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Re: What is your religion? [Re: Tmethyl]
#18739485 - 08/21/13 08:09 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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My hardcore survivalist days are mostly over. Two knee operations and arthritis in hands. 60+ years of hard play have taken their toll.
I do love the dry air out here and lack of biting bugs. Just a few rattlesnakes and the occasional mountain lion. The swamps likely have more critters that can mess with you.
I'm heading out to the great basin high desert in about three weeks with my good friend and three dogs for 10 days or so. But we will car camp and do day hikes.
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Tmethyl
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Re: What is your religion? [Re: Icelander]
#18739586 - 08/21/13 08:28 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think your survivalist days are still going strong, they have just taken a different form.
We do have a lot of bugs, the trick is to keep moving. If you stop to take a leak, you get swarmed. I bring some bug repellent just in case, and if I have no spray I use mud, there are also a few native plants to use.
I love car camping, I do that in the Ocala National Forest in FL. I will usually just park the car, go hiking, then move around to different state parks, sleep in the car, then move on the next day. That place is huge.
My dog goes with me everywhere and in the 1.5 years I've had him he has hiked aprox. 250miles on foot. Towards the end of the recent 31 mile hike he was still chasing armadillos at 10:30pm after hiking 14 hours straight, I could barely stand up anymore. I use to be able to out-hike him and he would just lay down and watch me fade into the distance he was so tired, but now he is unstoppable. I love to see his face when I tell him it's time for a hike, he goes nuts.
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Re: What is your religion? [Re: Tmethyl]
#18739597 - 08/21/13 08:30 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Tmethyl said: But Sunday I hiked 31 miles, off trail. Took from 8am to 11pm, the last 6ish miles of the hike, with nothing but dim moonlight I waded through swamps and flooded areas.
That is wicked 
I've done a few epic tramps. My best in a day (or 24 hours) might be around 25 miles. There was no trail but it was in the tundra so there is no such thing as trail really.
Tramping by moonlight is something very special for me. I like the feeling of having stepped outside of time, which is otherwise hard to achieve without the psychedelics.
The closest I had to a survival experience was climbing a mountain in Norway by myself and a long way from the road. I stood on a loose rock and twisted my knee badly enough to hear a pop. Luckily I was still able to walk but it was the first time I had to face a very real possibility of dying in the wilderness.
What was interesting was keeping calm. Oddly I found this quite easy because it seems that, for me, a lot of my daily anxiety is just me worrying about shit and when faced with a life or death situation I was very, very clear.
That experience gave me a lot of confidence in my everyday life because I know now that if it really comes down to it I would not panic.
Still, I'm nothing compared to that guy (Aron Rolston I think his name was) who got his arm trapped under a boulder and had to cut his own hand off.
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Re: What is your religion? [Re: viktor]
#18739674 - 08/21/13 08:43 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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viktor said: I've done a few epic tramps.
See, in 'Merika a "tramp" is a word used for slutty women. So I hope you understand why I am 
Your knee injury situation must've really shocked your senses, I know exactly how you felt. You set a goal and pushed to the end, I'd love to read the whole story if you have it written somewhere.
The guy chopping his hand off does seem extraordinary, but wouldn't you do the same if your life depended on it? Wouldn't everyone? Your options are:
A) stay trapped under the rock and die slowly and painfully B) chop hand off, and walk home.
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Re: What is your religion? [Re: Tmethyl]
#18739707 - 08/21/13 08:49 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I recently watched a movie on some natives in siberia where a dog ran about 125k straight without a break along side a snowmobile.
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Re: What is your religion? [Re: Icelander]
#18739763 - 08/21/13 08:58 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Honestly I'd just die and imagine nice things for a few days while I do. Screw cutting your own hand off, slowly, and painfully...
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Re: What is your religion? [Re: Tmethyl]
#18739967 - 08/21/13 09:40 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Tmethyl said:
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viktor said: I've done a few epic tramps.
See, in 'Merika a "tramp" is a word used for slutty women. So I hope you understand why I am 
Ha ha I know! When I was in the university Tramping Club some Americans told us this. So that year, when we made up the club t-shirts, we went for straight black with white text on the front that said "TRAMP"
I reckon I'd chop my own hand off as well. But that guy's story - he had to twist his arm to break his own forearm bones so that he could slide the knife in between the breaks to complete the amputation.
Whether or not I could do it is one thing - but that guy did.
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