Random Topics 3.1

[LyceeFruit PE]

Awesome. I barely went most of December due to sickness, holidays and the fact I worked from home most days. Need to get back into it.

December was a crapshoot for me. I was getting back into the swing and got knocked down for a week with a chest cold

I'm a hammock sleeper. Too much bad luck with critters walking on me if I sleep on the deck, worth the extra 0.25 lbm.

Also, and I forget where I read/heard it, but for backpacking/bikepacking a good umbrella is more useful/beats a rain jacket in almost every scenario. Surprisingly incongruous with the hardened backpacker style, but if you really think about it, it's kind of genius.

I  my hammock. I don't sleep on the ground lol

I have a raincoat and I brought it with me when I went backpacking. I just got wet tbh. I wore it the last day we were out but it was kind of pointless. Had my pack cover tho. But in the Whites, an umbrella isn't gonna work. Some of our trails are so narrow plus with blowdowns and how rocky/rooty it is, it'd be a PITA.

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

Just got my fishing licenses too. Boyfriend wants to blueline when we go hiking/backpacking. He's looking at light weight fly rods. And I'll just take the hand-me-down. I don't love fishing but I don't mind it. And it's a fair compromise that when I wake him up at 4am to go hiking, we get to fish at some point during the same trip 

 

[Orchid PE]

I like the hammock for summers. They are great at night when it's just stupid hot and miserable in a tent. With a little breeze at night it makes it so relaxing.

I like the tent for winter time, though. I've tried the hammock in the winter, but I can't find a setup that works for me.

 

[Booo]

got knocked down for a week with a chest cold

Yup. We had our share of that too.  

 

[MadamPirate PE]

Woo, got my license paperwork all sent in, and now I guess it's time to focus on nutrition and exercise.

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

I like the hammock for summers. They are great at night when it's just stupid hot and miserable in a tent. With a little breeze at night it makes it so relaxing.

I like the tent for winter time, though. I've tried the hammock in the winter, but I can't find a setup that works for me.

I've only hammocked in the summer so far. I do have a tent tho.

I want to go backpacking in late fall/early spring. I don't know if I'd ever camp in the winter.

I have too many hobbies. And now a dog who is too young to hike so I'm trying to dial back my expectations.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

I have too many hobbies.

This is not a problem. I don't know how people can be bored in retirement, or bored in general. It's weird.

dog who is too young to hike

So, the one time I took SquareDoggo hiking, she pooped out after an hour in and I just carried her the rest of the hike. She's 55 pounds. So, for a "working" breed (Boxer/Pit mix), she sure is a wimp. She's a good dog otherwise, I'm very forgiving.

 

[Orchid PE]

I want to go backpacking in late fall/early spring.

These are the best! Warm enough in the day to be in a short sleeve shirt and shorts, but cool enough at night to be by a fire and not overheat in a sleeping bag.

Gosh I miss camping. We used to go almost every month, now we haven't been since early 2018. It's a little more difficult on a pregnant woman, plus I don't know how to tent camp with a baby.

I'm excited to get back into it once we have all our kids and they're around 2-3 years old.

 

[leggo PE]

@leggo PE Is today your last day??

Nope, next Friday. But today is my first work day of this week, since I've been out all week with a terrible cold. I might not make it the whole day today, either. Good thing I'm ending it here at my soon to be old job, vs having just started at my new job!

 

[leggo PE]

It has to do with how far back you are/how much over lean you have. If females have to step back further, they can't do it either. That's also why I can do it without my boots on but not with.

So it has to do with length of torso? One person in the video said it was apparently due to where a woman typically has her COG vs a man.

 

[Audi Driver P.E.]

So it has to do with length of torso? One person in the video said it was apparently due to where a woman typically has her COG vs a man.

Well yes, but in relation to the length of your feet.

 

[Orchid PE]

What's with the big red 5 stars now? Supporting members?

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

What's with the big red 5 stars now?

Honestly, I assumed you did that. :rotflmao:

 

[JayKay PE]

What's with the big red 5 stars now?

idk.  I was just about to comment on that.

I feel frightened of being a supporting member now.

 

[Orchid PE]

Honestly, I assumed you did that. :rotflmao:

lol

I think I revealed too much when I discovered that, so the functionality has been taken away  It's not like I did anything malicious. I'm a good evil genius.

 

[civilrobot PE etc etc]

this massive 5 red stars are throwing me off lol

 

[civilrobot PE etc etc]

I set up my study plan and my training schedule and now I feel accomplished.

 

[civilrobot PE etc etc]

when it's all said and done, i'm covering about 150 hours of study time. I hit around 340 for the last administration. 

 

[Orchid PE]

@squaretaper LIT AF PE It doesn't say you're a senior member anymore.

If new member titles are being given out, can mine be green and say "loser member?"

 

[Orchid PE]

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