I am going to post more. 2018 was a busy and messy year where we moved up the hill and have new diggs. I have been lifting but have dropped back per doctor's orders. It turns out that I have hypertension-not based on diet or condition but its straight genetic. My mother has it and my paternal grandfather had it. I take medication Liprosil and per her orders lift 70% max. I am going to do more H.I.I.T. with cardio at the end.Did chest, arms today. Still coming off of minor pectoral muscle pull but did bench with 135X2(10 reps)/215(2X10 reps)/315(2(8reps)/335(2(5reps)/365(3reps). Incline Press 135X2(10 reps). 185X2(10 reps). 215(10 reps) Cable Curlsx4 sets. Tricep Jailhouse dips. X4sets
Hit 4X500 m sprints on C2(1:37/1:45/1:49/1:55) broken up with 30 reps of Kettlebell swings with 61lb kettlebell. I take 1:30 break between each exercise.
35 minutes of Elliptical machine at the end.
I have been doing JeffO workout of cutting and splitting wood. I have a 2400 cuft house and 1900 cuft shop running on wood. I have burned and cut 8 cords (4X4X8) so far this winter. The wood hydronic boiler in the shop(Greenwood100) goes through quite a bit of wood.
I have a specific goal this year which I've almost never done before. I was looking at mulie_mikes pics of the aoudad hunters and decided this old man wants to do an aoudad hunt. Now I just need to find a couple other suckers partners to do it with me.
A couple weeks ago a young officer at work asked to workout with me to add some muscle mass so it's going to be lifting with him early and hiit for me later.
Today was:
Lifting - each lift as a superset Dumbbell press 180 x 5; 130 x 15; 90 x 25 Rest 5 min Pull-ups weighted +20 x 5; +10 x 10; bw x 15 Rest 5 min Squats 200 x 5; 175 x 15; 100 x 25 Rest 5 min Skull Crushers 95 x 5; 75 x 15; 50 x 25 Rest 5 min Curls 80 x 5; 60 x 15; 40 x 25
HIIT elliptical 90 seconds mixed with kb swings, then wallball shots, and finally flies; 10 rounds of each
I hope to be in shape for a good backpack hunt this year, last year was kind of a bust. Looks like an AK caribou hunt may come together, that would be ideal. If not that, then elk here in CO. The ankle seems to be much better post-surgery and just about pain-free which is a good sign. Did upper body at the gym yesterday and headed there for some limited lower-body stuff today, whatever I can get done wearing an air cast.
processing firewood is definitely a workout; I ran a firewood business for a year- I was in pretty damn good shape
Yep!
8 cords/year is impressive, kaboku. Are you splitting manually or with a splitter? At any rate, take it from someone who's been doing about half that much a year for over 25 years: BE CAREFUL! Some weird stuff happens with big forces (felling, splitting) and wood.
4-mile hike today. Tweaked my knee a bit down south and re-tweaked it crabbing the other day so we stayed on the trail. Frosty up there. Saw the quail again and a couple grouse. Chloe got birdy again.
8 cords in the last three months. Manually splitting. I have about four cords on reserve and need to get 5 more cords to finish the winter. We moved in the second week of October so its been a hearty weekend activity. The shop uses quite a bit of wood.
The second half of '18 was a chit show as far as working out goes for me. Busy kids, a move, and a lack of a place to do what I was doing. This year will be better.
I've started back up running and when you weigh closer to 300# than most, that sucks. I'm shooting to get in 10mi/week. Hopefully, once I get my feet under me, I'll be increasing that. And I have to get back to doing some strength stuff. Haven't lifted a weight since August...
I have a specific goal this year which I've almost never done before. I was looking at mulie_mikes pics of the aoudad hunters and decided this old man wants to do an aoudad hunt. Now I just need to find a couple other suckers partners to do it with me.
A couple weeks ago a young officer at work asked to workout with me to add some muscle mass so it's going to be lifting with him early and hiit for me later.
Today was:
Lifting - each lift as a superset Dumbbell press 180 x 5; 130 x 15; 90 x 25 Rest 5 min Pull-ups weighted +20 x 5; +10 x 10; bw x 15 Rest 5 min Squats 200 x 5; 175 x 15; 100 x 25 Rest 5 min Skull Crushers 95 x 5; 75 x 15; 50 x 25 Rest 5 min Curls 80 x 5; 60 x 15; 40 x 25
HIIT elliptical 90 seconds mixed with kb swings, then wallball shots, and finally flies; 10 rounds of each
4+ mike hike, found a few chanterelles... last hike with my kid before she packs off to another hemisphere (!)... managed to slip crossing a creek like a dumbass and re-re-re-tweaked my knee but it was at the beginning of the hike, and it "walked off", more or less. It's the back of the knee, interior tendon area. It's minor, damn it, but since the knee bone is connected to the hip bone, etc, the whole dang leg ain't right. Aches.
Rain hits tomorrow and it's time to get to work... I have this notion of integrating sessions on the hamster wheel into my workflow out there. The work itself tends to be so engaging and process-oriented that I get sucked in and the day flies by, which is nice, other than the standing still on concrete all day part. 30 minutes of aerobic spinning would be an awesome thing to break up the day with. Gonna try.
Started back this morning after a couple of weeks off recovering from bronchitis. I went light and it still killed me.....lungs are still way to tight, may be rough hiking up the mountain in the morning.
Elliptical - warmup
Circuit, 3 rounds, no rest between rounds: Hang cleans PL Squats DB MP Lats Reverse Hyper
Yesterday - I spent 1 hour getting a neighbor kid out of the ditch. He put an 88 Chevy Impala into a hole under a culvert. Much Bush physics with this one.
Heavy Rows with 5 sets of 110 lbs for 10 reps. Heavy barbell curls 95(2)/115(2)/145(1) sets of 10. Preacher bench curls Squats 225(10)X2/315(10)X2/405X5
HIIT- 10 double flights of stairs with 2 61 lb kettlebells
Washed and vacumed out both vehicles plus wiped down the wife's car inside and then a 3 mile walk about the neighborhood. Will start the long road back to running come Monday, have been off for three years.
Running is awesome and I'm rooting for you and Pointer as you rev it back up!
If the impact aspect of it gives you issues, consider a road bike, especially if it's hilly in your AO. Super fun and can border on suicidely aerobic if you want.
Well, I can still say I have ran everyday this year! Mostly 2mi at a whack, with a couple of 1.5ers in there when time was short. Will start stretching it out a bit soon.
Still recovering a bit from bronchitis so didn't do a full workout. I thought the Dr was FOS when he said it would be 3-4 weeks recovery.....he wasn't.
Warm-up: Elliptical
Circuit - 5 rounds, no rest between sets/rounds: DB Bench DB Row Reverse Hyper
King for a day???? The watch can't keep up and two fingers on the wrist said 183, but the watch keeps score. A youte like you should knock me off quickly.
Wifey goes back to work tomorrow so I forestalled my shop duties another day and we hit the coast. Did a really neat hike from Tahkenitch lake to the coast, over hill and dale and through some coastal old growth, that totals 7.2 miles round trip. I fished for surf perch. The bite was ON; I caught a fish the first 8 casts and caught 12-15 before the receding tide killed the bite and I got too cold. However, they were running small. Didn't keep any.
Then, on the way home, a woman hit a guy on a bike, swerved off the road, hit a tree, came back on the road, and we hit her head-on. I had time to slow down enough that the airbags thankfully didn't deploy. I did jam my bad hip up pretty good and seem to have pulled a groin muscle. Cyn's back is going south fast. So we got lucky within the context of getting unlucky I guess. Cyclist was injured but will be ok. Woman driving the van was elderly and seemed intoxicated... pills maybe? So, we'll see how the bod feels tomorrow. Probably go to the doc just to document things in case the hip is well and truly horked... Pretty [bleep] bummed about the hip. This is my bad hip that I hurt skiing 30 years ago. The one thing I can't do, is jam it, and it got jammed. Ugh. Minimum it's going to be sore a while, worst case is my wonderful window of relatively pain-free functionality might be impacted. It was pretty bad for about ten years after the injury, then somewhat miraculously stabilized... fawk.
King for a day???? The watch can't keep up and two fingers on the wrist said 183, but the watch keeps score. A youte like you should knock me off quickly. .
You keep red-lining it and I may not have to.......
Cardio for me today, 40 minutes on the stationary bike, only got the HR into the low 170s but burnt a little over 400 cals in 35 minutes according to the machine. We just got new bikes at my gym, they piss me off by not giving credit for as many calories for the same workout. Or maybe I'm getting old and it just seems like the same workout.....
Got on the scale at the gym for the first time in weeks, only gained a pound through all the holiday feasting and inactivity, I'll take it.
Thanks, it would seem so, but whereas I seem to have taken the impact through my braking leg, she took it in her middle back. So it's a bit "TBT". Pretty stiff. Her previously-injured knee is also flared up now. But big picture, lucky lucky LUCKY and we know it. The physics unleashed on that stretch of road at that moment were phenomenal, and for all involved to essentially walk away, give or take, is amazing. So we'll take it.
Unbelievable how fast it happens when someone just comes into your lane at highway speeds. I did the only thing I could do, which was scrub velocity and hold my line. I'd like to say my life flashed in front of my eyes but hell NO, I was still focused on driving. Proud of that. Nice to be able to remember this one in that sense. So, there's the crazy oncoming headlights gyrating ahead as the first warning; foot moves towards the brake, oooohhhhh fuuuuuuccckkk is the soundtrack, a moment of comprehension that yes, this is about to happen and that's just the way it is, and then the Big Red Van of Doom arrives sideways in your lane, and it's time to crumple metal, shatter glass, and roll the dice. Yeehaw!
Treadmill intervals: 60minutes. 2minutes at 3%, then 2minutes with increasing incline, back to 3% for 2minutes, then up the incline for 2. Weights. 45minutes
5 miles snowshoeing with my wife and Tiny E in Yellowstone. Saw a lot of wildlife and enjoyed some really nice weather- mostly sunny and near 30 degrees
Gym has one of these and it gets used less than the stepper. Which has been broke again for a couple months.
One needs to learn how to run it or be prepared to fall off. It will test you. 30minutes and the watch HR monitor was left gasping trying to keep up. Went to a place I haven't been to in a loooong time. It made me say "no mas, lets walk for a while." 198. Shoot for that one Smoke.
5 miles snowshoeing with my wife and Tiny E in Yellowstone. Saw a lot of wildlife and enjoyed some really nice weather- mostly sunny and near 30 degrees
I've been off the wagon the last month dealing with my Dad's health issues. Decided I needed to get back on it yesterday. Did some intervals on the treadmill yesterday. It's been a year since I last ran and this time I could breath. Given the time since I'd run last and the extra weight put on fro the holidays and traveling, it wasn't too bad. Little sore today but I got on the bike this morning for 45minutes. Felt good to do both though I'm sure I'll be paying for it later today.
Chilly?? I hit the gym today, upper body and lower back. I was sweating profusely, which caused some of the women there to palpitate.
Harry knows what that is. He does it when he sees a woman under 60.
No doubt, especially when it is obvious: "Can you help me?" All the machines are available and they choose the one next to you. You on the other hand, have little opportunity to mutually palpitate.
Exercise:
iSatori weights and a little stroll....That break in the line was a couple of the considerably under 60 gals asking me about the Assault Air Treadmill I was on...."I have a difficult time keeping my balance on this thing. You make it look so easy. Do you think you could give me some tips when you have time?" ba bump, ba bump, ba bump, etc, etc.
Well, the individual definition of high end must be taken into consideration. If it wasn't for those like you who raise the bar with astute knowledge, wit and cleverness the place would be off line in days.
Bench, Incline, biceps- HIIT with five rounds of 500m on C2 as fast as can go then 30 kettlebell lifts with 61lber. then 35 min on eliminator stairclimber.
Short workout with my 11 yr old son last night. A couple of circuits of bodyweight and dumbbell stuff and put him on the treadmill. Good times for both and he survived without the Xbox (sometimes I hate that thing).
One busy-ass beaver here. Plus they totalled out my wife's car. Big time-sucking PITA. Anyway, running into the same issue I had last summer, namely, I get so sucked into these particular parts/assemblies, and there's so much sheer work there, that I get obsessed and the day goes "pffft!" and I don't work out. Need to get that hamster wheel integrated into my daily thing out there. Ugh.
Jeff, 17th of Jan, You mentioned your next bid was scheduled for this month, would love to see some before and after pics................................
MTW- the hamster wheel is just over in the man cave side of the building. Like 20' from where I stand in from my of my lathe this moment. . Can't bring anything like that over here anyway- the metal shop side looks like someone firehoses metal chips everywhere. Which is kinda the case I guess.
MTW- the hamster wheel is just over in the man cave side of the building. Like 20' from where I stand in from my of my lathe this moment. . Can't bring anything like that over here anyway- the metal shop side looks like someone firehoses metal chips everywhere. Which is kinda the case I guess.
Kenneth. We had a deal. Go away.
No, you never fulfilled any deal. Some failed scrap demo that was sitting on a shelf for years is nothing more than lame, Post some pics, shut me up.
Yesterday - 45min on bike and some bodyweight/dumbbell stuff with son. Today - dreadmill this morning Supposed to get up to 17" of snow this weekend so may get out on snowshoes during breaks in the storm.
Car shopping.... ugh. My big workout today was lifting my wife over the drive-a-new-car hump. She hates driving unfamiliar cars. Any of you driving a late model Subaru? That's what she wants. This is gonna ding my ocean-boat fund but good.
We've owned three WRX's (02/04/09) and since they quit making the WRX hatch, we (it's my wife's daily driver) are now in a 17 Forester XT- miss the manual transmission (only offered in auto), the power is on par with the WRX's- 2.0 liter turbo- it's little taller and a little heavier than the WRX's, so doesn't handle as crisply, but not bad. The more room and a little higher clearance has been advantageous in many instances, but we both kind of miss the handling of the WRX.
We've never had any major mechanical issues with any of Subaru's. We always run good winter tires (and swap to good summer tires in the spring), combined with the AWD system, it makes for a very nice vehicle on difficult roads.
Good to know-- THANKS!! We've been driving Toyotas for the last 15 years or so with great results but my wife doesn't like the looks of the newer RAV's, and several of her coworkers drive and love Subarus. My dad and my sister both bought in with the new-model Outbacks; I think that was 2015 or so? They love them. Today we drove several, but the one we both liked a lot was a 2016 Forester with the Touring package. All the high-tech stuff reminds me of my mom's Lexus's, which I will say spooks me a little in terms of breakage down the road, but that aside I actually thought the Subaru drove better than the Lexus. More road feel, less disconnect, comparably smooth, almost as quiet. Anyway, sorry to hijack, was just hoping someone here had real world experience and I hit the jackpot- thanks again!
Jeff- I drive a Tacoma, don't think I'll ever own a different pickup (well different as in different model, a new one on the horizon for me :D)
Originally Posted by lawnman
Mtwarden curious what kind of dog is tiny E? Good looking pup!
thanks- he's half Chihuahua and half Yorkshire, a Chorki wife brought him home two Thanksgivings ago, I was late coming home from elk hunting and when I came in the door my little granddaughter said "look Papa, a puppy" thinking she had a little stuffed dog, then I see this little speck of fur run across the room, everyone was nervous for my reaction, but tough not to like a little pup (he weighed under two pounds when she brought him home); never would have thought he would make a good trail companion, but he definitely has!
Tundra for me; but it's about the size of the newer Taco's. Has been beyond superb.
Mutts are the best. Did you hear of the guy trying to create a basic "American dog", I forget what he was calling it? Medium/small size, brown, low maintenance fur, etc. I like the notion. (Says the guy with a purebred Tibetan Terrier, but still, haha)
Back Day- 8 sets of Lat pulldowns, 5 sets of heavy (120lb) dumbell rows, Farmer's walk for traps(5 sets of 110lb dumbells X 300ft), 8 sets of Bicep curls, 5 sets of facepulls(200s universal), close grip tricep bp 5 sets 185X20 repsX2, 225X10 repsX2, 275lbsX 10 reps
H.I.I.T.- 5 cycles (500m C2 average 1:50split) 5 sets of 40 reps (Russian Kettlebell Swings) X32KG
15 min on climbing machine.(easy to slow down hr and ease things in cycles.
Cut up 1 cord of wood and split it up and stacked it in kunichuq.
I run a 2010 Rav 4 SUV and 2016 Honda Highland. I would say that Highland might not take loads but its a great vehicle. I also have a 1984 Ford 150 Heavy Half with 390 V8 and 4 barrel Carb kit. It gets about 9 mpg but if we go red dawn that truck will go through h-e double hockey sticks.
Lower body yesterday, got back up to where I was before the first ankle surgery last January, things are looking up.
Serious question for gym-rats, do people with headphones not know how ridiculous they sound rocking out and singing off-key to songs no one else can hear?
Yesterday it was like wathcing Eddie Murphy sing "Roxanne."
pleasantly surprised myself; I thought I was getting very close to plateauing on my squats/bench, on my 1+ hit 6 reps on my squats and 5 on my bench, so I'm still pushing full steam ahead!
Lower body yesterday, got back up to where I was before the first ankle surgery last January, things are looking up.
Serious question for gym-rats, do people with headphones not know how ridiculous they sound rocking out and singing off-key to songs no one else can hear?
Yesterday it was like wathcing Eddie Murphy sing "Roxanne."
Great on the recovery, not yet on the headphones, but getting closer.
That's great that you are in fightin' trim again, SP!
Managed to surface from the machining fugue state and do 40 minutes on he gerbil wheel today. It was a good thing to do, gotta keep doing it. It's just hard to disengage.
Whoops, just saw the tweaked hammie, haha.... well, close to fightin' trim then.
I discovered the quad muscle I pulled in the wreck is the one you use when you stand up on a bike and crank; I could certainly feel it, bit sore at first... . But it's ok.
we got 6-8" of fresh snow today, so broke out my little snowshoes and got 4 miles in with Tiny Elvis- he didn't seem to mind it; saw few deer on the loop
Cardio day for me today. Harry, I never tried 'roids, but the women at they gym are always grabbing my biceps and saying "come on, you had help with these, didn't you?"
Slung metal all day, then 45 minutes on the hamster wheel.
Speaking of metal... haha... was listening to this band while "riding". If this song catches your ear, there's a GREAT song for grinding aerobically later on the record... but this is more accessible. I know we're all old here; check it out anyway. Cool lyrical message.
Cardio day for me today. Harry, I never tried 'roids, but the women at they gym are always grabbing my biceps and saying "come on, you had help with these, didn't you?"
Bike warm-up: 15minutes Assault treadmill: 35minutes Weights: Upper body said it didn't feel good during the doing.
Finally fixed the Stairmaster today. It has been down more than functional.
The Assault crushes it for cardio. Your body decides how fast you want it to go and how long you want it to do so. Additionally it is better for balance than a regular treadmill..
Hiked 6.5 miles in the Coast Range. Was cool- we split off our known out-and-back route into a different drainage, on an old closed logging road, which then connected up with our known route up at the top of the ridge! So now we have a loop. Also saw turkey sign about 2.5 miles into the new drainage. I like me some wild turkey, and hunting way back in there (as opposed to some farmers/ranchers place or right on the border of same) would be really fun. First trip with the mutts in the new car. We might've bought too nice a car.
Forgot I took this. Look at that fog line! Our place is down under that, as is the whole south/central willamette valley. It was awesome to get up above it!
Taking my little boat on the ocean tomorrow and Tuesday so it should be a good core workout. Will be bumpy out there.
It was medium-bumpy out there and I'm feelin' it. I agree that calling it a workout is a little weird but man, it's a bit of a workout.
Camping at a state park tonight and will hit it again tomorrow since he swells are forecast to stay manageable through mid-afternoon. Got my two ling today but had to work for them. I also caught a sea monster! That's a dang nice cabezon. Unfortunately had to let him go as we can only keep them a couple months of the summer. They are delicious. Oh, that's not his blood.
Tried a little of mtwarden's 10-9-8-7, etc routine with BP, Seated rows and Squats. 25pounds under body weight with the plates and 2 sets. Good workout and I can up the weight some next time and add a set. Sure is nice to hit 5 on the way down.
Off for a few days, so don't any of you hurt yourselves....
8 miles on the trails for Tiny E and I; a mile more than yesterday, but I picked a more popular route and the trails were packed pretty well- much easier getting around!
Cardio on the stationary bike for me yesterday. Was kind of washed out, Friday was tough, had to put down our dog Toby, got him as a pup almost 13 years ago. He had a good run.
Another order of these assemblies just hit, just as I'm finishing up this batch, plus other stuff for other customers... I'm buried; i really need to get that hamster wheel integrated into my day. I made headway couple weeks ago, need to build on that.
Shopping for a mountain bike. The buddy who got me into road cycling 5-6 years ago has been hitting the logging roads on a 29'er and is raving about how it's a safe (no cars) intense workout that takes less time than my 25-30 mile road rides... also since it's shorter getting wet is much less of an issue plus the bike has fenders, etc. I'm all in, just gotta find my bike. Since I have zero interest in technical single-track a quality hardtail bike from 10-15 years ago would be ideal. 27.5" or 29" wheels. The problem is, there's an almost unbelievable dearth of XL frame quality mountain bikes from that era. It's like tall guys didn't ROLL like that, yo! What can I say, I didn't at that time.
For now I am checking CL daily and avoiding going into a bike shop in fear a Shiny Thing will follow me home.
Did upper body yestreday, headed to the gym for lower body today. Sunday I made a big pot of chili, man it was good but I was feeling the effects yesterday at the gym. It's hard to fart quietly when you're exerting yourself.
an hour of shoveling snow this morning; strength train this afternoon- squats 5/5/5 75%, bench 5/5/5 75%- a good 3 second hold at the bottom for both, made them much more challenging! pull-ups 3x10, dips 3x30, core
Doing a new thing where I sprint a 1/4 mile before and then between each set of weights every morning. Has me feeling a lot better about short burst cardio.
Hit the weights last night while youngest son was doing basketball practice. Squats, bench, BB rows 5x3 each. Been a long time since I did this too so I'm a little sore today. Plan to work out the kinks tonight on the treadmill.
I did a few weights the other day, one of which was goblet squats. I didn't even have much weight, and I was sore the next day. Going to try to work a day of weights into the rotation.
Otherwise, still swimming, riding the bike occasionally.
It's been quite physical in the shop here recently and I achieved soreness in a few muscle groups on a few separate occassions. So that's cool. I do unfortunately have to take out the gap section of my big lathe to swing one of the parts; I have no idea what it weighs (125 lbs? ) but it's the last time I'm doing it by hand. Tweaked my back. Gonna put one of those overhead trolleys on an I-beam with an electric hoist. The ibeam will run from the lathe to the big workbench I put chucks (also very heavy) and this gap section thing on..... I gotta be smarter; gotta choose my battles. The gap section especially is an exceedingly awkward lift. Seems like, I can put in the hoist setup either before I hork my back up permanently, or afterwards.
Cyn's back and foot both got worse, not better, in the weeks after the wreck, so she's started PT on both. Her foot was braced all weird at impact and "something" happened internally. I seem to have come out fine other than a few days of weird mental stuff that must've gotten dredged up from the other wreck (which I can't remember). But, that passed. I'll take it.
sorry to hear about Cyn's lack of recovery- that blows
well after a two day hiatus from the stomach flu.... still definitely not a 100% and eating what amounts to baby food :), but got Tiny Elvis for 5 snowy miles on the trails- should have brought my smaller snowshoes, thought the trails might be packed down a little, but must be too cold for folks to get out
Down in New Mexico visiting the parents so I got in a 2 mile run this morning, Going to go hike up Tome hill in the morning, pretty interesting history to it. Tome Hill
I grew up about 30-40 miles from Tomé Hill.... not that I ever heard about it back then mind you. Powerful place, the Land of Enchantment. Sure got my attention.
Thanks Mike. She's moving ok and her posture looks ok so, not like she's broken. Just a bit bent up. She's a badass, she'll figure it out.
We did Tome Hill this morning was 1.1 miles total, but 441 feet of climbing in the first .4 miles. Of course we had to hit Blake's lotaburger after and have the "best green chile burger in New Mexico" and a chocolate cherry cordial milkshake afterwards... might have to go climb Tome hill a couple more times after that, lol.
it's -10 F here (our high!) with a windchill of -33, met a buddy who is doing the Bob Marshall Open this year to go over possible routes at a local brewery and drank two 16 oz IPA's
Strength this morning due to son's away basketball game tonight- squats. bench, BB rows, LTE. Felt good but really surprised how much I lost since I was in the gym last. It'll come back, slow and steady.
Truly grim weather here (very wet and just above or below freezing, a joy) but it's for the best anyway 'cause I'm stuck inside. Deadline to hit. Guess my arms are getting worked good, but that's it. Making big T303 stainless steel shafts now.
Game was cancelled last night so Brandon did 3 circuits of weights while I was on treadmill. 25lb pack and boots between 6% & 12% grade at 3mph for 30min. Running on treadmill tonight.
Did upper body yesterday, and booked a session with a trainer today to work on lower body. Working with trainers always sucks because (if they're any good at all) they always zero in on the stuff I'm weakest at and this one was no exception.
Truly grim weather here (very wet and just above or below freezing, a joy) but it's for the best anyway 'cause I'm stuck inside. Deadline to hit. Guess my arms are getting worked good, but that's it. Making big T303 stainless steel shafts now.
Truly grim weather here (very wet and just above or below freezing, a joy) but it's for the best anyway 'cause I'm stuck inside. Deadline to hit. Guess my arms are getting worked good, but that's it. Making big T303 stainless steel shafts now.
Sounds awesome, love to some pics.
what happened to January's project?
If you don't have anything on topic to post why don't you go away>
Truly grim weather here (very wet and just above or below freezing, a joy) but it's for the best anyway 'cause I'm stuck inside. Deadline to hit. Guess my arms are getting worked good, but that's it. Making big T303 stainless steel shafts now.
Sounds awesome, love to some pics.
what happened to January's project?
If you don't have anything on topic to post why don't you go away>
if a boat ride is a workout, so is typing with my fingers.
I plumbed some pipe today, (Upper body) shoveled and used the snowblower on about 8 inches of fresh.......(core)
So now i belong here?
I could post about my time on the elliptical at the gym this week, or the laps in the pool.......
Truly grim weather here (very wet and just above or below freezing, a joy) but it's for the best anyway 'cause I'm stuck inside. Deadline to hit. Guess my arms are getting worked good, but that's it. Making big T303 stainless steel shafts now.
Sounds awesome, love to some pics.
what happened to January's project?
If you don't have anything on topic to post why don't you go away>
if a boat ride is a workout, so is typing with my fingers.
I plumbed some pipe today, (Upper body) shoveled and used the snowblower on about 8 inches of fresh.......(core)
So now i belong here?
I could post about my time on the elliptical at the gym this week, or the laps in the pool.......
that more relevant?
It's very obvious what's relevant on this thread. If you have questions about that, the title is always a good place to start.
Recovery day <grin>. There's room to improve processes to take some physical load off in future batches (next batch is already ordered) but the simple truth is I'm doing mechanically intense things to large pieces of metal; just moving them from op to op, tightening chucks and fixtures adequately, etc is a lot of work.
Cardio yestrerday, gonna do lower body today. Still a little sore from the session with the trainer, he had me doing stuff I never do. Which is a good reason to hire a trainer occasionally I guess.
got out this afternoon with Tiny Elvis for 6 miles- 1200' gain in the first 2-ish miles, add in a foot or so of loose snow and it made for tough one (of course doing squats this morning I'm certain helped!)
6+ miles, 1300 ft. ele gain hike in the light rain. We are loving this new loop we found. These closed logging roads will be sweet when I get a MTB which should be real soon here.
Soggy doggies. Old man Nick has no undercoat and you can see he was a bit disgruntled by the end.
^ what new pack? 80 lbs is a bunch to be training with!
10 miles of some really (really) tough backcountry skiing- bucking 3'+ of powder, blowdown and all with a 20-ish lb pack- made the giant double cheeseburger, fries and two IPA's go down pretty easy
Nicky is such a trooper. We don't know his exact age as he was a rescue, but he's at least 10-11. He was incredibly, casually, athletic as a young guy. He's having issues with a hind leg we think due to his anti-seizure meds. But today the joy to be hikin' was just bursting from his oversized heart, those first few miles anyway.
He truly has no undercoat, just "hair". Chloe (Tibetan Terrier) on the other hand has a felt-like undercoat.
^ what new pack? 80 lbs is a bunch to be training with!
I got the Seek Outside Saker. Don't plan on doing much training with that weight, but wanted to see how the pack handled that much weight. It did way better than I did. Really liking this pack so far!
Hiked our 6.2 mile loop in the Coast Range. Back to the salt mines tomorrow so it was good to hike/walk each of the last 3 days! Lessee... 17.5 miles total.
Same old stuff for me. Yesterday was lifting, today was cardio.
10 rounds, no rest: 2 min thai heavy bag (odd rounds right handed stance, even rounds left handed stance) 1 min elliptical...closer to 50 seconds to get on it and off - 1/2 forward, 1/2 backwards
Health/med question: Any of you guys had a hip replaced...or resurfaced?
Cardio yesterday, 50 minutes of intervals on stairs, then bike. I have another session with the trainer today, he'll no doubt come up with some off-the-wall stuff that looks easy but will kick my butt.
He's a young studly dude, but he labors under the impression that the girls who walk by and smile are looking at him........
JCMCUBIC - my hunting pard had a hip replacement in 2016. I can hit him up with any questions you may have.
No workouts since Friday. Drove downstate to visit family. Dad's got stage 4 lung cancer. Between the drive and drama it's stressful but spending time with him is worth it. Hope to get back to it tonight or tomorrow.
Sorry to hear about your Father. Tough load to carry.
I'd be interested to hear what components and type of surgery your friend had as well as any input/suggestions.... I'll pm you later today.
If going with a replacement it looks like the anterior approach is best all around. At my age and activity level it's likely I'm going to wear a total replacement out and will need another. That, and the ability to return to high level athletics, has me looking at resurfacing....but it's a longer recovery and there are possible complications. If a resurfacing wears out there is still a lot of bone left for a replacement.
All I can say WRT hips is that my dad, after getting his replaced, said what I think is the universal refrain: I wish I'd gotten that done years sooner!
How old are you, JCM? Wearing one out is a legit concern.
Every step I take on my right leg I consider a bonus. I horked my right hip up bad in a ski crash in 1988... both the front side of the joint where the quad tendons attach (they partially tore loose) and the ligaments in the back part under the glutes, which were torn. By ~1998 it hurt so much I was having trouble even sleeping. I'm in my mid-30's at that point mind you. In an act of desperation I started stretching it far beyond anything that had been recommended. That HURT, for months... but somehow it came out the other side functional.
Anyway I have a ton of empathy for hip issues and I wish you the best. Plus, good things can happen, even when things seem dark. .
I turned 44 last month. I don't think there's much doubt I'll wear one out (unless I die early). Looks like a lot of them may last 20 years....in older people...less in younger folks.
1.5hr shoveling snow and heavy wet snot it was. That's about 80yards total of driveway. Daughter thinks I'm nuts for not having a snowblower. She may have something there????
@battue that doesn't look like fun! when I was finally finished with mine and inside- both more forearms started cramping big time, probably could have skipped the lift this morning
Woke up to a bunch of snow yesterday so had to hit the gym. Did 100 floors on the stairmaster, ran a mile and walked a mile for cool down. Feeling it in the legs this morning!
In negotiations <g> to buy a MTB..... a Specialized Chisel Comp.... excited at the workout possibilities it will open up. The severity of my prior head injury rules out any notions of single-track mayhem, but there's virtually unlimited old closed off logging roads in the nearby Coast Range to explore with tons of elevation gain/loss.
Wife and I are also in negotiations to go for a hike/walk. It's just vile outside. High 30's, windy, and dumping rain. We have this new Frog Toggs rain gear we want to try out though, so...
Woke up to a bunch of snow yesterday so had to hit the gym. Did 100 floors on the stairmaster, ran a mile and walked a mile for cool down. Feeling it in the legs this morning!
My workout today was a killer.. two bacon and egg sandwiches, on wheat!
In negotiations <g> to buy a MTB..... a Specialized Chisel Comp.... excited at the workout possibilities it will open up. The severity of my prior head injury rules out any notions of single-track mayhem, but there's virtually unlimited old closed off logging roads in the nearby Coast Range to explore with tons of elevation gain/loss.
Wife and I are also in negotiations to go for a hike/walk. It's just vile outside. High 30's, windy, and dumping rain. We have this new Frog Toggs rain gear we want to try out though, so...
nice looking bike; I've looked hard at their Fat Boy, but still in looking mode
I think it's "nice enough". I'm a total gearhead so I'm trying really hard not to go nuts; I'm just gonna be a middle-age duffer riding logging roads, after all. I rode a 2018 base-model Rockhopper last week, and it was shiny, almost-new, and cheap, but it was hard to get excited about the crappy components, etc. The Chisel is a mid-level build...much better components, better frame, also much lighter. The Rockshox air-spring fork is a biggie. Thou shalt not buy a bike with a junk suspension fork! Words to live by.
My road bike is badass. A racehorse for sure. Light as a feather, and the frame is highly refined. You can be carving a sweeping downhill corner at 35 mph and it feels like you are on a rail it tracks so precisely. Awesome.
My main impediment to getting this Chisel is picking it up. It's a 3-hour trip away, across the Cascades, and I'm slammed busy in the shop. I offered to send the seller a PMO deposit to hold it and he thought I was scamming him. I think I've got that resolved now but I'm gonna need to steal a day and go get the dang thing. These are different, much simpler, parts than I told you guys about prior, but these come in quantity. I pick up 300 of them Tuesday and it'll take a solid week to run them. A $2700 week though.
well so much for going to the gym this evening- started the day with a little over an hour of shoveling, got home and shoveled for another hour; it's deep enough that I had to spend a lot of time knocking my berms down- I couldn't throw snow any higher- the joy
Got a foot of snow overnight.... it was mayhem out in my woods, lost some trees for sure... stayed home, but we did put on the pac boots and walk a couple miles.
Did cardio today, but got in a good hike on some packed trails up above Steamboat this weekend, we were up there for the bluegrass festival, it was schweet:
Assault treadmill: 30min iSatori: Weights: Squats, lat pull downs, bent over rows, DB curls, incline BP. Merlot, quick walk: 45minutes
Bluegrass you say? Sounds like a good time.
Jeff: Don't feel lonely with trees being down. We have an ash blight going on here. A whisper wind is bringing the dead ones down. Driving down the road and looking into the wood, it looks like they are timbering. They're not....Good thing is it is opening up the woods more than a little for new growth.
It was a good time. My favorite band did a separate show in a small venue, we were right up front. Seeing good musicians up close is always fun. That and the beer.
It was a good time. My favorite band did a separate show in a small venue, we were right up front. Seeing good musicians up close is always fun. That and the beer.
I hit the Telluride Bluegrass (and Jazz) festivals a couple times. Came over Ophir Pass to Telluride once in an 80's Blazer- this is like 1886, mind you- that was stalling at the altitude... Ophir is, or was, a seriously fearsome road and not a place to have your rig stalling. My buddy had to STAND on the power brakes when it would stall so we didn't roll backwards. Then get it started. Then get it going forward/up again without stalling. Manual tranny. Good times. My younger bro in the back seat and I had a bailout plan. Hand on the door handle kinda stuff.
