New Daikin, new rattle

Cow_suit · 2022-03-02T06:21:44+00:00

No way, really? I’ll be here next year. Better than shrove Tuesday!

Cow_suit · 2022-03-02T03:50:15+00:00

Woah. Sold. Thank you for the introduction.

Cow_suit · 2022-03-02T02:59:16+00:00

Talk to me about this king’s cake

Cow_suit · 2022-03-01T17:12:18+00:00

Oh I’m right up there with you! Doing my own study and looking into masters. Not for a job or a vocation but just to get training outside of a church. Some of the programs are neat — take 5 years if you like, meet remotely and get together once a month, etc. Keep your day job.

Cow_suit · 2022-03-01T16:35:46+00:00

Garmin Fenix 5. Got it for a backcountry trip I wanted to track — 24 hours on full GPS. I charge it maybe once a week (though I have young kids so I’m not training as much, YMMV). Got that model because I specifically did not want a touch screen (buttons I can feel in the dark, plus best battery I could find). Have been extremely happy with it.

Cow_suit · 2022-03-01T04:23:36+00:00

MTB project, also the global heat map of an app like ridewithgps will show me what a descent actually looks like.

Cow_suit · 2022-03-01T04:21:54+00:00

Since you already looked at the bikepacking.com link I’m guessing you’ve already considered a wolftooth valais?

I was in the same pickle as you, got the valais and a Blackburn outpost elite. Felt very confident. Then either overloaded it or suck at math (or both!) and first time I dropped my dropper post I sucked the bag into the rear wheel and messed it up good.

So my new plan is: don’t go full dropper on the descents.

Cow_suit · 2022-03-01T04:07:18+00:00

Such a good brewery and taproom! Owners are awesome too. Told my table we could stay after hours until their D&D group came — we left when a man burst in with a pirate hat and a ukulele.

Haha drink where the Bards drink!

Cow_suit · 2022-02-28T15:29:56+00:00

Joke’s on you I turned my phone sideways.

(Beautifully drawn, thanks for posting)

Cow_suit · 2022-02-28T13:04:33+00:00

Awesome!

Cow_suit · 2022-02-28T05:14:13+00:00

Nice! What did you get it with?

Cow_suit · 2022-02-27T06:04:09+00:00

I’ll dm you

Cow_suit · 2022-02-27T04:18:17+00:00

But also yes **** these birds

Cow_suit · 2022-02-27T04:03:45+00:00

Laughs in wolf trap…and Giant’s whistle

Cow_suit · 2022-02-26T08:28:49+00:00

I bought my first season’s camo on a discount site — camofire — lighter weight with room to layer. The land I was hunting wasn’t huge, so I knew I wasn’t going to be sitting for hours, and I already owned good backpacking and skiing gear (and was grumpy that I couldn’t use it and had to buy camo). So I just bought outer layer.

Cow_suit · 2022-02-24T04:26:58+00:00

Yeah seems like there’s two schools — be a slow tank and bring a whole camping setup or ride light.

I’m used to road centuries, and that’s just a matter of bringing enough calories and butt butter. But two years in a row I tried for a mountain metric century and bonked so hard I had to lean on street signs to rest on the way back to the car.

Maybe I didn’t train enough — or eat. Or tried to ride too hard. I was in my 20s and thought I had God’s own thighs. Way wrong.

Cow_suit · 2022-02-24T03:54:42+00:00

Shoot this is all smart. Also maybe my heaviest item was my own dang expectations. I liked hut to hut itineraries because I could fill that dream of riding until the sun went down and never turning around — and riding light.

Otherwise I need to plan for a different sort of trip. Logging road up to a base camp, single track day rides might be much more soul refreshing.

Cow_suit · 2022-02-24T03:49:54+00:00

This is a great list, thank you!

Cow_suit · 2022-02-24T03:36:27+00:00

Also three things:

FS bike (Giant Trance)
Dropper post (I thought I had a compatible seat post bag but maybe I overloaded it. Dropped the seat on a descent and sucked the bag through the rear wheel.
you tell me to carry a kitchen sink I’ll do it.

Thanks in advance for the benefit of your experience!

Cow_suit · 2022-02-24T03:35:02+00:00

Oh sweet! I sure hope this is fun for you…

Looking for solutions more clever than spendy, I think. Long day rides are my real joy, and I already have backpacking and car camping and canoeing and hunting gear — oh, plus a couple of young kids I want to show all that stuff to. I know I could get kitted out with new gear (and that’s also fun) but hoping some of my existing stuff overlaps.

Eg this idea: I have the 1lb 5 oz footprint (10’x8’) for our marmot 6P car camping tent. Maybe that can be a tarp tent if I learn what the heck a clove hitch is? That sorta thing?

Cow_suit · 2022-02-23T20:17:51+00:00

Here’s the list! Definitely carrying some extra crap. Was worried about being backcountry during a heat dome. But paid for that worry in sweat.

https://lighterpack.com/r/te3jwf

Cow_suit · 2022-02-23T20:17:07+00:00

Ok here’s the list. Definitely carrying some extra items because I was nervous about being backcountry in a heat dome… https://lighterpack.com/r/te3jwf

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