using all three of my braincells to scour g*ogle maps of romania trying to find where the village in RE8 would fit most believably with its high mountain location and how feasibly remote it could be without getting tripped over 20x a day by hikers
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'People need to exercise more!'
ACTUALLY
Back in my parents day and my day we did.
We called it playing. Just running with a few homies, hop scotch, double dutch.
And like, not to be a old geezer on main, but i feel as if this gets ignored.
That we frame stuff as exercise. Exercise sounds like work. And when you work all day to pay the bills you're tired as all fuck.
And like, again. We may in fact be too into our phones. Addicted to that constant feedback of dopamine. And that it's easy to just enjoy some apps.
But looping that all back to playing. I think it'd be good! Not only in a health wise setting, but helping people learn interpersonal skills again. There's something lost when all interactions are online for your social growth.
And i get that it's not always an option for whatever reason, climate, health, you name it.
I just think as a WHOLE we need more play. For mental and physical health.
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So I was out in the woods backpacking this weekend, and had a funny conversation
another person: Do you know what time it is, my phone batterry is empty.
Me: sliding up my sleeve to look at my watch.
them: uhh that's so old fashioned.
me: slides sleeve back down.
them: so what time is it?
me: between sunrise and noon, my old fashioned watch isn't that accurate. bye.
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tbh if ur in a city and have free time and want an excuse to do things/go places u might not otherwise u all should check if u have any fun meetup groups near u
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Did you have any scary experiences with bears?? That’s like my biggest park fear
i’m not the best person to ask this because i have, like, a pathological lack of fear around bears as well as ranger training from a young age, but i’ve never had a moment where ordinary bear precautions didn’t seem like enough (which isn’t to say they don’t happen!). my three “scariest” experiences are probably the following:
1. this huge brown bear in denali was right in the middle of the road where we needed to drive to leave the park by 6pm, so eventually we inched our car past him and he RAN full speed after us. we were in a huge ford escalade with all the windows rolled up, so i think we probably would have “won” a fight if it had come down to it but uh…. still a very startling experience, and one where we didn’t really have any other choice but to drive past. i assume if it had been a really dangerous situation and we couldn’t just accelerate fast enough, the rangers probably would have accepted that we were late out of the park beyond our road permit and we could have just driven in the other direction, but luckily this worked out.
2. i don’t have an accompanying photo for the exact moment because i was much more focused on staying still and speaking in a calm voice, but at brooks camp in katmai, my partner and i encountered a huge brown bear on one of the trails that was standing up and scratching its back on the tree ahead of us, completely unbothered and very uninterested in moving along. we had been talking up to that point and so we stopped, moved slightly off the trail, and just kept speaking in our human voices (i tried to explain the bruins 2020 roster to the bear, the bear didn’t particularly care about my opinion on the best defensive pairings) and finally he lumbered away. that was a situation where we had no weapons or bear spray which was a little spooky, but the overall safety of the area was comforting and we did exactly what we’d been told to do and the bear responded accordingly.
3. one time when i was really young, my dad got too close to a black bear in grand teton trying to take a picture and it bluff charged him. that was his own fault and he deserved it lol, but the bear just wanted to eat berries in peace, so it stopped after about 20 feet of running and went back to his berries. since then, my dad has given bears a MUCH wider birth.
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various fairfaxes and a drawing from my english civil wars hiking au which i never posted :-) [id under cut]
[image description:
the first image is a digital drawing of a group of men on a light brown background. they are all wearing hiking-appropriate clothing. from left to right: a young man swinging from a tree; arrows pointing at him read ‘weirdly passionate about hiking’ and ‘like 15′. a man leaning against a tree; arrows read ‘grumpy’ and ‘only here for family bonding with father-in-law’. a man with a cane and one arm in a sling, leaning over to read a map; arrows read ‘has injured himself on every hike so far’ and ‘designated driver’. a man reading a map with a serious expression; arrows read ‘annoyed about everything except hiking and sometimes also hiking’ and ‘only one who can read a map’. a man with his hands on his hips looking at the viewer; arrows read ‘arranges hikes and then doesn’t go on them’ and ‘good at arguing’.
the second image is a collection of four digital drawings of thomas fairfax, a man with long dark hair, a moustache, and a beard. he is wearing seventeenth-century clothing. one is a full-body coloured drawing of him sitting in a chair facing away from the viewer with his legs folded and his hat on his knee. the other three are uncoloured: two are headshots of him as a young man and an older man, and the third shows him sitting at a table reading a piece of paper with an expression of concentration.
the third image is a coloured digital portrait of thomas fairfax as an older man. he is clean-shaven and has long dark hair and a scar across his cheek. he is wearing a dark doublet and a large white falling band, and is looking to the left of the image with a serious expression.
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