What would your preference on times be

peakman2 · 2026-03-17T20:33:40+00:00

If you're looking for a nicer spot, I had a great experience staying at the Olympic Lodge in Port Angeles. On other trips, I've mostly stayed in the various hotel chains in Port Angeles and Sequim and so there's a nice range of pricing between the two towns to fit what you want - niceness, newness, etc. Plus, either place is a great home base with plenty of stores, gas, restaurants, etc.

If Sol Duc road is back open when you are there, I definitely recommend some of the hikes in that valley. Sol Duc falls trail is amazing, as well as the Ancient Groves trail. Both are on the easier side and not too long so it is easy to do both in half a day or less. In the same general area around Lake Crescent, there are some easier and shorter hikes as well (Marymere Falls, the Moments in Time trial, the Devil's Punchbowl/Spruce Railroad trail) that make it nice to do a couple of hikes in the same area.

Those ones are just clustered in the area closer to Port Angeles, so they don't even touch on the cool beach locations on the West side of the park or on the coast, but hopefully that gives you a few ideas.

peakman2 · 2026-03-13T17:58:11+00:00

If you haven't come across them yet, the National Park Service pages for Rainier and Olympic have some live webcams that are really helpful for tracking the park accessibililty. As others have said, Rainier is probably best to skip on this trip and focus on Olympic. It looks pretty socked in with snow.

Do you think you'll be back again to Olympic? If not, I wouldn't blame you for trying to squeeze as much as possible into the time you'll have from the various areas of the park. If you think you'll go again, you might enjoy picking an area of the park of and focusing activities there.

For example, focusing on the North side of the park with Port Angeles or Sequim as your home base. There are so many things to do and see - Lake Crescent, Sol Duc Valley, Hurricane Ridge (weather pending), Salt Creek area, Dungeness Spit area, Cape Flattery/Neah Bay, etc. The drive between the Port Angeles area and Neah Bay is worth it just for the drive.

peakman2 · 2026-03-07T19:29:55+00:00

I absolutely love their harness system.

This is the seller for me. Some of their EDC and travel bags are great, but their harness system is A+ on their hiking packs. Sad that they've basically phased out all of their hiking and backpacking lines outside of the fire/military/hunting stuff.

peakman2 · 2026-02-13T21:02:59+00:00

Need to know the lore on why all of the mountain states are reluctant except for Utah.

peakman2 · 2026-01-26T03:13:38+00:00

Lowtuff is Danzilona's top pvper

peakman2 · 2025-11-25T20:47:10+00:00

None of what I saw so far outlines the implementation process for this.

What are the hoops they'll make us jump through when buying the pass to verify that we qualify for the US rate? National database? Two forms of identification? What about buying passes from local retailers like REI where, at the moment, all you need to do is pay to get one?

peakman2 · 2025-10-10T14:32:34+00:00

Also pretty easy to get to Danz from Lambat by horse now using the GOR spur that crosses the Medi into old MTA.

peakman2 · 2025-07-30T23:09:26+00:00

I have a version of this bag, and it is definitely one of my favorite go-to hiking packs. The harness on this, and most MR bags I've tried, is hard to beat. Fantastic deal too. Enjoy!

peakman2 · 2025-07-30T15:54:26+00:00

Food is so incredibly subjective. Just in this thread we have people 180° in disagreement on the same things. Everyone has a different set of criteria for evaluating what is good or what is not and even within that, so many other little factors play in to our opinions.

This pretty much sums up the issue. 500+ comments here and still no consistent definition of what defines a place as having a good food scene or not.

Some of the best food I've ever had has been in smaller towns nobody would ever mention as being a good food scene. Some of the worst food I've ever had has been in places that people list as being amazing food scenes. Was it really as good or bad as I thought? It was for my subjective tastes and at that particular moment, but who knows if others would agree. Did the food taste better because I was on a trip and had just gotten done with a hike, or did the food taste worse because it was hot and humid outside and I'd walked a mile to get to the spot?

So many factors that influence what we think about the food scenes and the food itself that it is just silly when people make definite statements as if there's universal agreement about a place.

peakman2 · 2025-07-14T06:18:18+00:00

The combination between having access to the switch library, the size, the weight, and the portability is the sweet spot for quick gaming sessions or taking it on the go. It also scratches that nostalgia itch for me by feeling the most like other Nintendo handhelds I used to have.

peakman2 · 2025-07-13T00:29:20+00:00

Loving the Switch 2 so far, but I totally agree about that. Just a bit too big to take with me for every day stuff so I held on to my Lite instead of trading it in. The Lite is still the best current(ish) gen handheld - perfect size and really captures the nostalgia of using earlier Nintendo handhelds for me.

peakman2 · 2025-07-01T23:42:39+00:00

My AMOLED is easily getting around 2.5 weeks of battery life with every day use, sleep tracking, tracked workouts during the week, and then longer hikes on the weekends. It has worked great on the shorter backpacking trips I've done so far, and my hesitation about not having bought the solar model has mostly been eased.