Harry- our woods are roughly 50/50 conifers and deciduous including a lot of ash in the wettest areas. The ash here are a medium-density hardwood, but split very easily, so when a good-size ash goes down the trunks tend to fracture and split. If yours are anything like ours that sounds like a big mess! Should rot pretty quickly at least.
Dunno what's happened out in the woods proper, other than "loud things", haha.... we lost a big Gravenstien apple up near the house and our closest neighbor lost a really big white oak. That actually sucks worse than the apple. We didn't really eat the apples much from that tree anyway but the big Oak was part of the screen between us and the neighbor. Now I can see their roof. Me no likey.
I hit the Telluride Bluegrass (and Jazz) festivals a couple times. Came over Ophir Pass to Telluride once in an 80's Blazer- this is like 1886, mind you- that was stalling at the altitude...
1886? Forget to hook the horse to it? Might be why it stalled?
I hit the Telluride Bluegrass (and Jazz) festivals a couple times. Came over Ophir Pass to Telluride once in an 80's Blazer- this is like 1886, mind you- that was stalling at the altitude...
1886? Forget to hook the horse to it? Might be why it stalled?
Man workout was a bruiser today, I broke my nunchucks out and ph ucked some chit up..
I hit the Telluride Bluegrass (and Jazz) festivals a couple times. Came over Ophir Pass to Telluride once in an 80's Blazer- this is like 1886, mind you- that was stalling at the altitude...
1886? Forget to hook the horse to it? Might be why it stalled?
You kids don't even KNOW how hard we had it.
In those days phones came with a cord so you'd never ever lose them. True fact.
Also, women in Levi 501's (cutoffs especially) falling out of fashion is a tragedy that no modern young man even knows about. History just........... forgot. Sad.
In those days phones came with a cord so you'd never ever lose them. True fact.
Also, women in Levi 501's (cutoffs especially) falling out of fashion is a tragedy that no modern young man even knows about. History just........... forgot. Sad.
They have it made:
Tile: Phone finds your keys or keys finds your phone. Yoga pants: Beat 501’s.
I just knew I was going to pay for shooting hoops with my boy. Fooling around and took a tumble, rolled, and end up on my feet. Boy was impressed at Dad's spryness. Dad was on the heating pad afterward. Oh well, if you're going to be dumb you gotta be tough.
well you know it's been cold when 11 degrees feels warm finally got out on the trails with Tiny Elvis today- 6 tough miles snowshoeing (probably tougher yet for Tiny E!)
6 miles of hills on the dreadmill- worked slowly up to 15 incline and then would go back and forth between 1 (running) for two tenths and 15 (crawling :D) for two tenths of a mile- pretty good hill workout
So yesterday turned into more of a workout than intended, and a very nice day!
Walked 1.5 miles to the gym. Did a pretty serious "total body" weight workout including a lot of leg work: squats, deadlift, straight leg deadlift, leg press, leg extensions, leg curls. Then walked 1.5 miles home, uphill. (no, it wasn't "uphill both ways")
Then two buddies reached out and asked if I'd like to snowshoe with them... Sure! Why not? We hiked 4 miles in the hills.
End of the day, ya, my legs were tired. A good tired.
Hiked 7+ miles on that coast trail we like. Tide was way out and the surf perch weren't biting, or else I was too skeered to wade out far enough. With the tide this low, I had to wade ankle/calf deep until I had like 50 yards of water behind me, granted very SHALLOW water but it felt like a setup for a sneaker wave so I stopped and came in. But look at my Strava track! Goes into the ocean, haha.
What footwear have you found good for a trial hike that involves a lot of up and down hill, along with shuffling along on the flats to make up time? It would be a 34mile hike if my name gets chosen. At the gym today I talked with a lady whose friend did it previously. She lost most of her toenails. Something I would like to avoid.
Cardio in the gym for me, 30 minutes stair machine, 30 on the bike. Got in a little walking this weekend walking around Lake Miramar in San Diego. Fish weren't biting so it was a good day for walking.
What footwear have you found good for a trial hike that involves a lot of up and down hill, along with shuffling along on the flats to make up time? It would be a 34mile hike if my name gets chosen. At the gym today I talked with a lady whose friend did it previously. She lost most of her toenails. Something I would like to avoid.
Lots of mud if the weather turns wet.
Take a peek at the Sportiva Akasha's- they are the heaviest trail runner that La Sportiva makes (but not overly heavy)- they have a good roomy toe box that many La Sportiva models don't, their outsoles are the best- they made their fame in climbing shoes and put together a great sticky compound along with a good aggressive pattern. I've done 3 of the 4 Bob Marshall Opens with the Akasha's (not the same pair :)) and quite a few mountain races as well. I've even worn them a few times in warmer weather elk hunting (with my boots and load pack in my truck)
Changed it up a little yesterday. Instead of upper body one day and lower body the next the trainer I've been using likes to do upper body push and lower body pull exercises one day, and then the opposite the next with core mixed in. So yesterday was upper body push/lower body pull.
Changed it up a little yesterday. Instead of upper body one day and lower body the next the trainer I've been using likes to do upper body push and lower body pull exercises one day, and then the opposite the next with core mixed in. So yesterday was upper body push/lower body pull.
OK, this is my good deed for the day. Now I can get back to serious perving at the gym....
After hiking out with my tree stand, backpack and a crossbow late last season, I realized how much more I need to have in the tank to do this frequently and successfully. I started on a 3 day weekly workouts and I think Its paying off. I also try to do am pre work 45 min mostly mix of compound lifts and bodyweight excersizes , core too
Go lighter on the squats until you get that taken care of. One busts under load and it is going to make an embarrassing mess. Probably most likely to happen on push day.
Got fired up thinking of all the snow on Bachelor (awesome spring skiing); did a bunch of core, quad, and hammie stuff, squats, and deep stretches, as well as some push-ups.
Supposed to go get that mountain bike Monday so that should get revved up here soon as well. And spring firewood season is right around the corner too.
a 10 mile run/snowshoe- probably close to half and half, ran with spikes when there was enough packed snow, snowshoes when there wasn't; sadly Tiny E is on injured reserve status- hurt something on yesterday's outing, hoping just a mild strain- seems good today, but want to give it a little time
No, one of them needs to work on your glutes. Do I hafta explain everything?
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They are both much brighter than average. Perhaps I should start out trying to make them believe in tha Easter Bunny? Since they are only in their middle 20’s....na, probably won’t work.
5 miles on backcountry skis with my wife and Tiny Elvis- happy to report Tiny E appears to be 100%; he did cause a "good" head plant- standing right in the middle of the trail staring at me roaring downhill and not moving, so I dove off into the deep powder and face planted
Strength this AM - squats, press, DL, LTE and thru in a set of pushemups for good measure. With basketball essentially over for youngest there's no excuse for not getting on the dreadmill tonight (or maybe get the snowshoes on).
Got my MTB! 2018 Specialized Chisel Comp, guy didn't even wear the nubbies off the tires, basically brand new. Air shocks up front, hydraulic discs, 29" tires... "this is not your mountain bike from the 80's!"
It's nice enough! Very light, good components. You get a lot more bike for the $$ in a hardtail and for my non-technical use a rear shock would be fluff anyway. Should greatly extend my cycling, both in terms of seasons, and in reach. BOOM!
Have been doing a lot of snowshoe hiking with my dog & my buddies the past month or so. Snow really hit the northwest hard this past month and we've enjoyed the heck out of it:
Got an hour on the dreadmill last night - pack, boots and 6-10% incline. Planned to run on it this morning slept poorly so bagged it.
Speaking of mtn bikes, I'm looking at buying a new one. Gave my old one to my oldest son. Looking at the Fuji Nevada 1.7, Trek Marlin 6 or 7, Giant Talon, and Diamondback Overdrive. Not looking at single crank since I'm doing mostly logging roads or easy trails, nothing technical. Any thoughts on these?
Mike, Looking pretty stylish with that ruff! Windcheater? Also what length are your Hok’s?
Ed- yup, Windcheater- they've been out of ruffs for a long time, got an email they were back in- so pulled the pin on the jacket and ruff (the coyotes are coming from Montana iirc)
the Hoks are 145's; I originally got 125's and then someone on bpl sent me a message about 145's- sweet enough deal that I couldn't say no, now the wife is using the 125's. The 145's are still plenty maneuverable and provide a little more flotation
Apple watch said 6.2miles with Merlot on the trial with one monster 1mile hill.
MtWarden: Those LaSportiva trial shoes have some serious stick. Nice toe box and tight enough around the middle to keep your toes from jamming into the front on the downhills. Appreciate the recommendation.
If any are interested in them they size out small. I had to go up 1full size.
Mike, Looking pretty stylish with that ruff! Windcheater? Also what length are your Hok’s?
Ed- yup, Windcheater- they've been out of ruffs for a long time, got an email they were back in- so pulled the pin on the jacket and ruff (the coyotes are coming from Montana iirc)
the Hoks are 145's; I originally got 125's and then someone on bpl sent me a message about 145's- sweet enough deal that I couldn't say no, now the wife is using the 125's. The 145's are still plenty maneuverable and provide a little more flotation
@battue- they do run small, mine are a 1/2 size up from other trail runners- which are probably 1/2 up from a dress shoe- glad they are working out thus far
Well this past Sunday's gym time was an hour of shoveling snow away from the house, then 30 minutes brooming snow off the decks, then 2hrs 15 minutes on the 20" snowblower and then 1 hour and 45 minutes on the atv/plow. Yup - got my core, cardio and arm strength workout done and didn't even leave the property.
Apple watch said 6.2miles with Merlot on the trial with one monster 1mile hill.
MtWarden: Those LaSportiva trial shoes have some serious stick. Nice toe box and tight enough around the middle to keep your toes from jamming into the front on the downhills. Appreciate the recommendation.
If any are interested in them they size out small. I had to go up 1full size.
That’s my main issue with LaSportiva. I wear a 13 and in many of their styles they only go to 13.5. And for the ones that go to14+ they are very difficult to find in stock.
I ordered these from Backcountry.com at a great price. However, I think you can order directly from LaSportiva if they don’t have or can’t get what you want.
I ordered these from Backcountry.com at a great price. However, I think you can order directly from LaSportiva if they don’t have or can’t get what you want.
Even Sportiva is often out of stock of bigger sized. I wish they would have their sizing more true.
I just scored a pair for $65 shipped from Sierra Trading Post (w/ an additional 20% coupon)- little less than half price :); lots of sizes but nothing quite as big as you need Ed
I've been out of the fold for the last couple of days w/ the flu (my wife works at an Elementary School and frequently tests my immune system), feeling slightly better today- the fever is finally down, the flu sucks!!!
I have the same issue; those elementary schools are like viral Ground Zero! Get well.
Yes, it was fun! I told my buddy to just rattle my cage and don't mind when I growl at you... haha... I'm stacked busy with deadlines to hit and a spring break road trip looming but I gotta sneak out for things like that ride or what's the point of all this anyway?!
Good grief! An hour after my morning workout my arm, shoulder, back & chest muscles were still twitching!
I did an hour on the exercise bike, then lifted and did pull ups for 30 min. Really cut down on the time between sets, I think that's what worked the muscles so hard, 'cause I didn't bump up the weights or reps any.
1.5 hours on the new MTB! Didn't run Strava so I have no idea the miles. We did a few brutal, brutal climbs. This is gonna be fun!
Dearly love my old Trek hard tail mountain bike and the workouts that come with it. I've had it a long time and have enjoyed some wonderful rides. I'm not one for doing stunts & such, but dearly love riding on the gated off Forest Service roads where it's legal to do so. The bike allows me to cover so much more ground than I can by hiking!
Photos from last year. Snow still covers those roads now:
Strength this morning - squats, press, deads, LTE. Missed reps on the press, just didn't have it today. Might tag along with a new hiking group on a short jaunt tomorrow. Should be interesting being amongst the tree hugger types.
Guy, exactly my plan. Nothing technical, no single-track. I did some gonzo MTB'ing back in the day but none of that nonsense now. Can't risk another bonk on the noggin.
We stayed mostly on one main logging road but did climb several spurs off of it. Those climbs kicked my butt. Climbing on a MTB is a whole other thing than on a road bike. On a road bike the power is applied smoothly and predictably. MTB is much choppier. Sure got my quad's attention! On that note, I was very pleased I could not even feel the quad muscle I pulled a couple months ago, unlike last time I rode when it was barking.
If you use your imagination..... that is a seriously disturbing photograph.
These parts I'm working on are heavy (22 lbs? 25?) and out of balance and need to be CRANKED tight into the chuck before you can spin 'em.... Call it work, workout, or "whatever", but by hands/arms etc got a lot of "whatever" today. I'm whipped.
6 miles of snowshoeing with Tiny E; probably should have chosen something a little easier- oh well. Tiny Elvis packed this deer leg bone almost a mile before he lost interest
I am 61 and have always stayed fit. Injuries these days make me become a little more creative about it. I do alot of horse riding, chores for a.m to p.m., and believe it or not...inline skating when weather permits. I am rural and seldom go to town. Gotta stay fit.
Finally the snow has melted enough for me to hop on my road bicycle!
Rode 20 miles on my first ride of the year a couple of days ago, and 32 today! Hoping to manage 63 miles on my 63rd birthday in May!
I've snowshoe-hiked and lifted all winter, but took six months off the bicycle. Feel surprisingly good on the bike, the 32 miles this morning left me "pleasantly tired." I think that's good. I could have gone 50 or so, but... I think that might have been counter-productive.
Feeling good. I can't run worth a hoot anymore, but I can ride, hike & cross-country ski just fine.
Finally the snow has melted enough for me to hop on my road bicycle!
Rode 20 miles on my first ride of the year a couple of days ago, and 32 today! Hoping to manage 63 miles on my 63rd birthday in May!
I've snowshoe-hiked and lifted all winter, but took six months off the bicycle. Feel surprisingly good on the bike, the 32 miles this morning left me "pleasantly tired." I think that's good. I could have gone 50 or so, but... I think that might have been counter-productive.
Feeling good. I can't run worth a hoot anymore, but I can ride, hike & cross-country ski just fine.
Guy
I got really obsessed my first year-plus of cycling and for a couple months there one fall I was riding 50 miles every other day like clockwork. I came to see it as perhaps not a completely healthy thing to do, plus, my contact points really start to bark at me around 40 miles, also like clockwork, haha... anyway my riding buddy and I have settled on 25-30 miles as pretty much ideal for us. At least around my AO I can put together a pretty fierce 30-miler, tons of big hills, so I get off the bike plenty tired! But I agree, it's a great, invigorating kind of tired
Putting in huge days at the jungle gym. I'm up against a hard deadline- my wife's spring break- so I'm pushing about as hard as I can to finish this run of product. My hands and arms are deeply tired. We are going to go to Utah and camp and screw around.
Really tweaked my lower back this AM during squat warm ups. Started to try to work thru it and decided best idea was to bag it for the day. Motrin & plastered "Toasty Toes" on my back for heat to get thru the work day.
Good news - new mtn bike to be delivered tomorrow.
Jeff - ya we have hills here in central Washington.
Since this was the second ride of the year for me I chose a fairly level route along the Columbia River, but... in short order I'll be tossing in some brutal hills. Sigh...
My riding partner wants to do a Century on June 1st... I dunno, I'm 30 years older, and I've done century rides. We have different enthusiasm levels for that particular ride...
Really tweaked my lower back this AM during squat warm ups.
"I feel your pain." Just getting over a tweaked hamstring, no fun at all. Was able to do RDLs for the first time in a month yesterday. But, better to tweak 'em now than later on, during the season with a pack on your back.
Jeff - ya we have hills here in central Washington.
Since this was the second ride of the year for me I chose a fairly level route along the Columbia River, but... in short order I'll be tossing in some brutal hills. Sigh...
My riding partner wants to do a Century on June 1st... I dunno, I'm 30 years older, and I've done century rides. We have different enthusiasm levels for that particular ride...
Guy
I've only done one century ride... from here up to Corvallis and back, on the side roads, basically. I'm with ya there, not my favorite thing. Like I say my contact points (butt, hands, feet) start barking in various degrees right around 40 miles which turns the experience into one of suffering tolerance as much as endurance. I particularly don't like what starts to happen with my left hand- numbness that can linger. So, we go for more like 30's now and make them spicy.
We also do the "ride your age" thing. It gets harder every year.
The Coast Range and the eastern foothills of the CR out west of Eugene and Junction City are a smorgasbord of pastoral rural rides with all the hills you could possible want. I have a favorite route from my house and back that comes in around 26.5 miles; the heart of the ride is a there-and-back of a 7-mile long road called Butler. Butler is all hills. You are either climbing big steep hills or blazing down them. It's pretty much perfect.
Pretty stoked at the possibilities for my new mountain bike. If nothing else- no cars! Like THAT.
Beautiful outside here today. Loaded my Mystery Ranch Mule up and took the dogs for a couple hour walk. New rower showed up, so I put it together and rowed. Good sweat from that. Feeling worked, but good. Might do a 10-15 minute HIIT work out later tonight with my sandbag just to help me sleep better tonight.Wish I lived where there were mountains to climb everyday instead of having to drive to where there are mountains to climb every Fall.
you guys will probably end up giving me the bike bug
felt good this morning and headed to the gym and decided I felt so good I would do my high volume workout instead of the recovery one made it through, but I was struggling breathing- took longer than it should of for sure
The bike bug is a pretty awesome bug to catch if you are needing to manage or avoid impact; doesn't seem to be an issue for you Mike but yes, I think you'll love it someday. It's FUN.
I'm comfortable posting a pic of this part of what I'm making since these are not parts that are identifiable. Sorry, too much hating going on up top of the Fire for me to post pics of what amounts to my downstream customer's product. Anyway, those are 18" bars of 1-3/4" round T303 stainless. I make them into the shafts in the foreground. To date I've made well over 100 of these shafts. Not sure what they weigh but it's significant to the hands/arms, however, MUCH lighter and easier to physically handle than a couple of the other parts.
1/4 of the way into 2019 I'm on track to top 6 figures income out here, which was the "potential" with this dealio but it's nice to see it play out. On the flip side it's eating me up. Still trying to achieve a life balance that will work for the next decade-plus.
Shaft work is the purest work on a lathe, and lathes are the purest machine tool (because by their nature they try for perfection, you just gotta let 'em, which unfortunately ain't as easy as that, but point being the machine wants to make true circles) so this stage of these assemblies at least has the potential for some zen.
We are going on a camping road trip next week to Utah and I told my wife I'm gonna wear big oven mitts and just rest my hands for a week.
Did 16.5 miles on trails on the bike on Sunday, and jacked up my back cleaning up the damage from the "bomb cyclone". Finally starting to feel better so hoping to get some miles in this weekend!
Did 16.5 miles on trails on the bike on Sunday, and jacked up my back cleaning up the damage from the "bomb cyclone". Finally starting to feel better so hoping to get some miles in this weekend!
I see a road trip in your future to Oregon you and Jeff Obama will be shredding some trails
I've got a pretty nice hardtail (decent forks front) 27.5", need to get out it more- it's been over a year
6 miles on snowy trails w/ Tiny E- about half nicely packed, the other half slushy
If you haven't yet tried it, modern road bikes might get your attention. They are the Ultralight of cycling. It's pretty cool to be powering something that is about as efficient as is possible. I'm not geeked enough to have the numbers at hand but good modern carbon fiber road bikes like my SL4 Roubaix Expert are LIGHT. Also, extremely refined, high quality machines. To quantify that a bit, when climbing I appreciate how they've engineered the frame to be really rigid in the ways that transmit power to the pavement; it feels like power in = power out, though obviously that's not the case. On downhills, the frame again is rigid where it must be and supple in other areas and the bike just carves 35 mph turns like it's on a rail.
Did 16.5 miles on trails on the bike on Sunday, and jacked up my back cleaning up the damage from the "bomb cyclone". Finally starting to feel better so hoping to get some miles in this weekend!
I see a road trip in your future to Oregon you and Jeff Obama will be shredding some trails
Good week for me, got to the gym every day with some new workouts to do, courtesy of the trainer. Also finally got a good pair of custom orthotics built by a guy who really knew his stuff, including fused ankles. He pointed out how fusion changes the gait and differnt muscles that I need to work on strengthening, and some that need more stretching.
And shot rifles with a bunch of new hunters on their way to getting their HE cards.
I had to get a HE card to hunt elk in Colorado some years back. It was a strange and, to my mind, quite random and unsafe process. For example, the folks running it were basically a rural family who contracted with the state somehow; it was just set up on their property and was very informal. There was a frightening lack of muzzle awareness among the mostly-young attendees. Basically there was no range officer, just a whole lot of loaded rifles waving around, and as they tried to demonstrate different hunting scenarios, what constituted "down range" changed repeatedly and without clear unambiguous delineation. Hopefully it's better in CO and for that matter, better here now.
That does sound strange and nothing like any class I've been associated with. There's nothing random or unsafe about the classes I've seen. And it sounds like you got some bad instructors who didn't follow the program. Do you recall how many hours you spent in class?
First though, no one contracts with the state for this, all HE instructors are volunteers. Sometimes a paid CPW employee like a DWM will sit in and help, but HE is not their job or focus.
Second, all new instructors have background checks and attend a weekend-long new instructor course and go over the basics of the program. Plus, range safety. Then they get assigned to an experienced team and they go through an apprentice period, and have to attend more seminars to keep their status as instructors.
In class we can only spend about 3 1/2 hours on firearms and safe handling. We drill the four basic rules into the students and tell them that the best way to fail the live fire exercise is to point the muzzle in an unsafe direction. We have replica firearms (non-firing) with all the basic action types and the students have to demonstrate safe handling of those before we ever get to the range. I've taught over 1,000 studens and never seen a student point the muzzle in an unsafe direction, they know better by the time we get to the test.
When we do the live fire we are one-on-one with any students who are inexperienced with firearms. We do our shooting in an indoor range at a gun club and they have their own RSO looking over our shoulder, and they are sticklers. In fact, I forgot to put my glasses on before I walked into the range and he stopped me at the door.
Anyone who had poor muzzle control would be shown the door in a hurry.
That does sound strange and nothing like any class I've been associated with. There's nothing random or unsafe about the classes I've seen. And it sounds like you got some bad instructors who didn't follow the program. Do you recall how many hours you spent in class?
First though, no one contracts with the state for this, all HE instructors are volunteers. Sometimes a paid CPW employee like a DWM will sit in and help, but HE is not their job or focus.
Second, all new instructors have background checks and attend a weekend-long new instructor course and go over the basics of the program. Plus, range safety. Then they get assigned to an experienced team and they go through an apprentice period, and have to attend more seminars to keep their status as instructors.
In class we can only spend about 3 1/2 hours on firearms and safe handling. We drill the four basic rules into the students and tell them that the best way to fail the live fire exercise is to point the muzzle in an unsafe direction. We have replica firearms (non-firing) with all the basic action types and the students have to demonstrate safe handling of those before we ever get to the range. I've taught over 1,000 studens and never seen a student point the muzzle in an unsafe direction, they know better by the time we get to the test.
When we do the live fire we are one-on-one with any students who are inexperienced with firearms. We do our shooting in an indoor range at a gun club and they have their own RSO looking over our shoulder, and they are sticklers. In fact, I forgot to put my glasses on before I walked into the range and he stopped me at the door.
Anyone who had poor muzzle control would be shown the door in a hurry.
To be clear, I took the class in OR. It sounds like it's a more formal and MUCH better-run process in CO. Hopefully, what I experienced was the exception.
I think.... maybe 3-4 hours total? It's been a while. The folks doing it (a husband and wife, it appeared) certainly were well-intentioned. But I'm a stickler for sobriety and muzzle control when it comes to being around others with guns; the latter had me skeeved out more than once at the class.
Replica guns would've been AWESOME.
Got my card, and whacked an elk in CO so it was all good.
No indictments. No collusion. No further investigation by DOJ into this matter. Dems will spend millions of tax payer money trying to come up with a medical procedure to reattach their asses....Too Fug’n funny! 😎
Last week was: Monday - 60 minutes of elliptical with 15 x 12 burpees mixed in Tuesday - 60 minutes of elliptical with 15 x 15 wall ball shots mixed in Wednesday - 60 minutes of elliptical with 15 x 15 kettlebell swings mixed in Thursday - 45 minutes of elliptical then lifting Friday - 60 minutes of elliptical with with 15 x 15 deadlifts mixed in
BUT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SUNNY & 54F TOMORROW so I'm taking my mountain bike and going to see how far up the trail I can get.
Weather has been perfect for walking in the mornings with my Pack loaded up. Feels good to get up early and put in a few miles. I'm very fortunate to have a job that gives me a lot of time off. Days off I generally hike in the morning, row just before lunch, and then put in HIIT or Tabata work out before supper. Days that I work I get up early and put in a hike then walk and stand all day at work.
I am rural, no gym but I inline skate daily when the snow clears and I ride most days. Wintertime, I skate on an ice surface. If I didn't at 61 Sheep mountain that I see out of the kitchen window would be impossible to climb. Pretty old for a sheep hunter but never give up boys.
Okay - I know this only matters to me - but this was my fifth bike ride of the year, of the month, and fifty miles rolled by under the bicycle tires! And climbed 2,000' - which I think was harder than cranking out the miles.
Feeling pretty good about that.
Have two cycling goals coming up:
Want to do 63 miles for my 63rd birthday in May.
Want to ride the 100 mile Sunrise Rotary Century ride on June 1st.
The snow has melted at lower elevations. Time to ride!
Saw Zion NP from the car (wow) because we have the mutts; then did a 4-miler in Loosee canyon outside Bryce NP on NF land... amazing. Saw a TON of what I presume is bighorn scat; size of elk pellets, but oval, like little watermelons.
I'll put up a pic later of the canyon later, getting camp together now.
For the good folks from the top forum- I'll come talk with ya when we get back home in a few days. Promise.
Saw Zion NP from the car (wow) because we have the mutts; then did a 4-miler in Loosee canyon outside Bryce NP on NF land... amazing. Saw a TON of what I presume is bighorn scat; size of elk pellets, but oval, like little watermelons.
I'll put up a pic later of the canyon later, getting camp together now.
For the good folks from the top forum- I'll come talk with ya when we get back home in a few days. Promise.
Jeff,
It is good of you to respond to your brothers. I commend you.
Congratulations on walking and finding sign in the field. Such fun.
5-mile morning hike up Casto Canyon- amazing geology. Willpost pics when I get wifi. Mike- was thinkin' of you when we were post-holing inthe 18" deep snow on the way out!
Also, Mike, what the plan at Joshua Tree? Climbed there several times as a young buck. Incredible area!
6.5 mile hike in incredible slot canyons in Escalante.
Also, thought I was immune to alcohol last night, drinking Utah IPA. Lots and lots of Utah IPA. Turns out beer is 3.2% in Utah. Just scored a sixer of full strength Anchor Steam. Not kidding, it was like a dope deal! Had to pay cash.
Saturday was a driving day. 7-mile hike up into one of my favorite places on the planet in SE Oregon this morning. Quite snowy once we got up towards the top @ 7k feet or so. Was postholing with comical regularity- I guess the ratio of 215 lbs and size 13's leads to that. Cyn was just floating on top of the snow like a cute angel in tights.
Headed home now. Back to the grind. Got weeks of jungle-gym stacked up in front of me.
Mike- the new Subaru acquitted itself very well! Very quiet and smooth on the road, love that, and it handled some fairly gnarly sections of dirt road well. We camped 6/7 of the nights on obscure BLM or NF lands so we were on some sketchy roads (for a nice new SUV, my truck would've eaten them up). We only scraped undercarriage once and only almost got stuck once.
This was up top today. By my estimation that there is a huuuuge juniper! I got some great pics in Utah I'll sort through and post up. The slot canyon in particular.
Navigating the gun laws was weird. All states we hit were open-carry, so that was nice, but for instance in Utah you have to have empty-chamber. Then there's transporting in cars. Glad to be back where my CCW is valid. Reciprocity cannot come soon enough.
This was up top today. By my estimation that there is a huuuuge juniper! I got some great pics in Utah I'll sort through and post up. The slot canyon in particular.
Navigating the gun laws was weird. All states we hit were open-carry, so that was nice, but for instance in Utah you have to have empty-chamber. Then there's transporting in cars. Glad to be back where my CCW is valid. Reciprocity cannot come soon enough.
You don't come across as being very bright!
You keep voting for those liberals and you'll never see Reciprocity...........
This was up top today. By my estimation that there is a huuuuge juniper! I got some great pics in Utah I'll sort through and post up. The slot canyon in particular.
Navigating the gun laws was weird. All states we hit were open-carry, so that was nice, but for instance in Utah you have to have empty-chamber. Then there's transporting in cars. Glad to be back where my CCW is valid. Reciprocity cannot come soon enough.
You don't come across as being very bright!
You keep voting for those liberals and you'll never see Reciprocity...........
I've only voted for pro-gun candidates the last decade-plus.
Edit: and that will continue. Please, let's not discuss this here though.
This was up top today. By my estimation that there is a huuuuge juniper! I got some great pics in Utah I'll sort through and post up. The slot canyon in particular.
Navigating the gun laws was weird. All states we hit were open-carry, so that was nice, but for instance in Utah you have to have empty-chamber. Then there's transporting in cars. Glad to be back where my CCW is valid. Reciprocity cannot come soon enough.
You don't come across as being very bright!
You keep voting for those liberals and you'll never see Reciprocity...........
I've only voted for pro-gun candidates the last decade-plus.
Edit: and that will continue. Please, let's not discuss this here though.
But this is the only forum you will visit since the mueller report came out.............
Never was Jeff's thread if only obviously. However, obviously it was one where we ignored political leaning and stuck to exercising and working out. Almost everyday I hit the gym and have to associate with others who politically I wouldn't agree with. Some of which I never will have the slightest chance of turning to our side.
Now with Jeff who does shoot and hunt, perhaps the opportunity exits to have him see some of the errors of his thinking. And none here that I know of agree with him. We don't try to do it here, but do try to lead by example. Novel that????
Never was Jeff's thread if only obviously. However, obviously it was one where we ignored political leaning and stuck to exercising and working out. Almost everyday I hit the gym and have to associate with others who politically I wouldn't agree with. Some of which I never will have the slightest chance of turning to our side.
Now with Jeff who does shoot and hunt, perhaps the opportunity exits to have him see some of the errors of his thinking. And none here that I know of agree with him. We don't try to do it here, but do try to lead by example. Novel that????
The difference is the people in your gym don't call you an idiot and promote the impeachment of Trump before going through the entrance each morning.
If it disturbs your thread you shouldn't have conversed with somebody that his political leanings to begin with.
MTWarden - Joshua Tree is such a great place! It's been at least 25 years since I've been there. Sixty miles out there in three days... Terrific!
Thanks for sharing those photos!
Oh, I think my workout buddy is trying to kill me. We went for what was supposed to be a 50 mile bicycle ride yesterday. By the time I got home 65 miles had rolled under the bike tires. Ugh. Great ride! But I was tired.
Funny, I was worried about getting 63 miles on my 63rd birthday next month. Ha! Checked that distance block!
Don't think I'm even going to look at my bicycle today though. Maybe glare at it briefly.
With regard the second, I can see your point. However, his or any others presence at this point hasn't disturbed me. The thread in and of itself motivates me to be accountable to myself, the other participants, and to keep at it. Much the same as a commitment to a group exercise program. Except all the participants, admittedly with the exception of Jeff, have fairly consistent common goals and political views. Which is to have a positive impact on their personal and outdoor hunting and fishing activities. I'm not about to allow one out of the many, disturb me to the point I no longer am willing to benefit from the what the group has to offer.
Nor am I going to take every opportunity to trash him. He knows how most of us are politically aligned, and in this thread doesn't try to infringe on that. If he did, he knows it would be a mistake.
Back from a road trip and I've got the world up my ass as far as work for my shop so I'll try to be brief and to the point here.
First and foremost, there is no outcome here that doesn't result in me eating a big steaming pile of my own shït, so let's just acknowledge that up front. I said I'd own it if I was wrong and I will. In short, anything I said, any insult I tossed out, regarding Trump being guilty of a criminal conspiracy now applies to ME. I will go more specifically into that once we know for sure where things stand, but yes, "you" flat out wiped the floor with me in that regard. You won, I lost. Bad.
The reason I'm hedging slightly is that contrary to what Ack said on the exercise forum- more on that below- we have not seen the Mueller report. We've seen the Barr summary. The line Barr quotes makes it pretty clear he found no criminal conspiracy, hence me owning that, but since we supposedly get to see a redacted full report in a couple short weeks, that's as far as I'm willing to concede things until then. There are several baffling things we KNOW, not from anonymous-sourced WaPo stories or whatever, but from indictments and court documents, that need explained. For instance, we have Trump's campaign manager sending a known Kremlin-linked oligarch internal polling data. I'd like to hear the full story about that, because that reeks to high heaven right on its face. There's a couple more things of that nature, as well. As y'all took great pains to point out, collusion is not a crime! As*I* took great pains to point out, collusion would be pretty fücked-up from a POTUS or his campaign. Anyway, before I eat THAT pile of my own [bleep], I'd like explanations for some known facts, and I'm guessing the full Mueller report will shine light there.
(It's important to realize that high-level prosecutors speak very precisely. The quote Barr pulled said in essence that there was no conspiracy with the Russian STATE. Wiki, for instance, is not the Russian state; yet it was an instrument being used by the Russian state to attack us. Does the paragraph or pages after what Barr pulled, go into that? Trump knew Wiki was aligned with Russia. I'd like to know more there, and my guess- yeah, yeah, yeah, I know- is that there's gonna be some pretty interesting stuff there. So I'm gonna wait the two weeks and see, before I concede that.)
But I'm under no illusions here, generally speaking. At a bare minimum I was purely wrong about a large swath of this, and it's probably gonna be worse than that.
I'm gonna piss "you" off here by pointing out that you were largely wrong too. You were full-throated participants in the purely partisan effort to tear down an honorable American and to a degree, the rule of law itself. ANYONE could see this mess needed looking into. From POTUS on down, everyone involved was lying their fool asses off at every turn. If there's an innocent explanation for that, too, I want to hear it. And I'd hope you would acknowledge, even just internally, that it wasn't just me who went full-retard on this whole thing. You did too. Being "right" doesn't change that any more than it would if I was "right". You guys had this all set up to discredit Mueller, he was the devil incarnate, which makes it pretty ironic that suddenly you are his best buddy... I said I'd accept his findings either way, but my point is, you did not. So a huge swath of what you were presenting as a vast deep state conspiracy turns out to be bullshït. Will you acknowledge THAT? Will you own your own crap, like I am? I'm interested to see what quality of folk I'm dealing with here in that regard.
Finally, if you want me to actually see and acknowledge the shït you want me to eat, STAY OFF THE EXERCISE THREAD. I will plonk you into the ignore folder in a heartbeat. Ask Deflave about that. He follows me around like a plaintive little kid begging for my attention and I don't see a word of it. That'll be your fate as well if you go to that thread with this crap. Fair warning. I'll take my medicine HERE, like I said I would, but you go there and screw that thread up, I'll never see another word you type.
