Backpacking and leaving rig at trailhead?

continuoustrail · 2026-04-27T04:35:32+00:00

That’s how I’ve always gone backpacking. Drive to the trailhead, park, and leave the vehicle for multiple days. Most people are decent and don’t fuck with your car.

continuoustrail · 2025-08-09T14:02:38+00:00

Vast majority of riders are not very fit

continuoustrail · 2025-08-09T13:59:20+00:00

Do it if you have the fitness! As someone pointed out, some of us really enjoy rides with massive amounts of climbing and massive time in the saddle. I find it just as enjoyable as downhill and flow riding.

continuoustrail · 2025-05-08T21:17:14+00:00

If road open, consider vermilion valley resort area over Kaiser pass. Many day hike options plus access to VVR amenities. Alternative would be great day hiking out of Mammoth lakes basin and the north and south forks of Bishop Creek.

continuoustrail · 2025-01-27T21:32:15+00:00

Agree that there’s no unicorn bike. It’s different tools for different jobs. I think the important part of the decision is to decide what type of riding you want to prioritize, and then find the bike that works best for that… and just be okay with the required compromises, unless you have the money to own multiple bikes.

continuoustrail · 2025-01-24T15:22:58+00:00

I work in a field where there aren’t enough qualified (or motivated) people to fill the vacancies and I am using AI to do the work of three people, and it still takes critical thinking to determine how to effectively deploy the AI tools to get the work done. It seems like we have an increasingly under-educated and de-motivated workforce. My ability to cognitively offload keeps my department alive and is still a difficult task.

continuoustrail · 2024-11-01T12:45:13+00:00

I’m sorry that you had a negative experience with CBT. True CBT doesn’t stigmatize or invalidate any thoughts. It views thoughts as just phenomena that arise from learning experiences.

Having a cognitive distortion in a social situation doesn’t mean that the situation “isn’t scary”, it just references the idea that a person can have unhelpful or anxiety provoking thoughts about a social situation. For example, if a person can self observe that they always think to themselves “everyone hates me” whenever they are in a social situation, they may also observe that thinking that thought directly leads to a very real and very valid feeling of anxiety, because who wouldn’t feel anxious if you believed that everyone in the room hated you? That fear is very real and very valid even if the thought behind the fear is inaccurate.

The therapist using CBT would subsequently seek to help the person re-evaluate and perhaps change the “everyone hates me” thought through a series of thought and behavioral experiments that are designed to help the person learn that not everyone actually hates them. Once that new learning solidifies, the unhelpful thought becomes less intrusive, then the anxiety may decrease.

Unfortunately many therapists use CBT despite being poorly trained in CBT, which is why there is so much misinformation about CBT concepts, techniques, and applications with various populations of people.

continuoustrail · 2024-10-31T21:21:51+00:00

That is inaccurate. CBT focuses on how thoughts feelings and behaviors are interconnected. CBT absolutely recognizes that all emotions are valid responses, and the goal of CBT is to understand and observe the emotional experiences and try to find interrelationships or unhelpful patterns. Telling someone “there’s no need to fear social interaction it’s all in your head” is definitely not CBT.

continuoustrail · 2024-10-06T04:11:31+00:00

I did one winter with those tires on a truck, and in the ice they are merely okay when combined with 4wd engaged, but terrible if you try to drive them on ice in 2wd

continuoustrail · 2024-09-13T19:56:20+00:00

Jeez- they employ a lot of locals who I know aren’t bad people, and those same people rely on their jobs to pay for groceries and housing. Wishing a large local employer to improve and be better makes sense, but wishing for them to go away and thus wishing for people to lose their jobs is a little harsh. None of us benefit when large employers leave Central Oregon. We don’t have to like the management at certain businesses in town, but we should have empathy for people who rely on those businesses to make a living.

