When I feel like bringing a luxury item, it's my Helinox Chair Zero. Every pound counts, but at my age being able to sit for a few hours without my back hurting too much helps a lot.
Trail runners for me as well. Mostly I wear Hoka Hoka One Speedgoats (though I think the 5 is unfortunately worse than the 4) in dry weather, Topo Ultraventure Pro for wet weather when I need more traction. Gaiters are a must - check out Dirty Girl Gaiters to up your style.
I'd join you, except I'm still showing "subscribe pending" after a couple of days.
Edit: this seems to have been federation teething pains, resolved after a week. Probably due to te sudden influx of users everywhere. Now that it's reliably showing in my subscribed list, see you there!
Most days I'd be posting a nature shot in response to that prompt. But my most recent hike was a few days ago at Patoka Lake, a heavily-used state park in our area. This combo of signs made me wonder when they legalized hunting disc golfers...
Looks like Lemmy automatically mislinked the URL in your intro. Here's a fixed version: woodgrainterrain.com .
Neat idea. I wonder if you could use fudge as a medium? Seems maybe workable with cold conditions and a hard fudge recipe, though I dunno how fast the CNC tool bit might clog.
I'd say go ahead and post more here - this community is currently a pretty big tent, and if you've got plants or animals or outdoors you want to post about this is good place for them. If we get overwhelmed down the line we can always fission off more communities but I personally don't think we're near to that point yet.
Right on the edge of the range (at least according to https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/tree/araspi/all.html) but you may well be right. Preference for moist soils fits the distribution I was seeing. I'll believe this until proven otherwise. Thanks!
There are plenty of nice sections of the R2R. The area around Lusk Creek is nice, and there are enough trails there to spend a few days exploring if you're not just taking the thru hike. Fern Clyffe is also neat although there's no dispersed camping there.
My R2R Trail Story is online if you want a sense of what it was like for me.
Seconding pothos and snake plants. I started with a single 4" pot of pothos a few years ago and through sticking cuttings in dirt I've got about 10 or 12 pots now. One of them extends across the windows in 3 rooms and is threatening to eat the entire downstairs.
Snake plants are apparently impossible to kill, even if you forget to water them for weeks.
If you eat avocados you can just start burying all the pits in a pot of dirt, keep it watered, and some of them will sprout. Or the next time you have a carrot or potato or onion start to sprout, bury is and you will have free greenery for a while.
I was thinking maybe some kind of locust tree sapling but I think the leaf shape is wrong. I'm surprised no one has recognized it; it was all over the place. Then again if Beehaw is like most online communities most users are from the coasts rather than the midwest.
Hopefully not repeating things others have said...
Thanks for taking the time to write long thoughtful posts explaining the admin thinking, rather than just "we have decided X, live with it" posts.
It seems entirely appropriate to me for the admins to set the tone of this instance, through explicit rules, through deciding who to add as a user and who to make a mod, and through deciding which other instances to federate with. Anybody who disagrees can always start their own instance. That you're opening a coffee shop doesn't mean anyone can come in without shirt and shoes (bad analogy like all analogies).
It's entirely possible that I (older white male with plenty of income raised in a homegeneous white suburb) have some opinions that would be appropriate on one of those defederated instances but not here. I can always make an account over there if I feel the need to post those opinions. Likewise, if someone on a defederated instance wants to post here and can behave themselves according to the house rules, they can create an account here. This doesn't seem like a huge burden to impose on anyone.
During a long career as a software developers, just about every successful fork I can recall came about because a majority of a project's developers (not its users!) decided they had to leave a dysfunctional project. Until/unless Lemmy gets to that point it seems pretty silly to me to talk about forking the codebase.
I wasn't packed super light - around 17 pounds including consumables. So base weight was somewhere around 12, I guess.
As far as favorite gear, that's a tough one. How about three that I appreciated this trip?
The Osprey Levity 60 pack is very comfortable for me - they're not making it any more, though. I guess the Exos Pro might be the closest equivalent in their current lineup. (Not that I always use this pack - I've got about six in rotation. Yeah, it's an addiction).
The Helinox Chair Zero is totally worth carrying an extra pound on any trip where I'm going to have hours sitting around camp (like this one).
The Katabatic Gear Bristlecone Bivy keeps the bugs off at night and adds a few degrees to my sleep system.
