dont know what to do. there is a bachelor party related activity planned that i'm afraid might kill me, so i'm uhhh, reluctant.
ppls involved want to do this:
http://www.14ers.com/videos/showvideo.php?video=CapitolKnife_1b
im a gamer, but i dont know if im _that_ much of a gamer. there will be no alcohol or shenanigans involved until after the climb. if i do it and survive, i might drink myself to death. :(
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Sunday, 26 July 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
also:http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/Peru2000_0002adj.jpg
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Sunday, 26 July 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
^_^
― tehresa, Sunday, 26 July 2009 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i am really frustrated bc i can't find an appropriate hiking club.
one is doing all several day overnight trips for which i am not equipped/trained yet. others do more leisurely stroll-like things and i just want a nice, tiring day hike adventure! not a walk on a path with 20 ppl. ugh.
― tehresa, Sunday, 26 July 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
start a club imo!!!
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 July 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
do you not like to hike solo? i prefer backpacking with 2-3 people, but for a hiking trip, i'd rather be by myself (if my wife isn't coming, that is).
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Monday, 27 July 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i would love to hike solo but i wonder if it is safe?also i need carpools!
― tehresa, Monday, 27 July 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ahh, i see. have you checked out REI? they have a community section where you can find out about groups and stuff.
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Monday, 27 July 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
what the fuck
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 27 July 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/fuckinwclimb.jpg
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 27 July 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
oopsie! i tried to fix my html fuck up and ended up w/ some really strange thing going on there!
anyway. i tried to say:
like i wld <3 to do this solo but what if a mountain sheep eated me?
i was thinking of going to rei to pick up a book about trails, etc., so i will see what's there. i looked at their schedule of events online but nothing jumped out.
― tehresa, Monday, 27 July 2009 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the <3 ated the rest of the post! but WOAH that was weird.
i know it was like, is the system saying that?!?!?!
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 27 July 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
a ghost in the machine
awesome
― tehresa, Monday, 27 July 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
it's my new hiking friend
― tehresa, Monday, 27 July 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
rei-run events are okay, but the actual store will have a whole bulletin board of pamphlets and announcements for local happenings and stuff. another good way to meet people is to volunteer for a trail work day, since those are usually in good hiking areas where you'll find similarly inclined people.
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Monday, 27 July 2009 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i will go there tomorrow and casually peruse the flyers.
― tehresa, Monday, 27 July 2009 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
tomorrow: http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/snow-lake-1
― tehresa, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
wow! that's pretty damn pretty. take pictures!
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Saturday, 8 August 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
it was so cloudy, you couldn't see snow lake! well you sort of could if you looked REALLY hardit's down there:http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9353.jpg
but to make up for it, here is gem lake. it is v v pretty, btw:http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9367.jpghttp://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9364.jpg
and here are a few other pixxxxxxxxx why bc they look intersting (to me):http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9346.jpghttp://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9355.jpghttp://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9370.jpghttp://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9347.jpghttp://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9358.jpg
― tehresa, Sunday, 9 August 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
and i realized i really should have had sturdier boots instead of trail shoes for this. so rocky!
― tehresa, Sunday, 9 August 2009 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
looks pretty metal imo
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Sunday, 9 August 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
forgot this one this tree is badass
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9354.jpg
― tehresa, Sunday, 9 August 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
must. move. to. seattle.
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Sunday, 9 August 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yes plzzzzzz do bc i want to go hiking with like 2 people, not 7 people. and also want to go hiking w/ people that appreciate the scenery and not just say 'yay i went hiking'.
or maybe i just don't like people :( but maybe i could start a new thing: antisocial metal hiking.
― tehresa, Sunday, 9 August 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
that looks great. i agree re: hiking with people.
― permanent response lopp (harbl), Sunday, 9 August 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
antisocial metal hiking.
haw this is totally us!!! aka my hiking cru which is me and one other dude
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Sunday, 9 August 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i know we touched on this before, but crazy rocky terrain made me think about poles since i am totally klutzy.
― tehresa, Sunday, 9 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
also roxy: jealous of u cru!
― tehresa, Sunday, 9 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
my niggaz wit altitude shirt caused quite a stir last night at a party which consisted of half frat boys and half homosexual metalheads
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Sunday, 9 August 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
<8
― tehresa, Sunday, 9 August 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
started watching discovery's "everest: beyond the limit". so far the announcer is ruining it for me!
― tehresa, Monday, 10 August 2009 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't know you were so into everest. have you ever checked out "the story of the story of everest"? it's pretty remarkable.
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
would just like to mention here that u know it was a NEW ZEALISH person who climbed that fucker first
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i have not checked that out but i will now!
yeah i got this weird everest obsession a few years back totally by accident.
dude on this show summits with NO LEGS!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the fascination is something to do with rubbernecking over the really irresponsible decisions people make (for a number of reasons -- some understandable, some not).
― tehresa, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
not as good as the story of the story of the story of everest imo
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I got back a couple of days ago. Great trip! Actually two great trips - one being 4 days' and the other of seven days' duration, in some very remote mountains, where I didn't see another soul for as much as two days running.
I walked 105 miles in those 11 days, saw a herd of mountain goats up close, watched ospreys diving into mountain lakes for trout, did some x-country hiking, endured two thunderstorms and 30 continuous hours of rain (mostly at 7400 feet elevation) where I needed to utilize my survival fire-starting skills for the first time in decades in order to dry out before bedtime. In short, I was 100% alive and engaged.
It is only too bad it is over and I won't have such an intensive hiking experience again until next summer.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
wow! that sounds amazinggggggggg. you went alone???
did you take pictures? please share!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, tehresa, I am one of those crazy solo backpackers who launches himself into the deep backwoods and sometimes off trail for a week or more at a time. After doing this for about 35 years now, I have a fund of experience to draw on, so I am not quite as crazy now as I was when I started this. I'm actually pretty conservative and careful, for a madman.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, and the pics, if forthcoming, will have to wait a bit. I am leaving to go camping with my wife in a day or so, and I have too much packing to do.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
see now you are making me jealous cause i'd love nothing more than antisocial hiking but i am just so damn paranoid about breaking an ankle and then sitting there til a bear eats me.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i've only done solo overnight trips - no extended trips. the first one i did, i had an anxiety attack about getting really sick - the fear was that i could try to splint a broken ankle or even crawl out or something, but that if i was insanely sick with some stomach virus, i wouldn't be able to move or think straight through my fever, etc.
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
so thank god the capitol peak thing i linked to above was called off, at least for me. anyway, now im trying to convince friends to do the much more friendly subway at zion in Oct. Anyone done it?
http://www.zionrockguides.com/zrmg/Canyoneering/Zion%20Canyoneering%20Info/Subway%20Top.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9372441@N07/2802107837/
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Saturday, August 8, 2009 11:48 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark
holy shit otm
tza i bet my pals in seattle would go hiking with you, they are def day hike w/beers after type ppl
― ovum if you got 'em (gbx), Friday, 14 August 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
send 'em my way!(but maybe warn them i am wary of people!)
― tehresa, Friday, 14 August 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
also all of you: move here. now! i tell you, there are like 30000 apartments open in my hood alone.
maybe you've already met them ;)
― ovum if you got 'em (gbx), Friday, 14 August 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i swear roxy is my soul sister. metal and hiking. <3
i have been doing a lot of hiking this summer ever since i spent a week in alaska. i need more hiking friends because my car can't make it to the mountains right now. and everyone always bails on me or just wants to do some like wuss 2-3 mile hike.
― homosexual II, Friday, 28 August 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link