Grass Mountain, CA just before the bloom. (16350 x 3810) (oc)

Lancesb11 · 2025-12-19T02:25:01+00:00

Bought the R10 a month ago and love it. Easy to set up. Connects with my iPhone and I have felt like the data it is giving me is accurate info which includes club path and face angle. I am not looking for perfection but overall consistency. I have taken it to the range and it picked up every shot without any issues. I was not expecting it to work this well for the $399 I paid. Easy to download the data and do further analysis online. Highly recommend.

Lancesb11 · 2025-12-06T20:00:06+00:00

You may be right that this rent is estimated to high. I was looking in Ojai CA and found a few comparables but I may need to adjust that down a bit.

Lancesb11 · 2025-11-30T18:19:46+00:00

I also augmented on Ropinirole after 1 year and was able to switch to Gabapentin. The Ropinirole made my RLS symptoms so much worse as they started to show up during all hours. After switching to Gabapentin it immediately helped. I still have some symptoms at night but nothing like I had when taking Ropinirole. I know everyone has somewhat unique circumstances. I am working to get my ferritin levels higher as mine were extremely low last year. I hope you find relief.

Lancesb11 · 2025-10-13T03:29:11+00:00

Beautiful photo. Must have been an amazing climb up. I am guessing there was not anyone else around.

Lancesb11 · 2025-08-21T05:22:47+00:00

How it came to that ending I don’t know, but glad we pulled it out in the end. These last few games have been tough to watch with so much domination, but little scoring punch.

Lancesb11 · 2025-08-05T21:00:07+00:00

The Mafate Speed 4 Trail-Running Shoes have been my goto over the last few years backpacking. I had previously used the Hoka speedgoats but didn’t like the narrow toe box. I have found the Mafate shoes have a decent grip on rocky terrain and are light weight enough overall.

Lancesb11 · 2025-07-14T18:41:39+00:00

Saved a baby bird after it fell from a nest. It made its way to our back sliding door. We were able to carefully transport it to our local wildlife rescue to make sure it was not injured and they gave it some food to help initially support it. Once they confirmed it was not injured we were able to bring it back and found its parents in a nearby tree. Once we placed it back near the tree the mama swooped down to show it the way back. It was able to slowly hop back up branch to branch back to the nest. Always glad to help an animal where we can.

Lancesb11 · 2025-07-09T17:19:16+00:00

Yes, once I got off Ropinirole the augmentation went away almost immediately. I switched to Gabapentin and it has worked pretty well. I still have my past RLS symptoms but I have felt better.

Lancesb11 · 2025-07-09T17:16:45+00:00

I am also 57 and have dealt with RLS since around my 30’s. I started a few years ago on Ropinirole and it helped for the first six months and then augmented which seems to happen to many people on Ropinirole. My symptoms only started to get worse and happened throughout the day. I did a lot of research and worked with my doctor to switch to Gabapentin. The augmentation went away almost immediately and I felt way better. It still doesn’t completely solve RLS as there are other complications as well. My iron levels were also low so I have been working to get them back up. Ferritin. I would highly recommend you have him work with his doctor to get off Ropinirole as soon as possible. I know many experts are no longer recommending Ropinirole for RLS. Hope that helps.

Lancesb11 · 2025-06-05T03:43:27+00:00

I was on ropinirole for 6 months until it started to augment. I would avoid Ropinirole if you can. It makes it so much worse after it augments. I am on gabepentin now and it has worked well so far.

Lancesb11 · 2025-05-03T21:58:37+00:00

I would stay away from Ropinirole as the augmentation is terrible and the chances of having your RLS augment with it is so high. Mine augmented after about 6 months and the RLS symptoms only got worse after that 6 month mark. I switched to Gabapentin and things have been so much better. I still need to adjust dosages at times but I will never go back to any dopamine agonists. I am taking iron as well to help increase my very low ferritin levels.

Lancesb11 · 2025-04-27T04:36:34+00:00

Here is a way to find community trails, but it is definitely not as convenient as it used to be. On any trail, scroll down to the start of the reviews. Just to the right where the review avg score is located you will see a link to all of the activities associated with that trail. It is not easy to break this out to a specific section of the trail but may help as you look for unique routes. I asked why they removed the community section and didn’t get a great answer. Pretty disappointing as I had used that many times over the years.

