JDS

My Mastodon blog for pics and thoughts about things I’m doing. I also boost outdoors photos.

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2026-10-26 16:13:21 UTC

1/ I should share this now while it's recent. 10/23-24/26 at Whitney right after this past snow storm. Went up as soon as the clouds cleared around 11pm. Snow looked fantastic with the near full moon. Didn't need a light. Just some crappy handheld phone night shots at first, but it's fun to see what it picks up.
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2026-10-14 14:21:45 UTC

1/ Mid August day trip revisiting a couple favorite peaks in a makeshift loop. Nice day, got a handful of pics but here's the TikTok book report video brief first. I enjoyed making these, too bad Relive (3d mapping app) only works 10% of the time now so it's too frustrating to even bother and I won't be using 'ai' to replace it. Nothing lasts.
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2026-10-09 01:37:17 UTC

So 10 days ago (last Sunday) I had a bizarre accident going down a slope after a peak. I've created an accurate simulation for visual aid. Everything happened quickly and yet in slow motion. I stepped on a 90ish pound rock the size of a small end table and it rolled over with me pinning my foot then bowling me down. I intentionally fell sideways to minimize how much of me it rolled over. I also tucked my arms in and sort of balled my core so it would keep rolling off me. Really spooked me, foot swelled quickly. I tightened my boot, limped 1.5 miles down to trail then the remaining 5.5 miles to the trailhead. I startled a couple while dirt napping in the dark at a trail junction. I insisted I was fine but accepted a pile of Ibuprofen. Been r.i.c.e'ing and the swelling and pain is down but xray shows inconclusive bone fracture so the doc wants me staying off my feet till he sees me Monday. He's being cautious. Doesn't feel any more than a rolled ankle, but we'll see.
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2026-09-26 02:00:45 UTC

1/ went up University Peak's north slope earlier in the summer but got turned around by weather (went back later for a larger trip). Still a very pretty day above Bench and Matlock lakes. Waves of clear skies and cloud buildup that increased each time made for dramatic skies.
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2026-08-17 16:01:00 UTC

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@nprofile…57uy awesome! Looks like it was a great trip 🙌🙌

2026-08-12 23:09:41 UTC

Ok, these guys won this eclipse. (edit, adding a copy for anyone lazy to click)
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2026-07-30 05:23:40 UTC

1/2 Inspired by the Ocelot windscreen design, specifically the mini for the brs3000t stove and 95mm cups, I thought I'd try to make one with steel wire and heavy aluminum foil. Seems about right. I'll have to try it next trip.
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2026-07-28 16:43:27 UTC

1/ bivied Mt Irvine again earlier in July. 5th time up the mountain, 3rd summit, 2nd bivy. I think the views here are undervalued. Some of the best in the southern Sierra IMO. It's a great spot for sunset and sunrise. Lofty rock in every direction to catch the light from both directions, and the valley below for perspective.
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2026-07-11 15:49:59 UTC

1/ went up Mt Brewer for sunset and bivied overnight for sunrise. This one has been waving at me for years, cool to finally visit. Its striking profile commands your attention from anywhere in the eastern sierra between Forester and Glenn passes. I'd read the giant south east ramp/ridge was passable so I just winged it without a route. Really fun.
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2026-06-28 16:56:26 UTC

1/ Almost forgot, I double summited Whitney main trail in a day back on the 17th. That was fun. Random thing I've been thinking about. Weather window, fitness, and permit lined up. Good place for hill repeat training 🤣
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2026-06-23 16:04:21 UTC

1/ Visited Meysan Lakes earlier, up to Whitney lookout and down to the lake for a quick afternoon hike while passing Lone Pine. I like this trail, great vertical workout and the area above it is dense with options and views.
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2026-06-20 21:37:32 UTC

1/ Looked at Old Army pass back on the 10th. Had to duck up one of the early chutes along the top switchback as it was too drifted over exposure for its slop consistency to hold. Fit the goal to go flop around in the snow before it was gone.
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2026-06-04 15:39:23 UTC

