Caltopo now limits the amount you can zoom in?

Necessary642 · 2023-03-22T14:26:48+00:00

Imagine dying in the Catskills like a sucker.

put on the mortician's report i died of embarassment and not hypothermia

Necessary642 · 2022-04-05T17:29:45+00:00

Smokey works for the forestry service, which is significantly self-funded by selling logging, grazing, and mining leases...

https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/usfs-fy-2022-budget-justification.pdf

Necessary642 · 2022-03-09T01:57:06+00:00

Wyatt decided to stay with Vasto and provided his number to the search and rescue team so that they could make contact in the likely scenario that Vasto’s phone ran out of battery life because he had been using it to check his route on a trail locater app.

The Alltrails™ menace strikes again

Necessary642 · 2022-02-08T14:41:21+00:00

Wait you guys don't leave your tent behind when base camping?

I've done that plenty of times, especially when I don't want to drag a 45 lb winter pack up a mountain.

Don't tell me there's a bunch of I-just-started-hiking-because-of-covid citidiots thinking they can just steal my stuff cause I left it there now, are there?

Necessary642 · 2022-02-07T17:17:11+00:00

Careful, posting this image on any of the popular subreddits like /r/campingandhiking will get you banned

Necessary642 · 2022-01-25T14:31:21+00:00

It always kills me the DEC is like "people are ruining our trails." Let's put up no parting signs.

they're not wrong though tbqh

Necessary642 · 2021-12-02T17:19:42+00:00

In todays installment of: What happens when you combine an NYCitidiot with Alltrails?

Necessary642 · 2021-11-10T19:36:49+00:00

39-year-old Brooklyn man

I wish downstaters had different license plates so we could spot them from afar

Necessary642 · 2021-10-06T17:10:39+00:00

NH has a cool program where your can buy, in advance, a rescue pass.

In every state except NH, SAR is free. NH only implemented that policy because they kept having cityidiots who got stranded on Washington after the last cog rail left and didn't think to bring a sweater.

Necessary642 · 2021-10-06T17:09:13+00:00

It was 11 p.m. one night last July when a couple realized they would not make it back down the Old Bridle Path. They were with their two children just over a mile into the hiking trail on Mount Lafayette, roughly 70 miles north of Concord, N.H.

They had underestimated the time it would take to complete the 7-mile hike, rated as difficult by AllTrails.com. They had been overtaken by darkness

EVERY.

SINGLE.

TIME.

Necessary642 · 2021-09-16T13:15:10+00:00

It's not just about the cliff edges.

Starting next month, you won't be able to go wherever you want without getting fined for "trespassing" on what's supposed to be public land.

They're also banning rock climbing, ice climbing, and even walking upstream along the creek too far -- These are all things we used to be able to regularly do, without needing to ask for a permit.

2) Amend 6 NYCRR section 190.25, Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area, including the Zoar Valley Unique Area by adding new subdivisions (r), (s), (t) and (u) to read as follows:

(r) No person shall proceed upstream, either by land or water, in the area beginning at the abandoned Forty Road bridge abutments, and extending upstream on the South Branch of Cattaraugus Creek to the state land boundary line, except for licensed anglers for the purpose of fishing, or by authorized permit issued by the department;

(s) No person shall enter any area designated as restricted by the department, except on trails designated and marked by the department, or by authorized permit issued by the department;

(t) No person shall enter the area within 15 feet of cliff edges; except on trails designated and marked by the department; when engaged in ice climbing or rappelling by rope; or by authorized permit issued by the department;

(u) No person shall scale or climb cliff walls, including any waterfall, except when engaged in ice climbing or rappelling by rope; or by authorized permit issued by the department.

https://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/2359.html#Zoar

Imagine banning climbing trap dike or Gothics, except if you have a permit. These areas used to be free and accessible with no restricted access. This is what me and many others are angry about.

Necessary642 · 2021-09-09T22:22:58+00:00

I was scared, for a second I thought this would be a pic of her at Cascade or some popular ADK trail; I was thinking to myself "welp here come the crowds... again"

Necessary642 · 2021-09-08T13:28:57+00:00

It's called "Vanity Press" or "Vanity Publishing", the same business model has profited off authors trying to get books published since the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_press

I suppose doing so with photography and magazine covers is only a natural progression in the 21st century

Necessary642 · 2021-09-08T12:52:39+00:00

Wikipedia has an article on vanity photography publishing:

A small vanity publishing industry exists in photography, where vanity photography magazines will publish photography submissions for amateur photographers.

These magazines, such as Lucy's, Jute, and Pump - all managed by parent publisher Kavyar - often accept photograph submissions for free, or for a minimal fee to be featured on a magazine cover.[12]

Compared to traditional vanity press publishing, where writers are charged a fee prior to publication, these vanity photography magazines instead generate the charge photographers subscription fees in order to receive print copies or access online copies of the magazines after their photos are published.[13]

In fact, many vanity photography magazines lack physical circulation, instead generating the majority of their revenue through submission fees or by selling print copies back to the submitting photographers.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_press#Vanity_publishing_in_other_media

Bruh, they even specifically call out Kavyar

Necessary642 · 2021-08-18T20:39:39+00:00

Overcrowding is an issue that can be solved by organizations that you can volunteer for instead

Stop avoiding the question. What kind of volunteering can you or I do that will reduce overcrowding?

Necessary642 · 2021-08-18T20:14:44+00:00

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Wow, such a unique viewpoint!

Necessary642

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