Bushcrafting, the weed addition: Bugout patch

beachball said:
I see the crocks, excellent stream fording footwear! I would like to be able to get back into backpacking, but three herniated disks say perhaps NO. My best memories are hiking the Whitney Portal trail, catching golden trout in giant granite bowls carved out by glaciers. My first night in i beded down next to a bristle cone pine that was there in the years known as BC overlooking those bowls with a setting sun and full moon rising...just awesome. Etched in my mind.
Thanks for the memories brother. I was later awakened by a kangaroo mouse hopping on my sleeping bag.
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Those four days were my first ups and downs in a really long time. One day I upped the pack weight to 33 pounds, just to see how me and the pack would hold up. Neither of us did great. The shoes are about 2/3rds the weight of crocks. I found them in a thrift store for 5 bucks. So far I like them. After hiking all day, getting out of your hiking shoes and putting on a pair of Dutch clomp's would feel good.
 
sandhill larry said:
Those four days were my first ups and downs in a really long time. One day I upped the pack weight to 33 pounds, just to see how me and the pack would hold up. Neither of us did great. The shoes are about 2/3rds the weight of crocks. I found them in a thrift store for 5 bucks. So far I like them. After hiking all day, getting out of your hiking shoes and putting on a pair of Dutch clomp's would feel good.
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sandhill larry said:
Those four days were my first ups and downs in a really long time. One day I upped the pack weight to 33 pounds, just to see how me and the pack would hold up. Neither of us did great. The shoes are about 2/3rds the weight of crocks. I found them in a thrift store for 5 bucks. So far I like them. After hiking all day, getting out of your hiking shoes and putting on a pair of Dutch clomp's would feel good.
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You said "Dutch Clomps", takes me back to 1971 running around the Rockies in Colorado, first time I ever saw clogs, on a female Swiss ski Instructor with hooties out to there. Funniest thing, we went down the mountain to town on a bus with two women, bout 21...22 years old Swiss/German Ski instructors and they would break out in song in German, just the two of them, I learned about Hash that day...
A cultural learning thing for a young Beachball, just turning 21. And digging Swiss titties and singing...call me weird but that's etched in my head as " a fun time in my life"
 
beachball said:
You said "Dutch Clomps", takes me back to 1971 running around the Rockies in Colorado, first time I ever saw clogs, on a female Swiss ski Instructor with hooties out to there. Funniest thing, we went down the mountain to town on a bus with two women, bout 21...22 years old Swiss/German Ski instructors and they would break out in song in German, just the two of them, I learned about Hash that day...
A cultural learning thing for a young Beachball, just turning 21. And digging Swiss titties and singing...call me weird but that's etched in my head as " a fun time in my life"
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Girls in Europe don't mind showing off their boobs. Most didn't wear bras when I was there. I enjoyed that part of it. I guess that was 82-83. When I was a young whipper snapper.
 
I did some more hiking and camping. Came straight back to work this afternoon. Did about 12 miles from 1400 yesterday to 1400 today. Sore feet.

Did get into some blazing Mother/Daughter shit. Cindy's Blue Cheese had it all shoved up into Ass Cheese's face. If Stoner Guy had been there, he would have said, "Dude, they got Burnt!"

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sandhill larry said:
Girls in Europe don't mind showing off their boobs. Most didn't wear bras when I was there. I enjoyed that part of it. I guess that was 82-83. When I was a young whipper snapper.
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We're you there in Europe visiting or courtesy of military, touring? I want to go to Switzerland...family came from Langnau near Bern and Lucerne I have never been to Europe. Hmmmm Maybe thats why I crave Swiss boobs...
 
A couple of weeks ago when I was at this place, I had left some smoke at my usual campsite. Under a log, with an X marks the spot kind of thing. Get there yesterday and someone is camping at my usual spot. I hadn't thought of the holiday. It was crazy crowded. Luckily I had thought to bring some CBC and AC, along with something to smoke it in. I hid was was left on the way to the 3rd campsite. When I go back, I'll stay at that one.
 