And finally finally, this is all GOOD NEWS! Hell, I'd much rather eat a plate of my own shït than have a POTUS in league with an adversary. Anyone who's paid attention to my political views over the years knows that I share at least some of the major planks of Trumpism. I was talking crap about NATO and our global military footprint long ago, right here on this forum, before it was a twinkle in many of your eyes, in fact many of you gave me crap for it. I was preaching a form of economic isolationism then, too. In short, I want this country to be great and with Russian conspiracy off the table I can give my support to the parts of Trump's agenda I do support, and I will, and that actually feels kinda good!
Enjoy the win, you deserve it, and I'll be back once the full report drops, and STAY OFF THE EXERCISE THREAD in the meantime if you ever want me read what you type again. Serious about that, starting now.
I understand. But if you read his most recent post you can see he's the one not doing your thread any favors.
I didn't see that, so I agree. We leave the political out of the exercise thread and he should leave the exercise thread out of the HC political threads. I can't fix everybody, I quit trying a long time ago. Hell, sometimes I need a fixing....
Addition: The "put you on ignore" threat is probably one of the biggest pieces of BS of this entire place.
You didn't thank me re the glute video. It's OK, I'm sure you just missed it. But you being the glute exercise guru and all, perhaps the two of you could make a you tube video?
Guy- agree; definitely a magical place. 6 years ago we did a run across the park- about 35 miles that kicked my a$$, BUT it was a place that I really wanted to get back to- so different than our country here, but very beautiful.
Predictably, Trump is backtracking on releasing the full report. Fits the same pattern as when he said (several times) he'd be happy to be interviewed under oath by Mueller.
He's "hold me back!" guy in a bar fight.
The report will eventually see daylight. Not much point debating it until it does. I'll be here for whatever degree of beatdown I have coming, once it is, though judging from the activity on the exercise thread I won't actually have to listen to a bunch of you! Oh well, that's your choice. I was plenty clear.
The report is no small thing, and you are correct to be worried about it. I've conceded I was wrong about the criminal conspiracy part and I've said all along obstruction was not a big concern for me. Remember, my original mantra, before I went full-retard on criminality, was that Trump and/or high campaign officials would b shown to have colluded. That's still VERY much in play here. Just sayin'.
Thanks Harry, we have a video, but Youtube banned it.
I got a good upper body workout on Sunday, went steelhead fishing in WI. Caught 4, I'll post some pics when I get home.
That's my kinda workout! Please do put up pics.
Putting together an ocean fishing trip either tomorrow or Thursday, gotta look at the forecasts again and make the call... if it's rough out there it'll be a workout for sure, if not, less so... hoping for the latter. I don't need my core workouts to include motion sickness.
Putting together an ocean fishing trip either tomorrow or Thursday, gotta look at the forecasts again and make the call... if it's rough out there it'll be a workout for sure, if not, less so... hoping for the latter. I don't need my core workouts to include motion sickness.
It rained today so I was back in the gym, 60 minutes of elliptical with 15 x 20 pushups mixed in. The last 3 sets of pushups were tough.
A while ago I downloaded the last 10 years of fish stocking data and collated it into a usable flat sheet. Unfortunately DWR uses names like W-7 for most of the lakes and those names aren't on any maps but I recently got copies of some old booklets that have those names and locations. I've now started planning pack trips to lakes in the high Uintas that were stocked 4-6 years ago where the fish should be big and fat.
Thanks Harry, we have a video, but Youtube banned it.
I got a good upper body workout on Sunday, went steelhead fishing in WI. Caught 4, I'll post some pics when I get home.
That's my kinda workout! Please do put up pics.
Putting together an ocean fishing trip either tomorrow or Thursday, gotta look at the forecasts again and make the call... if it's rough out there it'll be a workout for sure, if not, less so... hoping for the latter. I don't need my core workouts to include motion sickness.
Fuukin JeffO considers a boat ride on the ocean a work-out? GTFout of town..... special level of stupid and you guys put up with him here?
SmokeJeffo'spole is not a brother. he's banging jeff like a cousin.
LMAO
I think smokepole should quit posting..... he has hurt my feelers.... if he does not heed my advice there will be serious consequences.... and I am not kidding...
Nice try Irv but no one is defending him. I stopped paying attention to JeffO's political opinions a long time ago. They're not important to me. Good to see that his opinions are important to you though. In the grand scheme of things it's really important that you guys be heard. You're changing people's hearts and minds. On the backpack forum of the Hunters Campfire.
Fuukin JeffO considers a boat ride on the ocean a work-out? GTFout of town..... special level of stupid and you guys put up with him here?
That is stupid ain't it?
Its almost as stupid as six guys following him around, quoting every post, and hanging on his every word.
That's about as special as it gets.
Do you want us to stop?
No way. I'm just acknowledging your specialness. Hell, I'll chip in for your custom sweat suits so people will know you're a team when you're travelling on the bus.
I think the point of this is that JO thinks he can post his drivel on the Hunter's Campfire an d somehow 'retreat' to this forum, which simply isn't true. If you guys want to blame someone for this, blame JO.
I think the point of this is that JO thinks he can post his drivel on the Hunter's Campfire an d somehow 'retreat' to this forum, which simply isn't true. If you guys want to blame someone for this, blame JO.
Exactly. However, once you have made the point, what is to gained by continuing to [bleep] all over a thread. If Jeff decides to post in the Winchester, Dog or Four Wheel Drive thread does it become the norm to trash them also? WTH???? He doesn't even have to "retreat" to a forum, the fact he is there is enough for some to jump in and trash a thread. Of course I'm part of the problem by adding to it.
I think the point of this is that JO thinks he can post his drivel on the Hunter's Campfire an d somehow 'retreat' to this forum, which simply isn't true. If you guys want to blame someone for this, blame JO.
Exactly. However, once you have made the point, what is to gained by continuing to [bleep] all over a thread. If Jeff decides to post in the Winchester, Dog or Four Wheel Drive thread does it become the norm to trash them also? WTH???? Of course I'm part of the problem by adding to it.
What you say is fair, battue. Also, I have posted in the Backpack hunting forum for years, though never this workout thread till now. Anyway, I won't post anymore about JO, here, or any place else.
I think the point of this is that JO thinks he can post his drivel on the Hunter's Campfire an d somehow 'retreat' to this forum, which simply isn't true. If you guys want to blame someone for this, blame JO.
Exactly. However, once you have made the point, what is to gained by continuing to [bleep] all over a thread. If Jeff decides to post in the Winchester, Dog or Four Wheel Drive thread does it become the norm to trash them also? WTH???? Of course I'm part of the problem by adding to it.
Only if/when he tells other people that he has joyfully trashed for over 2 years that they can't post on a certain thread will others respond.
I think the point of this is that JO thinks he can post his drivel on the Hunter's Campfire an d somehow 'retreat' to this forum, which simply isn't true. If you guys want to blame someone for this, blame JO.
Exactly. However, once you have made the point, what is to gained by continuing to [bleep] all over a thread. If Jeff decides to post in the Winchester, Dog or Four Wheel Drive thread does it become the norm to trash them also? WTH???? Of course I'm part of the problem by adding to it.
Only if/when he tells other people that he has joyfully trashed for over 2 years that they can't post on a certain thread will others respond.
Tell Jell-O about it..........
We get that, Jeff kept his politics out of the workout thread and we let it ride, he brought it to us. To his credit, I honestly think he was trying to protect the thread, and for that I will give him credit, but he miscalculated.... but then it carries over till where we throw out low blows on another, when we have no reason to question their personal political, gun rights or outdoor pursuit positions. Again WTH!!!!
Fuukin JeffO considers a boat ride on the ocean a work-out? GTFout of town..... special level of stupid and you guys put up with him here?
That is stupid ain't it?
Its almost as stupid as six guys following him around, quoting every post, and hanging on his every word.
That's about as special as it gets.
Funny how you follow us around to various threads and defend JeffO's honor..... project much?
Also funny how you like to yuk it up here with JeffO and you both are above being questioned and having "your" thread polluted by us, yet you attack me on other threads...... hmmm... hypocritical also?
I have concluded Smokepole is a closet liberal.... only liberals have such double standards.....congratulations.....
No way. I'm just acknowledging your specialness. Hell, I'll chip in for your custom sweat suits so people will know you're a team when you're travelling on the bus.
I think the point of this is that JO thinks he can post his drivel on the Hunter's Campfire an d somehow 'retreat' to this forum, which simply isn't true. If you guys want to blame someone for this, blame JO.
Exactly. However, once you have made the point, what is to gained by continuing to [bleep] all over a thread. If Jeff decides to post in the Winchester, Dog or Four Wheel Drive thread does it become the norm to trash them also? WTH???? He doesn't even have to "retreat" to a forum, the fact he is there is enough for some to jump in and trash a thread. Of course I'm part of the problem by adding to it.
I don't think we have made our point.
It's called policing your own.
It happens in real life and it happens on the internet.
I think the point of this is that JO thinks he can post his drivel on the Hunter's Campfire an d somehow 'retreat' to this forum, which simply isn't true. If you guys want to blame someone for this, blame JO.
Exactly. However, once you have made the point, what is to gained by continuing to [bleep] all over a thread. If Jeff decides to post in the Winchester, Dog or Four Wheel Drive thread does it become the norm to trash them also? WTH???? He doesn't even have to "retreat" to a forum, the fact he is there is enough for some to jump in and trash a thread. Of course I'm part of the problem by adding to it.
I don't think we have made our point.
It's called policing your own.
It happens in real life and it happens on the internet.
7 miles on the trails with Tiny Elvis- snow was a lot better today- cloudy and about 10 degrees cooler; I think I'm going to make a few adjustments to this loop and ski it tomorrow
Hey thanks for not bustin my balls for hi-jacking your workout thread....
Oh chit, that is the least of any of our problems.
I don't think you have to worry about getting busted by a Montana Warden. On the one TV show with MT Wardens, you almost have to try and abduct Tiny E before they even issue much above a warning. For sure tho, if I saw this little muscular Dog running up the trail I would give him my lunch and wait for a guy wearing sunglasses.
That is a bitch of a routine. A great one for strength, but the weight adds up quickly. Good luck!!!!
However, in retrospect I have to agree Jeff caused most of the problem with the stay off the workout thread threat.
However 2: I haven’t given up on him, in that I think a hard right is in his future. He has been rocked with more chit here than anyone I know of and still hangs around. He hunts and shoots, and unless he is a plant, enjoys it more than a little. Hopefully something will eventually click that shows him the libs goals are a guaranteed path to ruin.
I tried it. Like the article said, you need little plates for the increases. The program kicked my old butt. It is the pick a cow up every day from the day it is born, and you will be able to pick it up when it is full grown routine. I think the cow will eventually come out on top. Literally.
Damn, I had no idea you were sponsered. You feeling ok, or does that jacket just make you look puffy?
Addition: The kids today are all into flat brim on the cap. Kifaru would probably appreciate if you appeared more hip. Glasses also, wrap around. Ahhhhh
Damn, I had no idea you were sponsered. You feeling ok, or does that jacket just make you look puffy?
Addition: The kids today are all into flat brim on the cap. Kifaru would probably appreciate if you appeared more hip. Glasses also, wrap around. Ahhhhh
Originally Posted by smokepole
Hell, my wife would probably appreciate that too. Except the flat brim part.
You are welcome....you old farts are a hoooooot!!!!
Where is JellO? maybe he is recovering from his fishin trip work out?
Smoke did your fishin trip kick your butt? I don't see a boat tho.......
Looks like a bridge to the left and buildings in the background. I think they just strolled down to the bank, caught-snagged????-a fish and then went back to camp.
Where is JellO? maybe he is recovering from his fishin trip work out?
Smoke did your fishin trip kick your butt? I don't see a boat tho.......
Looks like a bridge to the left and buildings in the background. I think they just strolled down to the bank, caught-snagged????-a fish and then went back to camp.
I hope Smoke took his nitro pills with him........
Loaded up for chest, and legs...Chest...3x10’s at 125lb for warm up. Then 4x8’s with 225lb. Finished with 1x8 @ 235lb only got 6 good ones though...Burnt. Dropped down to 125lb and ran reps until I gassed at x13...All with good form.
Legs...Didn’t hit plates. I pussed and went 30 minutes on the stair climber instead. Quads were on fire at 20 minutes, still finished 30. 3 weeks and I will flip my hunting pack on and hit the hills.
Oregon ocean was calm...No work out to be had out there unless you consider running an outboard trolling motor or steering wheel a work out...Not!
Jeff0, Your liberal ideology is why Oregon is such a fug’d up State.
You’re the epitome of a person who believes owning a few firearms makes you a hunter/sportsman and supporter of 2A seeing nothing wrong with black guns and hi-cap mags going bye-bye because you don’t run them...Love you’re personal judgments impacting others who own and use them regularly.
You’re the guy who tries to sound intelligent at a cocktail party spouting off about safe zones and the need to remove firearms from law abiding citizens.
Would love to run into you at a party and calmly destroy your ideals on gun policies.
Tomorrow, back home to the coast, finally. I’ve got several new builds to test out loads on..300 RUM from Accurate Ordnance. 6.5 CM from GA Precision. 28 Nosler from Alamo Precision Rifles and another GAP build in 7WSM just to start...Been a busy rifle building winter.
I did 5x5 for a couple of months; started light made some good gains, but eventually the gains were gone. I've since gone to Wendler (5/3/1) and it clicks with me better, probably the fact the reps vary (week one is 5/5/5+, week two 3/3/3+ and week three 5/3/1+) and less sets- everyone is different and 5x5 is definitely worth giving a shot, just didn't work for me in the long run
7 miles on my backcountry skis, had to pack the skis in about a 1/2 mile as it was all ice. Then had to get a little creative with my route as it would frequently go from lots of snow, to almost no snow. Also chickened out a couple of times on steep descents- just not that good of skier sadly.
Where is JellO? maybe he is recovering from his fishin trip work out?
Smoke did your fishin trip kick your butt? I don't see a boat tho.......
Looks like a bridge to the left and buildings in the background. I think they just strolled down to the bank, caught-snagged????-a fish and then went back to camp.
I hope Smoke took his nitro pills with him........
Damn straight. It was a good 300, 350 yards down there and back.
And Clark, I'm much better looking than Kaczinski. What's your address again?
Smoke you need to delete this pic ASAP...... if Big Stick finds it... holy cow we will have 98 pages of what a drooling dumb fuuuk you are and how his is bigger than yours and blablabla.... hint
Ooooh Beav, now you gone and done it! JellO gonna hit you with the ignore hammer..... ha
Those sound like really nice builds.... hope you didn't paint the stocks yourself? ........ that was mean sorry brother......
Yes, Brother, I specifically left off my Vincent Van Gogh black and silver stock of terror, hoping no one would remember. Alas, your memory is sound and painful. The 20 practical build lands next week as well. I will slap the newly contoured barrel into my furniture masterpiece and Rock On slaying small vermin at 4300 fps.
My ass hurts from the hill setting on my climber. Nothing compared to the rubber dong thrashing Jeffrey’s anus enjoys while spouting off his utopia of socialism...Carry on all who work hard to improve themselves with vigorous workouts...Age is our enemy-So is Jeffo 😎
Smoke you need to delete this pic ASAP...... if Big Stick finds it... holy cow we will have 98 pages of what a drooling dumb fuuuk you are and how his is bigger than yours and blablabla.... hint
Speaking of JellO, his rendition of his superhuman feats here has inspired me to get off my couch...... scary I know..... I thought about running up and down the mountains in snow shoes... naw too hard.....
Then I saw how Smoke walked down to a river and JellO went out onto the ocean.... OMG...... so I strapped on my snow shoes and hiked to my neighborhood lake , .......like a one balled man with his pecker in his hand goin to the rodeo..... well damn lake be frozen.. no fish for fubar....
Hmmm what to do? oooh I know, Big Stick cuts down trees , so can I . To the shed to retrieve my trusty saw..... murdered a few tree's.
So much for this physical labor , back to the couch with a cold beer and my campfire safe space.....
Oh and JellO..... Boooo ........................... I did not get lost on my back 40.... hahahahaha
Irfubar, That's beautiful country you have in the Flathead. I did my undergrad in Bozeman back in the 90s, and I thought that it was nice-until I went up to Flathead Lake for the first time. That's God's Country there.
Excellent, excellence Fubar... You’re territory is beautiful and a ready made workout just by stepping out your front door...You should consider doing a tutorial on how to safely run a chainsaw for JeffO.
I envision his posts containing storied workouts from pulling the starter cord and holding such a heavy hand tool. Wait for it...😎
Brother Beav, I do not believe JellO is ready for a chainsaw just yet...... just last week he braved hiking a dirt road in Nevada! baby steps my friend......
I’m having a great time as well...I’m aware that this sub-section has a dedicated crew of men who are serious about maintaining a high level of fitness, sharing their esprit de corps between themselves.
I’m not going to hose this thread for them with nothing but directed attacks on Jeffo, even though he’s deserving of it. The other group of men who participate here, are not.
I respect these other men, not only for their commitment to health, but their dedication to protecting wildlife, games laws, hunting rights, and a persons right to defend themselves by owning and carrying a firearm under the protection of our 2nd Amendment.
I am going to start sharing my workouts as a member, and should I happen to mention that JeffO is a POS, so be it.
For what it’s worth...I actually have “Skin in this game” living most of my life in Oregon. Jeffo and his ilk transformed a once amazing State that offered it’s residents beauty, hunting, fishing, and almost anything an outdoor enthusiast could want; Including being able to own and carry a firearm without the absurdity of laws designed only to disarm the law abiding.
Now that I’ve returned home to the Oregon Coast after a very long 7 weeks living in the city of Liberal nutcases, known as Portland, Oregon...Tomorrow, I will set up my weight room and get back to serious workouts.
It was almost 60F today so I blew off a meeting and broke out to pedal for a bit. I still can't get too far up any of the canyons but I rode17.5 miles with a few good climbs.
The redneck rider.
The other side of the canyon.
Detoured on the way back and rode up the next canyon to the north.
followed by 2 miles on treadmill at 3.5 mph with inclines from zero to 15 percent, 20% and more is still giving me grief from a hip flexor from December when I thought I was tougher than the Stairmaster.............Won't make that mistake again.....
then finished with planks.....No pool or elliptical today.
I don't come to this thread to chase safe space.....
Rather I come here to see how and who else is trying to maintain and keep what we had years ago.....An Elk hunt this fall and so close to a Wyoming sheep tag is also one hell of a motivator.
When I read where unemployed idiotic people take claim for walking their mutt and calling it exercise, ya, I get just a little annoyed.
No dis-respect ever meant towards others on this thread, there are posters here here could likely walk, bike ,jog or snowshoe me into the ground.....
Before going to the gym i talked with a Bud about looking at a shotgun on Saturday. Ya sure he says. Go to gym and get on the treadmill. Need some slow hill work, so set the treadmill on 15 degrees and get a good 30minutes in before going to the Stairmaster. Bud calls back with a killer deal on the same gun used, but pristine. Look it up on the net. Oh yea....Call the number and get a voice mail. Back on the treadmill to jog for a couple minutes and the phone rings and it is him. Can't hear in the gym, so go to the locker room. Spend 15minutes sitting on my ass BS'ing about the shotgun. Turns out we have some common acquaintances and can trust each other and I decide to buy. Have to get an FFL before the store closes, so decide to cut the workout short. Get in 5 sets of deadlifts and 5 Bulgarian splits. Smoking hot gal who is a workout machine decides for some reason she wants to talk with and tease the old guy for 15minutes. My heart rate did get up just a little however. Anyway, that was my wasted workout of the day. Then I comeback and discover all of you have been screwing off also.
I don't feel so bad. Will hit the rower for 30minutes just so a couple of us can say we actually exercised a tad today.
I'm also doing 50/50lb kettlebell swings every day regardless of schedule.
It's kinda funny to see the progress in doing these. They improve cardio more than I would have ever thought. Although I don't know that I've seen strength gains.
Took me a few weeks but I can do the 50 straight now.
Smoke has much to learn. He already explained I gave him a reach around. Which is f a g vernacular for doing a favor to the guy that just got fugked in the ass.
I'm a breast guy too. But that don't mean yours. And tell your pal clark that next time he gets behind me I'll have a sign on my ass that says "Exit Only." Just so he doesn't get his hopes up. Again.
That brother thing has really taken off. Some of you seem so much closer these days. I'm much more comfortable now being an outsider. At best I don't have to place a sign on my ass.
I'm a breast guy too. But that don't mean yours. And tell your pal clark that next time he gets behind me I'll have a sign on my ass that says "Exit Only." Just so he doesn't get his hopes up. Again.
One of these days I will see what all the fuss is about re some of these outsider scopes. A long time ago I looked thru a high end Nightforce. Seemed like I was using a chain link fence for a reticle. Guy using it wasn't doing any better on targets than I was with a 6x42.
Hard to get to much Merlot, except when he wants out in the morning and sits on your chest to wake you up....
Almost sprung for one of those S&B scopes Camerland had made. But spent the money on shotguns....
Nice fish! Steelhead are much more "silvery" in these here parts.
Slayed major fish today. Limits of NICE ling and big black rockfish, hell, we released another 2 limits of keeper ling. Caught another of those blue-colored ling I showed you guys a pic of a while back. The new kicker motor is awesome. Great day. However, the ocean was a kind mistress today, so it wasn't much of a workout, so I'll leave it at that.
The FÜCK are you talking about?! I own "several" AR's, one which I built, and I was carrying a Glock 19 with a standard size magazine (it's not a hi-cap, dumbass) when not in the boat today.
Figures a Beav fan would be such a gullible pack-runner. Get your game together before you come at me. Dumbass.
By the way, I build my own rifles, from bare actions, and you want to see just how serious I am about the 2A and guns in general, PM me and let's go shooting. I've got a 6.5 GAP 4S with a Nightforce just barely broken in that's begging to embarrass your ignorant ass. Seriously. Dare ya.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Loaded up for chest, and legs...Chest...3x10’s at 125lb for warm up. Then 4x8’s with 225lb. Finished with 1x8 @ 235lb only got 6 good ones though...Burnt. Dropped down to 125lb and ran reps until I gassed at x13...All with good form.
Legs...Didn’t hit plates. I pussed and went 30 minutes on the stair climber instead. Quads were on fire at 20 minutes, still finished 30. 3 weeks and I will flip my hunting pack on and hit the hills.
Oregon ocean was calm...No work out to be had out there unless you consider running an outboard trolling motor or steering wheel a work out...Not!
Jeff0, Your liberal ideology is why Oregon is such a fug’d up State.
You’re the epitome of a person who believes owning a few firearms makes you a hunter/sportsman and supporter of 2A seeing nothing wrong with black guns and hi-cap mags going bye-bye because you don’t run them...Love you’re personal judgments impacting others who own and use them regularly.
You’re the guy who tries to sound intelligent at a cocktail party spouting off about safe zones and the need to remove firearms from law abiding citizens.
Would love to run into you at a party and calmly destroy your ideals on gun policies.
Tomorrow, back home to the coast, finally. I’ve got several new builds to test out loads on..300 RUM from Accurate Ordnance. 6.5 CM from GA Precision. 28 Nosler from Alamo Precision Rifles and another GAP build in 7WSM just to start...Been a busy rifle building winter.
The FÜCK are you talking about?! I own "several" AR's, one which I built, and I was carrying a Glock 19 with a standard size magazine (it's not a hi-cap, dumbass) when not in the boat today.
Figures a Beav fan would be such a gullible pack-runner. Get your game together before you come at me. Dumbass.
By the way, I build my own rifles, from bare actions, and you want to see just how serious I am about the 2A and guns in general, PM me and let's go shooting. I've got a 6.5 GAP 4S with a Nightforce just barely broken in that's begging to embarrass your ignorant ass. Seriously. Dare ya.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Loaded up for chest, and legs...Chest...3x10’s at 125lb for warm up. Then 4x8’s with 225lb. Finished with 1x8 @ 235lb only got 6 good ones though...Burnt. Dropped down to 125lb and ran reps until I gassed at x13...All with good form.
Legs...Didn’t hit plates. I pussed and went 30 minutes on the stair climber instead. Quads were on fire at 20 minutes, still finished 30. 3 weeks and I will flip my hunting pack on and hit the hills.
Oregon ocean was calm...No work out to be had out there unless you consider running an outboard trolling motor or steering wheel a work out...Not!
Jeff0, Your liberal ideology is why Oregon is such a fug’d up State.
You’re the epitome of a person who believes owning a few firearms makes you a hunter/sportsman and supporter of 2A seeing nothing wrong with black guns and hi-cap mags going bye-bye because you don’t run them...Love you’re personal judgments impacting others who own and use them regularly.
You’re the guy who tries to sound intelligent at a cocktail party spouting off about safe zones and the need to remove firearms from law abiding citizens.
Would love to run into you at a party and calmly destroy your ideals on gun policies.
Tomorrow, back home to the coast, finally. I’ve got several new builds to test out loads on..300 RUM from Accurate Ordnance. 6.5 CM from GA Precision. 28 Nosler from Alamo Precision Rifles and another GAP build in 7WSM just to start...Been a busy rifle building winter.
😎
Post up your pictures dipschit...Packrunner, Laffin. You know how to run the PM button. We can make arrangements that work for our schedules to get you out to my coastal range and wring out your NF and weaponry at some LR.
PS My Schit is always together...Especially, regarding my hunting, shooting, and efforts to defeat Oregon anti-gun laws. 3rd week of May looks good....Dare ya back Dick Head. 😎
The FÜCK are you talking about?! I own "several" AR's, one which I built, and I was carrying a Glock 19 with a standard size magazine (it's not a hi-cap, dumbass) when not in the boat today.
Figures a Beav fan would be such a gullible pack-runner. Get your game together before you come at me. Dumbass.
By the way, I build my own rifles, from bare actions, and you want to see just how serious I am about the 2A and guns in general, PM me and let's go shooting. I've got a 6.5 GAP 4S with a Nightforce just barely broken in that's begging to embarrass your ignorant ass. Seriously. Dare ya.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Loaded up for chest, and legs...Chest...3x10’s at 125lb for warm up. Then 4x8’s with 225lb. Finished with 1x8 @ 235lb only got 6 good ones though...Burnt. Dropped down to 125lb and ran reps until I gassed at x13...All with good form.
Legs...Didn’t hit plates. I pussed and went 30 minutes on the stair climber instead. Quads were on fire at 20 minutes, still finished 30. 3 weeks and I will flip my hunting pack on and hit the hills.
Oregon ocean was calm...No work out to be had out there unless you consider running an outboard trolling motor or steering wheel a work out...Not!
Jeff0, Your liberal ideology is why Oregon is such a fug’d up State.
You’re the epitome of a person who believes owning a few firearms makes you a hunter/sportsman and supporter of 2A seeing nothing wrong with black guns and hi-cap mags going bye-bye because you don’t run them...Love you’re personal judgments impacting others who own and use them regularly.
You’re the guy who tries to sound intelligent at a cocktail party spouting off about safe zones and the need to remove firearms from law abiding citizens.
Would love to run into you at a party and calmly destroy your ideals on gun policies.
Tomorrow, back home to the coast, finally. I’ve got several new builds to test out loads on..300 RUM from Accurate Ordnance. 6.5 CM from GA Precision. 28 Nosler from Alamo Precision Rifles and another GAP build in 7WSM just to start...Been a busy rifle building winter.
😎
Post up your pictures dipschit...Packrunner, Laffin. You know how to run the PM button. We can make arrangements that work for our schedules to get you out to my coastal range and wring out your NF and weaponry at some LR.
PS My Schit is always together...Especially, regarding my hunting, shooting, and efforts to defeat Oregon anti-gun laws. 3rd week of May looks good....Dare ya back Dick Head. 😎
Oh man do I see budding broship forming? Two Oregon bro's
You hang with women too much...Bros don’t bud or bond...Chicks do that...Bro’s relate to the adversity they face and decide how to eliminate the problem. 😎
By the way, I build my own rifles, from bare actions, and you want to see just how serious I am about the 2A and guns in general, PM me and let's go shooting. I've got a 6.5 GAP 4S with a Nightforce just barely broken in that's begging to embarrass your ignorant ass. Seriously. Dare ya.
As if anybody would want to be around your retarded ass and a firearm.
The FÜCK are you talking about?! I own "several" AR's, one which I built, and I was carrying a Glock 19 with a standard size magazine (it's not a hi-cap, dumbass) when not in the boat today.
Figures a Beav fan would be such a gullible pack-runner. Get your game together before you come at me. Dumbass.
By the way, I build my own rifles, from bare actions, and you want to see just how serious I am about the 2A and guns in general, PM me and let's go shooting. I've got a 6.5 GAP 4S with a Nightforce just barely broken in that's begging to embarrass your ignorant ass. Seriously. Dare ya.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Loaded up for chest, and legs...Chest...3x10’s at 125lb for warm up. Then 4x8’s with 225lb. Finished with 1x8 @ 235lb only got 6 good ones though...Burnt. Dropped down to 125lb and ran reps until I gassed at x13...All with good form.
Legs...Didn’t hit plates. I pussed and went 30 minutes on the stair climber instead. Quads were on fire at 20 minutes, still finished 30. 3 weeks and I will flip my hunting pack on and hit the hills.
Oregon ocean was calm...No work out to be had out there unless you consider running an outboard trolling motor or steering wheel a work out...Not!
Jeff0, Your liberal ideology is why Oregon is such a fug’d up State.
You’re the epitome of a person who believes owning a few firearms makes you a hunter/sportsman and supporter of 2A seeing nothing wrong with black guns and hi-cap mags going bye-bye because you don’t run them...Love you’re personal judgments impacting others who own and use them regularly.
You’re the guy who tries to sound intelligent at a cocktail party spouting off about safe zones and the need to remove firearms from law abiding citizens.
Would love to run into you at a party and calmly destroy your ideals on gun policies.
Tomorrow, back home to the coast, finally. I’ve got several new builds to test out loads on..300 RUM from Accurate Ordnance. 6.5 CM from GA Precision. 28 Nosler from Alamo Precision Rifles and another GAP build in 7WSM just to start...Been a busy rifle building winter.
😎
Post up your pictures dipschit...Packrunner, Laffin. You know how to run the PM button. We can make arrangements that work for our schedules to get you out to my coastal range and wring out your NF and weaponry at some LR.
PS My Schit is always together...Especially, regarding my hunting, shooting, and efforts to defeat Oregon anti-gun laws. 3rd week of May looks good....Dare ya back Dick Head. 😎
Now Jell-O be in, "fugg......like what do I do now?" mode!!
I'm also doing 50/50lb kettlebell swings every day regardless of schedule.
It's kinda funny to see the progress in doing these. They improve cardio more than I would have ever thought. Although I don't know that I've seen strength gains.
PS-JeffO's kghunt.
50 straight would have my fingers feeling like they're being pulled off at the knuckle. Whenever I do a lot of kb swings my hands get the worst of it.
You hang with women too much...Bros don’t bud or bond...Chicks do that...Bro’s relate to the adversity they face and decide how to eliminate the problem. 😎
Well i am in a artillery battalion 2-377 pfar. Not all of us are lucky like you and hang out with real dudes like Jeff Obama
I can't believe you ph ucks ruined the last serious sub forum on 24 hourcampfire good going a$$holes.
Quit bitching...This forum got me, Travis, Dave, Clark, Irfubar, and several others lifting weights after a long winter...Well, not ElkhunterNM....He’s still working through his porn download collection trying to out do FG.
J, have a unicorn on me 🦄 and a rainbow 🌈. Feeling better now, aren’t you? 😎
I can't believe you ph ucks ruined the last serious sub forum on 24 hourcampfire good going a$$holes.
Quit bitching...This forum got me, Travis, Dave, Clark, Irfubar, and several others lifting weights after a long winter...Well, not ElkhunterNM....He’s still working through his porn download collection trying to out do FG.
J, have a unicorn on me 🦄 and a rainbow 🌈. Feeling better now, aren’t you? 😎
I can't believe you ph ucks ruined the last serious sub forum on 24 hourcampfire good going a$$holes.
Quit bitching...This forum got me, Travis, Dave, Clark, Irfubar, and several others lifting weights after a long winter...Well, not ElkhunterNM....He’s still working through his porn download collection trying to out do FG.
J, have a unicorn on me 🦄 and a rainbow 🌈. Feeling better now, aren’t you? 😎
FG knows when to drop pics.
elkhuntertheretard doesn't.
Mr Flave, you need to cut elkhunternm some slack , I requested the pic's. Now if you want to call me a retard... bring it.... hahahaha
Post what pictures, dipshït? Actually, let's just head this one off right now: NO! First and foremost, I ain't your bitch, and any proving of my equipment and skills will be in person, not via some dumbass pictures on the internet.
3rd week in May could work for me, can't say for sure from this far away. Before you even go there, ANY day next week would work for me, except Tuesday, and I don't need your range to wring anything out, it's already wrung. Got my own range(s). The next week looks similar from here; got enough flexibility to bail for a day. Beyond that I can't say until it gets closer.
How about this novel concept. In the interest of, you know, the TRUTH, next time you see fit to wax poetic and pen a lil' imaginary vignette wherein you are the cocktail party hero dispensing a what-fer to someone soft on the 2A keep my [bleep] name out of your fiction-spewing mouth. Can you do that? Just nod your retarded orange and black clad head if you can.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Originally Posted by Jeff_O
The FÜCK are you talking about?! I own "several" AR's, one which I built, and I was carrying a Glock 19 with a standard size magazine (it's not a hi-cap, dumbass) when not in the boat today.
Figures a Beav fan would be such a gullible pack-runner. Get your game together before you come at me. Dumbass.
By the way, I build my own rifles, from bare actions, and you want to see just how serious I am about the 2A and guns in general, PM me and let's go shooting. I've got a 6.5 GAP 4S with a Nightforce just barely broken in that's begging to embarrass your ignorant ass. Seriously. Dare ya.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Loaded up for chest, and legs...Chest...3x10’s at 125lb for warm up. Then 4x8’s with 225lb. Finished with 1x8 @ 235lb only got 6 good ones though...Burnt. Dropped down to 125lb and ran reps until I gassed at x13...All with good form.
Legs...Didn’t hit plates. I pussed and went 30 minutes on the stair climber instead. Quads were on fire at 20 minutes, still finished 30. 3 weeks and I will flip my hunting pack on and hit the hills.
Oregon ocean was calm...No work out to be had out there unless you consider running an outboard trolling motor or steering wheel a work out...Not!
Jeff0, Your liberal ideology is why Oregon is such a fug’d up State.
You’re the epitome of a person who believes owning a few firearms makes you a hunter/sportsman and supporter of 2A seeing nothing wrong with black guns and hi-cap mags going bye-bye because you don’t run them...Love you’re personal judgments impacting others who own and use them regularly.
You’re the guy who tries to sound intelligent at a cocktail party spouting off about safe zones and the need to remove firearms from law abiding citizens.
Would love to run into you at a party and calmly destroy your ideals on gun policies.
Tomorrow, back home to the coast, finally. I’ve got several new builds to test out loads on..300 RUM from Accurate Ordnance. 6.5 CM from GA Precision. 28 Nosler from Alamo Precision Rifles and another GAP build in 7WSM just to start...Been a busy rifle building winter.
😎
Post up your pictures dipschit...Packrunner, Laffin. You know how to run the PM button. We can make arrangements that work for our schedules to get you out to my coastal range and wring out your NF and weaponry at some LR.