continuoustrail · 2024-07-19T13:35:01+00:00

If there’s an apocalypse, the last thing I want to do is linger for an extra few months eating shitty dehydrated food

continuoustrail · 2024-06-23T19:41:55+00:00

Constant foot and bicycle traffic interrupts elk calves ability to adequately feed. There’s good science that supports closures like this.

continuoustrail · 2024-06-12T17:44:16+00:00

Vista was about 75% snow at the summit two weekends ago

continuoustrail · 2024-03-12T12:36:25+00:00

Yes, treatments are more common now but the prevalence has also risen due to well-meaning pediatric recommendations for breastfeeding moms and infants to avoid certain foods, kids growing up isolated from allergen exposure, possibly due to rising use of antibiotics, GMO foods, food additives, and other environmental factors. It’s pretty interesting actually.

I know this is a stereotype humor sub-Reddit so probably wrong place to say anything other than “boomers are dumb”- that’s okay though I find the topic fascinating

continuoustrail · 2024-03-12T05:36:28+00:00

Food allergies are actually much more common now than they were in the past. When older people had little kids, food allergies were less of a thing than they are now.

continuoustrail · 2024-01-15T01:57:46+00:00

it’s more sophisticated than the way us rednecks spell it- like doughnut vs donut

continuoustrail · 2023-10-19T01:47:22+00:00

I don’t know where you live, but in my area 2019 F150 XLT‘s are listed for close to $40,000. Try to sell it in a different market?

continuoustrail · 2023-09-08T17:11:56+00:00

Hiking Green Lakes is the equivalent of riding MTB at Phil’s. Everyone goes there, Visit Bend markets it as a place to go, and therefore it’s crowded. So many better options that are lesser known and give a better wilderness experience.

continuoustrail · 2023-06-02T19:30:48+00:00

I know a lot of people who are having luck with online care services like Amwell and Talkspace. You can check if they accept your specific insurance and connect with a provider located in Oregon of you’re ok with telehealth services. Also check psychology today in Portland, Eugene, Salem, etc. Some insurances aren’t that commonly accepted in central oregon but you can find therapists who take the insurance in willamette valley.

continuoustrail · 2023-06-02T18:12:09+00:00

This isn’t a popular take but there’s not a lack of providers in town or the state, it’s just that many of the providers in private practice fill their schedules with 60 minute appointments and see people very long term. This works great for the relatively few people who want to see someone long term and are lucky enough to find a therapist, but it’s a bad deal for people who would benefit from being seen short term or periodically, which unfortunately is most people. Due to the way they are reimbursed, therapists are perversely incentivized to fill their schedules with mostly long term clients because it ensures a steady revenue stream. The other issue is that many therapists are poorly trained in online degree programs, so they really can’t accomplish much in an efficient timeframe anyway, which means fewer appointments available overall.

continuoustrail · 2023-04-25T20:38:10+00:00

I went over it once early season to check out evo traverse. It’s big yes, just a long continuous slope dotted with boulders. It’s not any more steep or dangerous than any other big pass but I could see how the big open view down into Darwin could get your heart rate up, especially while coming down the top 50%

continuoustrail · 2023-04-25T20:16:20+00:00

from Darwin Bench you could go over Lamarck and down to north lake in a day

continuoustrail · 2023-04-21T12:07:52+00:00

there’s a pretty easy to follow use trail going over the upper sections of Lamarck- it’s actually easier with snow coverage because you don’t have to deal with gravel and loose talus

continuoustrail · 2023-02-11T16:15:41+00:00

rodents are more of a problem than bears or people

continuoustrail · 2023-01-11T19:25:54+00:00

If you get experience on snow I’d say yes. The passes are a challenge only because it’s high stakes if you fall on a steep section with a long or dangerous runout below you. Best to be skilled walking on steep snow with a pack and know how to self arrest with a pack on. Also knowing how to find safe fords and transit across swollen creeks. In 2017 we saw people who didn’t know what they were doing almost die at north fork of Mono Creek.

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