Lost https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug30_Post.mp4 Once I went hiking with a buddy. A week long hike. Part of our plan was to cut across this mountain range. If we walked around the mountain range, it would have taken an extra six hours or so. But if we cut across, like our guidebook recommended was […]
Separation Anxiety
Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
Consciousness Field Theory
New Shoes A few years ago I bought a pair of hiking boots from Amazon. It was the first time I’d bought shoes like that online. I’d bought shoes for work, but it’s not quite the same thing. They only need to fit and look decent. Hiking shoes need to feel good, and have […]
Hypnotic Invisibility
Mountaineering Seminar I’ve been working on this project recently and it might turn out to be illegal and potentially very very dangerous but it’s very very intriguing nonetheless. It all started when I went to a training meeting at a local sporting goods store. This particular training was a two-day training about mountaineering. Mountaineering […]
Hidden Valley Of Women
Backpacking Trip I’ve done a lot of backpacking. I have since I was very very young. As a kid backpacking is fun because you get to you get to get out into the wilderness and sleep in a tent or sleep under the stars, but as an adult it’s rewarding in much different way. […]
Reversions To The Mean
Camping Is Fun I’ve always liked camping. I’ve always liked different kinds of camping. When I was very young I joined Boy Scouts and that’s where I first learned all about camping and how you can do it in its various forms. When I was in college me and my friends used to go […]
Thoughts Becoming Horrible Things
Hiking and Backpacking I like to go hiking. There’s basically two types of hiking. There is day hiking and there’s backpacking. Backpacking is fantastic but it takes a lot of time and it usually costs a lot of money. You need to drive somewhere far away needed to find a mountain range you can […]
Lake Lady
Have A Drink? A couple of nights ago a friend of mine called and said him and a couple of other guys were going to have a couple of drinks at a local bar and I should come over. It was going to be a regular weeknight where you show up have a couple […]
Ancient Human Skills
Neighbor Wanted Advice I have a neighbor who wanted to talk to me about camping yesterday. He has a son who is in elementary school and all of his son’s friends have been talking about going camping and so his son wanted to go camping. His father knew that I had done a lot […]
Secret Sierra Club
Boy Scout Skills When I was younger I did a lot of rockclimbing. I learned first in Boy Scouts and then when I was in high school I had a coworker at the pizza place that I worked at was a very good rock climber so he would take me rockclimbing on the weekend sometimes. […]