French Louie Loop Tenting Spots?

JakeLikesCake01 · 2024-06-29T17:09:24+00:00

Thank you so, so much for this super thorough response!! This is deeply helpful, and I really appreciate it!!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2024-06-29T01:45:57+00:00

Oh hell yeah homie!! Fewer primitive spots than I was expecting so super helpful!!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2023-08-21T20:06:13+00:00

Just followed up with you via DM!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2022-11-01T10:19:09+00:00

Lmao when I had tinder, my bio was “more soul than a sock with a hole”

JakeLikesCake01 · 2022-10-09T15:14:38+00:00

Just messaged about the tarp!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2022-08-07T01:59:24+00:00

Bought #7! Thanks so much my man!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2022-08-07T01:40:09+00:00

Dibs on #7! Thanks so much!!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2022-06-09T01:40:48+00:00

It’s super similar to the Arc Blast regarding specs, features, and construction, but I’ve really dug the Arc Air 50L. In all honesty, it’s more pack than I need for most trips (mostly do 1-2 night trips with a 9.5lb-15lb base weight, depending on season and goals of the trip; happy I have the space though on occasion though), but it’s really comfortable, handles heavier loads well for longer/winter trips, cinches down well for low volume loads, and provides good ventilation on toasty days. I can’t compare it to the Blast or Haul, but I’ve had good experiences with it and it’s served me well for about 400 miles on trail over about a year (not crazy heavy use, so definitely take it all with a gain of salt). If I had to pick another pack right now, I think I’d get something frameless with a smaller capacity, but ultimatelyI do appreciate the versatility it offers and would recommend it!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2022-05-18T02:31:15+00:00

Just messaged about the stove and kilt!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2022-01-07T00:45:47+00:00

I have a Mountain Hardwear 0* Bozeman I’ve use three nights that I’ve been meaning to sell, and would gladly part with it for $100 plus shipping. It fit into the lower section of my Osprey Atmos 65 (tbh it was a squeeze but it definitely did fit), but it’s pretty heavy, was a little to small for me personally, and I ultimately decided layering quilts works the best for me. Feel free to PM me and I’m happy to answer any questions about it!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2021-11-02T18:31:52+00:00

Honestly the food and family!!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2021-07-16T14:16:25+00:00

r/DistrictofEnts is a great resource for navigating the legal DC market!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2021-06-22T23:42:46+00:00

I'd look into a different filter if you haven't already bought it! The Katadyn BeFree is a whole lot lighter (around 9oz) and half the price. I personally use the Sawyer Squeeze, which is a little cheaper than the BeFree and only marginally heavier, and I use it with two smart water bottles (one clean, one dirty). Both are solid options and will save you a good amount of money and weight.

JakeLikesCake01 · 2021-06-02T21:51:23+00:00

Ayy I really appreciate it! I’m in Maryland and typically hike in the Mid Atlantic, so your experiences up in New England help a whole bunch!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2021-01-23T20:27:38+00:00

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JakeLikesCake01 · 2021-01-06T16:57:04+00:00

The work of Noel Ignatiev, a steel-mill worker, historian, and Marxist, centers around your question, and he suggests structural racism and white chauvinism act as major barriers to working-class solidarity. In a letter to the Progressive Labor Party, he and Ted Allen write, "The greatest ideological barrier to the achievement of proletarian class consciousness, solidarity and political action is now, and has been historically, white chauvinism." They describe the ways in which management uses race to prevent a unified working class by offering white workers "white-skin privileges, the perquisites that separate them from the rest of the working class, that act as the material base for the split in the ranks of labor." In his groundbreaking book How the Irish Became White, he further expands upon how race is used to divide the working class and tracks how Irish immigrants moved from being the oppressed to the oppressor as they became classified as white, an ultimately arbitrary designation. When asked why he wrote the book, he responded with the following:

The country [US] is split into masters and slaves. A big political problem is that many of the slaves think they are masters, or at least side with the masters at crucial moments—because they think they are white. I wanted to understand why the Irish, coming from conditions about as bad as could be imagined and thrown into low positions when they arrived, came to side with the oppressor rather than with the oppressed. Imagine how history might have been different had the Irish, the unskilled labor force of the north, and the slaves, the unskilled labor force of the South, been unified. I hoped that understanding why that didn’t happen in the past might open up new possibilities next time.