I have a pipe and stash buried at a 4 way dirt road intersection near the bay of San Quintin Baja Mexico on the Pacific side South of Ensenada... LOL waiting for a miracle to occur and make it safe to go back one day.
 
beachball said:
Help me to understand cheese thing LOL.o_O
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My buddy in one of the legal states grew three plants last year. They were Cindy's Blue Cheese, Donkey Kong and Grapish Bag Seed. The Donkey Kong fooled him and was a male. He used the pollen on both of the girls. He was kind enough to send me some buds and seeds from both. I still have some of the bud he sent, now I have fresh bud from the seeds thanks to my Spring Crop.

http://rollitup.org/t/spring-17.933176/page-18

I call the DK X CBC Ass Cheese, {or Jack Cheese if in mixed company}, and the DK X Grapish BS is Gorille de Raisin. Both the AC and GdR are good smoke, but they don't either one have the punch of their mamma's.
 
beachball said:
Nice! Thank you for serving. How long were you in and what kind of electronics did you work on?
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I was in a little over 3 years. I passed that test it is better to fail, the whizz quizz.

I had been a nuclear power candidate, and was waiting around on my A School and got popped for a joint. Some how I slipped through the cracks and still went to my school. Most of the time when you get popped, you are sent to the fleet as a Boatswain's Mate. But instead of getting my Push Button Crow, and the 6 year obligation that comes with Nuclear Power School, I was busted down to an E2. But I had my rating when I went to the fleet.

Most of my time I worked in the lighting or power shops. Lighting was everything that was 110, and power was all the 220 stuff. I was the electrical safety officer for a while. Which meant if it had a cord on it, and was aboard, I had to test it. That job was pretty skate.

My watches were on a 400 cycle 440 volt motor generator. I was by myself, which is rare on a ship. Other EM's stood watch in the engine rooms, where we burned a gallon of diesel fuel per second times two engine rooms. {water was turned to steam, steam turned generators and the main shaft. The switchboard operator was responsible for keeping the fires lit and the lights on} There was a crowd of people on watch there, including Chiefs and Officers. I refused to get qualified on the switchboards because I didn't want to lose my MG watch. Folks would come to the MG room to get high, because it was a good location, so I would get high two or three times during a six hour watch, just from passers by.
 
Too Cool! I was an electronics schematics draftsman contracted with US Navy. 1969,70,71 Took missile schematics and did engineering updates on Ordnance Pamphlets for various missile weapons systems, fire control systems and telemetry systems. I would draw new equipment added to fire control rooms too. Nothing glorious, all before CadCam all hand done ink drawings some were 12 foot long.
 
beachball said:
Too Cool! I was an electronics schematics draftsman contracted with US Navy. 1969,70,71 Took missile schematics and did engineering updates on Ordnance Pamphlets for various missile weapons systems, fire control systems and telemetry systems. I would draw new equipment added to fire control rooms too. Nothing glorious, all before CadCam all hand done ink drawings some were 12 foot long.
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The Saipan had a couple of refits to get better fire control systems. She saw service from '77 to 2007, so there was some big changes in that time.
 
ttystikk said:
Thank you for your service, gentlemen. You'll see that I'm pretty anti military in the politics section, but I have my reasons. The biggest one is that I refuse to have the blood of Americans on my conscience because I didn't protest wars for profit.
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Most of the guys who serve, join because of socio-economic reasons. I had no plans of joining, but when school and romance were crashing and burning around me, to {the 19 year old} me it sounded like a good way out of town. I did not agree with Aunt Ronnie's foreign policy, but he never asked me what I thought.
 
Larry's Ultra Tight Hiker update:

I found a down sleeping bag at Goodwill today for <$10. Kind of heavy at 2 pounds 10 ounces, but it is warm as hell. I had been using a 2 pound Walmart special that does fine, as long as it doesn't get below 50F.

And last week I picked up what I think was a tablecloth at one time. It is green and slinky feeling, and doesn't weigh much. Now with a little help from a friend in a sewing club, it is a sleeping bag liner. One dollar to the thrift store and a thank you to the ladies. Well, I did give the ladies in the sewing club a sleeping bag liner demonstration. {My phone rang right as I was pretending to sleep, so it spoiled the effect}

Also bought a sleeping pad on Amazon for 10-12 bucks. It should come in tomorrow, but I was going to spend 2-3 more days on the trail, leaving early in the morning. I may wait around until mid-morning, just to see if it comes in early.
 
Recently bought new gear:

A pack, a tent, cork handled trekking poles, Aquamira water treatment drops, and now the sleeping pad. Most from Walmart.com, and everything less than 25 bucks each. Smaller things, but very important include ear plugs and a couple of eye droppers to measure the Aquamira.
 
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