1/ now: Breakfast on the summit of Langley. Get signal up here. Packing up and heading in for a couple days. No signal soon (well maybe if I go up Whitney).
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2026-05-31 15:34:59 UTC

1/ Went in from Onion Valley Friday morning right after the snow storm to see the sights.
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2026-03-21 15:14:16 UTC

1/ got a few days on Pacific Crest Trail section D northbound from Wrightwood home to Agua Dulce. 92-ish miles across the San Gabriel mountains, daily 30s. Been across this section many times both ways all seasons with and without a sleep system. Familiarity delivers novelty in the form of change. The differences increase each time. Wanted to check snow on the high peaks (melting), look for any early thru hikers (none), and scout issues for my trail crew (lots). Great trip!
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2026-02-23 19:44:50 UTC

Some pics from a trail work project a week ago. Huge washout, lots of rock work and rerouting and tread work. Took a couple of days but it was great crisp sunny weather.
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2026-02-01 04:55:04 UTC

1/ Bivy on top of Mt Baldy tonight. Came up from Wrightwood on the north backbone trail over Wright Mt, Pine Mt, and Dawson Peak before Baldy's north bowl. Afternoon/evening hike, was in the dark since Dawson Peak. Nice full moon lighting up all the snow though. It's been real nice, zero wind, clear, and only low of 45F tonight.
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2026-01-20 00:05:50 UTC

Got a couple jars of olives off one of the trees before the animals this year. Waited a little longer to prep them but they're alright. Did a few salt soaks so they're in the full salt and vinegar brine now and topped with olive oil to be air tight for a long soak. Maybe 4, 5 weeks.
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2025-12-11 03:30:03 UTC

Dinner with a view then tea.
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2025-11-15 23:18:36 UTC

1/ rainy PCT bug out. Felt like listening to rain on a tarp I so grabbed some gear and I'm heading south from home for the night to check out this weather.
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2025-10-19 14:13:21 UTC

🕉 Om Namah Shivaya 👁🌙🏞🔱🐍🐅⚱️🐊⭕️💀🪘 Har Har Mahadev 💙 Love you all so much right now. Have a great day. I got to go down now 👋
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2025-10-05 14:18:40 UTC

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@nprofile…sxdw oh that sounds awesome!

2025-10-05 05:31:09 UTC

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2/ some more bright and sunny mid day views from Friday's fresh dusting of snow. Bighorn Park, Lone Pine peak seen between two aretes, Mt Hitchcock and Hitchcock lakes, and the southern side of the Whitney zone with the entire eastern crest south of it 😍
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2025-10-04 02:58:43 UTC

Quicky day hike up Whitney between storms to check out the snow. I made a snow angel, successful trip.
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2025-09-30 04:22:22 UTC

Diva has been working on her heroic poses
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2025-06-20 14:16:11 UTC

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@nprofile…fakd his posts immediately make me want to get back into skiing but I’m still heavily on a no gear kick. It’s clearly the greatest way to move though 🤩

2025-06-20 05:15:48 UTC

Looks like Andy Lewicky has been getting some spring skiing in the Eastern Sierra. He's a periodically prolific backcountry skier, posts fun videos, has some new ones up. This one at Mount Gould has a nice payoff (top descent at 4:20 cruise at 6:40).
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2025-06-16 23:38:27 UTC

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4/ decided to loop around Mt Hitchcock after Whitney so I dropped down JMT to Guitar lake and Crabtree camp to gain the ridge from the west slope.
Nice feeling looking across at Mt Hitchcock (pic 1) from Mt Whitney, then later looking back across at Mt Whitney (pics 3,4).
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2025-06-16 18:33:54 UTC

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3/ wasn’t at the summit when the sun broke the horizon but plenty of beautiful light in every direction.
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2025-06-16 14:38:58 UTC