Admins for doing a brutal amount of work for something they believe in
Mods for keeping their own areas humming along
Financial contributors for keeping the lights on
Everyone who posts and comments for making this a nice place to visit
There's this odd dynamic that turns up in all sorts of communities where people someone equate "person who volunteers their own time" with "person who has to do anything I want them to do". When stated that baldly it's easy to see the nonsense and yet somehow it keeps happening. Hopefully folks here won't fall into that trap.
I'm usually of the school that says "there is no bad weather to be outside, just wrong clothing choices"...but it certainly gets much more challenging in extreme heat or cold! Whereabouts did you end up, if you don't mind me asking? Any trails you've got an eye on?
When I feel like bringing a luxury item, it's my Helinox Chair Zero. Every pound counts, but at my age being able to sit for a few hours without my back hurting too much helps a lot.
Trail runners for me as well. Mostly I wear Hoka Hoka One Speedgoats (though I think the 5 is unfortunately worse than the 4) in dry weather, Topo Ultraventure Pro for wet weather when I need more traction. Gaiters are a must - check out Dirty Girl Gaiters to up your style.
I'd join you, except I'm still showing "subscribe pending" after a couple of days.
Edit: this seems to have been federation teething pains, resolved after a week. Probably due to te sudden influx of users everywhere. Now that it's reliably showing in my subscribed list, see you there!
There's a lemmy bug on this (or something closely related): https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1385
Most days I'd be posting a nature shot in response to that prompt. But my most recent hike was a few days ago at Patoka Lake, a heavily-used state park in our area. This combo of signs made me wonder when they legalized hunting disc golfers...
Looks like Lemmy automatically mislinked the URL in your intro. Here's a fixed version: woodgrainterrain.com .
Neat idea. I wonder if you could use fudge as a medium? Seems maybe workable with cold conditions and a hard fudge recipe, though I dunno how fast the CNC tool bit might clog.
Fun times. I miss growing them. Maybe we'll get out of this darned suburb next year...
I'd say go ahead and post more here - this community is currently a pretty big tent, and if you've got plants or animals or outdoors you want to post about this is good place for them. If we get overwhelmed down the line we can always fission off more communities but I personally don't think we're near to that point yet.
Right on the edge of the range (at least according to https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/tree/araspi/all.html) but you may well be right. Preference for moist soils fits the distribution I was seeing. I'll believe this until proven otherwise. Thanks!
There are plenty of nice sections of the R2R. The area around Lusk Creek is nice, and there are enough trails there to spend a few days exploring if you're not just taking the thru hike. Fern Clyffe is also neat although there's no dispersed camping there.
My R2R Trail Story is online if you want a sense of what it was like for me.
I hiked the whole R2R last year. The road walk through Herod wasn't my favorite part, but it's way better than some of the chunks further west.
Seconding pothos and snake plants. I started with a single 4" pot of pothos a few years ago and through sticking cuttings in dirt I've got about 10 or 12 pots now. One of them extends across the windows in 3 rooms and is threatening to eat the entire downstairs.
Snake plants are apparently impossible to kill, even if you forget to water them for weeks.
If you eat avocados you can just start burying all the pits in a pot of dirt, keep it watered, and some of them will sprout. Or the next time you have a carrot or potato or onion start to sprout, bury is and you will have free greenery for a while.
Temperate Woodlands for me as well. Hoping to move to Temperate Rainforest though :)
I was thinking maybe some kind of locust tree sapling but I think the leaf shape is wrong. I'm surprised no one has recognized it; it was all over the place. Then again if Beehaw is like most online communities most users are from the coasts rather than the midwest.
Hopefully not repeating things others have said...
I wasn't packed super light - around 17 pounds including consumables. So base weight was somewhere around 12, I guess.
As far as favorite gear, that's a tough one. How about three that I appreciated this trip?
Love the new icons, and love love the fact that Beehaw is treating the creator right. That makes this site's team better than AMPTP!
Thank you to everyone :
There's this odd dynamic that turns up in all sorts of communities where people someone equate "person who volunteers their own time" with "person who has to do anything I want them to do". When stated that baldly it's easy to see the nonsense and yet somehow it keeps happening. Hopefully folks here won't fall into that trap.
I would add The Abolition of Work though that might be a controversial choice. Did a lot to get me thinking back in the day, though.
I'm usually of the school that says "there is no bad weather to be outside, just wrong clothing choices"...but it certainly gets much more challenging in extreme heat or cold! Whereabouts did you end up, if you don't mind me asking? Any trails you've got an eye on?