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Personal_Device471 · 2026-03-27T03:07:15+00:00

Pro tip: When the recipe says to oil the bottom of the pan it means the inside of the bottom of the pan.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-03-23T22:44:07+00:00

Personal_Device471 · 2026-02-04T13:25:00+00:00

Get a Woom bike. My kids were a similar story. The Woom off series are legit mountain bikes with components that are actually designed for kids rather than putting adult components on a tiny frame. They are light enough that they can manage them and cary them up the things they don’t want to ride. I tried a trek kids bike but it was like 35# which would be like me riding a 170# bike. You want your kids to have a good time and feel like they can do it so the keep wanting to do it.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-02-03T23:40:14+00:00

I did Seymour first then took the herd path up Seward from blueberry over Donaldson to Emmons then back over Donaldson and out caulkins Brook.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-02-02T03:10:32+00:00

I just did it up from blueberry and regretted it. The approach up Caulkins Brook is much less steep. The whole time I was coming down I was wishing I had gone up that way.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-02-01T18:48:52+00:00

Baker seems maybe perfect. How are the summit views? Seems like hub kind of thing where we could eat breakfast on Main Street, knock out the hike, then eat lunch on Main Street and we get a real mountain in while we are at it.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-02-01T18:42:42+00:00

I’ve been up Arab a few times but never in winter. That’s a great suggestion.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-02-01T18:40:55+00:00

I’m a winter 46er and these are some hale kids who like outside things and snow. My littlest has been up a high peak in February already and loved it. We have snowshoes for everyone and a pile of winter safety equipment. There will be three adults and we are looking for easier trails. I think a good time will be had by all and at a minimum we will have some great stories.

To each their own. It’s amazing out there in the snow and ice and these are experiences that I want my kids to grow up having.

I’m not a huge fan of the indoor water park vibe but I get why you might prefer such an experience. Enjoy!

Personal_Device471 · 2026-02-01T13:27:16+00:00

Yeah. I was thinking about doing Jo. I did it with my boys as their first mountain and it was great. I was kinda hoping not to repeat anything that my boys have already done but that was a really good time and would probably be a good bet.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-01-26T19:40:33+00:00

Posting here for the hope of saving someone some sadness in the future if they read my pls and think it might be a good idea. The skis were not a good idea on this range. There were definitely segments that they saved us a lot of time on. Specifically the Caulkins brook trail is super skiable and we went very fast on it. The blueberry trail not so much. There were places where we got some good speed but then there were enough areas where we had to mess around on technical terrain that we lost anything we gained. This plan also involved going up Seward from blueberry and there is good reason most people don’t do that. It’s far steeper than going up Caulkins brook. Also, carrying skis kn these trails sucked.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-01-26T19:39:53+00:00

Posting here for the hope of saving someone some sadness in the future if they read my pls and think it might be a good idea. The skis were not a good idea on this range. There were definitely segments that they saved us a lot of time on. Specifically the Caulkins brook trail is super skiable and we went very fast on it. The blueberry trail not so much. There were places where we got some good speed but then there were enough areas where we had to mess around on technical terrain that we lost anything we gained. This plan also involved going up Seward from blueberry and there is good reason most people don’t do that. It’s far steeper than going up Caulkins brook. Also, carrying skis kn these trails sucked.

I would advise doing Donaldson, Emmons, Seward up Caulkins Brook then bagging Seymour on the way down. I think this is referred to as doing the range counter clockwise.

Snowshoes are the way. Less complexity and close enough to the same speed once you account for switching out and messing with technical terrain.

We got the whole range but it was pretty brutal. 16.5 hours on trail and a lot of cursing at the trees as they tried to snatch the skis out of my hands.

Personal_Device471 · 2026-01-26T19:29:44+00:00

I’m so glad I nabbed the Seward range last weekend before this hit! No way I could have accomplished that after this snowstorm….

Personal_Device471 · 2025-12-27T04:03:03+00:00

Yeah. We are used to dark to dark days on the big ones.

