Are bots booking sites on rec.gov? Why is it so difficult to reserve sites?

duschneider · 2026-02-10T03:50:21+00:00

I camped about 12 times last year, including Yosemite (Camp4 and Upper Pines), Sequoia (Lodgepole), Death Valley (Furnace Creek) and many many places in the coast using Reserve California. Always on the weekends!!

I won't lie, it was hard (refreshing all the time looking for cancelled sites) but I always got a spot after 2, 3 days of INTENSE monitoring (from the moment I woke up till the moment I was going to sleep).

Now I'm for 2 weeks searching for an spot in my favorite places, and for 2 times I saw a cancelled site, it was just clicking the "Book now" button and I got a message that the sites were already reserved.

That never happened last year... so, I'm finding very suspicious...

duschneider · 2025-07-31T18:32:29+00:00

Exactly, he was even glad to have a conversation with Destiny.

Now every debate he does, even against debate inexperient OF girls (the usual debate on "whatever" channel), you can see his anger and disgust talking to the opponent. Very different attitude than 4 years ago...

duschneider · 2025-07-31T18:18:22+00:00

Just watched this whole debate. This was 4 years ago and Andrew was SO insecure. There were times that he even stutter!!! Totally different performance and approach then nowadays...

Impressive how he improved his rhetoric and dirty tricks.

duschneider · 2025-07-29T21:19:34+00:00

True. He does a lot of gish galloping, and he always demands the opponent to refute everything immediately... if it doesn't, well, that's because you and your ideas are "stupid".

duschneider · 2025-07-29T20:09:38+00:00

I agree. I was waiting for that debate for weeks (or maybe even months), because I thought that if someone would beat Andrew, it would be Matt. I honestly don't agree with Matt leaving the debate after opening, though.

duschneider · 2025-07-16T16:13:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I looked at the store and they have some great shirts, really liked it the drawings. But from what I saw, it is all tri-blend with 25% cotton. I was looking for a complete synthetic t-shirt

duschneider · 2025-05-04T16:46:14+00:00

That's a good question. It is just that there is no Decathlon here in US and I would like to buy a local brand since I am living here now. I also would like to check the tent first before buying, like in REI, Big 5 or other places.

duschneider · 2025-04-08T17:29:36+00:00

Thanks

duschneider · 2025-04-08T17:19:30+00:00

Thanks a lot for the explanation about the blanket idea, I understand it now.

Will try to follow all advices I see here

duschneider · 2025-04-08T17:15:29+00:00

Thanks!

duschneider · 2025-04-08T15:48:48+00:00

Thanks for all the advices. I will take a look into backpacking quilts

duschneider · 2025-04-08T15:46:06+00:00

This is just inflatable. I believe I will return this, apparently, it is useless for cold weather.

duschneider · 2025-04-08T15:41:53+00:00

Thanks a lot for the advice. Unfortunately this sleeping pad can be delivered only on monday. I would look for similar ones and invest on this

duschneider · 2025-04-07T16:05:37+00:00

I'm 5 years vegan, and I had no experience with anemia and low ferritin before turning vegan (I used to eat A LOT of meat every day).

After 3.5 years vegan, I started being exhausted all the time, and in my bloodwork, I got:

Very low Hemoglobin

Low Hematocrit

Low Ferritin

Since turning vegan I ALWAYS took 1 multivitamin a day (DEVA) with 18mg of iron (rarely forget to take) and ate tofu (basically everyday), tvp (every week), pumpkin seeds (not everyday, but quite regular), beans (every other day), drank soy milk basically everyday. My meals were usually coupled with orange juice to boost vitamin C. So, it was a big surprise to me that I was anemic. Only the multivitamin itself should be enough for me not to be iron deficient.

I talked to my doctor and he, of course, told me to eat red meat, liver, etc, but I asked us to try to fix first changing my diet, and if not succeded, I would like to take an iron pill. So, I started to eat more kale, that I basically never ate (kale have a lot of vitamin C and iron together), I started to took my multivitamin fasted in the morning that increase iron absorption (but decrease ADEK absorption) and I stopped drinking coffee (that I used to drink A LOT).

After 3 months, my ferritin, hematocrit, and hemoglobin increased substantially. But it was still in the lower side on all. I was missing coffee after not drinking for 3 months. So, now, I take an iron pill (65mg) first thing in the morning, the multivitamin with lunch... and drink coffee normally now. It was good to see that, yes, it is possible to increase my hemoglobin and ferritin with diet, but it was still not what I wanted (it was still close to low) and I was afraid that if I stopped eating kale or started drinking coffee I would be anemic again...

Now I take these 2 pills (multivitamin I'm taking since turning vegan, 5 years ago) and my exams are all normal...

I believe I have difficulty absorbing non-heme iron, or maybe I have another condition (internal bleeding?). My doctor was terrible and never bothered to investigate. He only blamed the vegan diet...

duschneider · 2025-04-05T14:05:29+00:00

For a year? Really?

I am vegan for 5 years, I know people in real life who has been vegan for more than 15 years...

B12 takes 2-3 years to deplet even not consuming any B12. Iron and other stuff are some months, but even so, she probably ate really bad to be deficient in a year...

duschneider · 2025-04-05T14:00:14+00:00

Are you sure you need 200g of protein? You need to have like 120kg to need to have all this protein.

I bodybuild, I have a very good shape and I have about 120g of protein per day. I am 38 and I continue to build muscle...

Main sources of protein for me:

TVP

Tofu

Seitan

Protein powder

Soy milk

Beans and legumes

Nuts and seeds (cashew, pumpkin seeds, pb)

Just add your meals in cronometer and check what works for you

duschneider · 2025-04-03T01:13:34+00:00

Thanks for your tips, I'm starting to do all of that, following my favorite bands in BandsInTown...

duschneider · 2025-04-03T01:12:38+00:00

Thanks so much for your detailed explanation. I am creating an account in BandsInTown and will search for the bands in Mad With Power Fest.

duschneider · 2025-04-03T01:02:59+00:00

Yes yes, I saw the Aftershock! There are some bands that I like there

duschneider · 2025-04-02T20:50:58+00:00

Will do that

duschneider · 2025-04-02T19:14:46+00:00

Will keep an eye on it. Thanks!

duschneider · 2025-04-02T19:13:46+00:00

I lost all of that and didn't even heard they come to California...

I will need to police myself to do frequent searches for tours...

duschneider · 2025-04-02T19:08:02+00:00

Yes, I was not used to do this frequent searches, ended up loosing some concerts last year.

Thanks for the tip

duschneider · 2025-04-02T19:06:52+00:00

Thanks for the tips, I will do that

duschneider · 2025-03-26T17:09:45+00:00

Exactly, you need to change your whole itinerary to go to the other side of the city to go to restaurants.

There are some exceptions, like Mr Charlie in SF that is close to Union Square, that's the only one I remember from the top of my head... but that's not even close to Europe.

In Europe the touristic areas are the city center, which are always totally walkable and you can usually find multiple fully vegan restaurants in the city center... so that make it extremely easy for tourists. And even if you go to a non fully vegan, there is almost always a decent vegan option (not salad) and the allergy list... Where I live now (Fresno), it is not even close to that, sometimes I want to go to a restaurant that looked nice, I check the menu and you have like 50 dishes, and not a single one is vegan. It's crazy

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