% since the invention of the smartphone.
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learnincurve posted:They are yes, peak national park has invested a fortune in putting nice paths and stairs along vulnerable parts of the pennine way especially in the Edale/Castleton area. It still makes it really unimpressive when people brag about walking it, unless they keep on going north and out of youth hostel range. The biggest problem mountain rescue has is idiots using google maps as a map or geocaching on a Iphone and then ending up hosed when the heavy fog comes down and oops no battery, few years ago they said that call outs have gone up 180% since the invention of the smartphone. I wonder if the stats for cow attacks have done the same. Feel like there are a lot more idiots with dogs nowadays
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There were always idiots with dogs, what there are now are less farmers walking around their land threatening to shoot dogs since quotas came in. They worked out that selling them to those big mega farm businesses meant they could retire to Spain and not get up at 3am in winter, and besides " the younger generation have no interest in farming and are going to sell up when Im dead anyway so gently caress 'em".
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