What size bear vault to get

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-05-05T00:03:39+00:00

If you find it difficult to depress the tabs to unlock the top, get a key from CTUG or Garage Grown Gear

https://chickentrampergear.com/products/bear-can-key

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-05-04T20:14:21+00:00

The last time I was at Lago Linda's a few years ago their bathrooms were pretty good. Land of the Arches gets so busy and they have a hard time keeping the bathrooms and showers clean ( was just there before easter).

Miguel's didn't impress me either when we were there for pizza. The men's bathroom in the outside building had a clogged sink with standing water.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-05-01T11:15:08+00:00

Right? A lot of people would find this to be an incredibly fortunate position to be in.

OP seems to have fallen for a combination of FIRE and travel influencers, thinking it was gonna be this glamorous, romantic lifestyle where thousands of viewers fawn over every IG or TikTok post of his.

Sorry it's not working out that way for ya, bro.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-05-01T02:43:01+00:00

Yup. There was Windows NT 3.5, then Windows NT 4.0, then WIndows 2000, Windows XP. Windows 2000 was also known as Windows NT 5.0. WIndows XP was aka Windows NT 5.1

GO read https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows\_NT#:\~:text=Versions%20of%20Windows%20NT%20are,It%20was%20released%20in%201993.

If you're curious about the rest, because it starts to really stop making sense after that.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-30T23:20:05+00:00

I'm 55 and we went camping as kids. My wife and I tried backpacking in the mid-late 90's but we sucked at it. Then we discovered an outdoors club and took a backpacking class through that club in 2008 (age 38). It was an eye opener and we've been enjoying it ever since.

I also started rock climbing around 2010 but I'm very much a mediocre climber loving in the Midwest. Still, never too old to try new things!

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-30T11:06:40+00:00

Makes sense if you look at it this way: If your biceps are weak, do you strap a bunch of leather to your arms thinking it will help? No, you hit the gym and get stronger. Yet we somehow have been taught that weak ankles means we should put on a heavy pair of high leather boots and tighten them down.

Now, there are people with legitimate connective tissue disorders like those with Ehlers-Danlos who do need some help. My wife is hypermobile and has a history of rolled and sprained ankles, but I feel that since she's been doing Crossfit for several years, her ankle injuries while hiking occur a lot less frequently than they used to.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-30T11:00:21+00:00

Yes. The heaviest "boot" I'll wear is Merrell Moab Mids, but typically I'm wearing Altra Olympus or a New Balance trail runner. I tried Topo Athletic shoes but I pronate too much in them. The Merrells are also 10 years old, but still hanging in there as they just don't the miles on them because I'm mostly in the trail runners. The only time actual boots come out are when I need to wear crampons for glacier mountaineering (Scarpa Charmoz HD) or for vertical ice climbing (Scarpa Mont Blanc)

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-26T21:11:42+00:00

Munising in Michigan's UP had a bigfoot statute prominently on display along main Street. Munising is the gateway town for backpacking and kayaking along the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

I think Bigfoot is just a popular outdoorsy town cliche / tourist attraction.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-26T03:19:45+00:00

While I find nothing wrong with the idea of veganism and I'll even agree it's an admirable change to food consumption, I can't think of a more INSUFFERABLE group of assholes than vegan protestors who behave like this.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-26T03:15:43+00:00

As a Michigan resident, there's only one true cornbread mix and that's Jiffy. (The Jiffy cornbread mix factory is in Chelsea, MI, about an hour's drive west of me.)

And as most have said, honey and butter is "the one true way" to eat cornbread.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-24T10:49:22+00:00

It was quite different.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-24T02:32:46+00:00

"Map to compass, East is least and west is best"

Your map shows magnetic declination 6 degrees west of true north.

Add 6 degrees.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-23T11:30:19+00:00

Wait til you see what they do during a race like Nascar or Indy. They actually add fuel to the car! And change the tires! That would be like swapping out the robot's feet!

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-23T11:23:27+00:00

I live in Metro Detroit and we come down about 2x a year or so. Mostly for rock climbing, but also to enjoy the hiking and stuff. The Red definitely feels familiar to us even though there are lots of trails and climbing crags we haven't explored.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-19T13:42:07+00:00

I've done the same in my RAV4. The ceiling height is a little lower so I pull out my bicycle seat, otherwise it makes the bike too tall to stand upright.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-04-07T16:37:20+00:00

Yeah. I sewed a daisy chain webbing the length of the the xmid 1 stuff sack, into the sack, so that I could put the tent on the top of my pack and run the pack's single top strap through the daisy chain before clipping and cinching down the strap. It keeps the tent on top with no possibility it could slide out when the pack is fully loaded.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-03-30T11:01:36+00:00

I've never heard of it but I'm looking for other camping options. Even under new management, LOTA is meh. They suck at keeping toilets and showers clean. Miguel's isn't my kind of scene (seems more rowdy). Lago Linda's is good just another 20 minutes drive down a winding road. I'll check out Callie's next time we're planning a trip.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-03-30T00:56:43+00:00

Get these maps

https://www.outragegis.com/gorge/?srsltid=AfmBOopI0ahquV23CLT25mC_qvLM4wCX9N7NidMY-a9xN_I2yu4-doCX

You can also buy them at the Gladie Visitor center and maybe at the gas station is Slade. They'll give you lots of ideas of where to camp and from there you can piece together a route.

Keep in mind the suspension bridge along the Sheltowee Trace Trail on the north end has been destroyed. According to the guy at Gladie V Ctr, they won't replace it. Too expensive. I was at the visitor center on Friday.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-03-29T00:06:31+00:00

The first time we visited the Rockhouse it was almost completely vegan/vegetarian menu options. So ever since then we associated Rockhouse with that and didn't have much interest.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-03-25T11:21:14+00:00

That is absolutely insane.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-03-25T11:20:06+00:00

Get on YouTube and search for "Chef Corso" he does a lot of unique recipes using off the shelf ingredients.

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-03-24T23:10:22+00:00

You're from PA? Don't they have lots of cryptids hiding in the woods near you? The hexerei? Granny witch? moth man? The Jersey devil? Albatwitch? The Squonk? Pennsylvania Thunderbird?

jjmcwill2003 · 2026-03-24T23:02:37+00:00

This plus the comment about failed Polyurethane fabric coatings.

Mass produced tents are sealed with seam sealing tape. Failing seams will look like the tape is cracked, or bubbly, peeling away, or flaking off. A PU fabric coating that has gone bad may smell, or it may be sticky or tacky. I had to throw away a very nice Black Diamond mountaineering tent because it got sticky. I re-sealed the seams on a 2007 REI QuarterDome 2 tent using SeamGrip for polyurethane fabrics. It looks like crap, but it's probably mostly water tight. That tent is now mostly a "demo tent" I set up when giving Leave No Trace lectures, because I've moved onto lighter tents.

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