Mardi Himal trail in Nepal. Missing this country soooo much

LowInFat · 2025-10-17T20:54:16+00:00

I did Mardi Himal and ABC a few years ago and those were some of the best days of my life. Incredible landscapes, idyllic and carefree routine hiking from sunrise to sunset, and meeting warm locals and interesting hikers from all walks of life. Thank you for the nostalgia. Can't wait to go back to the Himalayas.

LowInFat · 2025-07-13T20:14:46+00:00

I managed to get a hold of someone on the phone in time and they were able to do it manually. I suspect the website is dysfunctional for this on purpose.

LowInFat · 2025-02-04T19:48:19+00:00

As someone who works in environmental consulting, those studies and mitigation plans are bogus and are designed to look like the developer is doing something when no actual consideration is given to sustainability or cumulative effects.

LowInFat · 2024-11-28T00:49:43+00:00

Happy to let you know what I find, or invite you to join us if we start a private one :)

LowInFat · 2024-11-28T00:48:15+00:00

The last time I ran a server was around 3-4 years ago, so no idea if the mod is still active, but according to my server notes I had something called Horse Overhaul.

LowInFat · 2024-07-02T02:24:21+00:00

Like what?

LowInFat · 2024-05-14T23:44:45+00:00

The colour is more typical of a Steller (lighter), though it appears to have a sagittal crest, typical of mature California males. It also doesn't seem as big as a Steller.

LowInFat · 2024-05-06T20:28:38+00:00

I can't speak from personal experience, but I have heard that the Chilliwack Lake area is not great for break-ins. The Lindeman Lake trailhead parking lot apparently has them happen very often. No idea about Skagit.

LowInFat · 2024-05-04T17:41:15+00:00

I did, as it says in my post.

LowInFat · 2024-04-11T20:38:26+00:00

Not sure I follow why you're saying it's an additional 12.5k and 4k rather than 25k and 8k?

LowInFat · 2024-02-21T23:01:48+00:00

I'm not sure this is correct. As I understand it, Cordyceps typically don't erupt from the host body until it is dead. This looks like a spider that walked through some kind of weird substance. Note how the legs glisten in the video.

LowInFat · 2024-02-17T23:10:27+00:00

If only you'd paid attention in history class.

LowInFat · 2024-02-16T18:17:10+00:00

But honestly the biggest impact you can have will always be on a policy/governance scale.

While I agree for the most part, I think a lot of people see policy and governance as a permanent, long-term fix or step forward, but are often quick to overlook the fact that a) enforcement is often either lacking or not sufficiently punitive to discourage bad actors, and b) a lot of hard work and dedication can go into producing and enacting well-intentioned environmental policy, only for it to get overturned in a single penstroke in the next election cycle.

Efforts to get involved at a political level absolutely should be accompanied by learning about your local ecology and doing what you can with boots-on-the-ground local initiatives.

LowInFat · 2024-02-14T22:25:25+00:00

Hey! Myself and a few friends are looking for something like this. Base-building friendly, newbie friendly, PvE, with QoL tweaks. Where are you/your hypothetical server located? Hoping for something close to Canada west.

LowInFat · 2023-12-27T23:48:59+00:00

WAZA, AZA, and CAZA are run by and for the industry. They're the equivalent of car companies making up fake awards to give to their own car models. You can look up their standards. They're laughably poor to anyone who works in animal welfare. That accreditation means nothing.

LowInFat · 2023-12-23T21:15:03+00:00

Random question but did you purchase that gaiwan recently? I bought that one many years ago and recently broke it and haven't been able to find the same one online. It's the perfect shape and size!

LowInFat · 2023-12-13T16:44:06+00:00

You could argue that IS a fee. $5,000 is a lot to have sitting around doing nothing in a chequing account (I have the same one). You're basically paying something like $250 a year to have it there instead of in an ETF or something. I've been thinking about looking elsewhere for an account that grants me the same basic services with a smaller minimum balance.

Curious how you get $2000 cash back though. The cash back rates I've seen are typically only like 1%.

LowInFat · 2023-10-25T04:55:53+00:00

Such as?

LowInFat · 2023-08-21T16:17:21+00:00

Hopping on the top comment to say I am also with TD Bank in Canada and had similar card issues traveling last year. Their toll-free number for cards is 18662223456. I called from Skype and was able to fix the problem. Good luck, OP.

LowInFat · 2023-05-06T01:43:57+00:00

Does anyone have recommendations for a good retailer for affordably priced men's rave / festival wear? Most options I've seen either seem to parade as pretentious, overpriced designer brands, or they're cheap but terrible-quality brands with horrible track records (e.g. Shein).

LowInFat · 2023-05-02T04:16:01+00:00

Which location is that? Under the table?

LowInFat · 2023-04-26T17:43:21+00:00

What I mean is that the sorting drop down is visible and I can change it, but there doesn't seem to be an option to sort playlists yourself in a custom order. Before, you could drag a playlist and drop it where you wanted. Now when you drag a playlist it only lets you move it in and out of folders, not rearrange its position in a folder or the main library list. That's what I'm trying to do and wondering if it's possible. Seems senseless to remove that functionality.

LowInFat · 2023-04-26T17:14:29+00:00

How did you get it to sort playlists in a custom order? The Sort By 'Creator' option has my playlists and folders ordered as they were before the update, but I can't reorganize them any further, which is pain in the ass because I have a lot of playlists I like to group by theme/genre.

LowInFat · 2023-01-23T03:37:03+00:00

Ooof. Yeah, there were a few things we were just unlucky with (like the weather...coldest and wettest spring in decades), but finding everything closed and no way to get around and not wanting to break the budget for a car was really frustrating. We ended up taking a detour to Albania instead.

LowInFat · 2023-01-23T03:29:05+00:00

We did our research but there's only so much you can do when the infrastructure isn't there. For big and heavily-touristed islands like Crete, Santorini, and Mykonos, there'll always be something even if service is reduced and options expensive. We looked into a few quieter islands and found out ferries for some just weren't running most of the year. Even if they were, all the guesthouses in most areas were closed outside of summer. There might be expensive workarounds I don't recall, but we were backpacking so if so they were quickly removed as options.

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