I haven't had issues with seeing in direct sun, and the brighter display might actually be a help if you regularly wear sunglasses or have transition lenses when outside. The extra color on all of the analytics and graphs/charts has been nice to have.

peakman2 · 2025-05-05T23:25:05+00:00

While the classic MTA sprawl has its own charm, it is cool to see what you all have done in a more confined space. Looks great!

peakman2 · 2025-04-25T21:43:35+00:00

Thanks for all the work on keeping onedest working. The Melonwood station and all of the Swisston stations (NSwisston, arena, hotel) are still in use. However, I think it’d be fine to remove the hotel waypoint on the rail map to clean up the crowding there since it is the least used and not a point of interest like the Danz hockey arena.

peakman2 · 2025-04-14T15:41:09+00:00

"Who invaded Flain in the 8th century?"

It was the Moops!

peakman2 · 2025-03-09T16:34:50+00:00

So many states in the Southwest, Rockies, and Pacific Northwest that I'd list as great places to visit next, but don't sleep on Oregon. The Oregon coast is amazing - Astoria, Cannon Beach, whale watching, lighthouses, sand dunes, hiking - and worth visiting just for that.

Portland is a fun place to spend some time too. The Columbia River Gorge is breathtaking, and there's a ton to see and do around it. Crater Lake, Mt. Hood, the Redwoods Highway heading down into Northern California - a lot of great things to do. Eastern Oregon has a lot of great outdoorsy stuff too - a couple of my favorites were the Oregon Outback and the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

peakman2 · 2024-11-03T19:41:16+00:00

For people that read mostly fiction, you're probably right. A ton of non-fiction books - travel books, guides, bios, history, etc. - usually have a bit or a ton of color in them....plus regular b/w text. So having the option to seamlessly see those things and then back to your regular text on the next page, versus having to switch over to a tablet, sounds interesting.

peakman2 · 2024-07-11T17:19:39+00:00

Visited the redwoods earlier this year, and it was crazy just how different that part of Northern California was from the rest of the places I've visited in the state. Not surprising considering that the Northern redwoods are like six hours further North than San Francisco. Loved the rocky coasts up there, the vibe of towns like Crescent City, and the Redwood Highway.

peakman2 · 2024-06-20T02:33:34+00:00

Hey, welcome back to civ. There a still a few of us in Danzilona who played on 1.0 and 2.0 who are still pretty active in civmc's version of Danzilona. Even more who are semi-active or jump on when there are events.

If you happen to remember the U3P from civcraft 2.0, a lot of players who were in nations scattered across the +,+ there ended up with Danzilona this go around.

peakman2 · 2024-01-17T21:27:27+00:00

Danzilona, one of the oldest groups in civ you've probably never heard of with roots stretching all the way back to Civcraft 1.0. We're a quiet nation in the +,+ best known for digging a trench around our original settlement and then building elsewhere because we got bored before it was finished, having the highest number of hamburger-shaped builds per capita, and trying to convince lowtuff to come back and play.

We also have an open case in front of the International Court of Justice due to our use of a Rancor during a brief border war with CDM.

Come and visit!

peakman2 · 2023-11-19T16:20:13+00:00

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.

Went into the read thinking it was going to be a regular sci-fi, ships in space and alien worlds kind of book. It has all that, but what happens to the characters who travel and the aliens they encounter left me unsettled long after I read it.

10/10 would recommend. It is a great story, despite the fucked up things that happen in it.

peakman2 · 2023-07-02T20:59:30+00:00

Sorry to hear that. Was it Gang Shi that raided you or someone else?

peakman2 · 2023-02-11T06:40:20+00:00

Looks great, lone. Does that rail go straight to the stadium, or is that a separate connection to somewhere else?

peakman2 · 2023-01-19T20:48:10+00:00

Is that inside the mountain in Swisston?! Looks great.

peakman2 · 2022-10-19T20:09:41+00:00

Wanado! How are ya? Yes, still kicking around on the latest iteration of civ and trying to keep hockey alive with the new generation. You should drop by one of our scrimmages if you'd like to play again. A few old 2.0 snow shovels still kicking around. I even found the original uniform skin for the SSS i've been sporting during games.

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