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Just spent two weeks hiking in CO. Thunder almost every day. Just find shelter until they pass and keep going. Don't stay on the passes too long and try to do then before noon. Otherwise you shOuld be fine.

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>>840264
Yeah dude, high mountain thunderstorms aren't something to fuck around with.
I would plan to be making your descent down by the time the storms even start rolling in.... if not below treeline by then.

Should you find yourself caught in a storm... find a low spot in a valley (or as low as you can easily get to) and crouch down on the balls of your feet. If you're in a group, spread out 20-30ft from each other. Wait it out.

>Clouds rolling in on the way up the mountain to this site
>Lightning fried a microwave radio on this tower a few days earlier, POE injector in the doghouse got zapped too
>Backup POE injector already installed in the cabinet (move the cable), had a replacement radio in the truck
>not going up the tower today
>flash of lightning, nearly immediate thunder
>timetogo.exe
>Boogie'd down the mountain

Site I had come off of an hour or so earlier had a lightning shelter just off the road in the saddle of the two summits. Big 6ft-round steel cylinder on its side, wall/window on the far side, door on the front side, benches inside... sort of "cage" around the outside of it... all heavily grounded... Good to know it's there, but I don't wanna have to chill out in there waiting for a storm to pass either.

>>840264
>I've heard some say this is unavoidable in Colorado and you just have to get down each pass by 11 or 12.
Yep. They're magnificent.

>I've heard others say I'll get fried by lightening.
You will if you're not off of the mountain by when the storms move in.

I'm serious I'm new here

All jeans are pants, not all pants are jeans

More breathable water resistant options exist that you can still attach your knife fedora to

>>840178
>knife fedora
So is there disdain for having a sheath instead of say putting it in my PFD?

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>>840081
If I get my way, and I always do, it will also have 3 oversized compost bins, a perennial food forest and a bench for me to seat my royal ass.

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>>840081
>>840084
I’ve also built these.

There’s 2 things I like about sub irrigated planters. One, you never have to water them.

And two, you never have to water them.
If irrigating by hand is beneath the African lion, it’s beneath me as well.

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>>840096
My old garden will remain mine as well, because once you win land, you must never relinquish control.

Curling stones only slide so far because they disperse water droplets so that the surface of the ice has a bumpy texture. Lake ice is usually quite smooth with cracks and fissures.

Your story isn't even technically plausible, otherwise you would have included those technical details in your stupid fucking story.

Furthermore, sweeping or not, speeds up or slows down the stone. It does not change it's direction, the intended curve is planned by the person throwing the stone by subtly manipulating the handle.

kys

>>840079
You sir are a god damn savage. FUCKIN' REKT.

>>840079
OP could probably clarify on this if he wasn't in jail right now

Only retards and normies go camping on labor day weekend. Which are you?

>>839907
>camping trip to Vermont on Labor Day weekend.
I can assure you it won't look like your pic. Come a month later.
If you don't know, they are called the Green Mountains for a reason.

>>839907
>labor day weekend
Avoid all campgrounds if you can. Get a backcountry pass.

bruv, buy yourself a robot assistant that's capable of searching the catalog

>>839865
Not only is it in the catalog, if you google "bug out bag content list" you'll be looking at shit for the next three months. Why even bother coming here?

>>839889
Because I trust my fellow anons will give me the best answers.

>Will start in Glasgow

Going to end there too pal, enjoy the knife capital of Europe.

get tea at mono
train to milngavie
walk whw to loch lomond
idk

>>839827
I was plaNning on doing the same but for about a month earlier this year until i had to take a few extra courses last semester.

From my research several things stood out
>west highland way
>isle of Skye
>rent a bicycle and ride around islay
>Edinburgh

Just some ideas. Good luck with your trip. Mine is postponed until i get accepted into grad school.

>>839784
$5 on squirtle eating both of them.

>>839784
Coyote peterson

>>839784
neither, since I've never heard of either one of them

National forests are free if you live near one

Idk about parks tho

>>839744
Usually the fee is for a campsite or parking. Just call whatever place you plan on going and ask

>>839752
That's what i'm confused about. What, exactly, is a "campsite"? Does this apply to backcountry-type hikers?

>>839673
Go to USAjobs.gov

They don't hire fire watchers really anymore. It's all done by satellite now.

>>840102
This, there's a few manned firewatches in the Cascades but they're mostly there as an attraction for hikers.

The FS guy who was posted at Granite Mountain a few summers ago would bring cookies and hand them out to the kids that made it all the way up the trail.

>>839668
Can you at least give us the region where you found it?

>>839668
Datura

Very toxic to animals and people, but looks pretty, and gets pretty large. The seed pod spikes can irritate your skin terrible. Amounts of toxin in the seeds varies drastically and morons eat them as a drug for really bad trips.

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Datura Stramomium. AKA Jimson Weed, Zombie Cucumber, toloache. Grows wild in most temperate regions. One ingredient in zombie powder used by Haitian witch doctors. Eat x number of seeds, you see God. Eat x plus a few too many....you meet God! Leaves used to be sold in anti-asthma cigarettes (pic related). There's a great account of British soldiers eatin a salad of the leaves in the American Revolution. Fucked 'em up for a WEEK! Tread carefully...

>>839547
that is grade A methamphetamine my dude

>>839557

holy shit i didn't know you could grow that in a highschool classroom.

>>839558
You must be 18 or older to use this website.

As a photographer: any DSLR will be too hevy around your neck after an hour. Get a smaller mirrorless cam like the Nikon 1 oder even a waterproof outdoor compact cam

Theres virtually no reason to drag a heavy ass DSLR into nature.

>>839497
>hevy around your neck
You know LowePro makes some pretty amazing backpacks. yes?

>>839502
Oh youre that kind of photographer.... so you wanna drag the cam out od0f the ruck and put it back several dozen times per day?

Protip: your cam needs to be ready. And to achive that it has to hang in front of your chest.

artichoke.

>>839445
protea, queen protea i think

>>839449
oh nvm definately not queen, but some variety theres like a million different ones.

At first I thought it was your face lel. But seriously just go to the hospital, nigger.

Thats not a spider bite, youre retarded.

Looks like a brown recluse bite, very poisonous