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2/ some fuzzy snaps from first night into morning. One thing I look forward to when I ever replace this phone is seeing how well night shots improve.
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2025-06-14 17:01:18 UTC

1/ night hike to Whitney summit, got up for sunrise, bivied for a couple hours after waiting for the warm. Beautiful now, no plan, multi day permit.
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2025-06-12 02:21:39 UTC

Been sitting here for nearly a half hour with the dog and suddenly realized that rock is an owl.
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2025-06-10 23:46:27 UTC

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Well this should be interesting. I need to walk to the train station to get home. The markings are all the streets between me and Union Station that are blocked right now by protesters, cops, national guard, and marines. All I hear are sirens outside.
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2025-06-10 16:56:32 UTC

My walk to work from Union Station to Pershing Square goes right past all the blocks where the protests have been happening. City Hall, the Federal buildings, and LAPD building are clean but the Courthouse and LA Times got murdered.
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2025-06-08 20:00:34 UTC

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@nprofile…g5gx nice, also new term for me: kraxeln. I like it.

2025-06-01 06:10:57 UTC

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@nprofile…vvm4 I remember @nprofile…fakd sharing one he liked recently

2025-05-31 13:38:24 UTC

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@nprofile…fakd I remember considering those for use with flexible running shoes since there’s no stiff plate, but figured microspikes are the same by that point (without the plate they can’t go anywhere steep and hard so I’d only take them where I’d use microspikes anyway which are easier to carry). And durability concerns. Curious how they work out though, I imagine there’s a middle ground where they’re useful.

2025-05-30 13:43:44 UTC

Pretty colors last night.
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2025-05-30 06:19:10 UTC

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We have to be at peak term overuse by now.
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2025-05-28 13:29:04 UTC

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@nprofile…vvm4 I got the tika fries. Photo wasn’t very appealing, just brown and beige over brown. I’ll go there and get that again though, it was really good!👍

2025-05-28 04:24:03 UTC

Beach day with visiting family. Staying down in Venice. Pizza joint does nice tika masala french fries topped with almond ‘ricotta’ and fried cashews 😋 great beach food.
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2025-05-15 22:02:21 UTC

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2/ around 1:30 am, less than a mile from the summit, I hear someone call and see a light.
A pair of hikers got lost for hours after the summit. Panicked after dark, they called SAR and hunkered down under a rock. No alpine layers, no emergency blankets, wet running shoes and socks left freezing outside the garbage bag the hikers were wrapped in.
They needed help but weren’t in immediate danger. I gave them all my extra layers, a water bottle since theirs froze, told them to lay on their shoes and socks to dry them, and that I’d lead them down on my way back.
It took a LOT of convincing when I got back for them to get up and come with me (instead of staying there for minimum 12 hours before SAR would arrive to do the same as me).
Led them off the summit and across trail crest in the dark, then down the chute and out through morning. Stressful because they just had sneakers, microspikes, and trekking poles. No boots, crampons, ice axes, or helmets. 🫣💀
#Hiking #SierraNevada #California

2025-05-15 20:41:56 UTC

1/ Interesting night. Went for a night summit on Whitney up the main trail snow chute. Saw a perfect weather window, good times.
#Hiking #SierraNevada #California
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2025-05-09 19:53:30 UTC

Night hike to Consultation lake and Trail camp. Beautiful moon, no wind, crunchy snow.
#SierraNevada #Mountains #California #Hiking
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2025-05-09 01:59:18 UTC

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@nprofile…vvm4 She likes taking in views

2025-05-08 20:03:35 UTC

Caught some poppies a while back at a canyon we know goes off some springtimes.
#WildFlowers #BloomScrolling #Poodle #DogsOfMastodon
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2025-05-08 16:32:32 UTC

Little bobcat just wandered through the yard
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2025-04-24 19:21:34 UTC

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@nprofile…fakd 🎂🎉 all the best!