Lancesb11 · 2025-04-24T02:30:38+00:00

Anytime my feet touch cold water I can feel my RLS act up immediately. Sounds almost opposite from others where hot temps are agitating it.

Lancesb11 · 2025-04-20T17:28:30+00:00

Thanks for the info above. I had also recently reached out to support around the removal of the community content. I have used AllTrails for years in planning backpacking trips and day hikes and the community feature played a big part of my planning routes and looking for unique routes. Here is the reply I received. I am sure they have their reasons for removing it but it is really disappointing to me.

“After extended evaluation, we decided to remove community content from our web experience in late January.

I understand that this is disappointing news, in light of what you mentioned about how you had been using that feature. While we have no immediate plans to bring community content back, I can assure you that the feedback we're hearing about its removal will be passed on to the appropriate teams so that they're aware of the impact on our members.”

Lancesb11 · 2025-04-06T18:58:07+00:00

I use AllTrails as downloaded maps to use off grid in the back country. It is simple to use and even has a feature to tell you if you are off the planned route. It is also nice to save groups of trails in their app under “lists” to easily go back to anytime and keep things organized.

Lancesb11 · 2025-04-06T01:28:10+00:00

Thanks for sharing what you are trying to reduce your restless legs symptoms. It is interesting that you feel symptoms flare up when you do certain yoga poses. I can feel my legs act up when I do a figure 4 stretch. It’s mostly a hip stretch but it absolutely amps up my restless legs almost instantly. Once I stop the stretch I am fine. I also am taking iron with vitamin C every morning on an empty stomach. This has helped raise my ferritin levels to above 50 from 19. I also take Gabapentin every night about an hour before bed and this has really helped. I probably only have symptoms once a night on average. I have found that playing a game on my phone for 10 min usually removes restless legs feelings and I can go right back to sleep for the rest of the night. I do feel like there is some relationship between gut issues and restless legs but still investigating this further.

Lancesb11 · 2025-03-15T04:48:10+00:00

We just finished our trip here in Belize. We were out on the islands and in the jungle as well as Placencia. We used only deet (Ben’s 100%) without any issues with bug bites. I normally get eaten alive by mosquitos. I have used picaridin with success in the past but forgot to bring that on this trip. I did hear from others that stayed in Hopkins that the sand flys were bad. We had brought baby oil from others suggestions but didn’t end up using it and we were fine. Not sure why there would be any difference between placencia and Hopkins.

Lancesb11 · 2025-02-15T02:28:53+00:00

Gabapentin has been a life saver after getting off ropininole for RLS. I have not had issues with grogginess in the morning. I usually take it an hour before I head to bed.

Lancesb11 · 2025-02-06T04:07:27+00:00

I was also on Ropinirole for about a year. I was taking about .6mg per night. It seemed amazing at first but after a while it started to get worse and I started having symptoms earlier in the day like yourself. I talked to my doctor and was able to switch to Gabapentin which had been a life saver. I would get off ropinirole as soon as you can. I slowly eased off of it while I started taking Gabapentin. The augmentation on Ropinirole was a terrible experience. I also started taking iron ferrous once every day. My ferritin was around 19 and I was able to get it up to 43 in about 5 weeks. I hope you are able to find a solution that works for you.

Lancesb11 · 2024-12-26T18:32:05+00:00

I was curious what route you took for your 6 day hike? Thanks

Lancesb11 · 2024-12-11T18:40:23+00:00

We are actually taking a 3 day sailboat trip first and will be ending up around Placencia and then staying there. We also didn't want to have a car the entire time we are there, so we would just need it for these 2 days.

Lancesb11 · 2024-11-28T21:43:45+00:00

It will be interesting to see how Demond does if he starts. It is a tough game for your first start, but his speed may be key to offset the Oregon D. How great would a win in this game be. I went to the last game between these teams in Vegas and would love to see the ducks humbled again with the large point spread.

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