it's weekend time again.
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Ian
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Know any good pharmacists? I stayed in a holiday inn last night and can write a 'script.....
12,500' is as high as I've ever been outside of a pressurized cabin. It ain't too bad once you shrug off the pack and sit down for about 30 minutes, but six hours of climbing slippery rocks to get there while gasping like a fish out of water wasn't much fun.
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freebullet
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Driveatholon?
nah, y'all misunderstood... I meant right down in the hills & canyons of southeast Nebraska. For deer, leaving on foot, returning on foot with deer....
See, I was trying to make up for maybe not being the best shot with local 411 & youth.
nah, y'all misunderstood... I meant right down in the hills & canyons of southeast Nebraska. For deer, leaving on foot, returning on foot with deer....See, I was trying to make up for maybe not being the best shot with local 411 & youth.
Pistolero
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Ha! My cabin is at 9,500 MSL, and for 35 years we backpacked for 2 weeks or more every
year in the Wind River range, never going below 10K MSL for the entire time. I am pretty
well acclimated to altitude.....but you still can't do as much a 10,000 ft as you can at sea level,
you just accept it. Riding the mtn bike is kinda funny at the cabin. At sea level I can wear out my muscles
before my lungs give up, at altitude, my leg muscles are fine at the point where, if I continue to
go that hard, I will pass out, lungs pumping as hard as they can, cannot keep up.
Bill
year in the Wind River range, never going below 10K MSL for the entire time. I am pretty
well acclimated to altitude.....but you still can't do as much a 10,000 ft as you can at sea level,
you just accept it. Riding the mtn bike is kinda funny at the cabin. At sea level I can wear out my muscles
before my lungs give up, at altitude, my leg muscles are fine at the point where, if I continue to
go that hard, I will pass out, lungs pumping as hard as they can, cannot keep up.
Bill
fiver
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I can arrange a walkathlon.
90 miles on mostly flat dirt would be easy enough.
if you want up and down that's easy enough too.
up and down we got.
usually for the deer opener we do a 3 day or so back pack hunt.
we start at one point and cut across to another and have someone come pick us up.
amazing the little land features you run into doing that.
4? years back I shot a little buck the last morning and we quartered it and packed it up then dropped out of the hills right into a swamp that took some struggling to skirt around and make it down to the road before dark.
I had no idea there was a swamp there, especially one surrounded by cedar trees and 6" deep limestone/calcium dust.
the whole hillside next to it was shale so we couldn't cut across that to a little 2 track I knew, going down and back then around was not an option either.
I just wanted to avoid the willow thicket and the little stream where the 2 track run and ended up right in the middle of where the stream dumped out.
90 miles on mostly flat dirt would be easy enough.
if you want up and down that's easy enough too.
up and down we got.
usually for the deer opener we do a 3 day or so back pack hunt.
we start at one point and cut across to another and have someone come pick us up.
amazing the little land features you run into doing that.
4? years back I shot a little buck the last morning and we quartered it and packed it up then dropped out of the hills right into a swamp that took some struggling to skirt around and make it down to the road before dark.
I had no idea there was a swamp there, especially one surrounded by cedar trees and 6" deep limestone/calcium dust.
the whole hillside next to it was shale so we couldn't cut across that to a little 2 track I knew, going down and back then around was not an option either.
I just wanted to avoid the willow thicket and the little stream where the 2 track run and ended up right in the middle of where the stream dumped out.
Just checking in Fiver.Started a "full build" on a 1905 house.Stupid money.Been slinging more arrows than CB's.The boys all went off the deep end buying bows, oldest snagged a Nano Q2 carbon 53# longbow....cpl other bros got new Hoyt recurves.I think they did it out of spite?My disgust with that co. is well known!They can't supply parts.Good looking dogs BTW...Out,BWSmith(this site still ain't working on my end,oh well)
That's all good if I knew what any of that means?Look up a Gibson "Goddess" Les Paul.Building a one pce bow on the above pattern.G10 with purple Maple riser.....pretty sick.We shot a tune up 3D course last weekend in 2" of snow.....I won,doh.Hope your little girl is doing well.She sounds like she'd fit right in with our crew here.
fiver
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well the Olympics ended last night.
