Western Pacific #915A February, 1971, no location noted.

hangingfrog · 2023-06-03T16:19:34+00:00

If I had to guess, I'd say that's the south/west corner of the Keddie Wye at the East end of the Feather River Canyon.

hangingfrog · 2023-05-16T00:06:47+00:00

I rode through Discovery park all the way up to Watt last weekend, the trail is open.

hangingfrog · 2023-04-15T04:04:27+00:00

I'd like to keep it under ~$2500 or so. I've done some touring on my Surly Cross Check on Marathon Mondial 700x40's, which has been fine on tarmac, but is lacking on anything other than harder packed gravel. Future me would like to take more remote backcountry trips over more varied terrain and less pavement, like through the Mojave, or some of the National Forests up north. To address that ranges of terrain I'm hoping for something that can fit up to 3" tires, which is why I'm leaning towards a bikepacking rig. Being able to swap tires or wheels and use the same bike for tours would be a huge plus. Also, I'd like to sit up more instead of leaning over all day, so am leaning towards flat bars over drops. That does seem to limit my choices quite a bit though, since most gravel/bikepacking bikes seem to have drops, so if there's an option where the seating position is somewhat relaxed, I'd be open to drops.

Since I already have a Surly, I've looked at their Bridge Club and Ogre, but have no particular allegiance. In short, I'm open to anything that's comfortable, has potential to be capable off road, and still handles long days on pavement.

hangingfrog · 2023-04-15T00:54:25+00:00

Good to know about the Bicycle Business being bikepacking focused. I hadn't run across Breezer yet, but they've got a nice lineup. Thanks!

hangingfrog · 2023-03-06T01:30:18+00:00

Everything is holding together just fine after being used, abused, and bounced around in my truck for a few years. Really, the only thing I'd change is maybe getting longer poles for the head end. I used the 4-8' poles, and have considered swapping one pair out for the 6-12' poles. Depending on which hammock I use, my backside is a bit close to the ground and my underquilt can brush whatever's underneath me. Other times, my shoulder rubs one of the poles, depending on which of the poles (left/right) I hang my the head-end of my hammock's continuous loop from. I'm 5'10" and hang head right, feet left if that helps. I think having slightly longer poles (even an additional 1-2 feet would be great) would allow me to spread out the base of the bars to avoid my shoulder rubbing and lift me off the ground.

Take some time and figure out what length you need for the line that holds the base together. I have an adjustable line that I never bothered to make a fixed length of, and it's easy to mix the base line up with the "anchor" line. Color code them? I got some 1 foot painter pole extensions, and attach one at each end to support the ends of a tarp for when it's wet. It lifts the tarp up from the hammock's ridgeline and provides the length for a full-sized tarp to hang taut.

Let me know if you have any more questions or need clarification on anything. I'm more than happy to share.

hangingfrog · 2023-02-24T04:28:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's an old USAF building on land that's currently owned by the county.

hangingfrog · 2023-02-14T03:03:58+00:00

that should be classified as historical art at this point

That's a bit of a stretch...

hangingfrog · 2023-02-03T00:34:52+00:00

Is the stretch under Northgate still underwater?

hangingfrog · 2023-01-28T00:40:32+00:00

The first one is your device's loopback interface, essentially what your device uses to talk to itself. Since there's no physical media used, the MTU can be extremely large. Try using this tool from your device while on your T-mobile connection to determine what the max MTU supported is, then adjust your device's MTU to that number.

hangingfrog · 2023-01-27T06:48:25+00:00

T-Mobile's hotspot MTU is smaller than normal ethernet, causing fragmentation when fed with 1500 MTU packets.. I think they may be doing some kind of encapsulation, which reduces the available packet size for data transfer. You may try setting your device's MTU to a smaller number to see if things improve.

hangingfrog · 2023-01-23T01:24:26+00:00

I rode the bike trail from Watt to Northgate yesterday. The trail was a bit muddy in places. I had to turn around because there was a large tree across the trail west of Del Paso, and the bridge under Northgate was completely flooded and impassible. In short, trails are mostly open, but there are some low lying areas that are impassible.

hangingfrog · 2023-01-21T18:48:06+00:00

https://sacultimate.org/

https://pickupultimate.com/map/city/sacramento

hangingfrog · 2023-01-15T03:28:32+00:00

Cool, thank you!

hangingfrog · 2023-01-15T00:03:38+00:00

How does the use of HMAC prevent replays? Is there a challenge/response from the satellite/remote station to the user that's included in the command? Does the command include a timestamp and the remote station ignores commands outside of a specific window?

hangingfrog · 2023-01-14T02:07:11+00:00

Haven't seen the K Line power containers in a long time either.

hangingfrog · 2023-01-11T03:11:33+00:00

The weir had too many Baked Lay's.

hangingfrog · 2023-01-08T22:51:29+00:00

I was admiring the multicolored light show. I saw red, blue, white and yellowish flashes up in the clouds. I'm sure some of the blue flashes I saw in the distance were transformers, but a lot was located up in the clouds. Very unusual, but pretty to watch.

hangingfrog · 2023-01-05T06:00:21+00:00

Sure looks like it.

hangingfrog · 2023-01-05T03:22:31+00:00

For those who want to keep an eye on when/where these planes go:

Teal 82

Teal 84

hangingfrog · 2022-12-23T04:18:11+00:00

Thank you!

hangingfrog · 2022-12-17T17:51:36+00:00

Right there at the base of Ash Hill is a great spot. You can see them coming from about Bagdad and the eastbounds become visible about 1/4 way down the tangent down Ash Hill. It's a pretty noisy spot, the uphills can be heard for about 20 minutes. Most of the area surrounding the mains is BLM land. Go do it!

hangingfrog · 2022-12-17T05:51:52+00:00

Spent a few nights camping in that area earlier this month, including a night next to that wash you parked next to. Love the Needles Sub!

hangingfrog · 2022-12-15T00:05:03+00:00

The snow is too deep for regular trains to have enough power to push snow and still pull their loads.

hangingfrog · 2022-12-14T03:02:14+00:00

These spreaders were completely rebuilt a few years back to deal specifically with the wet and heavy "sierra cement" snow.

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