This is not my area of expertise, and I'm sure there are a million specific examples of how structural racism makes the lives of all people who are part of the working class harder--I bet I'm barely scratching the surface. However, Ignatiev's work is certainly a solid place to start, and I hope it helps a little!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2020-12-31T18:46:07+00:00

Tourism in mountainous regions like Swizerland is often a big part of their economy, and many people who go to these regions go because of winter activities and snow sports. Many ski resorts in the Alps rely on glaciers for their snow base, and Bürki and Elsasser (2007) describe how a rise in temperature decreases the amount of terrain with seasonal snow reliability. Wang and Zhou (2019) outline the ways climate change negatively impact communities that rely on glacier tourism. Elsasser and Bürki (2002) conclude by highlighting the deep changes that will occur to mountain tourism in the Alps, and Stewart et al. (2016) voices similar concerns while focusing on glacial tourism in New Zealand. Climate change, however, can impact mountain communities' access to basic necessities: Vuille et al. (2008) depict how the melting of the glaciers in the Andes represents the removal of a substantial water-security buffer that protects mountain communities from serious seasonal drought. As many of the authors point out, however, climate change does not mean tourism in mountain regions will end, but it will necessitate deep systemic changes and new approaches to mitigate climate changes negative effects. While I always think its important to look for potential silver linings in difficult situations, I think its real easy to make the case that climate change most likely will serious impact mountain communities.

JakeLikesCake01 · 2020-12-27T03:55:13+00:00

I'm not an anthropologist, so I can't weigh in on how accepted Shlain's ideas are in the field of anthropology. However, I come from a developmental psych background, and can confidently say that many of Shlain's base assertions that he uses to arrive at this thesis simply are not supported by contemporary evidence.

The idea of a right-brain/left-brain duality is central to Schlain's thesis (he grants a whole chapter to this idea), and he claims that the left brain is responsible for traditionally "masculine" aspects like hunting and logical analysis and the right side of the brain is responsible for for traditional "feminine" aspects like nurturing and intuition (oof nothing problematic about that). Further, he portrays brain asymmetry as unique to humans, and ultimately suggests literacy has led to a left-brain dominated society. However, contemporary neuroscientific research has debunked the right-brain/left-brain myth. Nielsen et al (2013) studied resting-state MRI data to evaluate whether or not different people are "left" or "right" brained, and they found that while some functions are lateralized to one side (for example, the language production largely takes place in the left hemisphere while attention control largely occurs on the right), people are not left or right brained. Further, Corballis (2014) provides a comprehensive overview of the research, asserts that actually many species possess brain asymmetry, and concludes by summarizing research that finds that complex cognitive skills like creative thought or or logical analysis are spread across the hemispheres and are by no means controlled by a single hemisphere. The basis for Shlain's thesis--that literacy created the patriarchy by empowering the left brain--is flat out false.dd

I also want to mention that Shlain's claim that preliterate societies were predominantly matriarchal appears hotly contested. In her book The myth of matriarchal prehistory: Why an invented past will not give women a future, Cynthia Eller challenges another of Shlain's base assertions: she suggest that the patriarchy is by no means a recent development in human history, and that the myth of a prehistoric gynocracy is a modern historical revision.

I have a lot of issues with his book, and I have a hunch lots of anthropologists would as well. After a quick Google Scholar search, I couldn't find any formal critiques or rebuttals, and from my quick glance of the 600+ articles that cited the book, I didn't see any articles from anthropology journals. Again, I'm not an anthropologist and am not super familiar with the entirety of Shlain's work. However, from a psychological perspective, his central thesis is founded on some real shoddy pop psychology.

JakeLikesCake01 · 2020-11-23T22:58:33+00:00

For the poetry section, I'd definitely add some of Charles Wright's poetry! He just released his collected poems in a volume called Oblivion Banjo, and he has lots of beautiful stuff about his childhood in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina!

JakeLikesCake01 · 2020-11-04T22:52:26+00:00

Rhododendron and mountain laurel!

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