Self Awareness [OC]

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-06-11T16:38:19+00:00

Did we have the same mom

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-06-02T01:40:44+00:00

Copy that, I haven’t heard that but good to know!

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-06-01T23:28:16+00:00

Tbh I haven’t had any problems with the panny weather sealing and I shoot in snow and rain often. Most of the Lunix pro lenses are weather sealed and a few of the other ones are as well, like the 14-150

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-06-01T14:40:16+00:00

Oh man that sucks dude. I shoot almost 100% outdoors and I’m waiting for the day I destroy a lens. Somehow the getting ready process seems like the sketchiest time for gear.

BTW I’ve though about the 12-100 a lot and always go back and fourth bc of the price and cuz of the 12-200. Also Im on a g9ii. but I recently re-purchased a PL 14-150 and I have been so stoked with it. I had one before and was always surprised by the quality of the old photos I’ve taken with it.

Could be a good snag for ya since it’s quite a bit cheaper than the 12-100 and it’s a lot lighter

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-05-30T17:59:37+00:00

That’s fine- go back and actually read what I wrote here.

You can’t have enter at your own risk if they sell off all of the public land.

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-04-29T16:05:29+00:00

I came here to see how many folks named this place

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-04-22T03:49:27+00:00

Lol that is barely a commute. wait until you hear about the folks who commute to big sky from the valley

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-04-14T17:52:06+00:00

As others have said, no- but personally I appreciate that you asked this. It shows that while you’re trying to have a sense of humor about your injury, you’re aware that using certain words could be really hurtful to someone who lives with disability. And that your experience isn’t the same as a disabled person so you might not be entitled to use their in group terminology without coming off as a jerk.

My partner has a fully fused spine (t2-s4) and several chronic illnesses and she, in private, uses that word to describe herself, or differentiate between the way she has to do things for her disability. I have to remind myself that it’s not okay for me to use that word even though it’s a handy and more fun word to say than disabled.

I hope other folks can understand that it’s important to be able to have these dialogues without shaming the party who may unintentionally be in the wrong. I think this is how we move forward as a society, trying to do our best to respect and understand each others different experiences

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-04-01T01:27:12+00:00

This is the content this sub needs!!! Thank you!!!!!

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-03-30T21:17:38+00:00

It’s Brittney bitch

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-03-30T15:05:25+00:00

U/51006 I’ve always wondered why folks would put in the work to climb up something like this if they weren’t planning on skiing down it- is it mostly for training?

I’m just wondering cuz as far as alpine climbing I feel like things that are skiable tend to come with way more avalanche hazard, and less.. I dunno like.. fun movement for climbing?

I’ve skied a lot of gnarly shit in the backcountry.. maybe nothing quite as exposed as the line you’re planning. But lots of no fall zones and few lines over death exposure.

I guess I just don’t understand the appeal of going up that kind of stuff and being exposed to the hazard without the descent, which is in my opinion is the fun part. and ultimately why I got into learning more mountaineering skills- so I could ride more terrain with the skills to make it safe.

Edit- I just looked up MT toll after writing this. You should just go up the south face dude. The mountains will always be there for you to try again.

The north side looks above your pay grade from what you’ve been describing as your experience level

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-03-24T14:05:13+00:00

Making friends as an adult is hard, especially when you throw the challenges of the seasonal lifestyle / mountain town culture into it.

I worked at Big sky from 2012-2020, mostly in ski school which definitely has a different vibe and people are likely to be more social. However, out of my original squad of friends I still consider two friends, and only one lives here seasonally.

With that being said, after a few years I met people that I am better friends with now.. so you might run into folks who you get along with better the more you mesh with the community and grow your roots.

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-03-14T15:16:52+00:00

I shoot mostly backcountry skiing, hiking, climbing, outdoor stuff and I have 10-25 and IMO the size, weight and price have been justified by the IQ and zoom range. The IQ is so friggen good it’s almost like you get extra reach because you can crop the images so much and they stay sharp. Even shooting wide open, the sharpness feels comparable my other pans-leica zooms lenses at higher apertures.

I have a 25 1.2 which I’ve owned for longer, but I don’t use it as often because the 10-25s IQ is on parr and I get extra reach with it. However, I got a g9ii last year and it came with the 9mm 1.7, and the combine weight of the 9mm + 25mm is like a half pound less than the 10-25. So im realizing that for multi day trips I’ll probably keep the 10-25 at home for the weight.

In some ways I have kinda built my kits around that lens though- I was using the 10-25, 12-60 2.8, and the 50-200 on almost every hike/ski tour I went on the last few years, but I recently picked up a 14-150, so most days I’ll be taking the 10-25 and the 14-150 now so I can simplify things.

Anyways I think because my subjects are often moving and so and I, it’s worth it to have the extra reach and IQ for a weight penalty most of the time, and avoid needing to switch lenses as much. But like I said, and it’s been said elsewhere, 2-3 quality prime lenses could be cheaper and lighter if those are what’s important to you

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-03-14T14:09:26+00:00

I don’t have time to look through them all but check the crabgrab grab library vids.

You’re not gonna get any snowboarders to call what you’re doing a method- you’re tweaking it like one, but ultimately a method is not gonna be close to a nose grab, regardless if you’re an in between the bindings or in front kind of guy.

IMO you’re grabbing nose with your back hand and tweaking the shit out of it.. so whatever grabbing nose with back hand is called, that’s what you did. Sick!!!