2025-04-24 02:59:08 UTC

1/ Lower Whitney Portal road is open again after the Hurricane Hillary damage from a couple years ago. Trailhead and road from upper switchbacks are still closed for winter but the road is cleared. Rockslides that were there up to a couple days ago are gone, just sweeper trucks going up and down now. Probably open by next week.
#SierraNevada #Mountains #California
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2025-04-21 03:26:10 UTC

1/ Up San G today. Perfect weather, sunny and no wind. Helpful snow from Halfway Camp up to the summit. Carried traction, safety, and alpine layers but didn’t pull out any. Fine in base layers all day and the snow was easy consistency.
#Hiking #SanGorgonio #California
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2025-04-12 00:47:11 UTC

Got dropped off at the close trailhead, hiking into the Trail Work site from here. Quick 4 miles then I’ll camp and work Saturday / Sunday.
#PacificCrestTrail #TrailMaintenance #Hiking
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2025-03-10 01:33:55 UTC

Trying and revisiting a bunch of Mastodon clients for fun because it’s been a while. Mona, Mastoot, Mast, Tootle, tooot, and Radiant. Evaluating ease of browsing, account switching, account lists, tag lists, filters, notifications, and posting.
I drifted to the latter four, then latter two, and now finding myself settled into Radiant quite comfortably with some easily accessible tweaking.
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2025-03-08 11:23:22 UTC

🔊#SilentSummit
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2025-03-06 16:24:15 UTC

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2/ Casual late start up the trail yeasterday. Fun taking in random views.
The bottom couple miles is extra steep and lined with rock for water management and horses. Saw the horse train shuttling supplies. Birders in their natural habitat. And the jungle reclaiming everything.
#Hiking #Mountains #CostaRica
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2025-03-06 03:50:02 UTC

1/ Oh well, sometimes nature has its own plans for you. Got a walk-up and ended up back in the high land. Cerro Ventisqueros was calling and I had it and the trail to it all to myself.
Going to take time to process the experience.
#Hiking #Mountains #CostaRica #Ventisqueros
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2025-02-28 04:07:15 UTC

Cozy old montage of clips wandering around on the Major General coming down from Langley and on the way to Rock Creek 🔊
#Hiking #SierraNevada #Mountains #California
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2025-02-26 06:56:12 UTC

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@nprofile…07t5 thanks for the context. I haven’t attended and wasn’t aware how open the day is. It seems more necessary than ever to be there.

2025-02-23 03:00:50 UTC

Gotta say I miss making IG Stories. Loops is filling the void but it’s still beta. New Nimino track felt like it needed to go with this clip 💛🧡💜
#Sunrise #Mountains #Alpenglow #Hiking
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2025-02-20 07:17:58 UTC

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@nprofile…zfuh nice thanks, yes I’ve been looking at Chirripó. Looks beautiful. Urán also but that doesn’t appear accessible anymore.

2025-02-20 06:49:23 UTC

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@nprofile…vvm4 yeah I’m not looking to travel, I’m just visiting my sister.

2025-02-18 05:11:31 UTC

No miles all last week. Full recovery from 4 days of trail work last weekend, also rain, also poison oak got me, also full steam on a personal creative project. Good timing for everything overall, but no miles.

2025-02-15 15:35:40 UTC

Patiently waiting for winter to end 😎
#Nature #Mountains
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2025-02-08 04:26:43 UTC

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@nprofile…07t5 beautiful shot!