PS My Schit is always together...Especially, regarding my hunting, shooting, and efforts to defeat Oregon anti-gun laws. 3rd week of May looks good....Dare ya back Dick Head. 😎
Post what pictures, dipshït? Actually, let's just head this one off right now: NO! First and foremost, I ain't your bitch, and any proving of my equipment and skills will be in person, not via some dumbass pictures on the internet.
3rd week in May could work for me, can't say for sure from this far away. Before you even go there, ANY day next week would work for me, except Tuesday, and I don't need your range to wring anything out, it's already wrung. Got my own range(s). The next week looks similar from here; got enough flexibility to bail for a day. Beyond that I can't say until it gets closer.
How about this novel concept. In the interest of, you know, the TRUTH, next time you see fit to wax poetic and pen a lil' imaginary vignette wherein you are the cocktail party hero dispensing a what-fer to someone soft on the 2A keep my [bleep] name out of your fiction-spewing mouth. Can you do that? Just nod your retarded orange and black clad head if you can.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Originally Posted by Jeff_O
The FÜCK are you talking about?! I own "several" AR's, one which I built, and I was carrying a Glock 19 with a standard size magazine (it's not a hi-cap, dumbass) when not in the boat today.
Figures a Beav fan would be such a gullible pack-runner. Get your game together before you come at me. Dumbass.
By the way, I build my own rifles, from bare actions, and you want to see just how serious I am about the 2A and guns in general, PM me and let's go shooting. I've got a 6.5 GAP 4S with a Nightforce just barely broken in that's begging to embarrass your ignorant ass. Seriously. Dare ya.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Loaded up for chest, and legs...Chest...3x10’s at 125lb for warm up. Then 4x8’s with 225lb. Finished with 1x8 @ 235lb only got 6 good ones though...Burnt. Dropped down to 125lb and ran reps until I gassed at x13...All with good form.
Legs...Didn’t hit plates. I pussed and went 30 minutes on the stair climber instead. Quads were on fire at 20 minutes, still finished 30. 3 weeks and I will flip my hunting pack on and hit the hills.
Oregon ocean was calm...No work out to be had out there unless you consider running an outboard trolling motor or steering wheel a work out...Not!
Jeff0, Your liberal ideology is why Oregon is such a fug’d up State.
You’re the epitome of a person who believes owning a few firearms makes you a hunter/sportsman and supporter of 2A seeing nothing wrong with black guns and hi-cap mags going bye-bye because you don’t run them...Love you’re personal judgments impacting others who own and use them regularly.
You’re the guy who tries to sound intelligent at a cocktail party spouting off about safe zones and the need to remove firearms from law abiding citizens.
Would love to run into you at a party and calmly destroy your ideals on gun policies.
Tomorrow, back home to the coast, finally. I’ve got several new builds to test out loads on..300 RUM from Accurate Ordnance. 6.5 CM from GA Precision. 28 Nosler from Alamo Precision Rifles and another GAP build in 7WSM just to start...Been a busy rifle building winter.
😎
Post up your pictures dipschit...Packrunner, Laffin. You know how to run the PM button. We can make arrangements that work for our schedules to get you out to my coastal range and wring out your NF and weaponry at some LR.
PS My Schit is always together...Especially, regarding my hunting, shooting, and efforts to defeat Oregon anti-gun laws. 3rd week of May looks good....Dare ya back Dick Head. 😎
The liberal retard has spoken........ oh my.......
Hey JellO how ya enjoying the new turn your safe space has taken? of course you have us on ignore so you wouldn't know....
Hey Beav, how did you avoid ignore ? or did JellO peek?
Now I’m really Laffin...Cheers to you’re attempt to act hard...As a defender of our 2nd when your voting decisions based on your storied tales of Comey’s conspiracies leave not doubt to any of us where your beliefs lie...As for leaving you out of anything I want to write about your BS. Good luck with that. As long as you desire to write your schit..I’m happy to wax poetically about your ignorant ass. 😎
Come on Jeffo....Tell me how you’re such a strong supporter of 2A. Tell me how many town halls you’ve attended in Oregon and spoke up against our State Democratic legislators who have turned Oregon in a Liberal haven with never ending attacks against those of us who desire to own the firearms we want or legally continue to carry concealed in places other than federal spaces?
I don’t recall hearing or seeing you presence at any of these meetings. You appear to have a really big mouth here on the Fire. Where’s that big mouth and level of intelligence you desire us to believe you have? Come on Jeffo. Tell us what you do, stud to help our cause? 😎
Now I’m really Laffin...Cheers to you’re attempt to act hard...As a defender of our 2nd when your voting decisions based on your storied tales of Comey’s conspiracies leave not doubt to any of us where your beliefs lie...As for leaving you out of anything I want to write about your BS. Good luck with that. As long as you desire to write your schit..I’m happy to wax poetically about your ignorant ass. 😎
Happy to be a lying POS, you mean? You'll have plenty of company, at least. "Pack-runner" defined. Whatever. I won't see it anyway. Write whatever self-stroking imaginary cocktail-party lies tickle your clit.
My email is in my profile. You decide to grow a pair sooner than the 3rd freaking week in May, you know how to contact me.
Hint...Your ridiculous offer to shoot together wasn’t even an option...I hunt and shoot with people I like, respect, and trust with a firearm around me.
You’re apparently in such a low place or addled by drugs and without friends, that you’d want to shoot with someone who neither likes or respects you...
Here’s your win Jeffey: You are a waaay better shot and hunter than I will ever be...You are amazing!
Now, you have plenty of time to peruse my past post to locate many pics of me should you see me on a boat ramp one day. I’m sure you’d want to say hello...😎
Work out room is good enough to get arms and legs in tomorrow. Need to hit the hardware store for heavy duty brackets to hang my 6’x3’ mirror on the wall.
I can't believe you ph ucks ruined the last serious sub forum on 24 hourcampfire good going a$$holes.
Quit bitching...This forum got me, Travis, Dave, Clark, Irfubar, and several others lifting weights after a long winter...Well, not ElkhunterNM....He’s still working through his porn download collection trying to out do FG.
J, have a 🦄 on me and a 🌈. Feeling better now, aren’t you? 😎
I'm no pro on the whole emoji thing... but I'm pretty sure the reason for the emoji, is so you don't have to write the word. You use an emoji instead..
Now I’m really Laffin...Cheers to you’re attempt to act hard...As a defender of our 2nd when your voting decisions based on your storied tales of Comey’s conspiracies leave not doubt to any of us where your beliefs lie...As for leaving you out of anything I want to write about your BS. Good luck with that. As long as you desire to write your schit..I’m happy to wax poetically about your ignorant ass. 😎
Happy to be a lying POS, you mean? You'll have plenty of company, at least. "Pack-runner" defined. Whatever. I won't see it anyway. Write whatever self-stroking imaginary cocktail-party lies tickle your clit.
My email is in my profile. You decide to grow a pair sooner than the 3rd freaking week in May, you know how to contact me.
Hint: you won't.
Oh chit the rhoids are kicking in and first signs of Rhoid rage are showing..
Mtwarden can I ask what snow shoes you use? I know nothing about them but with the snow we got in Utah this year I would be great full for any recommendations.
I've got two pairs I use MSR EVO's with tails- good aggressive bottoms/crampons and very good bindings- the tails give me some flexibility depending on the snow; the other pair is sold as youth shoe- MSR Shifts, but I found it fits up to about 12 size shoe- these are shorter (and lighter), but still have aggressive bottoms/crampons and a good binding- these I use mostly for spring conditions when the snow is more consolidated
if you're heavier or mostly in powder conditions, MSR's Lightning's can be had in 30" length and can also add tails too
I neither know, like, nor respect you at this point in time, and wasn't "offering" to shoot with you. I was, in essence, telling you to shut your lying piehole WRT myself and the 2A, while "offering" to prove every word I typed as far as my skills and the rifles I've built, as soon as any day next week except Tuesday.
You, predictably, are weaseling out.
I'll go out on a limb and predict that now you'll continue to lie about this. That would be par for the course for the crowd you run with; they'll cheer you on and you can be one of the (lying POS) cool kids! Woohoo! What fun. Feel free to prove me wrong. Honorable men are scarce as hen's teeth these days and if you turn out to be one after all, awesome and good on ya.
I have no interest in your past posts. How I treat you on a hypothetical boat ramp or anywhere else has everything to do with your behavior from this point forward. We had our spat; it can end now, or not. I'll grant that maybe- just maybe- you really did think I was a hunter with a couple rifles who wants to take your AR's and what you call hi-caps (which BTW is a gun-grabber term that you do us NO favors by using). You've been informed otherwise. If you continue to propogate that lie, a boat ramp meeting could get a bit sporty. If not, I'm one of the friendliest guys you'll ever meet. That ball is in your court.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Hint...Your ridiculous offer to shoot together wasn’t even an option...I hunt and shoot with people I like, respect, and trust with a firearm around me.
You’re apparently in such a low place or addled by drugs and without friends, that you’d want to shoot with someone who neither likes or respects you...
Here’s your win Jeffey: You are a waaay better shot and hunter than I will ever be...You are amazing!
Now, you have plenty of time to peruse my past post to locate many pics of me should you see me on a boat ramp one day. I’m sure you’d want to say hello...😎
Work out room is good enough to get arms and legs in tomorrow. Need to hit the hardware store for heavy duty brackets to hang my 6’x3’ mirror on the wall.
Just got a little shooting in today also. Been living under the deck all winter. Merlot could smell her thru the cracks and it was driving him crazy. He tipped me off by going nuts at the window when he saw her in the yard. Female, there would have been more.
I neither know, like, nor respect you at this point in time, and wasn't "offering" to shoot with you. I was, in essence, telling you to shut your lying piehole WRT myself and the 2A, while "offering" to prove every word I typed as far as my skills and the rifles I've built, as soon as any day next week except Tuesday.
You, predictably, are weaseling out.
I'll go out on a limb and predict that now you'll continue to lie about this. That would be par for the course for the crowd you run with; they'll cheer you on and you can be one of the (lying POS) cool kids! Woohoo! What fun. Feel free to prove me wrong. Honorable men are scarce as hen's teeth these days and if you turn out to be one after all, awesome and good on ya.
I have no interest in your past posts. How I treat you on a hypothetical boat ramp or anywhere else has everything to do with your behavior from this point forward. We had our spat; it can end now, or not. I'll grant that maybe- just maybe- you really did think I was a hunter with a couple rifles who wants to take your AR's and what you call hi-caps (which BTW is a gun-grabber term that you do us NO favors by using). You've been informed otherwise. If you continue to propogate that lie, a boat ramp meeting could get a bit sporty. If not, I'm one of the friendliest guys you'll ever meet. That ball is in your court.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
Hint...Your ridiculous offer to shoot together wasn’t even an option...I hunt and shoot with people I like, respect, and trust with a firearm around me.
You’re apparently in such a low place or addled by drugs and without friends, that you’d want to shoot with someone who neither likes or respects you...
Here’s your win Jeffey: You are a waaay better shot and hunter than I will ever be...You are amazing!
Now, you have plenty of time to peruse my past post to locate many pics of me should you see me on a boat ramp one day. I’m sure you’d want to say hello...😎
Work out room is good enough to get arms and legs in tomorrow. Need to hit the hardware store for heavy duty brackets to hang my 6’x3’ mirror on the wall.
JellO, shame on you for disrupting this thread for another one of your squabbles......
Must be tough defending your voting record and convince people you don't support the gun grabbers, when in fact you admit to voting for them..... conflicted much? do you know which bathroom to use? Superhuman.... hahahahaha
This was a full-on late night massacre some years ago... grin... look at the size of the big one relative to my AR!
I asked my neighbor what he thought was going on down here with all the gunfire at 3 am (that short-barreled rifle is LOUD) and he said he figured I was dealing with meth-heads but that it sounded like I had it well in hand so he didn't call the sheriff. God I love living in the woods.
I'm pretty much live and let live as to the critters in my woods but these bastids had been killing our chickens. This night, they were up in a big cherry tree near the house and I heard them dropping stuff on the hot tub cover.
That rifle has 60-grain NPT's loaded up and they are not a great choice for 'coons.
I asked my neighbor what he thought was going on down here with all the gunfire at 3 am (that short-barreled rifle is LOUD) and he said he figured I was dealing with meth-heads but that it sounded like I had it well in hand so he didn't call the sheriff. God I love living in the woods.
JellO, shame on you for disrupting this thread for another one of your squabbles......
Must be tough defending your voting record and convince people you don't support the gun grabbers, when in fact you admit to voting for them..... conflicted much? do you know which bathroom to use? Superhuman.... hahahahaha
One of Jeff's superhuman characteristics is to invite members to shoot with him so he can demonstrate his superhuman'ness.
Obviously nobody takes him up on it. For the same reason nobody takes up an offer from a retard when he asks you to be the spinning target at the carnival.
You’re tiresome, not worth my effort, and full of yourself...Alas, here’s my last attempt, then you can f-uck off.
Aside from all your verbal gymnastics trying to scare up support in your own mind that you truly care about our gun rights near and far...You just can’t get outta the way of yourself, and your inflated self importance...
Think about how you write-talk in posts and threads you’ve started and participate in....Not this BP sub-forum, either. You align and identify with a politics that is about taking away rights and replacing with a “The government will protect and care for you type policies”.
Yeah, I’m SMH at you again because, I know your kind, debated your kind over these issues and I always come down with the same realization...You believe you can control a movement of people with given power to make the right decisions about our freedoms through socialized reforms always aimed at, and under the guise of protecting people. Because, the politicians say they will,,,it will happen, really? It’s absurd!
You and your type all want to point at what you own (firearms) as justification you’re one of us, and should now be trusted with decisions and policies that will impact our abilities, and ownership of what we desire...Hi-Cap, Jeff, was specifically directed at you.
Jeff, you think that you’re above average in intelligence, maybe, in your past collegiate studies....But, definitely not in your political ideals, and alignment with politicians.
Isn’t it much simpler to recognize the political animals at large, knowing both sides of the aisle are just “in it, to win it” and the rest of us will always be their collateral damage, regardless of which side has control?
For me and my like minded. We’ll take the animal that says you’re responsible for yourself, your luxuries, your choices, decisions and your ability to stay free and protected by your own means. Pretty f-ucking simple ain’t it Rock-Star?
Give your money, give your time, but don’t give away a vote for a political side that say’s they want to provide and protect you. It’s absolutely BS.
Even a dipschit like me can see that,,,,why can’t you as a man of learned background? Guess, that makes me a lot smarter than you.
😎
Mirror didn’t get hung today wanting to grab studs on one side, at the very least...Need bigger anchors. Pissed enough about another trip to town for parts that I spent 45 minutes with curls, shoulder presses and reverse triceps lifts. Pulled a neck muscle going to heavy. Moderation Beaver. Legs only tomorrow with a 2 mile hike in the sand with Danner the Dog.
At one time, the politicians on both sides differed little with regards your main points. However, old LBJ and his Great Society, which was nothing more than a machine to make votes, was the beginning of how we arrived to where we are at today. LBJ should be dug up and hanged at least once a year. I'm afraid you are right in that both parties are suspect. However, Trump shook them to the core and I don't think either one likes it all that much. If they hadn't been so sure of giving Clinton her crown, he probably would have lost. Old Joe, would probably have saved their day.
The left keeps moving further to the extreme left and the middle left can't control them. We can complain about the extremes, but hopefully the extremes may be what ruins the left.
I asked my neighbor what he thought was going on down here with all the gunfire at 3 am (that short-barreled rifle is LOUD) and he said he figured I was dealing with meth-heads but that it sounded like I had it well in hand so he didn't call the sheriff. God I love living in the woods.
Yet another bullschit story.
Pinocchio's nose must be so long by now it bumps his computer screen when he's trying to reply to this thread......
No one's really on ignore, Jello just cant read the reply's with that nose blocking his view all the time.
I asked my neighbor what he thought was going on down here with all the gunfire at 3 am (that short-barreled rifle is LOUD) and he said he figured I was dealing with meth-heads but that it sounded like I had it well in hand so he didn't call the sheriff. God I love living in the woods.
Yet another bullschit story.
Pinocchio's nose must be so long by now it bumps his computer screen when he's trying to reply to this thread......
No one's really on ignore, Jello just cant read the reply's with that nose blocking his view all the time.
He's a lying POFS. There is not one subject that idiot has ever mastered. He's a kept kghunt and nothing else. Everything he types on here is bullschit and has been for a long time.
Sticking to my 5X5 routine and the kettlebells.
Oh, and I was on the water for 9 hours so I got my "core" workout in. LMAO.
I asked my neighbor what he thought was going on down here with all the gunfire at 3 am (that short-barreled rifle is LOUD) and he said he figured I was dealing with meth-heads but that it sounded like I had it well in hand so he didn't call the sheriff. God I love living in the woods.
Yet another bullschit story.
Pinocchio's nose must be so long by now it bumps his computer screen when he's trying to reply to this thread......
No one's really on ignore, Jello just cant read the reply's with that nose blocking his view all the time.
He's a lying POFS. There is not one subject that idiot has ever mastered. He's a kept kghunt and nothing else. Everything he types on here is bullschit and has been for a long time.
Sticking to my 5X5 routine and the kettlebells.
Oh, and I was on the water for 9 hours so I got my "core" workout in. LMAO.
I walked a 1/4 mile chest started hurting ambulance was called ended up in the ER doctor said I was fat and to stop eating snicker bars and drinking mtn dew on my walks. I say hes full of chit!
No rain today, finally. Did a 2 mile beach walk with Danner Boot. A lot of debris was washed up from the higher tides the last couple days. Throwing my 26’ft ladder around the house now cleaning gutters. Neck is still tight from the last weight workout. I will live. 😎
Bob Marshall Open-a trek across the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex held over Memorial Day weekend, each year the event start and finish points change- you can use any routes you want as long as you start and finish where designated, typically in the 110-ish mile range- pretty demanding in May due to snow levels (almost always requires some snowshoeing) and river levels; fairly low key- typically a dozen or so folks show up
Bob Marshall Open-a trek across the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex held over Memorial Day weekend, each year the event start and finish points change- you can use any routes you want as long as you start and finish where designated, typically in the 110-ish mile range- pretty demanding in May due to snow levels (almost always requires some snowshoeing) and river levels; fairly low key- typically a dozen or so folks show up
50 straight would have my fingers feeling like they're being pulled off at the knuckle. Whenever I do a lot of kb swings my hands get the worst of it.
Yeah they're good for you for sure.
Surprising how much cardio you get out of them.
The only problem I have w/ kettlebells is that they make my hands calloused. This causes people to think that I perform manual labor.
Travis, those 50 lb. swings are done using both hands, right?
mike r
Correct.
Russian or American? I haven't touched a weight, other than my belly, in way too long. Thinking of picking up some KBs to get back into it. Probably start with ~35#. Thinking get ups, swings, snatches, and cleans will start to right the ship.
Was hoping to start in on cutting up some storm-fall trees but in case it hasn't risen to the level of national news, it is seriously, seriously soggy in my AO. Flooding, etc. But that yearly spring workout looms large, which is cool.
Russian or American? I haven't touched a weight, other than my belly, in way too long. Thinking of picking up some KBs to get back into it. Probably start with ~35#. Thinking get ups, swings, snatches, and cleans will start to right the ship.
Russian.
I had to start at a new gym to ensure I had a rack this morning but I couldn't find their kettlebells.
Russian or American? I haven't touched a weight, other than my belly, in way too long. Thinking of picking up some KBs to get back into it. Probably start with ~35#. Thinking get ups, swings, snatches, and cleans will start to right the ship.
Russian.
I had to start at a new gym to ensure I had a rack this morning but I couldn't find their kettlebells.
So that may have to end while I do the 5X5 thing.
Good deal. Once the house remodel is done, I think the wife will push for us to be a rack in the basement as our current schedule makes it tough for us to belong to the same gym. Rack, bar, and a few bumpers won't be too expensive. I have 300# of hard plates.
Russian or American? I haven't touched a weight, other than my belly, in way too long. Thinking of picking up some KBs to get back into it. Probably start with ~35#. Thinking get ups, swings, snatches, and cleans will start to right the ship.
Russian.
I had to start at a new gym to ensure I had a rack this morning but I couldn't find their kettlebells.
So that may have to end while I do the 5X5 thing.
Good deal. Once the house remodel is done, I think the wife will push for us to be a rack in the basement as our current schedule makes it tough for us to belong to the same gym. Rack, bar, and a few bumpers won't be too expensive. I have 300# of hard plates.
I made my rack years ago but if I was starting over I'd look at these guys. The past couple of years I've added several things from them and I'm very pleased with the price, design, and how solid they are. Some finish issues on little things but pretty good for a home gym.
I never really considered it before but I may do the home gym thing now. My son is older so works out every day and getting to a gym here isn't as easy as other places I've lived.
You can get a LOT of schit for pretty cheap through amazon.
But I do like going full douche bag and parking my bike on the sidewalk in front of the LA Fitness and walking in with my wireless ear buds.
Russian or American? I haven't touched a weight, other than my belly, in way too long. Thinking of picking up some KBs to get back into it. Probably start with ~35#. Thinking get ups, swings, snatches, and cleans will start to right the ship.
Russian.
I had to start at a new gym to ensure I had a rack this morning but I couldn't find their kettlebells.
So that may have to end while I do the 5X5 thing.
Good deal. Once the house remodel is done, I think the wife will push for us to be a rack in the basement as our current schedule makes it tough for us to belong to the same gym. Rack, bar, and a few bumpers won't be too expensive. I have 300# of hard plates.
I made my rack years ago but if I was starting over I'd look at these guys. The past couple of years I've added several things from them and I'm very pleased with the price, design, and how solid they are. Some finish issues on little things but pretty good for a home gym.
If one buys a home rack make sure it has a catcher bar. More than one has been found dead in the home gym or seriously injured from not being able to handle the bar weight and alone with none to bail them out from the bench. It also can get real ugly without one when doing squats and something goes wrong.
But I do like going full douche bag and parking my bike on the sidewalk in front of the LA Fitness and walking in with my wireless ear buds.
Let me guess---sleeveless hoody too?
Got back into the gym today after about a week off. Did cardio, felt good but my HR was 5-10 points above normal, just from spending time at sea level.
Another 65 mile bicycle ride yesterday. Not bad for a 62 year old with a 30 year old riding buddy. I'll take it. Been kinda remiss on getting to the gym lately though. Cycling somehow seems more important & more fun right now.
Keep on truckin' all! We're just competing against ourselves, until hunting season hits. Then it's The Ridge I'm working against.
Have to admit, I surely do feel good when I'm in decent condition.
But I do like going full douche bag and parking my bike on the sidewalk in front of the LA Fitness and walking in with my wireless ear buds.
Let me guess---sleeveless hoody too?
Got back into the gym today after about a week off. Did cardio, felt good but my HR was 5-10 points above normal, just from spending time at sea level.
The one good thing about Fla is you can drive up 95 N in a rented mini van and do 90-95mph. At which speed, finally you will not be a slow moving hazard. I had to ask a policeman, just how fast can I go there without getting a ticket? He said 89 will be fairly safe to avoid being pulled over. He also said, they really don't like to pull people over, in that every one slows down and a traffic jam builds up quickly.
Another 65 mile bicycle ride yesterday. Not bad for a 62 year old with a 30 year old riding buddy. I'll take it. Been kinda remiss on getting to the gym lately though. Cycling somehow seems more important & more fun right now.
Keep on truckin' all! We're just competing against ourselves, until hunting season hits. Then it's The Ridge I'm working against.
Have to admit, I surely do feel good when I'm in decent condition.
Guy
Yep! Got two premium backpack hunts I've got a shot at this year. I have enough points, probably, for a Hells Canyon bull elk tag. Maybe get flown in to Lord Flats then go from there? Then a lesser but still real chance at another Steens deer tag.
65 miles is a respectable ride at any age! Any issues in your knees when you bag big miles? Any IT band issues towards the end of rides?
I did a 1-1/2 hour mountain bike ride today. It was hard. The steepest sections were full granny-gear but they were so long I couldn't stay sitting. Standing up is key for hard climbing for me on my road bike. When I'd stand up climbing these steep old dirt roads I'd lose traction on the rear wheel (from unweighting it) and it'd spin out on me. I'd kinda forgotten about that.
I also need to decide if I want to stay with flat pedals or go with one of the MTB shoe/clips setups. I'd rather stay flat pedals but I think being clipped in would help on the steep climbs by smoothing out the power at the wheel? Either that or I'll spin out and fall over from being clipped in... only half joking...
Also got a creak in the bottom bracket or maybe a pedal that I need to chase down. But in general the bike is great so far. Those huge 29" tires and front air shock and relaxed "rake" make it really stable and predictable going downhill. I didn't have the guts to do a 2-wheel drift yet but I was tempted.
I've been on clipless pedals for 20 years, I have trouble riding now without them, lol. The continuous power cycle you have with them, along with the added control you have over the bike with them is incredible. Check out your seatpost for the creak, it may sound like it's coming from somewhere else, but often it seems to be the seatpost. Put a light coat of grease on the part of the seatpost inserted in the frame and make sure it's tight. I've fixed more than one bottom bracket creek that way.
The one good thing about Fla is you can drive up 95 N in a rented mini van and do 90-95mph. At which speed, finally you will not be a slow moving hazard. I had to ask a policeman, just how fast can I go there without getting a ticket? He said 89 will be fairly safe to avoid being pulled over. He also said, they really don't like to pull people over, in that every one slows down and a traffic jam builds up quickly.
Another 65 mile bicycle ride yesterday. Not bad for a 62 year old with a 30 year old riding buddy. I'll take it. Been kinda remiss on getting to the gym lately though. Cycling somehow seems more important & more fun right now.
Keep on truckin' all! We're just competing against ourselves, until hunting season hits. Then it's The Ridge I'm working against.
Have to admit, I surely do feel good when I'm in decent condition.
Guy
65 miles is a respectable ride at any age! Any issues in your knees when you bag big miles? Any IT band issues towards the end of rides?
Knees are okay. Better 30 years ago, but okay. Dunno what an "IT band" is, so I guess it's okay too.
I stayed with flat pedals on my mountain bike, but ya, clips would help smooth out the climbing. I spin out too sometimes, climbing with the mountain bike. Haven't ridden it yet this year. Going out on the road bike in a couple of hours, but not 65 miles. Maybe 40 - 50 miles. Something like that, and fewer hills.
The one good thing about Fla is you can drive up 95 N in a rented mini van and do 90-95mph. At which speed, finally you will not be a slow moving hazard. I had to ask a policeman, just how fast can I go there without getting a ticket? He said 89 will be fairly safe to avoid being pulled over. He also said, they really don't like to pull people over, in that every one slows down and a traffic jam builds up quickly.
You better slow down when you hit the FL-GA border.
The one good thing about Fla is you can drive up 95 N in a rented mini van and do 90-95mph. At which speed, finally you will not be a slow moving hazard. I had to ask a policeman, just how fast can I go there without getting a ticket? He said 89 will be fairly safe to avoid being pulled over. He also said, they really don't like to pull people over, in that every one slows down and a traffic jam builds up quickly.
Yeah they don't bother with that schit much.
But it's far from the ONE good thing.
They make enough of them in Pa. Truth being, more than I can handle.
Another 65 mile bicycle ride yesterday. Not bad for a 62 year old with a 30 year old riding buddy. I'll take it. Been kinda remiss on getting to the gym lately though. Cycling somehow seems more important & more fun right now.
Keep on truckin' all! We're just competing against ourselves, until hunting season hits. Then it's The Ridge I'm working against.
Have to admit, I surely do feel good when I'm in decent condition.
Guy
65 miles is a respectable ride at any age! Any issues in your knees when you bag big miles? Any IT band issues towards the end of rides?
Knees are okay. Better 30 years ago, but okay. Dunno what an "IT band" is, so I guess it's okay too.
I stayed with flat pedals on my mountain bike, but ya, clips would help smooth out the climbing. I spin out too sometimes, climbing with the mountain bike. Haven't ridden it yet this year. Going out on the road bike in a couple of hours, but not 65 miles. Maybe 40 - 50 miles. Something like that, and fewer hills.
Guy
Yeah, I did not "need" to know about IT band stuff... haha... until I did. It's a band of hard tissue on the outside of the knee/quad, basically a spread-out tendon coming from the outer quad. If it goes out on ya during a ride it's excruciating to open and close the knee, regardless of whether you are putting power through or not. It's cured, pretty much, by aggressive rolling on a hard foam roller, which is also excruciating. If I feel it coming in on a ride, usually at 30+ miles, I can usually fix it with the heel of my hand and/or the top tube of the frame of my bike, just really grind it into that area. Until I figured it out I had several rides I had to finish basically on one leg. It just shuts down the affected leg.
Upper body is a bit stiff today too from the MTB ride... me likey! I noticed my arms were a bit trashed when I went out to the Cave last night to crack a beer and throw darts. Yep!
I hope you are using a seriously bright red flasher on the back of your road bike. Don't be like that zillionaire woman in California who's in an early grave for the want of a $50 flasher. I had to buy my cheapskate buddy one, he was trying to get by with a cheesy little blinker, but they are worth it, a literal lifesaver. Catch the attention of that dumbass texting as they come up behind you, etc. Maybe not an issue where you are, maybe you have bike lanes... I ride rural roads and I won't even go out without my flasher. I'm blanking on the brand of mine... Serfas Thunderbolt maybe? Something like that... but it's long and thin and bright as God. I also use a BRIGHT front light set to strobe in the daytime; that was begun after I was blazing a downhill at 35+ mph and a car almost pulled out of a driveway in front of me.
I'm torn - which is the bigger d-bag, the bro Instagram or the selfie Instagram?
A solid inquiry but widely subjective.
On one hand you have an individual not only engaging in unprecedented levels of douchebaggery but he's now DRAWING others into his tractor beam of narcissism. Although we can say that this person at least has somebody to hang out with.
Conversely, the other d-bag is not spreading the disease so to speak, but he is so self absorbed he has nobody to share his d-bag'ness with.
They make enough of them in Pa. Truth being, more than I can handle.
Enough of what? You lost me.
Doubt it but anyway:
The weather sucks in summer, too many people, the traffic can be a pain, I don’t fish and the hunting can be expensive. More than a few nice looking women, was the meaning, but we have enough in Pa when the need strikes.
Not much in Fla that I need other than a winter break from here.
Sporting clays is better than good, but I have that here also.
I did a few miles yesterday where Toby and I used to walk, haven't been there in a while. I miss that dawg. I flushed two roosters, if he'd been there in his prime he probably would've broken a dozen and come close to snagging one or two.
Did upper body with the trainer today. Sometimes I think those guys sit around in a room and try to outdo each other with the crazy schit they come up with. Good workout though.
Only 17 miles on the bike today with my buddies. Dang it was a fun ride, but not tough. Exactly what I needed today. Thought about going farther, but... I kinda needed an easy ride.
Not pretending to be superman. Those peak-performance days were 30 years ago. Doing okay these days, and that's all I ask.
You guys keep on marching. We're doing just fine. I'm enjoying reading the posts from pretty much everyone. Interesting to see the different workouts.
I did the Stronglifts 5x5 a few years ago. Volume became too much with my other activities (swim, bike, run, hike, etc). From what I've read that program is a tweaked copy of the Starting Strength program. I've run SS with good results. I planned to run it with the other activities this year but that idea went off the tracks mnths ago. Hope to start easing back into something next week.
I did the starting strength thing for a while. Gave me a pretty good foundation of strength I think, but it was tough to follow by myself. I’m stronger now just lifting normally 3-4 days a week.
I did the starting strength thing for a while. Gave me a pretty good foundation of strength I think, but it was tough to follow by myself. I’m stronger now just lifting normally 3-4 days a week.
Back to work throwing 26’ & 32’ foot ladders around an ocean front home doing dry-rot tear off and replacement in the fug’n rain.
Keep telling myself I love my job when I only like the money...No leg workout needed tonight. Chest and back with the Bowflex dumbbells tonight...
Jeffo- did you see where Oregon gun control omnibus sb 978 passed without much of a fight? Senate floor next, and unless all Republicans walk out, you will now be a felon if you have a legal concealed firearm on your hip or in your car at the PDX airport or any public building that doesn’t believe in 2A?
Look it up Oregon Omnibus SB 978. These are the people you believe are way smarter than us conservatives.
Back to work throwing 26’ & 32’ foot ladders around an ocean front home doing dry-rot tear off and replacement in the fug’n rain.
Keep telling myself I love my job when I only like the money...No leg workout needed tonight. Chest and back with the Bowflex dumbbells tonight...
Jeffo- did you see where Oregon gun control omnibus sb 978 passed without much of a fight? Senate floor next, and unless all Republicans walk out, you will now be a felon if you have a legal concealed firearm on your hip or in your car at the PDX airport or any public building that doesn’t believe in 2A?
Look it up Oregon Omnibus SB 978. These are the people you believe are way smarter than us conservatives.
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Big ladders suck ass to deal with. Be careful up there. I feel like I used up a couple lives building my house and no, I never fell off a ladder.
I don't believe that about Democrats and I sure wish you'd stop ascribing beliefs to me. Democrats in 2019 are idiots. Oregon is going in a horrifying direction WRT the 2nd. I am acutely aware of this. I suspect the next general election will make me a felon due to an "assault rifle" ban of some sort that makes the ballot. That last one was sure a doozy before it got whacked by the courts. Regardless, a constitutional right cannot be voted out, and I will behave accordingly as I hope we all will. Fugg 'em.
Basically both the Left and the Right are going full retard and I'm stuck in the middle and I hate it.
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On a workout note, looks like the wife and I will be backpacking the 2nd half of the Lost Coast- the southern half- in a few weeks! This time I'm buying a hunting license and pig tags and will open-carry my G43 because, you see officer, the challenge of taking a pig with a subcompact 9mm is my thing! Or some such BS. It's the only way I can see to legally carry down there. Oops, swung back to guns.
I do jiu jitsu, stretch, an ab circuit and kettlebells. Nothing gets me breathing harder than 7 minute rounds on the matt.
Im walking with a weighted pack (starting at 40 pounds—the weight of my 4 year old). But honestly the only mountain simulation i can do here on the Gulf Coast is probably windsprints and BJJ.
I do jiu jitsu, stretch, an ab circuit and kettlebells. Nothing gets me breathing harder than 7 minute rounds on the matt.
Im walking with a weighted pack (starting at 40 pounds—the weight of my 4 year old). But honestly the only mountain simulation i can do here on the Gulf Coast is probably windsprints and BJJ.
I do jiu jitsu, stretch, an ab circuit and kettlebells. Nothing gets me breathing harder than 7 minute rounds on the matt.
Im walking with a weighted pack (starting at 40 pounds—the weight of my 4 year old). But honestly the only mountain simulation i can do here on the Gulf Coast is probably windsprints and BJJ.
It's really hard to beat grappling if you have tough training partners. Almost any other exercise you set the pace, regulate your movement, breathing pattern, and do it in the most efficient way. With grappling you don't know the pace, the next movement, when to relax, etc....tough enough already but that makes it even tougher.
I do jiu jitsu, stretch, an ab circuit and kettlebells. Nothing gets me breathing harder than 7 minute rounds on the matt.
Im walking with a weighted pack (starting at 40 pounds—the weight of my 4 year old). But honestly the only mountain simulation i can do here on the Gulf Coast is probably windsprints and BJJ.
It's really hard to beat grappling if you have tough training partners. Almost any other exercise you set the pace, regulate your movement, breathing pattern, and do it in the most efficient way. With grappling you don't know the pace, the next movement, when to relax, etc....tough enough already but that makes it even tougher.
