Recent content by Hachi

That was me! My first post and boy did I feel like a jerk. I have learned a lot since then. FWIW, I have never left my pack anywhere since. That hike to date was my longest, scariest and most painful of all the 48 I did.

Curiosity got the better of me, so yesterday we took a drive down to the Bog Dam Road. At the 7 mile point we started seeing people. Maybe a dozen vehicles, with plates from WA, NE, PA among others. The big bus and food truck is still there and a few tired looking folks ambling about. It was...

Anyone know what the fall-out from the gathering is? My understanding is that most folks have left but the clean up crew remains.

A Milan neighbor of mine told me that his daughter heard they were planning to "liberate the fish". Total hearsay but hey, just what I heard. I am uber curious, but not enough to go over to check it out.

I don't quote a lot of television but the Yellowstone "John Dutton" character said "Every civilization in this world is built on top of the one they conquered. You go to Rome or Jerusalem or Paris, France, and it's cities stacked on top of towns, stacked on top of villages, stacked on top of one...

Nothing more demoralizing than hiking around peaks on a prezi-traverse. When I attempted this in late June early July in 2019, it was brutal. Rain, sideways hail. Fog. I've been cold, I've been hungry. I have been tired and wet, but that night at Lake of the Clouds, I was the coldest, wettest...

Great video as always Seth. A million years ago I lived between Pauchaug Pond and the airport (which doesn't exist anymore). Pre hiking days, so never knew about this border loop. But I remember the Pachaug State Forest well. Tempted to go back and check it out.

Been following this thread with great interest but this has to be my favorite line so far. :)

Loved my conversations with Maura! "I'll do anything, so long as I don't end up in jail or in hell!" Didn't realize she was still in business. Doing well, from the looks of it.

FWIW, there are lots of ways to manage AFIB. Mine seems to be stress induced, so I rarely (actually maybe never to my knowledge) have had it while hiking. Maybe I never noticed. I definitely notice it when driving, and that is frightening. I was reluctant to do traditional beta blockers since...

Sad to see December in my calendar of outhouses. my favorite was June. It only got 4 stars though

Can't add too much to Andrew's comments, except to say that the sites along the entrance are also noisy from the route 16 traffic. There are a few choice sites around the point that have a little bit of privacy, but not much. We spent many weeks there with the kids when they were young, ferrying...

Exactly. Correct language is useless without action. And most of us, myself included, have no idea what the action we could take to afford a real change.

I may be looking at this too simplistically, but it seems to me that we are talking about two different things, racism seen as a personal act, and racism as an institution. Most of us have anecdotal experiences of personal acts, and don't believe we conscientiously act in a manner that could be...

You are right, I was thinking more about other mental illnesses as I was writing that but it was inconsistent with my example. Guess I should have used "crazy" as it relates to bipolar or schizophrenia. At any rate, most labels suck for the people they are applied to.