2025-01-31 18:21:31 UTC

This video was shot and shared by Andrew Skurka on IG long ago (someone get Andrew on Fedi).
It’s a beautiful poem by a well known and well loved thru hiker Nimblewill Nomad.
"Here's to the hearts of that cold, lonesome track,
To the life of the wanderlust... Free.
To all who have gone and have never come back,
Here's a tribute to you and me.
With our feet in the dirt, we're the grit of the Earth,
Heads a-ridin' the heavens o'erhead.
And they won't find a nickel of value or worth,
When our fortunes are tallied and read.
But no richer clan has there ever been known,
Since the times of all ruin and wrack;
Than those of us lost to the dust outward blown,
Who have gone and never come back."
-Nimblewill Nomad
#Hiking #ThruHiking #WanderLust #Freedom
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2025-01-31 16:29:47 UTC

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@nprofile…fakd it’s such a fantastic story. Climbing Gold made a great four part series about it on their podcast that chronicles the entire timeline really well. Worth listening.
https://www.climbinggold.com/episodes/the-queen-and-the-pawns

2025-01-27 05:55:56 UTC

🥹 This poor juvenile bobcat didn’t know what to think of the first rain today. It’s likely never been wet yet in its life.
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2025-01-19 23:20:06 UTC

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3/ continuing through the post industrial desert resource complex. Almost at the wind farm now. I am blue today to match the blue sky.
#PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #TrailRunning
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2025-01-19 21:05:35 UTC

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2/ Following the aqueduct and the side pipe across the desert floor toward the Tehachapi mountains. Some air moving around, but not too windy and it’s clear.
No real plan, just the wind farm for the night. This is the last resort route for when fires or snow close everything else around.
#PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #TrailRunning
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2025-01-19 19:44:03 UTC

Desert bound for a couple days. Angeles national Forest closure has been extended until the 24th so heading out into the desert it is.
#PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #TrailRunning
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2025-01-19 02:25:21 UTC

Saw frost this morning and ice on one of the bird baths. Very dry still, really no rain yet this winter.
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2025-01-14 02:21:01 UTC

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@nprofile…vvm4 no doubt, screw that clown. I don’t TikTok but I will 100% make a spite account if it’s banned.
The hard part now is getting the extended family off WhatsApp. We’re spread around continents and it became the common denominator since before Facebook bought it. 🥵

2025-01-14 00:59:49 UTC

Thinking of organizing a “how to Mastodon” zoom for close IRL friends and family 🤔
I’m dropping my old Instagram account that’s private and just for that circle. Figuring I can do more than just tell people they can find me here.
Simple things like:
- instances and clients
- cultivating and managing a feed
- filtering, muting, blocking

2025-01-01 18:13:30 UTC

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@nprofile…fakd re Kamchatka, how did you end up there and what were you up to?

2024-12-31 20:48:19 UTC

Good year, did stuff, had fun. 🤗 Slept in a lot of high places, spent a lot of time on the ground.
#Hiking #TrailRunning #Mountains #YearInReview
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2024-12-26 20:59:47 UTC

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@nprofile…znrv yeah no kidding, we grew up leaving it all for weeks. Who even has the energy to go straight to tear down like that?

2024-12-26 16:53:08 UTC

My sister’s neighbors appear to have completed Christmas.
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2024-12-26 05:43:11 UTC

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@nprofile…znrv Catan in particular is a classic for its style / era

2024-12-26 04:01:37 UTC

Citadels before dinner, Catan after. I know Catan but Citadels slipped by me in the early 2000s. It’s pretty streamlined and fun.
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2024-12-16 05:10:04 UTC

RIP Zakir Hussain. Glad to have seen him live multiple times in the 80s and 90s solo and with John McLaughlin (mostly at Montreal Jazz fest). Interesting the spectrum of artists that accompany us in our lives.

2024-12-10 23:04:05 UTC

Random uncredited memeboard find. Took me a moment.
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2024-12-08 04:19:35 UTC

Everyone sharing 2024 wrap ups on social media from their most played streaming media. The runners are still silent though, the year isn’t over until the 31st 🤣🤣
#Running #TrailRunning

2024-12-01 02:30:55 UTC

Out and back on PCT over to Acton from Agua Dulce with a stop at the campground for snacks. Saw a group hiking over on the way and a couple with their dogs on the way back. Good winter section, lots of sun.
#TrailRunning #PacificCrestTrail
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2024-11-29 04:09:11 UTC