I started doing jew gintzu when I can and it is an ass kicker for sure.
Im walking with a weighted pack (starting at 40 pounds—the weight of my 4 year old). But honestly the only mountain simulation i can do here on the Gulf Coast is probably windsprints and BJJ.
steps will definitely help; those stairmaster machines do a really good job too (talking the older style, looks like a mini escalator); also some treadmills you can really crank the steepness up; even a smaller (steep) hill will help by doing repeats on it
Rower: 30 minutes Shotgun shells fired: 300 Merlot walk/jog: 7miles which looks like a decent interval workout on the watch....
Am I reading it correctly that you maintained a hr of 137 bpm for 2 hours? Well done, which monitor/watch is that?
mike r
Close: The watch recorded 2 hours from when I started, till I hit done. However, I hit pause a couple times to let Merlot get a drink out of a stream or to squirt on a tree without yanking him away. I have to keep him on a leash or he will be off hunting in the woods and if he comes across a Grouse or Rabbit he will be on the hunt and off trail. The actual exercise time was 1hour 52 minutes.
Correct, it is an Apple Watch. The HR is pretty much spot on unless I’m hitting in the 170’s.
Forgot to add the 137 is an average. These peaks are in the 160’s and for my age, there I’m bumping the rev limiter and have to back off and slow down. Once I drop to the low 120’s I pick up the pace with either a jog or a good hill will start it up.
6.5 mile hike, 1300 ft gain in 3.2 miles. Beautiful spring day (finally). Poor Cyn, she's trying a vascular dilater (low dose heart med) for her migraines and a side effect is supposedly fatigue and yep, she was dragging a bit. Her back is still not right from the wreck, which is getting concerning. I on the other hand felt great <g>. The only explanation is the experimental beer therapy I've been undergoing.
MtWarden - I do appreciate your snowshoe hike photos. Thanks!
We've got a lot of snow up high here in Washington. It's been snowing the past few days at 4,000' and even lower. But I haven't been out on my snowshoes in a month or so.
Monday was another 65 miles on the bicycle. Tuesday was one lazy rest day. Wednesday I rode again but only 17 miles at an easy pace with some old friends. Thursday was a couple of miles of easy walking and my usual pushups & crunches in the morning. Friday was a trip to the gym with an hour of cardio and some good lifting. I'm still cranking out the pull-ups, but I sure can't do as many as in years past.
It's been a good week. Looking forward to another "Long Ride Monday" as we're calling them.
6.5 mile hike, 1300 ft gain in 3.2 miles. Beautiful spring day (finally). Poor Cyn, she's trying a vascular dilater (low dose heart med) for her migraines and a side effect is supposedly fatigue and yep, she was dragging a bit. Her back is still not right from the wreck, which is getting concerning. I on the other hand felt great <g>. The only explanation is the experimental beer therapy I've been undergoing.
How long does it take a person to ride 65 miles on a bicycle?
And how many calories does that consume?
Don't know how many calories. Am currently doing the 65 mile route in about 5 hours 30 min.
Hoping to pick up some speed over the next few weeks. Am registered for a 100-mile fund raising ride on June 1st. I've done a few of those in the past with times varying from a little over 6 hours when I was in great shape, to plodding along and finishing in about 8 hours. Hoping to do better than 8 hours on that "Century" ride this year.
Not sure I buy the calorie counters as they apply to cycling... at least the ones I've seen... when I was riding ~ 200 miles a week I should've been wasting away according to the Strava counter and I wasn't. I think cycling is wonderful and a blast, mind, but I dunno about the counters....
Greg, I was every bit of that in '19 until a few days ago. Now I get a nice little well-earned break unless I'm dumb enough to troll my customer base for work, which I'm not <g>. I'm going fishin'. Also, goodbye.
1.5 hours running a chain saw until the rain hit. Taking apart the big Gravenstien apple tree that went down in the crazy snowstorm a while ago. 24" bar on the saw for scale.
1.5 hours running a chain saw until the rain hit. Taking apart the big Gravenstien apple tree that went down in the crazy snowstorm a while ago. 24" bar on the saw for scale.
Just an afternoon for normal people,
No pics needed, No praise, No acknowledgment that you own a camera,
Once again, takes the time to capture and then post such incredibly mundane aspects of normal life,
But I guess, if that's the highlight of your work this month, then you should be proud of it.
On the bright side, maybe he won't get lost back there.
Not sure I buy the calorie counters as they apply to cycling... at least the ones I've seen... when I was riding ~ 200 miles a week I should've been wasting away according to the Strava counter and I wasn't. I think cycling is wonderful and a blast, mind, but I dunno about the counters....
Greg, I was every bit of that in '19 until a few days ago. Now I get a nice little well-earned break unless I'm dumb enough to troll my customer base for work, which I'm not <g>. I'm going fishin'. Also, goodbye.
Do you really think anyone buys your fugkin' bullschit?
I was thinking he wore some type of HRM. But thanks.
Nope - don't have one of those things. Maybe I should, but I don't.
I love hiking & cycling & Nordic skiing. Lift year round, more in the winter. Figure I'm banged up, but feeling good about being alive and still at it. Careers in the Marines and in law enforcement. Stayed reasonably fit, but it's a slow slide downhill. Trying to hang in there to do the things I enjoy.
Hiking (on snowshoes too), Nordic skiing, cycling, camping, fishing, hunting... Love all that. Finally I'm freed up from the 40 - 60 hour a week grind and I have the time to enjoy more of the outdoors, but it's a struggle to keep the ol' body on track with that plan. Too many old injuries. So - I'm not at all sophisticated about my workouts, I just try to stay active year 'round.
Spine problems have kept me from backpacking in recent years, but... I think I'm recovered enough to give it a try again this year. Perhaps even backpack in for a mountain mulie hunt like I used to do. I'd like that.
Hope everyone here achieves their goals and enjoys. I find myself a bit envious of MtWarden - he seems to be doing the stuff I can't quite manage anymore. Well, not at the level he's doing anyway.
Thanks for the kind words Guy; I'm in the exact same boat- "trying to hang in there to do the things I enjoy" My approach isn't very scientific either- get into the gym a couple of times a week to strength train and the rest of the time just keep moving.
2 mile walk on the lap track this morning, 30 minutes on the Elliptical , about 12 laps in the pool and 2x planks (not really sure what 2x means to you guys)......Then 15 minutes in the whirlpool.
Tendinitis in right elbow still hampers much weight lifting.
Snowing so heavy in Southern Wisconsin right now mtwarden might feel at home here today.....
Been really busy this past week so haven't been on here much. did all three days of the PNWild workout the past week and went for a 4 mile hike with some good hills and 35 pounds in the pack on Saturday. Was suppose to be hunting some mountain turkeys, but winter just can't let it go this year... Hopefully next weekend!
Nope - don't have one of those things. Maybe I should, but I don't.
I love hiking & cycling & Nordic skiing. Lift year round, more in the winter. Figure I'm banged up, but feeling good about being alive and still at it. Careers in the Marines and in law enforcement. Stayed reasonably fit, but it's a slow slide downhill. Trying to hang in there to do the things I enjoy.
Hiking (on snowshoes too), Nordic skiing, cycling, camping, fishing, hunting... Love all that. Finally I'm freed up from the 40 - 60 hour a week grind and I have the time to enjoy more of the outdoors, but it's a struggle to keep the ol' body on track with that plan. Too many old injuries. So - I'm not at all sophisticated about my workouts, I just try to stay active year 'round.
Spine problems have kept me from backpacking in recent years, but... I think I'm recovered enough to give it a try again this year. Perhaps even backpack in for a mountain mulie hunt like I used to do. I'd like that.
Hope everyone here achieves their goals and enjoys. I find myself a bit envious of MtWarden - he seems to be doing the stuff I can't quite manage anymore. Well, not at the level he's doing anyway.
Regards, Guy
Guy,
Of course they're not necessary by any means but the technology you get from them is pretty cool and incredibly accurate.
The last one I bought was the FitBit Alta HR and it was on sale for $80. It does a helluva lot for $80.
1.5 hours running a chain saw until the rain hit. Taking apart the big Gravenstien apple tree that went down in the crazy snowstorm a while ago. 24" bar on the saw for scale.
Is this the after 1.5 hours running a chain saw pic? If you pick that sumbitch up and put chain to wood it'll open up a whole new world there tiger.
3 hrs running a chain saw, dragging/carrying the poles and rounds to a staging point, etc. About to head back out there. Too wet to get my truck back in there still. One section of my woods took a real beating. There's a black oak (we only have a few of those, mostly white oak here) I'm gonna have to make a tough call on... leaning pretty good. Also one large white oak split up high and is going to a dangerous mofo to take down and then apart. Got my work cut out for me. Have not said so much as a PEEP to my other customers about availability and don't intend to... haha.
60-65 would be normal. Right now after just getting up 67-74.
Snapshot from yesterday. Why the watch used these times I don't know. I have a funky heart with a little mitro valve prolapse and it skips around on occasion. Some extra KCl and it calms down. Doc I have now says keep doing what you are doing. At 75 I wouldn't be surprised if it does a major hiccup anytime. Today my Vo2 max sucks compared to the best of times.
If I was still drinking, I probably wouldn’t have to be torturing myself today.
In addition, getting on the stairmaster yesterday, some guy comes up and says are you Butch xxxx. I know the face from decades ago, but the name is gone. He gives it and it comes back. Big time basketball player from our younger days. A few years older. Went on to play well in college. Still mentally sharp, more than rough around the edges physically.
It appears, golf isn’t all that great for exercise.
Gym this morning, with an hour of cardio split between the "arc trainer" and the very nice exercise bike, as well as lifting and too danged many pullups for a 62 year old...
I feel a long ride coming on tomorrow. Wish me luck! Probably looking at 65+ miles 'cause my riding partner is crazy, and I'm silly enough to go along.
Gym this morning, with an hour of cardio split between the "arc trainer" and the very nice exercise bike, as well as lifting and too danged many pullups for a 62 year old...
I feel a long ride coming on tomorrow. Wish me luck! Probably looking at 65+ miles 'cause my riding partner is crazy, and I'm silly enough to go along.
Sigh...
Guy
Your workout today sounds similar to mine.
I used to wonder when my riding partner would tell me to piss up a rope; it always cracks me up when he bitches but he doesn't quit. After too many rainy days I'm going to try to pedal up to the rockslide tomorrow afternoon.
Firewood day, 6 hours. Cut, haul, burn debris. Haven't started splitting it yet. Really a spectacular time of year to be out in the woods working all day and I'm very grateful the timing is working out like this.
Southern part of Lost Coast is firming up.... I guess the elevation gain/loss is the equivalent of hiking to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back, over a span of about 18 miles. Redwoods. Surf perch. Pig hunting with a 9mm. Cool!
nice day here- low 40's, overcast with just a light precipitation- perfect! 7 miles for Tiny E and I, he found this (coyote kill of yearling fawn) about 50' below the trail- of course he got a big mouthful of nasty deer hair before I could stop him! :rolleyes:
Hit the gym with the trainer today. He reminded me of the best reason to hire a trainer, a good one will push you and have you doiong things you wouldn't do on your own. He got me back into doing box jumps, hadn't done those in over a year. He has a program that seems good, selects a major muscle group to focus on each session and then has a sequence of stuff to go through in a circuit 4X. We'll see if it works.
64 miles on the bicycle today. Interesting ride and kinda fun. "Bottom bracket" on the bike wore out and the last 30 miles of the ride were more difficult than they should have been. Already dropped the bike off at my favorite bike shop for repair & upgrade.
Yesterday was the gym with a good mix of cardio & lifting.
Still been swimming... 2-3 days a week. Tested on Sunday and had PRs in all distances, so that was fun. I think I have officially progressed from "you might not make it" to just "slow".
Haven't been riding at all. Ran the other day, but have been off that horse for quite a while now too. Climbed a mountain Saturday. Smoked a cigar for... mosquito control. Didn't see one the whole time, so it clearly worked.
Forgot, I spent some time talking with the glute girl this afternoon. Almost as good as a straight cardio routine.
You mean as far as spiking your HR?
Of course, "talking" being the definitive part of my posting. We conversed about some moves, that while not straight cardio, would be good for the heart.
I complimented her and her response was that I inspired her. Probably one of those Venus/Mars type comments.
Ahhhh, That is how I started the conversation. She was doing squats while holing a 35lb plate over her head, and I commented how I leaned so much by watching her. She was thrilled that I complimented her.
8 miles on the trails w/ Tiny E, just two weeks ago the loop was about a third or more snow pack, now maybe 5% or less, still a lot of snow in the higher country though
Cardio in the gym for me today. It was tough to get through the workout, women of all ages kept coming up and telling me how inspired they were by my glutes.
I rode solo today and pushed a lot harder than yesterday. The total was 19 miles up and down trails. At about mile 6 I had just finished a long climb up a dugway when I heard a high pitched voice say "excuse me" and I got passed by a ponytail. She was probably younger than my daughters but she had the calves of a seasoned biker and that little lady pedaled right around this old man.
Hey guys I hate to interrupt your thread but could you please tell JeffO his presence is required in the campfire forum.......... he is ignoring me.... Thanks and good work men.....
3 Miles. 2000 feet elevation gain with 55 lb pack off trail. A lot of mud and still some snow
Some pull ups and yoga
Killed me.
That's a climb and mud probably made it sporty.
My kid persuaded me to try yoga once, at the end of the class the instructor had us all lay down and close our eyes, then she touched me on the south end of my belly. Afterwards I asked my kid if she got touched and where. Turns out I got the special treatment with her helping me locate one of my chakras.
Plucking mud was over my ankles in some areas . Thank God for gaiters.
Im 56 now and my body is pretty beat up multiple operations and metal replacements.
I’ve always incorporated stretching in my work outs my entire life . took a few yoga classes last year with a lady friend and was a bit embarrassing as I always was pretty athletic. The 60 year lady I instructor was giving me good natured schit during the class and was kicking my ass. Lol good to be humiliated at times for motivation.
Kind of an eye opener, anyways I basically do the 30 min routine and throw in a few hip and shoulder mobility exercises., core work. Really helps with mobility, balance ( both of which have greatly declined in my 50’s) and post workout soreness.
Anything to keep me chasing elk , trout , grouse and deer in the mountains.
Easy hour mountain biking today and some goblet squats and swings with kettle bell. Great lung workout with low joint stress.
Tomorrow a day of downhill skiing . 3 years ago my orthopedic surgeon said I would need a cane to walk the rest of my life and have bad limp. Plug him. Guys and gals have overcome much worse than I have.
Originally Posted by stomatador
Originally Posted by ribka
3 Miles. 2000 feet elevation gain with 55 lb pack off trail. A lot of mud and still some snow
Some pull ups and yoga
Killed me.
That's a climb and mud probably made it sporty.
My kid persuaded me to try yoga once, at the end of the class the instructor had us all lay down and close our eyes, then she touched me on the south end of my belly. Afterwards I asked my kid if she got touched and where. Turns out I got the special treatment with her helping me locate one of my chakras.
Plucking mud was over my ankles in some areas . Thank God for gaiters.
Im 56 now and my body is pretty beat up multiple operations and metal replacements.
I’ve always incorporated stretching in my work outs my entire life . took a few yoga classes last year with a lady friend and was a bit embarrassing as I always was pretty athletic. The 60 year lady I instructor was giving me good natured schit during the class and was kicking my ass. Lol good to be humiliated at times for motivation.
Kind of an eye opener, anyways I basically do the 30 min routine and throw in a few hip and shoulder mobility exercises., core work. Really helps with mobility, balance ( both of which have greatly declined in my 50’s) and post workout soreness.
Anything to keep me chasing elk , trout , grouse and deer in the mountains.
Easy hour mountain biking today and some goblet squats and swings with kettle bell. Great lung workout with low joint stress.
Tomorrow a day of downhill skiing . 3 years ago my orthopedic surgeon said I would need a cane to walk the rest of my life and have bad limp. Plug him. Guys and gals have overcome much worse than I have.
Originally Posted by stomatador
Originally Posted by ribka
3 Miles. 2000 feet elevation gain with 55 lb pack off trail. A lot of mud and still some snow
Some pull ups and yoga
Killed me.
That's a climb and mud probably made it sporty.
My kid persuaded me to try yoga once, at the end of the class the instructor had us all lay down and close our eyes, then she touched me on the south end of my belly. Afterwards I asked my kid if she got touched and where. Turns out I got the special treatment with her helping me locate one of my chakras.
We're the same age and similar condition. Probably pretty much the same for most on here, none of us are ready to concede. I've never stretched much but I really need to add that to my routine.
Yesterday was another day on the bike with 15 miles in the mountains and 8 miles pedaling with my wife in the hills around home after work.
We're the same age and similar condition. Probably pretty much the same for most on here, none of us are ready to concede. I've never stretched much but I really need to add that to my routine.
A foam roller helps too, if you get one that's not too soft and have someoen who knows how to use it show you a few techniques.
We're the same age and similar condition. Probably pretty much the same for most on here, none of us are ready to concede. I've never stretched much but I really need to add that to my routine.
Most people are amazed to discover what five minutes of downward dog per day can do to un-fugk things.
We're the same age and similar condition. Probably pretty much the same for most on here, none of us are ready to concede. I've never stretched much but I really need to add that to my routine.
Most people are amazed to discover what five minutes of downward dog per day can do to un-fugk things.
But yoga overall, is gay. And stupid. And gay.
Learn the basic stretches and skip the cult.
I could never get through a yoga class. I've been twice and both times women of all ages kept interrupting and asking me to "adjust them."
We're the same age and similar condition. Probably pretty much the same for most on here, none of us are ready to concede. I've never stretched much but I really need to add that to my routine.
Most people are amazed to discover what five minutes of downward dog per day can do to un-fugk things.
But yoga overall, is gay. And stupid. And gay.
Learn the basic stretches and skip the cult.
I could never get through a yoga class. I've been twice and both times women of all ages kept interrupting and asking me to "adjust them."
Ya and then you had to go and say "adjust this", which is why they wouldn't let you get through an entire class.
a wee bit sore today, 20 mile out and back bagging Stuart Peak, we hit big snow at ~ 4 miles in and were on snowshoes all the way to the top. Drizzle or rain the entire way, so we missed the gorgeous views you’d normally get.
We're the same age and similar condition. Probably pretty much the same for most on here, none of us are ready to concede. I've never stretched much but I really need to add that to my routine.
Most people are amazed to discover what five minutes of downward dog per day can do to un-fugk things.
But yoga overall, is gay. And stupid. And gay.
Learn the basic stretches and skip the cult.
I could never get through a yoga class. I've been twice and both times women of all ages kept interrupting and asking me to "adjust them."
Ya and then you had to go and say "adjust this", which is why they wouldn't let you get through an entire class.
I would never say that, it would just encourage them as if they need it.
Careful now, or mtwarden is going to make our epic exploits in the gym look inconsequential.
Boat based workout of the week: Put my 4 year old in a coleman canoe and pushed it across the snow for a few hundred yards.
Ha! Love it. I'll bet your child had a blast with that!
Today was another 65 mile ride. Yee Haw. Will likely be adding some distance next week. This is the fourth 65 miler, one a week for four weeks now, plus shorter rides of course.
I'm kinda tired this evening. An old friend of mine joined us. Past president of the local velo club and a SERIOUS cyclist... He was loafing while working us hard today! Turned today into one heck of a workout.
1/2 day firewood, brutal day of splitting and dragging and lifting, full-body whipped
What's the other half consist of?
Doobies, man. One must pace themself.
Used to make deliveries to a local plumbing supply, the counter guy always looked at me and said "doobies @ 5, doobies @ 5" with a big sh1t eating grin on his face. I guess in this case it's "doobies @ noon"
Gym today, weights and strength training. I've been kind of following the trainer's program, seems to be pretty good and I'm feeling some improvements. He focuses on one or two major muscle groups during a session (upper body push, upper body pull, lower body push, or lower body pull), and does 3-4 move circuits. The circuit starts with a strength movement for the major muscle group followed by an explosive movement using the same muscles. So today it was pull-ups followed by medicine ball floor slams, and front squats followed by box jumps, with other stuff thrown in. Seems like a good way to go.
1/2 day firewood. Finish line is in sight. Strong like ox <g>. As far as yearly obligations go, spending a couple weeks outside doing hard manual labor in the sweet Oregon springtime, does not suck one bit.
Going fishin tomorrow, but we'll likely stay inside the jetties so probably won't be much workout happening.
Full day workin' firewood. Split white oak rounds to start, sectioned the unsplitable ones with a chain saw next, then brought two truckloads (last ones!) out of the woods, cut a bunch up, stacked in the shed. I'd say another solid half-day and I'll be done.
Full day workin' firewood. Split white oak rounds to start, sectioned the unsplitable ones with a chain saw next, then brought two truckloads (last ones!) out of the woods, cut a bunch up, stacked in the shed. I'd say another solid half-day and I'll be done.
By "done" do you mean "done" making this bullschit up every day?
21 mile hike/run w/ a buddy today (he's doing the Bob Marshall Open as well); challenging conditions- upper 20's w/ snow and a brutal wind, steady 15-20 mph w/ gusts near 40- brrrrrrr!
Cardio in the gym for me yesterday, an hour of intervals on the stair machine and bike. Took some friends to Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Sunday, walked the stairs from the parking lot to the top a few times, and then saw some guys doing jumps up the bench seats. Kind of like box jumps if you could stack about a hundred boxes up, staggered like a giant staircase. So I did some too. Friggin' 20-somethings. I'm gonna have to do that again though.
5 miles on the trail w/ Tiny E, he found something f^cking nasty- thinking a paunch from a dead deer and summarily rolled thoroughly in it- that's my buddy
5 miles on the trail w/ Tiny E, he found something f^cking nasty- thinking a paunch from a dead deer and summarily rolled thoroughly in it- that's my buddy
LOL, if he didn't do stuff like that he wouldn't be a real dog, right?
21 mile hike/run w/ a buddy today (he's doing the Bob Marshall Open as well); challenging conditions- upper 20's w/ snow and a brutal wind, steady 15-20 mph w/ gusts near 40- brrrrrrr!
How do you set-up your maps? All my stuff is on tar and even then it's like a hobby.
Lower body with the trainer today, deadlifts, squats, kettle bells, hamstring curls, and a few other things thrown in. The one-legged stuff showed me the leg I had surgery on still isn't back to full strength.
With all the blood, sweat & splitting tears implied over the last couple weeks in Oregon, I was expecting to see some split wood.... Oh well, nice pile.
Some of you men on this thread, OTOH, are animals. Or crazy. Or both.
well after three days of puking and $hitting thanks to a norovirus, I'm ten lbs lighter and much weaker, BUT on the mend- 4 miles w/ Tiny E on the trails this afternoon- yellow bells and shooting stars have now joined the crocus
Been a while since I checked in on this thread. Did another 65 mile bicycle ride this morning. The route is hilly, and is getting easier. Photo at the top of Stine's Hill, a pretty good climb.
That's my 1st Marine Division cycling jersey. I like to fly the flag for The Corps. Helps me remember buddies who died, and remember that we still have really good folks deployed in really bad places, even now.
Monday is normally our long ride.
Weds is a fun 25-30 mile ride at a modest pace with a group of good folks. Several veterans in it, I like swapping stories & jokes with those guys.
Friday is ??? Sometimes hills. Sometimes our attempt at sprints or fast rides on fairly level terrain. This Friday I turn 63, and I think it might be good to ride significantly farther than our 65 mile route... Maybe 80 - 100 miles? We will see.
Did my 26+ mile hill route today (road bike). Kicked my ass. Superb riding weather though. It looks like this. It's a there-and-back from my place, hence why it's mirrored like that. The one biggest hill is brutal. It'll peg your HR and keep it there a while. Can't really see it in the chart but she saves her best for last: the last couple hundred yards get just that last, are you KIDDING me, little bit steeper. My bike has climbing gearing and I'm standing up in my lowest gear those last couple hundie. Good times.
Rough week. Lost a dear fried to cancer, among other things. 54 years old, 6 months from diagnosis to grave. Smoke 'em if you got 'em fellas.
Chainsaw? Hell, I used the weedeater for over 20 minutes the other day. The torque on my forearms was like an ice climbing competition I tell ya.
Lower body in the gym with the trainer today. Squats, box jumps, dead lifts, glute bridges, lunges, and quad machine. It was almost as good as fishing in a boat.
I swam 30 minutes Monday. 10 minute swims, alternating hard length/medium length.
Ran 30 minutes yesterday. I'm slow as hell and frankly a little embarrassed at how much effort it took to do 9 minute miles according to my phone. Need to run on some sort of a regular basis.
Doing the hand/arm thing big time, plus, lots of rototilling in the evenings the last couple days since we are a bit behind*. Tilling gets my upper body pretty good.
*(Just put a new motor on our 30-yo BCS (Italian) tiller. I got a conversion kit and adapted it to a new Honda 200. The conversion was non-trivial but the Honda started first pull out of the crate!
On a related note, the 217 series hydrostatic tranny Honda mowers are awesome.... if you are looking but hesitating- don't. I bought one about a month ago and here's the great part- my wife likes it so much, she's taken over the chore! BOOOOM!
Upper body at the gym for me today. It was tough to get through the whole workout, what with women of all ages crowding around trying to take selfies with me.
On a related note, the 217 series hydrostatic tranny Honda mowers are awesome.... if you are looking but hesitating- don't. I bought one about a month ago and here's the great part- my wife likes it so much, she's taken over the chore! BOOOOM!
I had a HRX217 hydrostatic and hated it - the drive controls are far too cumbersome and I exchanged it for a HRX217 Select Drive.
this afternoon I'm headed for the Bob Marshall to scout a possible off trail route that would let me avoid a couple of potentially hazardous river crossings; it's going to be really steep and really snowy- we'll see oh and the Forest Service said the road was snowed in 5 miles before the trailhead, that's going to make a really long day into a really long day!
this afternoon I'm headed for the Bob Marshall to scout a possible off trail route that would let me avoid a couple of potentially hazardous river crossings; it's going to be really steep and really snowy- we'll see oh and the Forest Service said the road was snowed in 5 miles before the trailhead, that's going to make a really long day into a really long day!
Good luck with that! Hope you took the snowshoes or skis.
73 miles on the bicycle today, but a mellow 2400+ ft altitude gain. Fairly flat course along the Columbia River.
Dang Guy, that is impressive. About how long does a ride like that take??
Oh, we averaged a bit under 15 mph, our ride was a bit over 5 hours.
We're training for a "century" ride, a full 100 miles on a hilly course with a fair bit of climbing. That's on June 1st, and I hope the weather isn't too hot. That clobbers me the most, the heat. I have only ridden a few century rides, usually finish in about 7 hours. I did manage a 6 hour century once, but... That was a few years back in my 40's! I'm not that good on the bike anymore.
Finally done with school for the summer, so time to get consistent on working out. tried a new route this morning for a hike, did 4.6 miles with 30 pounds. Good amount of hills and felt good to get some miles. Had to get back though and make breakfast for the better half for mother's day.
let's see- headed out Friday evening for the Bob, had to walk 5 miles of the road to get to the trailhead due to snow, hiked another 4 miles by headlamp to the mouth of the drainage we'd be heading up in the morning; got up early and headed up to a ridge we wanted to scout out- was on snowshoes almost the entire day, didn't make it back to the truck until almost 8 pm (11 pm home)- we covered about 22 miles (about 13 on snowshoes) w/ a ton of ascent, taking it easy today
let's see- headed out Friday evening for the Bob, had to walk 5 miles of the road to get to the trailhead due to snow, hiked another 4 miles by headlamp to the mouth of the drainage we'd be heading up in the morning; got up early and headed up to a ridge we wanted to scout out- was on snowshoes almost the entire day, didn't make it back to the truck until almost 8 pm (11 pm home)- we covered about 22 miles (about 13 on snowshoes) w/ a ton of ascent, taking it easy today
Last Saturday did a nice hike chasing gobblers with my boys - Dad's the pack mule for youngest. (2) good 45 minute bike rides so far this week too. Did some swimming last night only bad thing is I was trout fishing at the time - water was cold & the air afterward wasn't much better.
not a giant surprise, but between the stomach bug, losing 10 lbs and not lifting a lot in the last two weeks- not the most stellar display fo strength for me
25 trips up Old Main Hill today and got my butt kicked. It's 124 steps up and I held a pace of 2:30 per lap for the first 20 rounds and then my old legs got tired.
Apparently hiking around Goblin Valley and a few slot canyons didn't maintain my cardio but making the 8 1/2 mile loop up Bell and down Little Wild Horse with my 6 mos pregnant daughter and 4 yo grandson was a good time. He's a tough little bugger but I'm glad the hike was his dad's idea instead of mine.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday did PNWild with 10 lbs in the pack, Tuesday was a hilly run and Thursday was a 2 mile HITT run.... damn did the hurt. In the spirit of JeffO on this thread, last night I finally finished up cutting up and stacking the 30 foot Spruce that was taken out by the bomb Cyclone and in turn put a hurting on the Rubicon. Took about 2.5 hours of struggle.
Cardio/gym for me today, did the bike and the self-propelled treadmill that's shaped like a banana, I like that thing. If you get right up on the front half it has a pretty good incline, gives the calves a good workout and a good burn if you stay on your toes.
7-mile hike, added a bit to our normal loop. 1300' ele gain.
Have two orders of the assemblies stacked up so the next 6+ weeks will be very JG intensive. Headed out there for a half day now. Bleah. Rather B Hikin'.
Scrapped the southern half of the Lost Coast trip; the logistics are truly daunting, worse even than the northern half which was a real pain... Replaced it with 8 days @ Hell's Canyon here in a week or so. Cyn has a 30-mile (backpacking) loop on the Idaho side we are gonna do, then, we'll pack in towards Lord Flats on the Oregon side, probably drop down Temperance Creek. Psyched, because I've been saving my elk points, and I'll have enough for a Snake River unit bull tag next year, which is a good tag, so this will serve as a scouting trip of sorts, albeit off-season relative to hunting so the animal patterns will be completely different.
I did the same route today; this time I left Tiny E behind and shaved an hour off of my time.
What really surprises me is I'm running a lot less these days (and hiking more), but looking back on 20+ times on this route running, I was right in the middle time wise. Not complaining, but strange
5-mile hike in the coast range, approx 2000' gain. Did a side jaunt up a guerrilla motorcycle trail that was about 1/2 mile STRAIGHT up a very very very steep hill, then straight back down the same trail. It was about as steep as a dirt hillside can get. Pounded the calves and quads, and I hear HC can be a "bit" hilly so........
Bought a new pack for the HC trip, Osprey Exos 5.8L. Loaded it with about 25 lbs for today's hike; it carried great, very pleased so far.
Rain has me inside so it's been elliptical the last 2 days. A steady pace for 55 minutes yesterday and 60 minutes of tough intervals today. Had the heart running 151-169 bpm for 38 straight minutes.
Workin' it like a nasty wench in the hand-arm jungle gym. This is a pic of some of the jungle gym apparatus just for fun. The parts I'm working on are on the service cart to the left. Out of the frame, just for Kenneth.
Leaving for Hell's Canyon in a few days for a 9-day adventure. The HC Rec Area is truly vast and we will only be getting a taste, but the current plan is a 50+ mile loop (backpacking) that takes us from the rim to the bottom then back up again. Really, really psyched to experience one of the more remote and untrammeled wildernesses in the lower 48. With any luck I'll set GPS points for campsites for hunting there next year.
And yes, for the cognoscenti amongst us, those are some crazy soft jaws on the Bison there. I've made 6 sets of soft jaws for this suite of parts. Actually more than that; the way I make soft jaw blanks, they are double-ended.... good times.
4 miles on the trails w/ Tiny E this afternoon; getting gear packed for Saturday morning (heading out tomorrow)- pack is heavier than I wanted it, but with snowshoes, water rescue rope, more robust shelter due to conditions- it is what it is
got home last night at 1:30 AM as we had to drive all the way back around to retrieve a vehicle at the start
finished in 57 hours, our route was 91 miles- about a fourth of that on snowshoes, about half of the miles in cold rain, survived several very sketchy fords, some very tough navigation (and fortunately only a couple of minor mistakes) and another very grand adventure under my belt
got home last night at 1:30 AM as we had to drive all the way back around to retrieve a vehicle at the start
finished in 57 hours, our route was 91 miles- about a fourth of that on snowshoes, about half of the miles in cold rain, survived several very sketchy fords, some very tough navigation (and fortunately only a couple of minor mistakes) and another very grand adventure under my belt
got home last night at 1:30 AM as we had to drive all the way back around to retrieve a vehicle at the start
finished in 57 hours, our route was 91 miles- about a fourth of that on snowshoes, about half of the miles in cold rain, survived several very sketchy fords, some very tough navigation (and fortunately only a couple of minor mistakes) and another very grand adventure under my belt
Congratulations, that is really impressive. Definitely type 2 fun, I hate crossing swift water.
mike r
me too; in my mind the most dangerous component of these treks- last year we got stopped in our tracks on a large river, we ended up with 104 miles when we got out and didn't even finish!
4 miles on the trails with Tiny Elvis; he was chomping at the bit to get back on the trails and I've found active recovery generally works well for me- feet are a still a little sore, but everything else is falling into place
The old guys let me tag along on a day hike yesterday, the lofty goal was to summit Mt. Logan from the backside. About 1/3 of the way up we hit snow and then it became a bit more work. Snowshoes didn't help and we ended up 600' below the top. We found an open spot on a ridge and ate lunch before turning back. Only 5.25 miles to where we turned back but 4000' elev gain and a lot of trudging.
8 miles and ~ 2000' gain for Tiny Elvis and I; thought we might have got some good heat training in as well, but when I got back to the truck it said 70 degrees
ETA: the new pack carried really well, and the Duplex did great. We got caught in a couple big storms, one quite windy and POUNDING rain, so it got tested. Saw lots of cool critters. Did not see another human for 5 straight days except when we were down on the River Trail and there were a couple hikers on the Idaho side, and of course jet boats. Speaking of the Idaho side the Seven Devils got absolutely hammered several times by storms that we dodged. This is during one of them. One of the prettiest things I've seen. That segment of rainbow was incredibly bright. Looked like an alien energy beam, like the ground should've been boiling where it hit. It got shorter and shorter then snuffed out as the sun went down behind us. So cool.
Body held up fine as did Cyn's. The loop we did was basically Freezeout TH > High Trail (aka Bench Trail, not to be confused with the rim trail) at Saddle Ck > Temperance Ck at Wisenor > Temperance Ranch > River Tail > Saddle Creek to get back up and out. Crazy amounts of vertical. We split the climb out into two days.
Have you applied to do the ridge run down there in Bozeman? I applied a couple times but was rejected.
Bucket list stuff for sure.
I've run the Ridge three times, last time was 2017. If it's not the toughest 20 mile race in the US, it's easily in the top 5. It's probably time I put in again I'm pretty sure if you put in successive years, you'll get picked by year three (if you don't draw the first two years). Definitely a neat race running on the knife spine of the Bridgers.
This was on the way down from Wisenor Place. If anyone reading this is contemplating doing this segment PM me for some really crucial info we found our out the hard way. I can save you considerable pain.
Have you applied to do the ridge run down there in Bozeman? I applied a couple times but was rejected.
Bucket list stuff for sure.