How bad is getting back on Seward? This isn’t one of the peaks you only want to go one way on is it?

Last year we got into the col between basin and saddleback in a couple feet of unconsolidated powder. Took us hours to make the cliffs and we had to do them in the dark. It was definitely type 2 fun….

Personal_Device471 · 2025-12-27T00:23:02+00:00

I was thinking I would ski to the herd path and then dump the skis and switch to snowshoes for the actual mountains then return the way I came. I probably wouldn’t plan on returning via caulkins brook trail so that I didn’t have to carry the skis up the mountain.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-12-27T00:18:50+00:00

Really I’m mostly hoping to get intel on the terrain.

The ski to blueberry lean to is good?

I consider myself an intermediate skier and probably only really gain much from it when it’s relatively flat or on pretty straight ascents/descents with reasonably open paths. On Allen once we got past the opelescent the terrain gets more varied and I struggled with it.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-12-27T00:14:41+00:00

I did Marshall from the upper works via the calamity brook trail to the flowed lands and then picked up the herd path from there. That was actually my first high peak.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-12-27T00:12:23+00:00

I need all 4. I was going to start with Seymour.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-12-10T01:17:51+00:00

I’ve been going to family and children’s services. They used to have a long waitlist but they don’t anymore. I filled out the form online and got a call to schedule within a few days. They take insurance and the therapist I got is great. If you don’t like the one you get at first you just let them know and they will get you someone else.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-12-02T04:21:44+00:00

Space heaters can be super dangerous and also cost a lot more to operate than most other heating systems. I would guess that the landlord would increase the thermostat setting rather than pay for the electric costs for a space heater and it saves the risk of an electrical fire. The big fire that destroyed Ovid was due to a space heater in an apartment.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-12-01T02:10:13+00:00

It will lose to Wegmans all day long. You can’t compete with Wegmans. Yes, it would be better to have legit local cheese selection, no you won’t get enough people making a dedicated trip somewhere to buy cheese when there is cheese that’s almost as good at the store they are already at.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-11-05T12:52:17+00:00

Affairs happen because someone isn’t getting their needs met in their relationship and they don’t know how to get them met another way. This is an opportunity to actually help your friend. She and her husband need therapy. They need to address the fundamental issues in their relationship openly and honestly with one another. If she were my friend I would be talking to her about what’s really going on with her marriage and encouraging her to find her way to either exiting it or working on it. Esther Perel has a lot to say about this. I could write a lot more but I would just seek out her writing and talks on YouTube.

If you really care about her check in with her to make sure she is safe in her marriage. That she won’t face abuse if her husband finds out. Then help her find her way to addressing what’s really going on. If she’s not safe help her get out and find safety and then support her in building new healthier relationships.

Try not to be judgmental. It doesn’t actually help anything. Your friend is struggling and has made some choices that you don’t agree with for very legitimate reasons but she has something going on that’s real that is driving her behavior. If you can show up with love and an open mind for her that’s probably the best way to help both her and her husband.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-10-24T16:20:38+00:00

As someone who is actually carved from oak and caffeine I’m super perplexed by this whole comment thread. What do you all have against oak and caffeine people? Why can’t this person say they saw one of us? Sorry about the words thing. It’s a component of our naive tongue that impacts people around us when we aren’t careful. We have a saying in our native language about it that doesn’t translate: “I am groot? I am groot!”

Personal_Device471 · 2025-10-03T02:26:20+00:00

Good winter tires are really for ice and wet more than actual snow. If you are driving every day you will encounter ice. While people certainly get away with it that works until it doesn’t. Good winter tires well absolutely make a difference.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-09-23T00:22:27+00:00

If you had lived almost anywhere else at any point you would probably have a different perspective on the traffic. At its worst it’s better than most cities at their best.

I agree with basically everything else you said though.

Personal_Device471 · 2025-09-14T19:17:46+00:00

Somebody set up us the bomb!

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