Bunch of persimmons off my sister’s tree. Made sure to bring some home.
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2024-11-27 21:46:42 UTC

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@nprofile…vvm4 I think it’s a discoverability issue for me. The thought of sorting through older stuff to figure out what’s been shared or not prevents me from doing it.
I’m good at dropping things in a “to share” folder immediately when I’m looking through photos after doing something. I need to make a “to share later” folder as well I think 🤔

2024-11-27 15:52:19 UTC

I should post old pics from my phone that I didn’t post previously more often.
I’m generally unmotivated to post anything that isn’t within the past couple days on my phone camera roll. I don’t negatively evaluate the recency of anyone else’s posts but I lose interest in things that have already passed in my life and they sit.
That happen to anyone else?

2024-11-24 03:17:37 UTC

1/ Exciting skies on the way into the trail maintenance spot today.
#Rainbow
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2024-11-22 07:31:10 UTC

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@nprofile…qndz nice to see things again before full winter. The trailhead campgrounds and water spigots are shut down already for the winter. The roads will be next!

2024-11-18 03:03:18 UTC

Day 1 trail maintenance project this weekend. Frost! I ran a brush cutter all day so mostly no pics, hands full.
Basically turning the tiny prickly car wash path into something a horse and rider can pass through respectably. Lots of cutting and clearing.
Had 9 people moving great, did about 0.7 miles 🎉
#PacificCrestTrail #TrailWork #Volunteer
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2024-11-11 06:45:16 UTC

Get ready for this interesting story from Inyo county Search & Rescue.
Two people left the Mount Whitney trailhead at 6 pm with 150 pounds of brand new gear and 5 gallons of water. By 3 am they succumbed to exhaustion after making it only 2.7 miles (it’s 3 to their planned camp site, 11 to the summit). They pitched their tent on the trail, woke up to 2 inches of snow and contacted SAR with iPhone satellite for rescue.
#Hiking?

2024-11-05 16:50:16 UTC

1/ Stealth pack project. You generally can’t tell if I’m running, or hiking, or multi day backpacking. That’s intended and I’m always taking it further.
This cheap pack has a decent design and ok construction for a foundation. I cut all the extra crap and removed the external pockets and pouches. I don’t want anything visible or attached outside except an ice axe.
Next I’ll reinforce the shoulder straps, they’re weak, then make internal pockets.
#Hiking #MYOG #DIY #HackThePlanet
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2024-09-11 18:56:50 UTC

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@npub1npy…3sf4 nice to be around a lot of trees and ferns over on that side of the mountains. A lot of green, makes me happy.

2024-09-11 09:33:00 UTC

Pained me to see the Watch Duty app fill up with notifications of fire in the San Gabriels when I got signal today, then when I saw the ash plume and pyrocumulus clouds rising from way out in the desert on the way home.
#BridgeFire
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2024-09-04 17:40:51 UTC

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@npub1c5c…644a great payoff 🤩 worth the effort looks like!

2024-08-26 04:19:29 UTC

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3/ I set my phone down for a few minutes to catch some clouds while having a snack.
#TimeLapse #Clouds
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2024-08-26 03:26:32 UTC

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@npub1c5c…644a not much big fall risk in those, but a lot of freak slip and stumble / moving rock risk (big and small). I wear a helmet, never know if someone is dislodging stuff up above.

2024-08-26 00:36:48 UTC

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@npub1c5c…644a a lot of unstable gravel and rocks, but sticking to the larger rocks along the wall was ok going up and down.

2024-08-24 22:35:27 UTC

So this is now.
#hiking
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2024-08-19 20:51:21 UTC

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@npub1c5c…644a nice timing, slip in right after the storms

2024-08-15 21:35:57 UTC

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@npub1npy…3sf4 wow, that’s a huge amount of land that moved. Agree, not so inviting / safe to cross 😮

2024-08-14 13:37:49 UTC

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@npub1c5c…644a I’d love to know how all those things got named surprise