I've run the Ridge three times, last time was 2017. If it's not the toughest 20 mile race in the US, it's easily in the top 5. It's probably time I put in again I'm pretty sure if you put in successive years, you'll get picked by year three (if you don't draw the first two years). Definitely a neat race running on the knife spine of the Bridgers.
Now I'm gone so I guess I'm SOL!
I think Greenhorn does it every year. But I don't know that he posts here any more.
This was on the way down from Wisenor Place. If anyone reading this is contemplating doing this segment PM me for some really crucial info we found our out the hard way. I can save you considerable pain.
Have you applied to do the ridge run down there in Bozeman? I applied a couple times but was rejected.
Bucket list stuff for sure.
I've run the Ridge three times, last time was 2017. If it's not the toughest 20 mile race in the US, it's easily in the top 5. It's probably time I put in again I'm pretty sure if you put in successive years, you'll get picked by year three (if you don't draw the first two years). Definitely a neat race running on the knife spine of the Bridgers.
Now I'm gone so I guess I'm SOL!
I think Greenhorn does it every year. But I don't know that he posts here any more.
definitely not for the faint of heart it crushes dozens of people each year
Have you applied to do the ridge run down there in Bozeman? I applied a couple times but was rejected.
Bucket list stuff for sure.
FaceTime when you do this.. so I can be part of it thanks bro..
Your FaceTime is spent in a gas and sip glory hole stall...😜😎
And you went straight ph ucking homo.. never go full homo..
If 1/2 a dick suck is okay for you,,,,then you go girl...Don’t FaceTime Flave. He’ll puke on his new carpet and the wife will have to clean it up. 😂😎
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Only saw a couple muleys, both small bucks in velvet, and both down low by the river.
A guy could get into trouble in HC for sure. When we were 3 days in (about halfway) it starts to occur to ya that if'n some part of your leg went tits-up on you you'd be in a world of hurt. Because you still gotta get your ass back OUT. The river trail is non-technical, but on the bench trail and the canyon trails that connect things up vertically, so to speak, they are rough trails... virtually every step you take is mission-critical and could have serious ramifications if you screw it up. There are many many places where the sketchy narrow bench trail skirts cliffs, that'd kill you DEAD, by just a few feet. To add a bit of spice to THAT, we had close encounters (under 5') with 3 rattlesnakes, and 2 of them were in the above scenario- death cliff on the downhill side RIGHT off the trail, and a rattler on the uphill side of the trail just a couple feet off of it. Would hate to be on a horse in that situation. I grew up running all over the desert in NM and only encountered one rattler the whole time.
Ticks were voluminous but mostly not interested in hanging on.
Now that I've seen it I can start to plot a hunt there.
We have been playing out of town most weekends, been doing zero swimming for the last month as a result. Nursing a back injury which has me avoiding the bike(s) since February. Started running because I was supposed to do a relay race with folks from work. Did the first triathlon of the year and was only 3 minutes off last years time, which I felt pretty good about.
Then I read about a 90 mile cross country race and I'm back to being humbled...
Speaking of old guys......did a little hiking/fishing up in the mtns. this weekend. We have near-record snow levels in most of the state and just about every major avalanche chute we passed on the road had some slides this year, some had crossed the roads, and some fairly big trees were torn to shreds.
Got back in the gym Monday/Tuesday/today, had to lay off for a while because the elbow flared up. Drew my bull tag for this September, so that give me some motivation.
Just workin' the hand/arm thing. I was thinking of adding up the pounds "dealt with" in a day; I'm doing a run of 25 of these and they weigh almost 15 lbs each before machining... they get numerous fixturings,it'd be a big number. But it's really the cranking them in/out of fixturing that gets me; can't really quantify that.
Anyway... not why I was posting... I mentioned how my body felt great after a week and 60+ miles in Hell's Canyon, and it did, we felt like we could've just started the whole loop over again when we finished (except the Wisenor > Temperance Ranch segment; never doing that again) BUT, as is often the case fo me, after several days the exercise high wears off and things do get sore. That ever happen to you guys? My hips in particular, left knee, Cyn's feet.... Oh well. Guess it's best to just keep hikin'.
Used to do the Gym but don't do that anymore! My last two weeks workout consisted of a 40 lb pack for two day and 14 miles than a 75 lb pack for 3 days and 19 miles than a 15 lb pack for another 50 ish miles. Total of 6 high mountain lakes, lots of snow, and 9 overnighter in the tent
This two weeks workout consists of putting shoes on 180 ish race horses than its back to backpacks and mountains again
If anyone in northwest Montana is interested in joining my wilderness mountain fitness club were always up for hard core hikers/ campers/ hunters that want to tag along
Did a couple runs this week. On Wednesday I was running by a HS track and remembered an old thread where Take a Knee was (maybe jokingly?) asking about how fast I could run a mile in response to something stupid I said on here, and I ran a mile, just to see.
Anyway, I was laughing pretty hard while running in public and looking like a crazy person, so I swung into the track and cranked out a mile. 6:04, which at 42... I guess I'm pretty ok with. Ended with 8ish miles total.
First open water swim of the year tonight, and its just crazy warm.
Glorious weather continues- low 70's, cloudy w/ a slight breeze- 4 miles and just shy of 1000' of gain for Tiny E and I; Tiny E not happy that I forgot his treats!
Did a crossfit workout named "Chelsea". Every minute on the minute for 30 minutes:
5 pull-ups 10 push-ups 15 air squats
The hardest part for me is always the air squats.
Sounds brutal, I wonder how they came up with the name. Loaded up the pack and took a 90-minute stroll last night. FIrst time in a while, always puts a strain on my hip flexors.
Got kinda derailed there for a while. Family member in the hospital for a while, pretty serious stuff, but back home now. I was 24/7 caregiver for a bit, then got back home and all sorts of stuff got in the way.
I did some pushups & crunches, etc, while I couldn't ride, hike, or hit the gym. But... Lost a lot of cardio anyway. Dang it.
Rode the "century" but... hadn't done much riding in three weeks, so when it started getting awfully warm, decided to ride the half-century instead. A mere 58 mile ride that day. One serious hill though. Up, up, up, in my bike's lowest gear, then a 46+ mph bomb down the other side! Would have likely topped 50 mph if I hadn't tapped the brakes a bit when an oncoming car showed up...
And since then cranked out an easy-paced 35 mile ride. So, settling back into it. Not sure I'm going to attempt another 100 mile ride this summer. MAYBE if we get a cool spell. I don't ride real strong in the heat. Get me an overcast day in the 60's? You bet! Sunny and 90? No thanks.
Good to see that everyone is cruising along with their workouts. We all ought to be in decent shape when the fall seasons roll in.
Did a crossfit workout named "Chelsea". Every minute on the minute for 30 minutes:
5 pull-ups 10 push-ups 15 air squats
The hardest part for me is always the air squats.
Sounds brutal, I wonder how they came up with the name. Loaded up the pack and took a 90-minute stroll last night. FIrst time in a while, always puts a strain on my hip flexors.
It was named to help make it memorable so the instructor would only need to explain once.
Ran the steps on Old Main Hill today, 17 laps on a nice sunny afternoon with a breeze. Quads were sore from the squats yesterday and are worse tonight.
Pretty good lower body workout yesterday. Started out with a warm-up on the bike, then a super set of back squats/box jumps, and then single leg hamstring curls, quad raises, calf raises, glute bridge machine, ad leg press machine. Did a bunch of leg lifts somewjhere in the middle.
Been so busy working on getting our house ready to put on the market, that my workout regime has been thrown out of whack. Ran 2 miles on Tuesday, and hiked 4 miles this morning with a 30 pound pack.
did six rounds of 24 walking lunges, 24 air squats and 24 pushups; if it looks familiar it's Laredo w/o the running- by hook or by crook, I'm doing the full workout this month!
a very 4-ish miles and ~ 1500' of gain w/ my wife, brother, sister-in-law and Tiny E; afterwards spent the afternoon soaking in the local hot springs- don't too shabby
Ive been walking three flights of stairs at work for an hour every day and doing muay Thai /jiujitsu class three times a week st 2/hrs a class. I need to start running some too. Training at low altitude in small town makes getting ready for altitude challenging.
Today was the first Mountain Bike ride of the year. Have been doing a fair bit of road bike rides - but - Mountain Biking is so much more fun to me!
And it's out in the same hills where I hunt in the fall. So... It's good stuff. Only 9.2 miles and a 1700+ ft elevation gain, but it was enough for today.
mtwarden what kind of dog is tinyE? For sure he's in great shape!
he's half Chihuahua and half Yorkshire, he was really tiny when we got him, but at two years he's between 13 and 14 lbs, which is on the large end of those breeds- he's definitely in good shape
Mondays and Thursdays: 15 min elliptical Upper body lifting 15 min elliptical
Tuesdays and Fridays: 15 min elliptical Lower body/core lifting 15 min elliptical
Wednesdays and Saturdays: 3 mins Thai on heavy bag 1 min on elliptical 10 rounds
Changing it up this week to: M/W/F: 15 min elliptical Total body circuit lifting 15 min elliptical
T/TH/Sat: 3 mins Thai on heavy bag 1 min on elliptical 10 rounds
This morning my elliptical had a motor error that won't clear after restarting it several times I don't know how many miles that things got on it but it's a lot so I can't complain.....and even though I hate the thing...I'm going to be really sad if it's down for the count.
mtwarden what kind of dog is tinyE? For sure he's in great shape!
he's half Chihuahua and half Yorkshire, he was really tiny when we got him, but at two years he's between 13 and 14 lbs, which is on the large end of those breeds- he's definitely in good shape
That's pretty cool. My hunting, camping, hiking buddy Clark, a GWP, just passed from cancer a few weeks ago. That dog loved cool & cold weather and thought our snowshoe hikes were terrific. I miss him a lot. He was a great hunting dog, but even better, he was my companion on my hiking & camping trips. Dang. Treasure ol' Tiny E.
mtwarden what kind of dog is tinyE? For sure he's in great shape!
he's half Chihuahua and half Yorkshire, he was really tiny when we got him, but at two years he's between 13 and 14 lbs, which is on the large end of those breeds- he's definitely in good shape
That's pretty cool. My hunting, camping, hiking buddy Clark, a GWP, just passed from cancer a few weeks ago. That dog loved cool & cold weather and thought our snowshoe hikes were terrific. I miss him a lot. He was a great hunting dog, but even better, he was my companion on my hiking & camping trips. Dang. Treasure ol' Tiny E.
Guy
tinyE seems like an excellent hiking partner.
I had to let one of my dogs go just before memorial day. Zoe (the brindle) was my favorite pain in the ass and life isn't the same without her. Rocky, who's blind and deaf, just keeps on going. He still walks a couple miles with me in the mornings.
Have been just crushed with work, same stuff I've mentioned... On the positive side I've matched last year's $$ already at the halfway point of this year, and last year was a good year. Still, I'm frankly getting my ass kicked a bit, hands/arms/shoulders especially but standing on concrete every single day is doing my hips/back no favors.
Anyway... not complaining, but also haven't been working out. But, got out today for a 6.5 mile hike.
I uploaded a few more pics from Hell's Canyon, as well as looked at the info on my GPS a bit... for reference, in the first two days we covered 18 miles, over 8000 feet total up/down, about 4700' of that was ascending.
I mentioned the Bench Trail aka the High Trail. Be advised there's also a highER trail called the rim trail. Anyway this gives a sense of the bench trail terrain for the first 12-15 miles anyway. Then the geology changes for a while. More cliff-y. Most of the time on the bench trail there are cliffs of some sort above you, sometimes also below you, then there's these massive fingers going out into the canyon, and of course, one is crossing all the side canyons, which can be huge, but doing it high up where they are at least smaller.
My ugly mug in that same part of the lower Temperance Creek canyon I posted earlier.
Let me see if I've got anything else fit to print.
This is on the River Trail. Very powerful river. Sometimes, looking ahead, it'd be like how the HELL is the trail getting us around/over that safely?! But it always did. There were some passages that would be very hard for someone afraid of heights, but that's true of the Bench Trail as well.
Got some more but since I was the only one with a working phone, due to brainfart issues my lovely wife had, haha, all the pics have Cyn in them and I'll just keep them private.... of course, Mike, Harry, Smoke, etc if you are dying to see more of HC I'd be happy to PM them to you.
Doing a ride-my-age with my buddy tomorrow; actually it's his age we are riding since he's older (56). Not worried aerobically or strength-wise but I haven't been banking big miles lately; my ass is gonna hurt. Not sure what exactly happens "down there" but if you ride a lot, the butt adjusts somehow... haha.... but I haven't been.
12 mile run (gave Tiny Elvis the day off), the last couple of miles were painful in the bottom of my right heel and instep- it appears it is most likely Plantar Fascitiitis, will ice the $hit out of it; hopefully can still walk on it
PF can be a real bummer... I would assume an athlete of your caliber (and age, haha) stretches your feet but if not, start. Aggressively... very aggressively. With my bout of PF I had a hard knot towards the rear or the arch. I started by rolling it on our hardwood floor with a tennis ball. I'd hear cracking sounds, see stars, and it hurt but also felt incredible and was an amazing release. I had a ton of "whatever" locked up in that spot. I'd roll it so hard, it'd bruise the bottom of my foot. But it got rid of the knot. The PF was a show-stopper for me and in fact cost me a premium backpacking hunt (Steens) I had a tag for. I still hunted it and eventually killed a young buck but I couldn't go further than 1/2 mile or so from the truck. In my case at least, it wasn't something that could be "walked off", it'd just get worse and worse if I tried.
When I stretch my arches now I reef on them so hard it amazes me they aren't sore as hell, but they accept it. If the PF spot starts to act up- which it did numerous times in Hells Canyon- I find a good log or rock and just stretch it hard. It works...
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Rode 56+ miles today! Funny day. We were joined by a buddy who hasn't been riding at all and was way out of shape. We came up with a route and plan where he dropped his car at a spot that would be at about the 30 mile mark, where he was planning on bailing. When we got there we hung out a few minutes then got ready to leave.... which is when he realized he'd left his keys in my buddy Mark's car back at my house when they were shuttling the rigs. D'oh. There was no solution that didn't involve a minimum of 15 miles more for him, and even then, it would be 15 on a really unpleasant and dangerous road for cycling. So we convinced him to just complete the ride with us. He was DYING. His quads were hardly firing. He fell asleep on my deck when we got back here, like snoring asleep. He's gonna be one sore pup tomorrow. Mark and I felt great; the pace was "not fast" since he was along and we avoided most of the big climbs so as to not kill him, so for Mark and I it was pretty easy really.
thanks for the tips Jeff; it's a tiny bit better this morning- I was limping last night like my foot was broke! found some stretches last night and will try the rolling with a frozen water bottle
Murph for those that don't know
1 mile run 100 pull-ups 200 pushups 300 air squats 1 mile run
you can break up the exercises in the middle any way you want, but have to complete all reps; when I do it I do 20 sets of 5 pull-ups, 10 pushups and 15 air squats- towards the end things generally fall apart, especially the pull-ups and you get what you can
it's a really tough workout and probably has been 6 months + since I've done it, get my heel healed and I'll give it another go
thanks for the tips Jeff; it's a tiny bit better this morning- I was limping last night like my foot was broke! found some stretches last night and will try the rolling with a frozen water bottle
I highly recommend the tennis ball; I think it you try it you'll see why. I tried the frozen water bottle but the tennis ball was the bomb. It has just the right amount of give in it to allow you to really work the injured area; the frozen bottle is too hard, perhaps counterintuitively, to get in there and grind properly. At least, for me.
To do the things you do, you must have a high tolerance for pain...... You'll probably power through it faster than I did, I was limping for several months. That said, if my PF was in any way typical, there's gonna be pain, and for a while. The goal is functionality... so I think it's crucial to get that affected area crunched with a tennis ball, stretched beyond belief, and iced, and then lather/rinse/repeat. It will bruise and otherwise traumatize the bottom of your foot. But that's a pain I could deal with, and it was the price for aggressively "releasing" the injured area. Mind you, I'm talking over a period of months here in my case, but still, point being, IMHO the trauma from the tennis ball and hardcore stretching was a huge net-positive over the injury for the simple fact that I couldn't put power through my foot with the PF; but with a bruised and sore (from stretching) arch, I could and can.
One final thing then I'll shut up. While at Steens that year I met a doctor who was also hunting the tag. He said he could've fixed it with an injection in his office. I assume he meant steroids of some sort. Can't speak to that, just passing it along.
Good luck man, you are an inspiration <grin> and I'm always rooting for ya.
^ I didn't do anything yesterday; limping is less pronounced- have been icing and stretching which definitely help; we had a couple of tennis balls around the house, but sound like my wife recently tossed them- going to pick one up today
Do take care when you exercise on it. A couple of years ago I kept on going on mine until it ruptured. I could have avoided a lot of headaches if I'd have slowed down a bit and treated it correctly.
One thing I discovered is that my feet are growing in my old age. My left foot has always been a half-size bigger and since most shoes and boots stop offering half-sizes beyond a 12, I was cramming that foot into too small a shoe for a few years there until I woke up and went with 13's. Point being, having the arch in any way cramped up by too small a shoe is an absolute recipe for a flare-up of the PF, from which I infer that being in too small a shoe was part of what caused it in the first place.
I found it to be a real bummer of an injury, far beyond what I'd imagined "plantar fasciitis" would be like prior to having it. You hear the term tossed around pretty casually. It's not a casual injury. At least for me it wasn't. I'm also just now finally getting past the bursitis it set off in my left hip from walking funny on it for months. I'd counsel taking it very seriously. Also get that tennis ball asap and make your eyes water, Mike.
^ I didn't do anything yesterday; limping is less pronounced- have been icing and stretching which definitely help; we had a couple of tennis balls around the house, but sound like my wife recently tossed them- going to pick one up today
No surgery. Had to wear a boot for 3 months even while sleeping. Kept the "arch" in place so it would heal. Limited running or ballistic movement for the next 6 months. Arch support/insoles forever now. The bottom of that foot is "looser" than the other now.
Was dealing with the pf already, had to take some heavy duty antibiotics for a little ol sinus infection that turned into cellulitis.....and apparently the antibiotics may weaken some connective tissue....and I was training hard. It doesn't bother me now but if I had slowed down and focused on treating it I doubt it would have happened.
thanks- it is a good workout considering it's only a 20 minute investment; in the beginning I got ahead of the one round/minute, then I hit a round a minute, then it went longer than a minute/round and then it's gone!
I'm 63, and I see some of these workouts and think "Oh my goodness, yes. In my 20's, 30's or even 40's..."
But I have to admit that anymore, the thought of some of these workouts makes me want to go to the fridge, grab a beer and sit down for a while.
Regards, Guy
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You can start out with easier movements, as you build strength and endurance you can progress to harder movements and to the RX's. But starting is the key.
Like I said, Mike is an inspiration, and I'm serious about that. If I'm remembering right he didn't even start running until about my age (54)... is that more or less correct?
My main workout buddy and I have a inside joke when we are huffing a big climb.... my wife and I as well in HC a few weeks ago.... "how many other 54 year olds are..." and the truth is, as a percentage, not many. The general state of the "herd" in America is pretty piss-poor. But I am also very aware that there's guys like Mike absolutely crushing it and, y'know what, it gives me hope for the future.
Yup, was very late to the running game. It all started when we decided we do a voluntary fitness assessment roughy quarterly, for the Region Seven wardens when got together. We put together things like pushups in a minute, sit-ups in a minute, max pull-ups- all things I was already pretty good at. I knew we had to have an aerobic component as well, so we decided on a roughly 3 mile run and decided it would be most appropriate to do it on trails. Well I didn't want to look like an ass, so I forced myself to start running. When I started, I had to walk most of the 3 miles. Slowly more running than walking and eventually I was able to run the entire loop. Then something funny happened, when it was my run day- I actually began to look forward to it- I was 52 at the time! 3 miles became, 4, 4-5, etc. In roughly a year I got together with some guys and we did the Rim to Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon; make no mistake I suffered, but I made it
Yup, was very late to the running game. It all started when we decided we do a voluntary fitness assessment roughy quarterly, for the Region Seven wardens when got together. We put together things like pushups in a minute, sit-ups in a minute, max pull-ups- all things I was already pretty good at. I knew we had to have an aerobic component as well, so we decided on a roughly 3 mile run and decided it would be most appropriate to do it on trails. Well I didn't want to look like an ass, so I forced myself to start running. When I started, I had to walk most of the 3 miles. Slowly more running than walking and eventually I was able to run the entire loop. Then something funny happened, when it was my run day- I actually began to look forward to it- I was 52 at the time! 3 miles became, 4, 4-5, etc. In roughly a year I got together with some guys and we did the Rim to Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon; make no mistake I suffered, but I made it
That is awesome mtwarden. Once you start it becomes addicting. I tell everyone with every excuse in the book all you have to do is start. Once you start you will see gains and that is when it becomes addicting.
Somehow despite careers in the Marines and in law enforcement, I managed to survive to 63, which pretty much surprised me. Wear and tear on the ol' legs has pretty well ruined my ability to run. I miss it. Running was the base of my conditioning for decades. Now though, I walk, hike, snowshoe, cross-country ski and bicycle. Love all of those alternatives to running, but I miss the simple runs of years gone by.
I hit the gym pretty regularly all winter. Cold here in central Washington, and the gym just makes sense then. I tend to lift a lot less in the summer, 'cause I'm busy outside, hiking and bicycling. Mostly on the bicycle anymore, it's kinder to my legs.
Also have some old injuries that haunt me still. Shoulder, neck, legs... Sheesh!
Regular morning routine is stretching, then pushups & crunches and some lifting with my 30# dumbbells. I alternate what lifting I do.
Then two or three days a week I'll ride. Anywhere from 12 - 70+ miles depending on time available. The mountain bike rides are usually much shorter, but quite demanding due to the steep terrain.
A friend grabbed this photo of me in the gym at 61. I haven't entirely lost muscle mass - in fact I'm too heavy for my age & height. I've shifted to using lighter weights, more reps. Changed my diet. Trying to reduce the mass/weight and get in better overall fitness:
My best hiking buddy died a month ago. I sure do miss him. Sorry, already mentioned that earlier. On my mind still.
Last winter on snowshoes. Just did that same route, and more, on the mountain bike last week. It's only a few miles from town:
The mountain bike is my summertime toy:
Varying my workout throughout the year helps avoid boredom with it. Cycling and hiking in the summer. Skiing and snowshoes in the winter. More lifting in the winter, less in the summer. Keeps me happy and relatively fit, but... Not as good as in years gone by.
Bear season opens Aug 1st. I won't be backpacking for bear, but I'll be doing some strenuous hiking here in the Cascades to reach a spot where I can glass for them. I think I'll be in reasonable condition for hunting season.
24 air squats 24 pushups 24 walking lunges 400 m run
24:52, had to back off the pace of the 1/4 mile run the last three rounds- a toughie to be sure!
I did this but at 1/2 the reps on Monday and didn't time it. First time doing anything but running in a long time. Legs are s o r e... It's a good workout.
pointer- agreed, it’s a tough workout; I’d throw in some half and then 3/4 workouts prior to doing the whole workout- definitely helps having the body somewhat conditioned to those exercises
Closer to 62 than 61 for me. Started running in my mid 20's. Started running ultras in my mid 30's. Haven't run an ultra event in 14 years but have done a few solo ultras since then. Hike a lot more than run these days, just prefer it. No significant injury's from all the mileage. Shoulders are shot from 30 years in construction, doing lots of things by myself that I should have had help with.
Ah, live and learn. The next 40+ years, I will take better care of myself
Hike a lot more than run these days, just prefer it.
With the addition of Tiny E two years ago, my hiking now far exceeds my running as well. What I find surprising is that when do decide to go for a run, it's not overly hard- as you might think it would be cutting back so much. It just might be that hiking (albeit fast and on rougher terrain) in lieu of running, doesn't negatively impact your running a lot.
I've yet to meet the hike I can't complete, I know it'll happen someday... however the pace is what it is. Nobody would accuse me of running.
Cyn sprained the [bleep] out of her ankle, all swole up and turning colors. Ugh. We were plotting a short backpacking trip for late this week, plus we want to climb South Sister (mountain in the Cascades), plus plus plus... and then she plans to attempt all of the washington PCT in August, which she'll need to average over 15 miles/day, so in a sense the rest of the summer is lead-up and training for that. She says she felt a grating sensation when it happened (mowing brush).... I'm really worried she bruised bones. Guess time will tell. Injuries SUCK ASS.
Old age and injuries have reduced my abilities somewhat, but I still enjoy the effort required to be able to move on foot in the mountains. As long as I have this to look forward to my life will be complete. The hot hours in the home gym are improved by watching You Tube vids of mountain athletes in amazing places. I can watch pretty girls run Ultras and climb ice for hours.
I've been icing/stretching/rolling multiple times per day and my foot felt a lot better today, good enough I decided to hit the trails and see what happens- actually didn't hurt much and was able to get 4 miles in with Tiny E, slowed the pace and picked a little easier loop- can't tell you how good it felt to get back on the trails!
have the day off so decided to hit the gym this afternoon too
I like this old bike, got it somewhere around 15-20 years ago. Just an old American made Trek hardtail mountain bike. I still love the heck out of pedaling it either around town or up in the hills. We've had some grand adventures, and wow, what a workout that whole mountain-biking thing can be. Photo taken Tuesday on a 16 - 17 mile ride above town. Good workout!
My son and his buddies built that table about ten years ago, then dis-assembled it, hiked it into the location overlooking our valley, and put it back together. It needs to be sanded, stained and to have all the bolts tightened. Sounds like another good workout, hiking the tools & stain in there.
Monday, yuck! I made it this morning despite the dog waking me up at 0330. A pretty good back and legs day today. A short treadmill warmup then 3 warmup sets of lat pull-downs and leg extensions then three working supersets. Fairly heavy weight concentrating on volume and time under tension so a pretty slow movement.
V-bar row/seated calf raise toes straight Hack squat/v-bar pull-down/seated calf raise toes in Straight bar inverse grip row/prone leg curl Incline lawnmowers/leg extension Body weight ring pullups/cable rotations/ball crunches
I've hit the reset button on my Wendler program; it's probably been at least two months since I've been able to keep a steady, twice a week effort-soooooo.... back I go
Did a solo ocean fishing trip out of Depoe today; in sum total it certainly feels like I "did something" today. Ocean works my core.
Taking a customer of mine out tomorrow; didn't even unhook the boat from the truck or flush the motors. Just hosed out most of the blood. Oh yeah, I slayed major fish today. Hope/expect to tomorrow as well. <Sam Kinnison scream> FISH WHERE THE FISH ARE!!! AAAAGGGHHH! Haha
12 miles with 6 of the 7 the goats this weekend on their first overnighter. Couldn’t get past 10,200 feet in north facing timber to make our one way trail connector due to snow. So back tracked, put up camp and came out the same way. Pictures to come once I pay the photobucket ransom
Short, seven mile mountain bike ride this morning with about 1,500' of climbing. I have to admit to pushing the bike up some of the bigger, tougher hills.
What a ride back down!
Should have brought the fly rod, fish were rising...
The 15+ year old Trek hardtail. I still like that danged thing, all these years later.
Decided I didn't want to run Old Main today so I grabbed a pack and added a few (9) lead ingots. It weighed right at 50 lbs and I made 17 trips up the hill with it. The Polar rated the workout as "mild" however, my feet, butt and shoulders feel differently.
Decided I didn't want to run Old Main today so I grabbed a pack and added a few (9) lead ingots. It weighed right at 50 lbs and I made 17 trips up the hill with it. The Polar rated the workout as "mild" however, my feet, butt and shoulders feel differently.
Cascade- there's no shame in pushing a MTB up steep stuff. I HAD to last time I rode; if I stood up the rear tire would spin out and the climbs were too long and steep to do the whole thing sitting.
Day 2 ocean fishin yesterday. My customer is a trooper and she will be invited back. We got 4 ling cod (limit) plus a few we released; 2 Cabezon (limit) and threw back another that was bigger than one we'd already killed, oh well, and got 7/10 of the rockfish we could keep. If I had the boat/gonads to go further offshore, guys were slaying coho 2-3,miles out. It was bathtub-calm but I'm still whipped.
Tiny Elvis and I got our hill workout in this morning while it was still cool (upper 50's)- 4 mile loop that gains ~ 1600' in 1.5 miles, tiptoe steep for 30 minutes straight, the next 2.5 miles is a nice gradual downhill
Got back in the gym today for a lower body workout. I've been hitting the trail with a loaded pack, and that seems to have improved almost everything I do in the gym, as far as the weights I can comfortably lift with the lower body.
SP, that's great that the ankle is "functional enuff"...
Took my little boat several miles out onto the big pond after salmon yesterday. First time going out so far... so brave, so very very brave.... lol.... Started calm then got quite rough. As always for me, a very sufficient core workout- can feel it today fo sho. Boated 3 salmon.
Walked 2.5 miles in the flats today, only notable because it was Cyn's first time hoofing it since she FUBAR'd her ankle. In theory, she starts a major section hike in 2 weeks. Tryin' hard... we'll see.
Did feel good (for me I mean) to walk a bit. Just been grindin' and fishin'. Nether involves walkin'.
Back at it again. Got 3 workouts on dreadmill in so far this week. Expect another tomorrow and may go on a group hike on Saturday. Weather is supposed to be good and I need some woods therapy.
Upped it to 3.5 miles walking today; her cankle was sore last night but didn't do anything obnoxious after the first walk so we will ramp up the miles in the flats a few more days, then get back to hiking trails around here. Her main concern is going uphiill; it doesn't want to bend that way at all. She's re-assessing her plan for the big section; prior plan she had to average ~17 miles a day for a month. That may be unrealistic now, she's just gonna have to see how it responds... but that's a big daily AVERAGE on healthy feet. Anyway new plan seems to be more like 10 miles a day plus the resupply logistics are WAY easier. I'm going to join her for a big chunk in the middle of it, hopefully a couple weeks, which is one reason I'm grinding hard now, to free up a big block of time.
Anyway.... 3.5 ain't much but that's all I gots. That and the daily h/a jungle gym stuff.
Just another 26 mile road bike ride this morning. Pretty fast for us, under two hours. Not much elevation gain on this particular course, 880' or so I believe.
Sure was nice out this morning. With light Saturday morning traffic, we were able to put the hammer down, managed to break 40 mph going down one hill. That's kinda fun on skinny little bike tires!
There's two hills I top 40 mph on and I agree, it's a blast.
I hope you use a daytime-bright white headlight/flasher up front.... I didn't at first, but I was blazing down a hill and someone almost pulled out of their rural driveway in front of me. Or, there was that super rich woman, former CFO of Amazon if memory serves, who was killed in CA a few years ago coming down a hill by someone who pulled in front of her. I remember thinking, a freaking $50 light and she'd still be alive. Anyway just a thought.
Too hot to walk so far.... Did spend a couple hours crawling around under my boat trailer fixing wiring and replacing corroded U-bolts. Abs workout.
did Murph today (52:45), probably has been close to two years since I've tried it- it's still a tough workout
1 mile run 100 pullups 200 pushups 300 air squats 1 mile run
I partitioned the first half with 5 pull-ups/10 pushups/15 air squats, decided to try something I read about this morning- doing 50 sets of 2/4/6, as I was halfway I did 25 sets like that
in another two years might have to try the whole 50 set deal
A pretty solid shoulders and legs day. A mix of supersets and giant sets. I threw some dumb bell chest press in just for extra measure.
DB shoulder press/seated calf raise/leg extension Seated lateral raise/prone leg curl Rear delt DB fly/hack squat/cable rotations Front plate raise/goblet squat/ab roller
SP, as the presumed resident expert, any elastic ankle brace that is the bomb? Suggestions for taping or finding particularly good instructions for taping? Cyn is planning on starting her big monthlong hike next week. The ankle is "ok" on flat ground, remains untested on uneven ground and with a pack. I know, I know... you try to talk her out of it, she's obsessed!
Our youngest is back from the Southern Hemisphere and is joining her for the first week or so. I'm planning on joining up somewhere in the middle. I'm absolutely swamped with work. Fawk.
Well, before I had the ankle fused I tried a bunch of different ankle braces including the "gold standard" Arizona Brace which is among the most if not the most rigid brace you can get. You have to get that one custom-fitted. None of 'em really helped, especially the elastic ones, they don't really keep you from rolling your ankle, a good boot is better ankle support. And for me anyway they just made it harder to get a good tight fit with the boot. If she can tolerate ibuprofen I'd recommend a prescription strength dose of 800 mg. twice a day, that was the best thing for my ankle (but I used 1,000). That and some Voltaren gel, rubbed on the ankle. Generic name is diclofenac.
Did cardio yesterday in the gym, and lower body/core today. Tough workout today, our middle son and his GF are visiting from Australia and we hosted a BBQ for them and 15 of their friends at the house, smoked some baby back ribs and drank way too much beer, I was dragging but felt good by the end of it.
Going on a tune-up hike next weekend, to the hunting grouns at around 11K. Taking a buddy from work, he's never been there so I'm going to show him around. Should be a good time.
just got back from a quick overnighter with Tiny E into an alpine lake- 10 miles round trip, ~ 2000' of gain up to the lake; sadly forgot my phone in my truck and too late in discovering I did
snapped this this morning when we got back to the truck
No way she'll wear boots. She's into zero-drop trail runners. I'm thinking the best I can hope for is a good lightweight elastic brace, if such exists, coupled with the knowledge of how to tape an ankle, which presumably can be gleaned from YouTube. Glad my kid will be there- she's a physical specimen, could carry Cyn off the mountain if it came to it.
Well, one thing I can tell you. Most people with a bad ankle carrying a pack in the backcountry are better served with a good boot than an elastic brace.
For most, the concern is rolling the ankle over to the outside. The way a brace goes on your foot, the angles that it applies tension, and the relative weakness of the elastic doesn't help much with that. If the elastic had enough tension to really help, you couldn't put it on and take it off. Taping is much better but for a multiple day trip it's a huge pain in the ass.
Agree with all the above. She's vehemently anti-boot. Interestingly, when she hurt it, it wasn't primarily a roll to the outside, but that's what causes pain now. She's seeing the elastic as more to help keep it from swelling and the tape as the structural part of the "brace". I dunno, I think she's nuts but then again, if I had a good elk tag I was hunting I'd be doing the same thing... this is her window of opportunity. She works at a school, etc. Still think she's a bit nuts and there's a good chance she'll have to abort off the trail due to it.
Actually I think she's MORE nuts because the skeeters are gonna be vicious up there on the PCT. But as I said... obsessed. If they are really bad, I'm not going up to join her. Screw that. I'm NOT obsessed with through-hiking. I've been on the PCT in July when you feel like you can't breathe because there's such a cloud of skeeters around your face mask and they are burrowing into every crease in your clothes. God help the foo' who needs to take a dump. Etc.
20-ish mile loop in the Elkhorns today- a hefty 6000'+ gain, a lot of off trail on rock = slow going; gorgeous day w/ the starting temps in the low 50's, upper 60's when I got back to my truck . also saw a dozen cow/calf elk about 500-600 yds across a drainage
"""""" I'm absolutely swamped with work. Fawk."""""""""""
Awkward and embarrassing at the same time,
Boy I'll say. I'd really be embarrassed to admit I was closely following a guy on the internet that I don't know and will never meet, and concerning myself with how many days he went fishing.
Did a couple hours hike with the pack yesterday, in 90+ heat, it was awesome.