I missed the closing ceremony's. [mostly since they at 3 am here]
there was some pretty thrilling moments during the games.
the hotly contested one on one biathlon finish by about 6"s was one of them.
about half of the hockey games went past the OT point and had to go to a shoot off to determine a winner.
the curling games were outstanding most of the time and the mens final game was actually a tense tightly contested affair up until the one shot the US skip made on his final throw.
it just squeaked past two other rocks and took out two of the swede's rocks with a hit and roll and hit shot that was just outstanding.
the speed skating events were fun to watch especially the scramble team event that got pretty exciting.
man there are some real good figure skaters I never heard of out there doing their thing.
I also wonder what happened to the NORK skater that tripped everyone at the start and they had to do a re-start.
he again tried to shove his way forward, ended up crashing, and eventually was disqualified.
you could see his desperation before they even went to the line to start and it surely showed in his efforts.
I have a feeling the population there went down a few digits this last week.
I missed the closing ceremony's. [mostly since they at 3 am here]
there was some pretty thrilling moments during the games.
the hotly contested one on one biathlon finish by about 6"s was one of them.
about half of the hockey games went past the OT point and had to go to a shoot off to determine a winner.
the curling games were outstanding most of the time and the mens final game was actually a tense tightly contested affair up until the one shot the US skip made on his final throw.
it just squeaked past two other rocks and took out two of the swede's rocks with a hit and roll and hit shot that was just outstanding.
the speed skating events were fun to watch especially the scramble team event that got pretty exciting.
man there are some real good figure skaters I never heard of out there doing their thing.
I also wonder what happened to the NORK skater that tripped everyone at the start and they had to do a re-start.
he again tried to shove his way forward, ended up crashing, and eventually was disqualified.
you could see his desperation before they even went to the line to start and it surely showed in his efforts.
I have a feeling the population there went down a few digits this last week.
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freebullet
Guest
What are you guna do now that it's over till it's warm out?
Curling is not something I understand. I have powered rotary tools that would be way more fun than the manual brushes they use.
I caught part of the shooting, speed skate, & a little ski stuff. Don't have much interest in the dancey prancey portions.
Curling is not something I understand. I have powered rotary tools that would be way more fun than the manual brushes they use.
I caught part of the shooting, speed skate, & a little ski stuff. Don't have much interest in the dancey prancey portions.
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freebullet
Guest
Oops! Double
fiver
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I keep waiting for them to drop the girl.
curling is like pool and bowling on a really long table with really heavy balls, and you only shoot from the furthest away part of the table.
the object is to get your rock the closest to a little hole in the center of the middle ring.
all of your rocks can count if they are inside the outer line on the green ring, but if one of theirs is closer to the little hole it stops any of yours further away from counting.
the rules are pretty simple
you can knock any of your opponents rocks out of the rings.
and no scoring happens until after the last rock is thrown.
you cannot hit an opponents rock that isn't inside the rings until the first 4 rocks have been thrown but any inside are fair game.
you get 8 rocks per end [each team] and 10 ends.
the last shot in each end is called the hammer, you keep the hammer if no score is made.
you give it up if a score is made in the end.
this is where strategy comes in.
you can try to force your opponent to make a point so you can have the last shot in the next end [get the hammer] or to get the even numbered ends [like 8 and 10 and they get end #9] so you have last shot of the game.
if you take a point or more when the other team has the hammer that is called a steal and you get the hammer for the next end and the points.
curling is like pool and bowling on a really long table with really heavy balls, and you only shoot from the furthest away part of the table.
the object is to get your rock the closest to a little hole in the center of the middle ring.
all of your rocks can count if they are inside the outer line on the green ring, but if one of theirs is closer to the little hole it stops any of yours further away from counting.
the rules are pretty simple
you can knock any of your opponents rocks out of the rings.
and no scoring happens until after the last rock is thrown.
you cannot hit an opponents rock that isn't inside the rings until the first 4 rocks have been thrown but any inside are fair game.
you get 8 rocks per end [each team] and 10 ends.
the last shot in each end is called the hammer, you keep the hammer if no score is made.
you give it up if a score is made in the end.
this is where strategy comes in.
you can try to force your opponent to make a point so you can have the last shot in the next end [get the hammer] or to get the even numbered ends [like 8 and 10 and they get end #9] so you have last shot of the game.
if you take a point or more when the other team has the hammer that is called a steal and you get the hammer for the next end and the points.