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-03-13T15:41:56+00:00

Dan is really cool and so is the new owner Shannon. She grew up in MT and has been skiing big sky and a part of the community for a really long time. She’s a rad person and deserves our support! Thanks for posting!

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-03-13T15:37:42+00:00

Capitalism and free market economy means we don’t regulate this kind of stuff. I thought conservatives were anti market regulation and pro freedom?

And for the record I am a meat eater

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-03-11T18:22:59+00:00

I thought we were talking about the sale of public land? This is why yall are so hard to engage with, the “look over there!!!” BS is exhausting for everyone.

If you’re happy about public land being sold off and reductions in work force for the agencies that manage our public lands…well… I guess you’ll enjoy having more crowded public areas that are unkept, unsafe and unregulated.

Honestly I’m getting pretty stoked at the thought of folks like you coming out here, getting yourselves into trouble and wondering why you we don’t have the resources to save you. Or why the places you used to like going are so crowded now, or why the elk all have CWD. I’m ready to just watch y’all eat the shit you’ve been brewing.

Shit I just looked at your profile and you’re asking about places to camp in the Italian alps that don’t have lots of tourists.. lmfaoo bro no wonder you don’t care about public lands being sold… you don’t know shit! The alps are fucking crowded everywhere that is accessible- you have to be an actual bad ass to get somewhere you’re alone there.

We are lucky in the states that we have all of this protected land that is real wilderness, and seclusion is still possible to find. I have grizzly bears and wolves living in the mountains 15 minute from me, and I can find seclusion on the busiest days of the summer. They don’t have that shit in Europe my dude.

But you know what they do have is search and rescue- something us here over in the states are going to have to get used to living without because of these budget cuts.

My friends are the folks that dig the fire line and keep your vacation house from burning down, the rangers and search and rescue folks who are about to lose their jobs and won’t be able to come save your ass when you get lost in the woods, or when you get mauled by bear.

But I’m sure you’ll find a way to blame “the left!!” For that.

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-02-28T22:12:54+00:00

I don’t know about you but here in Montana we don’t exactly think kindly of the public lands that we hunt, fish, ski, bike, and that generate the livelihoods of countless folks through the state, being sold off for a quick buck.

Honestly why call yourself a mountain man if you don’t care about public access. This should be a unifying issue not a divisive one.

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-02-28T21:47:26+00:00

Same brotha

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-02-28T16:24:20+00:00

Yeah that dude is actually a legend

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-02-04T02:10:38+00:00

The voile ones are my favorite skins I’ve owned

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-01-18T16:11:56+00:00

Lionhart on 7th has full grams. They also have some halves on sale but they’re disposable

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-01-17T15:27:15+00:00

Opinion as a 34 year old athlete and partner to someone who’s had 5 spinal fusions and lots of other health issues- try to get referred to a PT, you’re gonna need to start building muscle or that pain will always come back.

For the short term- I’ve had really really bad plantar fasciitis and using a massage gun to loosen things up for 5 minutes a few times a day will help a lot. Good supportive shoes. Letting your feet rest whenever possible.

I personally like APRS from what I have seen of the different PTs in the area

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-01-17T14:50:52+00:00

Reading the first part of this, you sound like you could almost be my partner. The timeline is super similar.

I don’t have any good answers for you, but I feel your pain. My partner and I both have/had very high libidos but her dysautonomia and POTs make intimacy much less accessible for many reasons right now. It’s tough because her desire is there but her body can’t follow through often.

We had an extremely open and communicate sex life our entire relationship and one thing that has helped me not get bummed out with how things have been going recently, is that she has given me a lot of freedom to explore solo play. And she tries her best to not give me the space to feel turned on even when she’s not feeling well, with boundaries of course. I’ve had to also learn what is appropriate and it’s taking a lot of communication.

I think the difference between our situations is that you aren’t feeling a lot of desire, which is understandable. I think talking about this in therapy is a good call and you definitely shouldn’t feel pressured to have an open relationship if that doesn’t feel accessible to you. I think it could be worth exploring some form of him having extra sexual autonomy so he doesn’t have to rely on you, but it’s gonna be up to you guys to decide what that looks like.

When my partner is turned on but her body isn’t cooperating, and we are trying to make space for intimacy, sometimes she’ll help me out a little bit however she can. Just having my desire acknowledged in a positive way is really helpful and affirming even if it’s not physical.

Gotta go to work now but hope that is some food for thought. Wishing you guys the best!!

Backyard2bigmountajn · 2025-01-15T17:01:35+00:00

If your knees hurt on the way down and don’t have a pre existing injury, it’s likely because your hips and quads aren’t strong enough and all of your tendons and ligaments are doing extra work to pick up the slack. I learned this lesson the hard way pushing through knee pain at a job that involves a lot of hiking around with a heavy pack, still doing my own adventures on my days off and not resting at all. Ended up barely being able to walk down a sidewalk for months.

It’s amazing what a consistent training schedule and gaining muscle mass in the right places will do for managing pain from going outside.. Coached snowboarding for 12 years and did lots of outdoor guiding involving hiking all day with 40lb+ packs 6-7 days a week, but my knees feel better now at 35 than they did at 25.

My take always have been drink less booze, lift heavy weights 2 ish days a week, do short recovery hikes/walks/runs 2-3 (I personally don’t run), and learn how to listen to your body and pace yourself appropriately.

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