Good workout yesterday paddling Swamp Thing about 5 miles. Was in the Columbia River mostly, with a little side-route up the Wenatchee River for a ways. When I got to where I was paddling furiously upstream... But not getting anywhere... I decided to turn around and go back down to the Columbia. Great workout and saw some beauty. Got out of the little boat and hiked a bit to take a few more wildlife photos:
I'm really enjoying the kayak - its a change from the hiking & biking - but still quite a workout.
20-ish mile loop in the Elkhorns today- a hefty 6000'+ gain, a lot of off trail on rock = slow going; gorgeous day w/ the starting temps in the low 50's, upper 60's when I got back to my truck . also saw a dozen cow/calf elk about 500-600 yds across a drainage
Ed- originally was trying to create my own "High Route" from roughly High Point (via Elk Park) to Casey Peak and then to the saddle between Horsethief and Casey Meadows- simply too much talus/scree; I made it as far as a couple of high rocky outcroppings past High Point and gave up. Dropped down to the Beaver Ck trail and then up through Sheep Park and over to Casey Meadows and out (parked at the E Fork trailhead)
I did find a cool, really old trail on top of the ridge (in the vicinity of High Point)- dating back to crosscut/axe days, filing that away on the off chance I ever draw a bull tag there
Mike- Thought that talus looked familiar. The wife and I did a bushwhack from High to Casey that started with a cow moose chasing us up on some rocks a number of years ago. It was a long day. Love that Sheep Park area. Fondly remember when the Elkhorn 100k went through Beaver Creek and Sheep Park.
Have you ever explored that little lake/pond from the Clear Creek- Beaver Creek divide?
A good gym day today. Warm up on treadmill and 3 warm up sets of bench press, lat pull down, incline db fly and low rows then 3 working sets of chest and back supersets.
Bench press/T-bar row Wide grip chest press/bent over barbell row supinated grip Incline db press/Intermediate grip low row Body weight ring pull up/Incline db fly
6 mile out&back with my wife and Tiny E, pretty steep (1800' of gain); plan was to harvest a couple of gallons of huckleberries, must have been a late frost as there were acres (and acres) of huckleberry bushes and no berries, we found a couple of handfuls lower and just ate them- turns out Tiny E likes hucks
folks were finding them (Eureka area in general), but definitely not going to be finding any where we were (maybe next year?); last year I ran a big loop through there and there were green berries on almost every bush (probably 2-3 weeks early), really thought I was going to hit the motherlode this year
Huckleberries are on here, in ID, now. Picked some a couple weeks ago at about 4000 feet and they were just coming on good. Picking was spotty though.
Hiking in the Bitteroots (MT side) last weekend, there were spots that were loaded with ripe berries and other areas were there were none. Can't help but stop and eat a few when your hiking.
good deal- I think my wife may be going to the Flathead to visit relatives, sounds like they've gotten into some good berry picking (I'm headed into the Bob :))
Wife and I picked a gallon today and the hucks are on heavy now. The extra moisture this year really kicked them into gear. Bear sign all over and I can't blame them.
Cyn is several days in on her quest. Barring physical issues she expects to be hiking 4-5 weeks. Still hoping to join up. She had cell briefly and let me know her ankle is swelling but not particularly hurting.
I bought her an InReach mini and man, that is a cool gadget. She checks in every evening with a preset message (or she could text, but those cost extra) which I was expecting, but accompanying the message is a map with a pin drop showing her location. And, of course, it has the panic button... pretty slick. If your wife is contemplating running around the mountains alone for a month I highly recommend buying her one, haha.
All I've been doing is working, totally swamped, everything is a rush job, no end in sight. Haven't had a day off since I went ocean fishing a couple weeks ago. Totally beat down. The HELL did I get myself into. Banking fat stax but no time to spend it. Must.... find.... balance.
Cyn is several days in on her quest. Barring physical issues she expects to be hiking 4-5 weeks. Still hoping to join up. She had cell briefly and let me know her ankle is swelling but not particularly hurting.
I bought her an InReach mini and man, that is a cool gadget. She checks in every evening with a preset message (or she could text, but those cost extra) which I was expecting, but accompanying the message is a map with a pin drop showing her location. And, of course, it has the panic button... pretty slick. If your wife is contemplating running around the mountains alone for a month I highly recommend buying her one, haha.
All I've been doing is working, totally swamped, everything is a rush job, no end in sight. Haven't had a day off since I went ocean fishing a couple weeks ago. Totally beat down. The HELL did I get myself into. Banking fat stax but no time to spend it. Must.... find.... balance.
Keep trying bud. The real world is out there for the taking. Proud of you.
I nurmally use a z-rest with an early version Neoair on top but I dug out an old Pro-lite for this trip. Not enough thickness. I'm thinking of upgrading to a newer, thicker Neoair.
once I (wife too) went to the NeoAirs (2.5” thick) we’ve used nothing else; I ditched our original NeoAirs once they came out with the Xtherms- originally purchased for “winter”, but as they were only a couple of ounces more- no sense having two sets of pads
I use a Big Agnes something or the other that is amazing. Transformative. At least trying pads out at REI, I found it noticeably better than the neoair. I'll try to remember to check which one it is exactly when I get home. Cushy. Hell's Canyon was the first long trip I used it on and I slept great, which is saying something, because sleeping on the ground has been no fun in recent years.
Truckin' home now with an 800-lb pallet of Life-B-Gone (work) and was informed there's even more coming my way than I'd known. I need to hire a helper.
Big Agnes Q-Core SLX. If I'm remembering the NeoAir correctly, it's baffles run sideways while the BA's run lengthwise. That helps me with staying on the thing. But, it also just felt cushier in REI. I got the ginormous size, too. We were worried it wouldn't fit in the new Zpacks Duplex tent but it did, barely.
@Jeff I have an inReach Mini- being able to communicate in the backcountry is a game changer- "I have an elk down, meet at the Tizer trailhead"; "we're having to bail, pick me up at...."; "made to camp, everything is OK"; etc. they can even text you back, pretty sweet
@Jeff I have an inReach Mini- being able to communicate in the backcountry is a game changer- "I have an elk down, meet at the Tizer trailhead"; "we're having to bail, pick me up at...."; "made to camp, everything is OK"; etc. they can even text you back, pretty sweet
We had close encounters with rattlesnakes 3 times in HC. When you are 20+ miles from anything that has a resonance to it. I was glad to have it. This getting messages and pin-drops is a whole other realm of use beyond the "save my ass!" button and under the circumstances, I like it a lot. I'll certainly carry it elk hunting this year. Why not? When I think back on all the potentially close calls I've had in the deserts and mountains in my life I gotta think, now that I'm getting old as dirt 'n shït, a little backup isn't the worst thing.
Rode 24 miles with my buddy this evening. Combined with taking the first nap I've taken in years, I feel human again. We did dinner here and a bunch of 12-oz curls after. All the shop work sure makes those 12-oz weights seem light and effortless. Lol
Got my first hunt of the season in yesterday morning. Unsuccessful spot & stalk bear hunt. Didn't spot one, so I didn't stalk one, which means I didn't shoot one.
However I sure felt strong going up the hill into the mountain basin here in the Cascades. Even if it wasn't a "backpack" hunt - it was a good, steep, short hike and some glassing. This conditioning stuff works. Am sure I'm in better shape than last year already.
3 miles on the trails with Tiny E; I'm packing gear/food for a two day 60-ish mile fastpack into the Bob Marshall- we're going to take trails along the full length of the Chinese Wall and then attempt to get on top of it and take it back off trail- should be fun!
Cyn crossed 100 miles today. Ankle holding up, was getting really sore feet though so I brought some Superfeet Green to try. She repoterted back they are helping a lot.
Just workin'. I will say, upper body in general feels strong and good, which makes sense, it's getting worked daily. I did start a savings account for a new boat and seeded it with $5k, so at least I exercised some bad judgement! Badda boom crash.
Miscalculated the topography of the Chinese Wall; was under the impression we would gain the Wall at the north end and simply follow its full length south on top. As it turned out we gained the Walk, followed it a couple of miles to find out we were cliffed out, would have to drop a 1000+ feet, regain it (and the elevation we lost), rinse and repeat several times. This turned our 60 mile trip into 70 miles and added 5-6000’ of additional gain. Add in a couple of dicey down climbs and it certainly made a tough trip even tougher.
Chinese Wall in the Bob Marshall Wilderness; Tarptent Aeon Li- pretty new design- 16 oz all in (including stakes!) for a full shelter including mesh netting, bathtub floor and a decently sized vestibule
It's amazing. You guys had to go up/down it a few times, not just do a rim trail?
Hell's Canyon had topography like that in the sense that, you could look back at it from a few miles away and it didn't seem like it was possible, to do what you just did, if that makes sense. Long sections of cliffs that from afar looked impassable but when you are a little ant crawling around in the giant things, ways forward present themselves...
Cool tent. Amazing what is out there now. I'm coming around to the single-wall concept. The Duplex did great, even in a big storm, but ventilation is at a premium. A couple mornings we had lots of condensation. My only other issue with it was, a couple nights there just was not anywhere flat, and on a slight slope, my BA pad would slide down and push the bathtub out past the drip-edge if that makes sense. Once I realized that was a thing I found ways to mitigate it.
Cyn got a quilt and is liking it very much. She's using the Duplex solo- luxury!
yup- naively thought we could gain the top at the north end and simply walk the full length south, not the case
the Aeon has some pretty unique ways to mitigate condensation- it has a perimeter around the bathtub that lets air circulate, it also has flaps (closable) in the rear corners that expose more mesh and of course the full front is all mesh and the vestibule can be rolled back
The Duplex has a mesh perimeter around the bathtub as well if that's what you mean. Slick design. The first time we set it up I was like, "huh".... but we got rained on almost every night, and POUNDED for hours one night down on the River Trail portion, and it did great.
The Chinese Wall is super cool. One more piece of American topography to add to my internal favorites list. I love the West. Growing up in New Mexico in the 70's, tromped a whole lot of cool topography... it gets in the blood.
23 mile road bike ride. Cool weather rolling in and I've got a break-ish in the onslaught so I should be able to bank a couple more rides. Which is good. I'm fat.
Cyn is at roughly 150 miles and truckin' along. She did 22 miles yesterday to get from water to water. She's kicking it, proud of her.
Yeah, it's super cool. We had all these plans for training in between HC and this, then the ankle derailed things. So it was definitely in question how things would go. But so far so good! I just stuck a plastic bottle of Crater Lake rye whisky and a tiny cigar in the resupply box she's getting Saturday. That should be happy-making.
The thru-hike that interest me the most is the CDT. Since I grew up and tromped and backpacked all over NM and to a lesser degree southern CO, the first part would be cool in that way, then it only gets more awesome from there! I just need to figure out HTF to manage this level of success I'm experiencing to where I can split for chunks of time. At this point, with multiple other corporate entities depending on my part of the process, it ain't possible, and it SUCKS.
just need to figure out HTF to manage this level of success I'm experiencing to where I can split for chunks of time. At this point, with multiple other corporate entities depending on my part of the process, it ain't possible, and it SUCKS.
Yeah, it's super cool. We had all these plans for training in between HC and this, then the ankle derailed things. So it was definitely in question how things would go. But so far so good! I just stuck a plastic bottle of Crater Lake rye whisky and a tiny cigar in the resupply box she's getting Saturday. That should be happy-making.
The thru-hike that interest me the most is the CDT. Since I grew up and tromped and backpacked all over NM and to a lesser degree southern CO, the first part would be cool in that way, then it only gets more awesome from there! I just need to figure out HTF to manage this level of success I'm experiencing to where I can split for chunks of time. At this point, with multiple other corporate entities depending on my part of the process, it ain't possible, and it SUCKS.
I'm amazed these guys on this thread don't let you know how silly you sound. I sincerely think they feel sorry for you and let you have your safe space. It's the only explanation I can come up with. It's really weird and embarrassing to read honestly...
I'm amazed these guys on this thread don't let you know how silly you sound.
I can't speak for anyone else but personally, I never felt the need.
But you should see me in the gym, that's where I like to really give people a piece of my mind and tell them how silly they are. Like the overwieght 60 year-old dudes wearing wife-beaters and backward flat-brims. I really let 'em have it.
Or, on the trail when I'm deer hunting. When I see a dude with all new gear and he's carrying a .338 with a hubble telescope on top, I like to tell him he's over-gunned.
I'm amazed these guys on this thread don't let you know how silly you sound.
I can't speak for anyone else but personally, I never felt the need.
But you should see me in the gym, that's where I like to really give people a piece of my mind and tell them how silly they are. Like the overwieght 60 year-old dudes wearing wife-beaters and backward flat-brims. I really let 'em have it.
Or, on the trail when I'm deer hunting. When I see a dude with all new gear and he's carrying a .338 with a hubble telescope on top, I like to tell him he's over-gunned.
I'm amazed these guys on this thread don't let you know how silly you sound.
I can't speak for anyone else but personally, I never felt the need.
But you should see me in the gym, that's where I like to really give people a piece of my mind and tell them how silly they are. Like the overwieght 60 year-old dudes wearing wife-beaters and backward flat-brims. I really let 'em have it.
Or, on the trail when I'm deer hunting. When I see a dude with all new gear and he's carrying a .338 with a hubble telescope on top, I like to tell him he's over-gunned.
A better analogy would be if those same guys were at your CampFire. We don't have "point of personal privilege" at our campfire.
But you should see me in the gym, that's where I like to really give people a piece of my mind and tell them how silly they are. Like the overwieght 60 year-old dudes wearing wife-beaters and backward flat-brims. I really let 'em have it.
That's why I train at home now. It became to much for me to be the enforcer all the time and make sure hats were correctly fitted and essential training needs pointed out to all... Thankfully I didn't have to deal with all of the women ogling as they were busy trying to find web cams of gyms with smokepole and battue.
I'm amazed these guys on this thread don't let you know how silly you sound.
I can't speak for anyone else but personally, I never felt the need.
But you should see me in the gym, that's where I like to really give people a piece of my mind and tell them how silly they are. Like the overwieght 60 year-old dudes wearing wife-beaters and backward flat-brims. I really let 'em have it.
Or, on the trail when I'm deer hunting. When I see a dude with all new gear and he's carrying a .338 with a hubble telescope on top, I like to tell him he's over-gunned.
A better analogy would be if those same guys were at your CampFire. We don't have "point of personal privilege" at our campfire.
Not really. Guys I see in passing at the gym and guys I see in passing on the internet are more similar in the level of discourse than guys I'd have at my campfire. Guys at my campfire would be close friends or relatives mostly. I get into some serious discussions with my sons and their friends all the time, I consider that time well spent. I score a few points but then again, they do too. As my youngest always says, "it ain't the 60's anymore." An old guy once said "it ain't my world, I just occupy a tiny part of it."
My elk camp campfire (actually usually a woodstove) is graced by folks of all stripes. Don't remember anyone ever being told to shut up. That would require a "my shït don't stink" mentality, which, though certainly rampant these fever-dream days, has not yet infected the good folks around my particular campfire.
Ctsmith..... when I mention being eaten alive by work you are perhaps unaware of the context. The regulars here were privy to the whole run-up to this, when I was working out a lot more, and worried that this new work I was pursuing would in fact eat me alive. It took over 6 months just to tool up and make the fixtures, to do this work. I remember describing it as engaging, challenging, difficult, consumptive of mind and body, and very lucrative. It's turned out to all of that and more. I'm finding it difficult to find a healthy balance given the pressures on me to deliver. It helps me to put it in words here, also it's good to hold oneself accountable. Accountability to oneself is kinda the whole purpose of an exercise thread.
Anyway, fück me for even replying, but there it is.
Doing some lathe work now but it's cloudy and cool. I'm gonna try my 26 mile climbing route here in a bit. It's going to HURT.
Well that was weird. Cascade should be able to relate to this.
Got 7.5 miles out on my ride. Did the first long climb no problems. At 7.5 I turn onto Butler aka the road of doom, haha. The gateway to Butler is a "wall" about 400 yards long that is as steep as you'll find. Full on granny gear and I have a climbing cassette (low gearing).
Hit the wall, start pedaling in granny, and suddenly all hell breaks loose with my gears... won't stay in gear.... I almost do the slo-mo faceplant because I'm clipped to my pedals and going like 3 mph but I got unclipped.
Long story short my bike has internal cable routing and the rear derailleur cable broke or otherwise failed. Cable tension pulls the derailleur towards the frame (bigger cogs, lower gears) while spring pressure pulls it away from the frame. Sans cable tension the derailleur defaulted to its highest gear/smallest cog.
Problem was, big-ass climb between me and home and no cell service. So I climbed that damn thing in my highest gear. Pedals barely moving it seemed, but going 6-7 mph. Like a stair stepper on high resistance. I've never done a climb like that. I might again. It pounded my quads I think in a good way.
Just a little 3.5 mile hike this morning, about 930' elevation gain. Took it easy on the new pup. He's a year old, but this hiking stuff is new to him:
I got nuthin', but my better half is over 250 miles now! Ankle is fine. She reports the rye whisky bottle has a magical way of lightening with use- a backpackers dream. Lol
Got out on the Columbia and Wenatchee rivers this morning with the kayak & camera. The osprey put on an incredible show. The eagle was jealous. The heron stoic.
I only went about 5 miles in the kayak this morning.
I got a great workout and managed a few decent photos. Friend of mine was bicycling at the same time, and spotted me on the river. She took the photo of me kayaking. She was on a bridge over the Columbia. Pretty cool.
0415 came early this morning, but i managed to drag myself and the little woman outta the sack and hit the gym. She's working with the crossfit people in the box M-W-F and lifting the other days. My new hip just won't let me do all that jumping around and running. I wish I could though! Chest and bicep supersets today, 3 warm up sets and 4 working sets. 2 heavy sets near max followed by 2 strip sets. I love strip sets, but they're kicking my @$$ right now!
This week will finish up 4 consecutive weeks of minimum 2 runs and 2 rides for the week with some hikes on weekends checking trail cams with a 30-40 lb pack.
Started building a shooting house castle for my friends wife - took 2 days to get 6ft x 6ft platform 13ft up on posts. Now to assemble the prebuilt walls and roof. Not looking forward to it with the high 80s temps.
I realize you are likely busting on me a bit here, but I'll tell ya what, it DOES wear me out! My boat is part of it I think. She's very light, and relatively narrow with a deep V hull and so cuts through chop rather remarkably but rolls side/side easily with wave action when stopped. And gets tossed around like a corn chip; there's not much weight to fight back against every little wave, so to speak. Putting it like I did the other day- like I'd been doing a hulu hoop all day- is maybe the best way to put it.
I'm going to look at a new boat this weekend and very likely will be handing over phat stax of $$ to buy it. 20' boat, aluminum for resale and easy towing, much much wider, much more appropriate ocean boat. A shocking amount of moolah by my piker standards but WTH, I'm having a killer year. Plus Cyn gives her approval (as long as it's aluminum so it can be easily flipped when I invariably want to further upgrade) partly because, she's off galavanting about in the mountains for a month chasing her dream while I hold down the fort and work every day. In other words, she really has no choice, haha. I'll put up pics if I nab the boat. She's a sweetie. The main motor alone (Yamaha 115 4-stroke) costs more, new, than my entire current boat did by a factor of like 8x. A wild hair for sure but I've been hooked.
Sticking with 2 heavy sets followed by two strip sets and supersetting. My body is sore, but the pump is awesome. Legs and shoulders today. I wanted to get in some triceps since I missed yesterday, but I just didn't have enough time.
Military press/hack squat Seated lateral raise/leg extension Rear delt cable fly/prone leg curl
Did my 27-mi climb ride this evening. Wasn't going to, was just going to do half, but I felt good so I kept climbing. Had a vicious hammie cramp last night and I'm pretty certain I'll get nailed again tonight, bananas notwithstanding. My new thing. It's awesome.
Got the boat! Well, I don't take possession for a few weeks but she's mine. 2010 20' Hewes Pro V, 115 Yammie, 9.9 yammie high-thrust. She's a salt boat; it's knocked the new right off of her but she's priced accordingly (and then some) and the first thing I'll be doing it putting her in the salt so it's good thing. I have a buddy who won't put his shiny $40k boat in salt water because it ruins the "shiny thing" aspect. Yeah, no, I don't have that problem.
Still going with two heavy sets and two strip sets. I put on 4 pounds over the weekend. With the exception of grilled salmon for dinner Friday night, it was a cheeseburger and Mexican food weekend. Chest and back today.
Wide grip chest press/bent over narrow grip row Bilateral incline press/bilateral lat pull down Cable fly/Inverse grip low row.
I missed yesterday, but made it today. Still working on 2 heavy sets followed by two strip sets. I'll finish out the week this way then move to a timed routine next week. Legs and biceps today.
Preacher curl/seated calf raise BB curl/hack squat Incline DB curl/leg extension Hammer curl bar/prone leg curl Cable rotations
For perspective, here's where Cyn was a couple days ago. She started at the OR/CA border. What a thing to do in your mid 50's! Pretty cool.
I knew it'd happen and it did; this climbing ride sets off inner-quad cramps in my left leg. Only reason I'm mentioning it is I had the weirdest one last night. It was like one single fiber in the muscle cramped. The rest of the thing was trying to go off, but I held it off. But this one "string" went nuts. Sore today. Weird.
I happened upon a You Tube site from Ortovox.com featuring a training program for cross country skiing. Very complete and well done and great workouts requiring little equipment. Variety is the spice of life. I have thus far managed 2 of the routines and am going back for more.
I happened upon a You Tube site from Ortovox.com featuring a training program for cross country skiing. Very complete and well done and great workouts requiring little equipment. Variety is the spice of life. I have thus far managed 2 of the routines and am going back for more.
mike r
linky? always looking for something to change things up
Duh...can't post a link but you can find it via ortoxox.co/uk/stories.. I found it on You Tube [1/5] ski touring strength and endurance exercises 10 week program [english]
Cyn is getting really close to finishing. She sent me this pic this morning, of her bad ankle. Good thing she waited till now or I would've been harping on her to stop hiking. Hope she didn't hork it up good packing for a month on the damn thing. Doesn't look great.
Spent the morning moving dirt and limbing trees to widen part of our driveway loop so I can (hopefully) get the new boat where I want to park it. I go get it in two weeks if the plan holds. Good ol' shovel and wheelbarrow... next is I need to cut (chainsaw) into the side of a big fallen stump but I can't do that until another morning due to fire restrictions. Hoping to ride this evening.
Yeah.... just hope she hasn't been limping on it the last month. That's a great way to screw up your knees and hips at our advanced age <g>. She does have trekking poles to help keep her walking mechanics true.
Well.... she was obsessed. Yvonne Choinard has a great quote about how to become an elite mountaineer: you've got to get obsessed, and stay obsessed.
10-mile mountain bike ride with my buddy. Got my full attention. Nothing technical, but a lot of steep climbing. He had a route planned out on logging roads basically. It was only my third ride on the bike I bought like 6 months ago so I'm still figuring the dang thing out. A 29'er with suspension is a really different bike than a carbon road bike running ultegra. I love the traction and disc brakes on downhills; it reminds me of the dirt bikes I had growing up. Uphills are getting better. The problem is, can't stand up to pedal in steep dirt; the rear wheel loses traction and there's only so far you can shift your weight back.... I was able to coordinate my [bleep] enough to foresee the slightly flatter spots in climbs where I COULD upshift 4-5 gears and stand up for a while, then, downshift those same 4-5 gears as I was sitting down because it was getting too steep again, without losing momentum or spinning out. Being able to stand up even briefly really helps me in a long hard climb so this is good.
60lb pack Day1.....14 mile hike into buck lake in the cabinet wilderness mountains Day2.....Cross country to Wanless lake(no trail between buck and Wanless) with a lite day pack and fishing pole! 6 miles total including hiking up the Wanless lake trail for a good spell before returning to buck lake Day3.....Made huckleberry pancakes and eggs than packed up camp and made an 11 mile hike to upper Geiger Lake to camp out for the night. Day4....Fished around the lake in the morning than made the trip out for another 4 miles
With hunting season just around the corner I'm ready though I will be switching from the Kelty pack to the Eberlestock F1 mainframe with batwings
Sounds good-thanks Our plan is a full traverse of the Cabinets from north to south, appears roughly a 1/4 of it on trail, 3/4+ off trail; the guy I'm supposed to go with has been working on this route for a couple of years. I'm sure it will be similar to our traverse of the Chinese Wall- plenty of surprises!
Sounds like it will be a super cool trip 😎 You know there's gold in those mountains so hopefully you guys will find out exactly where its all coming from 😁 Best wishes to you on your trip.
Loaded up the paxk for a stroll in the park today. Hotter than Hades out there.
Is your upcoming elk hunt muzzleloader? Seems early...
Closest I came to a workout this weekend was a "core workout" trying to get the inboard motor going on a boat (not mine)... conked out mid-trip, alarm blaring.... adrift on the high seas of Puget Sound, lol... but man I spent about a half hour contorted into this little compartment lying on my belly/side about as awkwardly as possible. Sore as bleep today. Managed to ID the problem and Mcgyver a fix for it, corroded hose clamps (3 of them!) in the closed cooling system had let go.... only to find it was also spewing water from somewhere else once running again. Fawk. On top of that the bilge pump was busted (again, not my boat, lol) and the cooling system had filled the bilge with a LOT of water... a bit sporty, lol... got towed to port finally and now it ain't my problem.
Why I like outboards. Sheesh. On that note should be picking up the new boat this weekend. I'll put up a couple pics when I do. She's a sweetie.
Tiny E and I got our hot hill workout in for the week, 5 miles with the first two climbing ~ 1800'; jumped a big mule deer buck near the top (in some deep shade)
there is a little spring fed creek near where we park; Tiny E was glad to see it!
Cardio at the gym today for me, an hour of intervals on stairs and bike. Acclimating to sea level is not good this close to the season, gotta build up some hemoglobin. Our hunting area is mostly above 10K.
Cardio at the gym today for me, an hour of intervals on stairs and bike. Acclimating to sea level is not good this close to the season, gotta build up some hemoglobin. Our hunting area is mostly above 10K.
Increase your iron rich foods and fruits. Consider supplementing with B6, B12, folic acid and Vitamin C. Avoid caffeine for now.
Whisky, no for now. 😟 Red wine maybe.😀
Addition: Or you can go Lance Armstrong and get some Procrit.
Picking up the boat got pushed to next weekend and it's <bleep> killin' me. As a consolation prize, going backpacking this weekend. We are going to circumnavigate a big lake- guess it's 21 miles. Not expecting a ton of vert but who knows, could be wrinkly around the lake.
Due to changes at a customer, looks like I'll have considerably more free time here in the near term. Pretty psyched about that. I know I've griped about it plenty but it was truly eating me alive. Should be a more reasonable "life" now.
Cardio at the gym today for me, an hour of intervals on stairs and bike. Acclimating to sea level is not good this close to the season, gotta build up some hemoglobin. Our hunting area is mostly above 10K.
Increase your iron rich foods and fruits. Consider supplementing with B6, B12, folic acid and Vitamin C. Avoid caffeine for now.
Whisky, no for now. 😟 Red wine maybe.😀
Addition: Or you can go Lance Armstrong and get some Procrit.
Harry, why no recent reports of your latest exploits? You working on a new exercise program or something?
I’m working on “The Smoke”. Something akin to multiple nights naked in the Estes Park high country-no fire allowed-where you have 3 days to kill an Elk. Then you have to camouflage your self in Mary Jane leaf and carry it out in one trip without being seen.
"Mary Jane??" The sixties called, they want their colloquialisms back.
"The Smoke" would have to be in the gym. A full upper body workout with a scantily-clad young woman hanging off each arm, followed by abdominal crunches with one sitting on your chest.
4 miles on the trails with my wife and Tiny Elvis- gorgeous day in the mid 60's- we are enjoying some truly paradise weather of late and looks like a week or more of it on the way
23 miles backpacking in two days, not a lot of vert as expected. 10 miles today in the rain. My right knee came down with the suck towards the end of the first day and was not fun at all by the end of today... back of the knee, weird, also, OUCH. Very sore here at home.... hope I didn't hork it too bad.
^ your wife is probably a hiking machine now after her long hike
Yes, she is! She did damage her feet some, however; the balls of her feet are puffy with fluid and there's lumps in her arches and some other "issues". Mostly once she gets rolling they are fine. When she gets out of bed in the morning, she looks like me back when I was still playing hoops and nursing a bunch of injuries, haha... like she's trying to walk without touching the ground. Which doesn't work so good.
She says it was worth it... as long as it heals up I guess I can't argue.
My knee.... oy. It's back of the knee right where the calf joins in. Doesn't hurt a bit to push off; in fact climbing seems to help. Hurts like hell to swing the leg forward. Fingers crossed
Did not wet a line. This was Waldo Lake, which has no inlet, thus no silt/nutrients coming in, and is quite sterile. The water is famously clear. I think there might be some skinny stocked trout in there but I'm soooo past that.... lol....
In fact, the woods around Waldo are very sterile. We saw virtually no birds and only a few chipmunks for mammals. No deer or elk or bear scat or sign on the trail. No scat period! There is a burned area on one side, that had the look and feel of a zone ruminants would be feeding in.
The mushrooms were awesome though. Found one patch of porcini (King Bolete) that had several absolutely prime young ones, about the size of an orange, that would've been superb eats. Alas, not something that you put in your pack plus no way to properly cook.... Also, huge porcini the size of dinner plates that looked amazing but would've been riddled with maggots if you cut them open... a gorgeous young cauliflower mushroom, also a good edible... a few patches of spotted aminitas right out of Alice in Wonderland... russula of several types... lots more. I kept a eye peeled for matsutake; those travel well and I would've taken them home in my pack. There were some plain white veiled mushrooms- I think aminitas of another sort- that looked very similar to matsutake, but were brittle and didn't have the very obvious matsutake smell. I think Cyn got a pic of the giant bolete- it (they actually) might've been the biggest single mushrooms I've ever seen!
Just a quick couple pics cause I keep saying I'd post 'em... look what finally followed me home yesterday! It's been a bit excruciating the last few weeks as I waited for my schedule to line up with the seller's availability to do the final deed... anyway probably the last I'll mention it here because I'm guessing, this boat won't generate a workout like my old boat, the roll-a-matic, does out on the ocean.
2010 Hewes Pro V 20', Yammie 115 main, 9.9 High Thrust kicker... she's seen a lot of salt use, so up close there's cosmetic damage here and there..... blistered paint, scratches from crab pots, and so on. Which saved me.... I dunno, about $12k over a pristine one.... which is awesome 'cause she's headed straight back into salt water!
Welp. Tried to get the boat to where I want to park it and sure enough, couldn't get around the first pinch point in my loop. Rather than take down an Oak I'm fond of I spent about 3 hours moving dirt and digging out a tree to give myself an area to swing wide into. WHIPPED.
They estimated the boys on the Lewis and Clark expedition ate 5 pounds of meat per day while on their little boat outing. And not a one of them had a beer-or bear-belly. Logistically then, we can conclude, that a boat workout is kickass...
Your grandma has cankles, my ankle is just fused. It held up pretty well but I wasn't doing any more than 5-6 miles a day.
The trip was a real mixed bag. I hunted with a good friend from work, great guy who hasn't hunted a lot and he was bow hunting. He was really motivated and it was great to be able to see that and help him out where I could.
I showed him a couple of my favorite spots and we were into elk at 7:15 opening morning. We separated and I snuck up to within 75 yards of a decent bull, he and a single cow were out in a small meadow feeding. I smelled 'em before I saw 'em and worked my way upwind to where I could see them.. There was a screen of trees between us so I couldn't get a clear shot, I kept trying to side-step out to get a shooting lane but every time I tried to move he'd look over in my direction. Meanwhile there was another bull up on the hill behind him, thrashing a tree. Neither one of us got a look at him but we both heard it. It was loud and close, but the bull I was watching didn't pay any attention, he was kind of locked-in on me He finally got antsy and started heading for cover, he was about 10-15 yards from being in the trees and I had one chance for a shot, through a small opening in the trees in front of me so I took it. Not sure what happened, maybe I hit a limb but I'm pretty sure I missed clean. At the shot he startled, ran about 25 yards then stopped and looked back. They don't normally do that if they're hit IME. He trotted off, I waited a while and then went out to where he was to look for blood, I could see his tracks through the meadow and trees and there was no blood. I circled around for about 20 minutes in the meadow looking for blood, then stepped into the trees and the cow was still standing there, watching me. I think if her partner had been hit and was in distress, she would've hauled ass.
Covered the area he ran to, no blood, no indication he laid down or anything. I came back through the next day, no jays or other birds.
This is national forest and there were a lot of hunters this year, by the second day there were other people in that spot, moving through and calling etc. so we moved camp to another spot across the valley where we'd seen some elk up high, with plans to work our way up there. But there were two bowhunters already there, and they had plans to hun the same area so we backed off, went in a different direction. My buddy found what sounded like a good spot that evening, torn up with sign he said. We planned to hunt it the next day. Then I got poked in the eye with a limb, scratched the cornea so we had to pack up camp and leave. Drove into town, saw a doctor, and had to hole up for two days in a hotel until the pain subsided enough so I could drive home. A scratched cornea is one of the most painful injuries I've every had, the drive home was not good.
An example. When Northern Dave came west, he was quickly afflicted with a malady he termed Baboon Ass and then, in a fit of easternness, HE POSTED ABOUT IT!
I can neither confirm nor deny that westerners might or might not on occasion fall victim to this "Baboon Ass". But if we did, in a moment of weakness, hypothetically, find ourselves in this most uncomfortable predicament, would we post about it?! No. We would not.
Well, yet you seem to think it appropriate-falsely, I may add-to accuse another Western native of having cankles. At which time-again,I might add-he seemed, and rightly so, to take great offense. And now, you want to run another Westerner-Western Pa remember-down for mentioning they had an uncomfortable case of the roids. Just whose side are you on? And "we" you say. Just who are the others?
Do any of you animals hire out? I need a couple of sherpas 2nd week of Nov. for a coues hunt. Lol.
yes, but it's not cheap
smoke- too bad on the cornea; a millennia ago when I was logging I got a wood chip coming out of my saw at warp speed right into my eye, damaged my cornea- they put drops in in to get my eye dilated and had to wear a pirates patch for about a week; agree very painful injury! I wore a screen on my hard hat after that incident.
well you got into elk, that's a success in my book
Hit the trails with Tiny E, 5 miles w/ ~ 1400' of gain and 45#s on my back, today was the first day (in about 10 days now of hitting it w/ the pack) that it didn't feel too bad- that's a win
Climbed the locally legendary Mount Baldy (it's a knob) which is about 350 tall steep wooden stairs to the top. Was definitely feeling it in the quads. Then we hiked about 4 miles in the wooded dunes nearby. The woods here are very different than PNW woods which is fun. Headed home tomorrow.
5 miles of hill training with Tiny Elvis; left the pack at home- sand is out of the pack and it's getting loaded up for a backcountry elk trip Thursday evening
I'll be hunting a spike tag (bleah) in eastern Oregon this year, as much to be with the guys as anything. We hunt the North Fork John Day Wilderness area but we car-camp outside the boundaries and hike in. I have done a couple minimalist overnighters in order to be at a special spot at dawn on opening day but I won't be doing that for a spike tag. Next year is when it gets interesting- I'll have enough points for a Hells Canyon bull tag, which is a quality tag, and from being there this spring, I have acouple spots all picked out, both about a 10-mile pack into where I'd base camp, at least initially.
A very long winded way of saying I'm jealous and I will be rooting for you.
Ed- well they say "discretion is the better part of valor"; I'm going to bag the hunt- still have a full five weeks of the general season
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Blizzard conditions possible. Total snow accumulations of 18 to 36 inches, with locally higher amounts in the mountains. Record or near-record cold temperatures in the teens and 20s with wind chills zero to 15 above zero. North to northeast winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts as high as 40 mph.
and further
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...This early-season winter storm and/or blizzard has the potential to set a new benchmark for snow accumulations, cold temperatures, and resulting impacts for parts of the Northern Rockies and the Rocky Mountain Front.
Ed- well they say "discretion is the better part of valor"; I'm going to bag the hunt- still have a full five weeks of the general season
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Blizzard conditions possible. Total snow accumulations of 18 to 36 inches, with locally higher amounts in the mountains. Record or near-record cold temperatures in the teens and 20s with wind chills zero to 15 above zero. North to northeast winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts as high as 40 mph.
and further
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...This early-season winter storm and/or blizzard has the potential to set a new benchmark for snow accumulations, cold temperatures, and resulting impacts for parts of the Northern Rockies and the Rocky Mountain Front.
Probably a good choice. Hopefully I’ll get home from the Highline before it hits.
the King and I got 5 miles and ~2000' of gain this morning- winter is here, 2" near the bottom about 5" above- most of the snow is expected this afternoon/evening/next morning, could be a doozy
Very cold here (for September)... which is great for hangin' meat! Whacked a 3x3 blacktail yesterday after hiking. A bit sore from the drag, which always gets me.
not too much snow, most of the big snow was at the north end on the Front
two long days of hunting and zero elk; not sure why the lack of elk- we hunted high and low, plenty of grass/browse and you could see where they had been using this area earlier; I don't think it was too much hunting pressure either as 90%+ of the hunting is with folks using stock and we were well out of any place you could get stock in
might give it another whirl before the regular season opens
15 miles on day one, 10 miles on day two (with lots of gain/loss), 4 mile recovery hike with Tiny E today
This little sunny stretch comes after the coldest, wettest fall I can remember.... it's so green out there, it looks like spring, except the leaves are changing now.... but most years it's dry and brown this time of year. It's gotta be great for deer and elk- there's been this whole second wave of fresh grass and forbs. The buck I killed last week was a fatty, for sure.
23 mile hill ride.... good ride, we pushed the pace. My buddy has been down (up?) in CO the last month, hiking and riding at altitude, and it showed.
Spent the day cutting and bucking and moving two trees, a fir and an oak, and a bunch of dirt,,, widened my back driveway enough that I can now back my boat to my shop. Whole-body whipped.
A friend of ours has a joke: women hit menopause, men hit tractorpause. I used to chuckle.... "ha ha, those old farts and their silly tractors! Manly men use a shovel and wheelbarrow!"
5-mile coast range hike, chantrelles galore, even a few of the elusive White chanterelle. Nicky gave his new coat a trial run. Nobody will mistake him for an albino wolf in that coat- whew! One less thing to worry about.
I leave for elk camp Monday; only a spike tag but still. Haven't been been practicing enough to justify taking one of my LR rigs so I'm keeping it simple, mostly plan on carrying my revamped .358.
My experience with a spike tag- which is unfortunately significant- is that it's the BEST way to insure I see a big bull.
Mainly going up to hang with the guys since a couple are getting old as dirt, grin, but I know the mountain well and I'll get into some good spots where I've seen elk in past years.
It COULD be good. Things have really changed in this unit. We hypothesize that winter getting pushed back a couple weeks (apparently by climate change) means the elk aren't moving through this area during the season like they used to 15-20 years ago. Our unit is between the high mountains and the winter feeding grounds. We used to see ELK. Herds of the bastids. Last 5-6-7 years it's been just the resident elk, and not herded up yet. A local who gets in the woods a lot told me that the mule deer come through first, then the elk a couple weeks later, as the snows push them out of the high country. In recent years, he said, during elk season the damned DEER haven't even come through yet! The timing of the whole affair has changed, but ODFW hasn't adjusted the season to accommodate the new reality.
However, this fall has been very wet and cold so I'm hoping that at least some of the animals have started down and will be in our AO.
Just gonna bring my M7 .358 w/ 200 NAB's and Kimber 7 WSM w/ 160 NAB's. Keep it simple.
I hope you don't too, it's one of the most painful injuries you can get.
But I'd rather be poked in the eye with a stick than have a dog that wears a coat.......
Originally Posted by smokepole
I hope you don't too, it's one of the most painful injuries you can get.
But I'd rather be poked in the eye with a stick than have a dog that wears a coat.......
In your rush to insouciance I think you missed the part where it's a pure safety precaution. We don't want him to be mistaken for an albino wolf and, hence, shot.
Jumped a group of cows today but that's it. Buddy Paul coulda killed a biiiig bull. Spike tags. Oy.
In your rush to insouciance I think you missed the part where it's a pure safety precaution. We don't want him to be mistaken for an albino wolf and, hence, shot.
That pooch has a greater chance of being flown off in the talons of a Seychelles Kestrel, than being mistaken for an albino Wolf.
You should really introduce him to Walt's people. "Fluffy the midget albino Wolf", and how he is almost eaten by the Alpha Male, outcast from the pack, and lives a lonely life of only wanting to be a pack Dog. Then miraculously saves the pack from global freezing by raiding peoples homes of Purina, and dragging 50lbs bags thru a blizzard to get the pack thru till spring.
Ending: He yips at the moon, as the rest of the pack kills the Alpha because he failed to be a leader.
Home... no elk but lots of exercise! Strained an Achilles getting cute crossing a creek so my last day hunting was pretty limited. At least in my case, a strained Achilles isn't a "walk it off" injury, it just gets worse.
If we had bull tags there'd be two 6x6's hanging. Like I say, you want to see a big bull broadside in Ukiah unit? Hunt a spike tag.
Next year is veddy veddy eeenteresting, as I'll have enough points saved for a GOOD tag. Current frontrunner is Hells Canyon. I'm gonna start stretching aggressively though; I've been getting too dang many minor strains and sprains this last year. I seem to have hit an "age wall" of sorts.
10 miles in about 10" of snow whipped me pretty good; only one fresh track, a bull, but he was heading off the top into a completely different drainage and I was NOT dropping into that one
I resemble that remark. My Achilles is still quite sore; has spread to the whole bleeping ankle now. Was just hobbling around Home Depot; I think that was my big move for the day.
went out with a buddy for an afternoon/evening elk hunt- 8 pretty tough miles; didn't see any elk- but the area looks promising, alarm is set for 4:00 AM and going to give it another go tomorrow
it was a perfect morning, in what appeared to be the perfect spot- glassed for two hours starting at first light and nothing (well a cool badger hunting :)), made a big loop hoping to cut a fresh track and none to be had
walking the rifle some more; it's going to be the fittest rifle in the land 13-ish miles w/ about 4000' of gain. I'll tell you what is kicking my butt- it's not the miles or climbing- it's the damn snow, just sucks the life out of you!
found this old cabin in a deep draw, right next to a little spring fed stream- thought how cool would it be to live there in a cabin
walking the rifle some more; it's going to be the fittest rifle in the land 13-ish miles w/ about 4000' of gain. I'll tell you what is kicking my butt- it's not the miles or climbing- it's the damn snow, just sucks the life out of you!
found this old cabin in a deep draw, right next to a little spring fed stream- thought how cool would it be to live there in a cabin
put a big day in today, little over 13 miles on a ridge I had never hunted before- if I had been here a 1.5-2 weeks earlier, I would have been in a lot of elk; definitely on the next year's list for sure
Thanks for the pics. That's pretty country, and it sure looks like country elk could move around in at will. Keep putting yourself out there and you could very well cross paths. Are you hunting with the '06 M70 again this year?
Still limping around. It's getting better, but apparently a) I really tweaked it and b) I'm getting old and heal slow.
do you use a roller for your calves? when I first started running, I was having achilles issues and soon learned that tight calves are often the culprit, started using a foam roller on my calves (it's not a pleasant endeavor) and haven't had achille issues since (knock on wood!)
also found out that ibuprofen isn't all that effective with tendons
I finally got my Kimber Hunter (.308) setup and dialed in, so using it- very svelte at 5.5 lbs (w/ rings and scope :))
hit the gym this morning
squats 3/3/3+/10 @ 70/80/90/70% of 1RM bench 3/3/3+/10 @ 70/80/90/70% of 1RM pullups 3x11 dips 3x30 core
I've only used a roller on my IT bands. This particular Achilles issue is an injury; I was crossing a creek and thought I'd get cute and put the edge of my left boot on a little ledge of a boulder... "just like rock climbing when I was young!".... as I was attempting the step across the boot slipped and I landed hard on my left foot in the creek. Didn't hurt at the time but as the day progressed it got worse. I hiked about 4 miles in it afterwards that day which was probably not wise but, y'know, it's ELK season!
I stretched the whole leg, my whole body actually, aggressively last night and at least got the rest of the leg functioning correctly again. Everything was going to poop from limping on it.
I think I need to acknowledge that I've crossed a body threshold and start acting accordingly. A LOT more proactive stretching and to your point, rolling, and then I just need to be smarter out in the field. This is now officially a pattern, starting with IT pain on a mulie backpack hunt, then the PF issue, then the thing on the back of my knee, now this.
It's my karma for saying I'd never met a hike I couldn't do. True when I said it... now maybe not so much. I pissed off the hiking gods. D'oh.
I did drag this guy out of the woods yesterday, Achilles notwithstanding.... It was more an assassination than a hunt, but I did make a nifty shot. That's my reworked .358.... I'll be sticking with the 200 NAB too, liking what I saw on this buck plus the one I "spined" a few weeks ago.
well now you made me feel guilty 6 miles with Tiny E, scouting an area that encompasses a popular trail close to town (less popular now through early spring however) and that I frequently see elk sign. Saw enough sign I'm going to give it a whirl in the morning.
Mtwarden. Are you an actual warden. We have a game warden here that would pass for your brother. Nothing bad meant. He is a good guy.
was, Montana game warden for 24 years-retired now for 6 years (should say semi-retired as I'm working a gig for the USMS)
must be a good looking guy this warden
He is a relatively new warden. Maybe 25 going by looks. About 150 yards from our deer lease is a retired (warden are like police, they never truly retire) warden that has become a true friend of mine. Mr Bill is 87 years old and still chases poachers at night. He is the kind of Christian I try to be, but I often fall short. Thanks for your reply. I hope your workouts go well for you. I will try not to interrupt y'alls thread again. Good luck.
Nice. Hoping to be able to start walking (for exercise) in the flats soon. Hiking after that. Things have calmed down enough that I can tell where specifically I injured it: outside of left Achilles, about midway up the "rope". Theres a very tender swollen area there on the thing... must've partially torn it there. Guess I'll go glass-half-full and count myself lucky it basically held and didn't rupture like they can.
6.9 miles and 1244' gain this morning, walking my dog, along with a real nice 30-something couple. They dropped off their kiddos at school and met me at the trailhead.
Such a nice morning! Good workout too.
Hey! Who are those people following us up the hill?
Rising sun still behind the ridge:
We hiked to the top of a very cool earthen dam at an old mine site just out of town. Then wandered around for a bit, high up above town and then down, down, down. Averaged a little better than 3 mph, which is pretty good coping with a somewhat crazed bird dog.
Good hike. I've been getting out a lot. Posting a little.
tough sledding today! 11 miles w/ a foot or more of snow for much of it and most of it crunchy I did find a meadow that had some fairly fresh elk tracks, probably feeding at night, but will give it another go tomorrow
9miles today; hit the same meadows from a different direction, much less arduous (less snow, not as steep a climb)- got their before daylight hoping they would linger a little, no such luck and the snow is too crunchy to try to track anything- so goes elk hunting
The two groups of elk I got into, in both cases I was on crunchy frozen ground and it was over before it began. They skedaddled before I saw them, when I was 80-100 yards away. They say a cow call can help; the elk might tolerate the noise if they think it's another elk. Dunno. Skeptical.
My bleepin' heel has improved but I seem to have reached a plateau of sorts. Still limping, can't really put power through it though at least now I can pretend...... can push lightly... Hoping to at least go for a walk this weekend but I'm not gonna until I can walk normally because all this walking ABnormally is really taking a toll on my other pieces 'n parts. I'd love to see imaging of the damage but I'm too cheap to pay for it since it doesn't really matter anyway.
Some years ago, I was waaay TF back in the top of a drainage and I found a bull; I know this because he jumped up and bugled when my boot caught on a dry branch crossing over a fallen tree. It snapped, I hear a crash then a bugle... JUST out of sight, of course, maybe 50-75 yards away... I froze and hoped for a shot as it moved up the hill. Never came... I've often wondered what would've happened if I'd tooted my cow call and just charged towards him. It's non-intuitive, but my buddy Jerry swears it can work.
Elk hunting is a great way to build up one's "Tales of Woe" collection. Lots of if only's and shoulda coulda woulda's.
Well bad news on the elk hunting front; yesterday left the house before 4, I hiked up to a high meadow where I was seeing some activity and made it to the very end of the meadow with about 15 minutes before shooting light
Just at shooting light I saw an elk walking and then a couple of more, one was a bull for sure (but you can kill a cow or bull here and I'm not picky); got down on my knee, rifle ready- about 8 cows/calves jogged through the opening (most of been a little updraft- had they stopped I would have drilled a cow), a lone bull was behind them about 75 yards or so, I willed him to stop and he did- roughly 250 yds, put the cross hairs on the center of the elk just behind the shoulder an touched the trigger. I could hear the bullet hit and he jumped a bit too; he was out of sight quickly due to a small rise, so no opportunity for a follow up shot.
I was elated and expected to see him piled up as I walked over the rise, he wasn't, but was convinced he wasn't far. I found his tracks but no blood- wtf? Followed them about 200 yds and then saw a few pin pricks of blood, not good. He started downhill and broke off from the cows. I gave him 20-25 minutes to settle down and started slowly tracking, a little blood here and there, but not much. He was angling downhill through some really thick stuff, I just kept a turtle's pace- stopping often to look/listen. Blood was very sporadic, but I had good tracking snow and was confident I'd get another shot at him. This continued for a mile or so; every so often there would be a bigger spot of blood, but he never bedded.
He stopped descending and starting side-hilling and then eventually started angling uphill. I figured he might want to get back with the cows. We hit a little creek, but didn't cross, turned parallel to the creek and headed up. At this juncture there was about a 100 yds of no blood whatsoever. I thought maybe he bumped me into another bull and I was possibly following the wrong one. I backtracked until a found a spot blood and then made sure there wasn't another bull that had broken off. At this point it started snowing, hard- straight down, no wind, more like a downpour. Tracks started to quickly fill in with snow. I was carefully brushing snow out looking for blood, but never saw another drop. There were now tracks going every which way and they all looked the same. I followed a couple of different sets, came back to the same spot and followed another set. The snow wasn't letting up and now there was no telling a fresh track from one two weeks old.
I made a pretty big circle in the general direction he was headed and then a couple of big figure 8's, hoping (just hope at that point) I'd bump him, but no such luck. There was a trail above me and I decided to walk it out a mile or so and then back to see if if anything had crossed. No luck and still the snow came down hard. I made a bigger circle yet, but was starting to run out of light and started the long haul back to my truck. I wept, not for me, but for the bull. It was one of the longest 3 mile walks of my life.
I was out early again this morning, hoping beyond hope that maybe he would be back in the meadow again. It had snowed more that night and appeared no elk had used the meadow, but was really impossible to say with certainty due to the snow. I went back to the last spot I knew he had been. Again I made a couple of loops, each bigger. I knew in my heart it was a lost cause.
I pray he ends up like other deer and elk that I've harvested, discovering an arrow or bullet from some time past.
I took this week off to hunt, but my tag is in now the trash.
I'll continue to pray for that elk.
Sorry for the long winded post, but felt like I had to get this off my chest- thanks.
Oh man. That's a horrible feeling- maybe the worst feeling in all of big-game hunting. So sorry to hear about it.
I had something somewhat similar happen many years ago. It had snowed, and I came upon a spot where two elk had bedded, a cow and a smaller animal. The smaller animal was bleeding. I surmised it was a spike someone had wounded. The way I found their bed was that they jumped up; so I started tracking them in the snow. The spike was bleeding quite a bit. I tracked/followed them for several miles, luckily they were headed more or less back toward my Jeep (I found the bed about 5-6 miles into a roadless Wilderness) because the weather was spooky and I don't think I'd have followed them AWAY from the rig. It was COLD, had got to minus 12 F the night before down at the bottom of the mountain and I was up near the top. Anyway my theory was they'd bed down again, and he'd stiffen up, so they'd let me get close enough for a shot.
They dropped down through a drainage and started up the other side, which was a north facing slope and had much denser vegetation... I was carrying a big bore lever gun and had the scope in QR mounts. I decided when it happened, it was gonna happen fast, so like a dork I took the scope off. I'm pretty decent with irons... or thought I was... sure enough they jumped up and sure enough it was a spike and momma and sure enough, I had a shot at about 75 yards. He was standing there looking at me over a log. Clean shot at his head. Shot right over him; I didn't put the bead in the buckhorn in the stress of the moment. Now he's moving (stiffly) through brush. I took two more shots through windows in the brush.
I must've hit him in the guts because now, added to the blood from his wound, was lots of watery diarrhea. Faaawk. Followed him just a few hundred yards when it started to SNOW and I mean snow. Ended up snowing about a foot that night and basically closed off the top of the mountain.
Not as excruciating as yours because at least I wasn't the one who wounded him FIRST and I guess for that matter I can't say conclusively I hit him in the guts....... but I'm pretty sure I did.
I've had a couple long tracking jobs on deer, but always found the deer... but it is NOT fun when you know you hit them solid but you can't find them.
Anyway buddy it's the SHÏTS when it happens and you have my empathy and sympathy.
it's a bullet I've used a lot- 150 grain Accubond (fully loaded ammo by Nosler) in a .308; my best guess is it wasn't a "solid" hit- possibly low (sternum?), possibly high (upper shoulder)
I've lost two deer in 40+ years of hunting (and I grieved those as well); first elk- hopefully my last
Mike- I had a similar instance a few years ago. Spotted about 30 elk on the edge of a steep draw just below a ridge. Took about an hour and a half to get up to where they were. I crawled up to a log where I figured they would be and sure enough, there they were less than 200 yards away. I lay over log a took aim on a big cow. Squeezed the trigger and she dropped like she’d been hit by lightning.
It was very steep and icy and I watched her slide down the draw, gaining speed as she went. She was headed for a shale cliff that was about a 30 foot drop off. Over the cliff she went, sailing down the draw toward the bottom.
I lost sight of her as my hunting buddy and I carefully made our way down, following her track. MicroSpikes and Trekking poles were all that kept us upright.
As we went down, her track sailed off another cliff. This one about 25’ high. I commented to my buddy that even if she hadn’t been shot, the cliff falls would have done her in.
We finally made it to the bottom and there she was, piled up in a tangle of alders. We were about 50 yards away at this point and like a fool, I didn’t have my rifle in my hands due to the crazy climb down. I took one more step towards her and she exploded up to her feet and took off up the other side. It was dog-hair thick lodgepole and I never got a shot off. There were only a few small drops of blood and in a short time, her tracks become obliterated by other elk tracks. We circled and circled but didn’t see any sign of blood or an animal moving awkwardly. Kept looking until dark and spent half a day looking the next. Never found her or any sign.
I played this over and over in my head and my theory is that I over shot the lungs but was close enough to the spine that the shock of impact knocked her off her feet. If the lungs had just been exhaled at the time of the shot, it’s possible that I threaded the needle, so to speak. This was the only elk I have ever lost out of the 30+ I have shot. I can still play this video loop in my mind.
The first buck I killed this year, the one I "spined", still haunts me a bit. He looked me right in the eye when I came up on him but there wasn't [bleep] he could do; he was paralyzed. Courageous animal though. It leaves a dent.
The first buck I killed this year, the one I "spined", still haunts me a bit. He looked me right in the eye when I came up on him but there wasn't [bleep] he could do; he was paralyzed. Courageous animal though. It leaves a dent.
The killing part of hunting is usually ugly. Still you pulled the trigger for the rush. The way it works.
The first buck I killed this year, the one I "spined", still haunts me a bit. He looked me right in the eye when I came up on him but there wasn't [bleep] he could do; he was paralyzed. Courageous animal though. It leaves a dent.
The killing part of hunting is usually ugly. Still you pulled the trigger for the rush. The way it works.
I have never pulled the trigger for the “rush”. Pulling the trigger is using a tool to put meat in my freezer.
The 2nd buck I killed this year was about as clean as it gets. He fell where he was standing. Took the top of his heart off. But I hear what you're saying.
I am the opposite of a detached harvester using a tool to gather food. The adrenaline rush is insane. It's a good thing I shot so much from my hind feet as a kid; I'm pretty good at grabbing the shot as it goes by, so to speak, meaning as I'm wobbling.... , but as far as coolly holding perfectly still, calmly doing whatever.... no. Killing big animals is a very intense thing for me.
Exceptions are when it happens so fast there's no time to get overrun by hormones, or when it takes so long that it runs its physiological course. The nice high desert mulie I killed some years ago at just over 600 yards was the latter. It took so long to set the shot up that I was kind of a zombie by the time I pressed the trigger.
For myself, there is an emotional attachment to the killing. Makes no difference, big game or small. Been that way from the beginning. The fire goes out, or you watch it go out and if one doesn’t have an emotion, then they exist in a different realm than I. I get that also.
Yet there is no clean killing. Quick is a goal, however there is little about it that is clean. Essential physiological elements of life are quickly destroyed. A goal, however clean is a dishonest definition. Little different than having ones own life taken from something quickly traumatic. Clean? I don’t think so.
Anyway, off the track of the fitness forum. I only brought it up due to Mtwardens obvious emotional response with regards his hunt. Good man....
Perhaps some should hunt more Upland Birds, where one often must finish their work with the hands.... Had one Birddog that brought nothing back alive. He finished it with one clean bite. He was exceptional in more ways than his scenting skills.
Shame you did not find him. Sounds like you put in a heck of an effort though thanks to your year round training. ( A good reminder again how important it is) Tough losing animals. I still remember a really nice whitetail buck I wounded with an arrow I never recovered over 30 years ago in Kansas.
Anyway, Hopefully hit was non lethal and sounds maybe hit a bit too far forward or high which is good for survivals a hit too far back . As you know elk are really tough animals. I think it is a good policy to share info like this on here. Good reminder to really concentrate when shooting and not give up when tracking.
You would think you would see crows, ravens in the area if he was down after a few days if was a lethal hit.
thanks for sharing
Originally Posted by mtwarden
Well bad news on the elk hunting front; yesterday left the house before 4, I hiked up to a high meadow where I was seeing some activity and made it to the very end of the meadow with about 15 minutes before shooting light
Just at shooting light I saw an elk walking and then a couple of more, one was a bull for sure (but you can kill a cow or bull here and I'm not picky); got down on my knee, rifle ready- about 8 cows/calves jogged through the opening (most of been a little updraft- had they stopped I would have drilled a cow), a lone bull was behind them about 75 yards or so, I willed him to stop and he did- roughly 250 yds, put the cross hairs on the center of the elk just behind the shoulder an touched the trigger. I could hear the bullet hit and he jumped a bit too; he was out of sight quickly due to a small rise, so no opportunity for a follow up shot.
I was elated and expected to see him piled up as I walked over the rise, he wasn't, but was convinced he wasn't far. I found his tracks but no blood- wtf? Followed them about 200 yds and then saw a few pin pricks of blood, not good. He started downhill and broke off from the cows. I gave him 20-25 minutes to settle down and started slowly tracking, a little blood here and there, but not much. He was angling downhill through some really thick stuff, I just kept a turtle's pace- stopping often to look/listen. Blood was very sporadic, but I had good tracking snow and was confident I'd get another shot at him. This continued for a mile or so; every so often there would be a bigger spot of blood, but he never bedded.
He stopped descending and starting side-hilling and then eventually started angling uphill. I figured he might want to get back with the cows. We hit a little creek, but didn't cross, turned parallel to the creek and headed up. At this juncture there was about a 100 yds of no blood whatsoever. I thought maybe he bumped me into another bull and I was possibly following the wrong one. I backtracked until a found a spot blood and then made sure there wasn't another bull that had broken off. At this point it started snowing, hard- straight down, no wind, more like a downpour. Tracks started to quickly fill in with snow. I was carefully brushing snow out looking for blood, but never saw another drop. There were now tracks going every which way and they all looked the same. I followed a couple of different sets, came back to the same spot and followed another set. The snow wasn't letting up and now there was no telling a fresh track from one two weeks old.
I made a pretty big circle in the general direction he was headed and then a couple of big figure 8's, hoping (just hope at that point) I'd bump him, but no such luck. There was a trail above me and I decided to walk it out a mile or so and then back to see if if anything had crossed. No luck and still the snow came down hard. I made a bigger circle yet, but was starting to run out of light and started the long haul back to my truck. I wept, not for me, but for the bull. It was one of the longest 3 mile walks of my life.
I was out early again this morning, hoping beyond hope that maybe he would be back in the meadow again. It had snowed more that night and appeared no elk had used the meadow, but was really impossible to say with certainty due to the snow. I went back to the last spot I knew he had been. Again I made a couple of loops, each bigger. I knew in my heart it was a lost cause.
I pray he ends up like other deer and elk that I've harvested, discovering an arrow or bullet from some time past.
I took this week off to hunt, but my tag is in now the trash.
I'll continue to pray for that elk.
Sorry for the long winded post, but felt like I had to get this off my chest- thanks.
I'll probably go back after hunting season wraps up (this Sunday) just to look around, if he's down and dead somewhere- as you say, should be a lot of bird activity
there's always the possibility that another hunter harvests him too, that would certainly be a positive outcome
Warden, you sure do put in a lot of hard work. I have got to find an exercise program that will work with my physical limitations. Keep up the good work
PS That has got to be a pretty healthy dog also. Great pictures as always. Thanks for posting them.
Well, today Maverick and I had company! Two nice folks accompanied us while we hiked 4 miles, gaining a bit over 1,000' and enjoyed our first snowshoe hike of the season! We weren't far from town, and not much higher, but there was at least a foot of snow, and it was a really nice hike. A few photos from today:
My old buddy Fred, Vietnam Veteran, US Army. Great guy. Snowshoe & bicycle fanatic:
Looking out over the valley:
Maverick, chillin' on the trail:
Scenery shot. Sometimes we go another four miles over that direction, to the west, but not today:
It's starting to feel good to push off /put power through my left foot so I'm pretty happy, and just trying to get through this phase w/o setbacks. I think I'm entering the phase where it's more about pain tolerance- I got that, so that'd be awesome. Up till now whatever biofeedback loop controls this [bleep] was just shutting it down. Progress!!
Boat day yesterday, got our limit of 36 Dungeness. This is about 1/2 of them. Not much exercise involved because we had an enthusiastic newcomer pulling pots. So I just drove the boat. the crab ate perfect; hard as a rock and full of succulent sweet meat. Dayum.
If you get over this way I will FEAST you and Mrs. mtwarden on seafood!
Walked 2 miles, 31' elevation (that cracks me up, sorry).... Was able to hold good form for about 1.5 of it and when I couldn't anymore the limp was subtle. Gettin' there.
Walked 1.8 miles today, same route (meaning, flat)... might be overdoing it to walk every day, it was sore all day today and walking the 1.8 was no fun a'tall.
well I was going to pick a loop today that didn't entail snowshoes, then discovered I'm missing a single glove out of my jacket pocket, soooooo... we did the same 7 mile loop today (on snowshoes!) AND I didn't find that damn glove!
1.7 mile walk. I'm starting to get concerned that this isn't working. I may need to immobilize the bleepin' bleeper to let it knit or some such BS. I'm worried I'm re-tearing the injured part as fast as it's healing, because it's been, what, 5 weeks and it's not really getting any better at this point. Plateaud is the phrase I guess. Still quite painful, still limping. Wasn't able to walk normally at any point today but pushed through anyway- perhaps a mistake, but fawk....
"Rest, Ice, Ibuprofen, if you want to geek out on it we can get imaging and schedule PT!"
There. I owe me an office visit. I think I'll double-bill and see if I can get away with it.
I'm going to give it a bit longer... always darkest before the dawn, etc.... but we are putting in for the JMT for this next summer. It's gonna have to buck up, same as always.
"Rest, Ice, Ibuprofen, if you want to geek out on it we can get imaging and schedule PT!"
There. I owe me an office visit. I think I'll double-bill and see if I can get away with it.
I'm going to give it a bit longer... always darkest before the dawn, etc.... but we are putting in for the JMT for this next summer. It's gonna have to buck up, same as always.
Jeff My thoughts have always been if it isn’t getting worse it will get better. Pretty much always worked.
Ed, those are wise words indeed and actually give me a bit of good cheer as I read them.
It's not getting worse. Arguably, since I'm ramping up activity and it's staying about the same, that IS getting better. Just sick of this limping-around [bleep].
Multiple Achilles tweaks- and the visceral fear of a full rupture- were what got me to finally give up competitive b-ball in my mid-30's. So I've done this rodeo before, but it's been a while, and this seems to be more an acute injury to a specific portion of the thing rather than a more general strain.
I'll just have to new, uber-light gear for the JMT! Might be a "little" vertical in that casual jaunt.
this morning- deadlifts 5/5/5, overhead press 5/5/5 both at 75% of 1 RM, lunges 3x30 yds (those pretty much sucked after yesterday's snowshoe outing!), chin-ups 3x12, core
this afternoon- 4 miles w/ Tiny E; he must be close to fully recovered as he seemed to plenty energetic
Yesterday was 7 miles hiking with my dog in just a few inches of snow. We covered 7 miles and climbed 1266 feet. Found and flushed a covey of quail and two covey of chukar!
Today was a slower paced 3 mile hike on flat ground near the river to do a little photography. Sure was nice:
Chelan County, Washington. It's about 85% public land and varies from about 600' above sea level to 9,000' asl. Lots of vertical.
Guy
looks (and sounds good); we're ~ 4500' here in Helena, not too far from some 10,000'-ish stuff- lots of trails in and close to town; Forest Service in all compass directions- I have no complaints
Yup, 3.7 miles on snowshoes today with a small group of friends and my dog. We gained about 900' but were moving slow, one of the guys has two brand new knees. I'm impressed that he came out and hiked with us!
Also - heard a story of another local guy who was hiking recently with this two husky dogs. A pair of large feral dogs (not wolves, large dogs) started stalking the guy and his dogs and then attacked! He tried to fend them off with his trekking poles and basically destroyed his poles in the process. One of his dogs was hurt bad, went to the doggie hospital and is in bad shape but will survive. The other fared better. He didn't have pepper spray or a firearm, but is buying his first handgun now.
hmmm- that's not good; I have a small/light S&W 317 .22 that I carry with, good for bad critters or bad folks AND have killed a fair number of mountain grouse with it too
I have a Glock 43 (9mm) that I really like for hiking/backpacking. Don't know if they all are, but mine is really accurate. It drops right into a back pocket, mine is there now as I just got back from a (ta da!) 2.6 mile walk. Which hurt the whole [bleep] time, but still.
Your friend just learned that hopin' and wishin' and good thoughts and rainbows and unicorns don't do much when someone or something is trying to hurt you. Good on him for buying a gun. My best wishes to him, and his dogs as well.
Ya, today I had a little 9mm Kahr with me. Very light, similar in size to the little Glock.
Often I put up with more weight and carry either a 2.5" 357 mag S&W Model 19, or even my 45 1911. Ya, the 1911 weighs a lot, but I've been carrying one for 40 years or so. It feels kinda natural there.
Poor guy - and his poor dogs. We've got wolves, bears, mountain lion and coyotes here. I hike and mountain bike year round - something is always along with me, just in case.
Another friend's father was bird hunting. Wolf got his dog.
I've owned several Kahr's; they are good guns. I can shoot a Glock much more accurately because of the trigger... the long smooth pull of the Kahr gives me the yips.
They re-allowed us to pop grouse with a .22 about 10 years ago. I've been thinking I need to carry one for just that reason.
For what it is- basically a pocket pistol- mine is stoopid accurate! How's yours?
After messing with S&W revolvers... Kahr's... Kimber 1911...I've gone all the way to the Glock dark side. My truck gun is a G19. My bedside pistol is a G22. My trail/bear pistol is the big 10mm... I think that's the G20. The grip angle works for me (they hit where I intuitively point), they always go bang, they aren't expensive and you can't hurt 'em, and if you DID hurt it.... meh.... it's a Glock, who cares?
I shot so much long gun as a kid that it's got some real romance and juice to me... comes naturally and I'm good at it... did not shoot handguns at ALL; they are just tools and I'm not real good with them.
yeah mine shoots pretty well, especially considering it's size; I carry a 23 for work (soon to go to a 17 though is the rumor) and appreciate it's simple, but effective operation
in fitness news- 5 miles on snow packed/icy trails w/ Tiny E
Rode 22+ miles today with 1500' elevation gain. I was getting some pretty good pangs at first but by the end it was feeling pretty good! Curious to see how things go as it tightens back up tonight, but overall, I'm very pumped. It felt sooooo good to get a great aerobic burn going on the big climb.
I have really been working on my breathing and endurance.
I have my 500 meter row down to a consistent 1 minute 28 seconds. My 1000 is right at 3 minutes.
My best 500m row time is 1:25 but have never been able to repeat it.
So I decided to try out the 02 Trainer, yes it is made in China! But so far I like what I have seen so far. I have only been training for a week with it. So right now I am doing 60 breaths in the morning and 60 breaths at night. I have not seen massive improvement, but a realistic improvement for sure. What I have noticed towards the end of the week was that my normal breathing is slower and for lack of a better word easier. I am going to do it for 30 days on it's own twice a day before I introduce it into my workout.
4.8 miles & 1300+ elev gain on snowshoes with my buddies Friday. Fun hike:
Couple of days before that the dog and I got lured higher and higher up the ridge by chukar... No birds were harmed, no ammo expended, but it was a good 3+ mile walk.
This evening was a guide for a snowshoe tour at considerably higher altitude, for about 2 miles. Here's a photo my buddy took:
I've got a winter job as a snowshoe guide. I think it'll be fun, likely three nights a week. Nothing real strenuous, but fun. Helping people explore the outdoors. I like that.
Oh, treated myself to a new pair of Zamberlan boots this afternoon.. NICE...
Has some bounce to my step today for the first time in forever. In fact, couldn't even feel it for a while there. The mechanics of that leg are wonky, I could feel THAT, but no Achilles pain per se. Kinda sore tonight though. I think I'm ready to try a mild hike.
29 mile road bike ride, 2005' ele gain, 3 big climbs. Achilles was a total non-factor, but I was experiencing a bit of cold-air "asthma" on the climbs... tight upper chest, etc. Didn't care for that. Felt awesome awesome awesome to get out and crank though.
Guy, here's a couple I don't think I've posted. This is last spring in Utah. .
Then this is from last May in Hells Canyon. Guys I highly, highly recommend setting aside a week in April or May and doing this. Absuloteky incredible. Also flat brutal at times (see my .sig).
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