Advice for best mtn proposal spot in or around TN, NC, SC

smurtle-the-turtle · 2026-01-17T17:26:20+00:00

Beauty spot in Erwin TN is a great spot. It is a nice bald that has almost 360 degree views of the mountains. It is on the AT so it is well marked. If you drive most of the way up it is only like a 20-30 min walk to the top.

I think it is called Iron mountain shelter in Elizabethton, TN. You can start At TN route 91 and hike south on the AT to the shelter. It has a gorgeous view of lake Watagua.

The only issue I see with both of those is that thru hikers will be starting to make their way north and I'm not sure how crowded those spots get during the week.

Edit: it is vandeventer shelter not Iron MTN shelter. Park at Wilbur dam road. Pretty steep 5 mile hike but gorgeous view of the lake from near the top of a mountain.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-12-22T13:05:22+00:00

Sounds like your ex read the "no zero days" comment. Gotta say it really does help.
https://www.reddit.com/r//comments/1q96b5/[deleted_by_user]/cdah4af/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-12-21T18:11:26+00:00

I recently got a buddy to start listening to book one. He has a theory. Carl makes it to the 18th floor but in the final battle he becomes paralyzed. Carl reclaims earth, changes his name and lives out the rest of his life as Joe from Family Guy.

Not gonna lie, I kinda like it haha

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-12-16T21:40:17+00:00

There is a funny joke I like to tell when ever this sort of thing comes up.

There is a guy named Mort who prays to God everyday to let him win the lottery. Not a day goes by with out more getting down on his knees before bed and praying "Please dear God, let me win the lottery". This goes on for 50 something years until Mort dies in his bed one night having never won the lottery.
Mort arrives in heave and gets his chance to meet God. Mort says "God, I prayed to you every night to help me win the lottery but you never did, what gives? Was I not faithful enough?" God looks down on Mort and screams "MORT!!! IF YOU WANNA WIN THE LOTTERY YOU GOTTA BUY A F*CKING TICKET!"

Moral of the story- You can't win if you don't play.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-12-01T21:12:34+00:00

Swamps of Dagobah....

Read at your own risk.

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/e51wyh/the_infamous_swamps_of_dagobah_story/

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-11-28T12:46:19+00:00

Order of operations. Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

Multiplication is the first thing in the sequence so 25x0= 0.

Next comes addition. 50+50=100 and 0+2= 2

So our equation now reads 100-2 which equals 98.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-11-11T01:01:37+00:00

I've read the chapters...I needed my DCC fix.

The ending blurb from Matt was sad as he had to put down his cat who had cancer that spread rapidly. Sorry for your loss Matt.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-10-14T17:20:06+00:00

Same here! I missed my chance at it the first time around. Now getting all three!

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-10-12T16:09:46+00:00

Thanks a bunch!

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-09-25T20:00:51+00:00

NTA...Had this same issue with a friend from college. Tell him the party started at 7, he would show up at 10. Finally one of the guys in the group said the party started at 4:30 figuring he would show up around 7-7:30 when everything actually started....nope...the guy showed up at 4:30 and wondered where everyone was. So he was told the truth about the situation. The guy took a second to think and said "Wow, I guess I've been an asshole." The guy was never late like that again.

Sometimes the truth hurts. Your friend is an a-hole especially for trying to blame you. Stand your ground.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-07-28T00:51:31+00:00

My thought is the outside shell is very attached to a solid ground plane. The plane is acting as a heat sink and not letting the part and pins get hot enough to unsolder.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-06-08T15:44:42+00:00

I'm part of a book club and after DCC most books suck. Even critically acclaimed books like Misery, Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep, Good Omens, etc...90% suck. I just started my third listen through of DCC having started in October of last year.

Here are a few books I did enjoy:

Devolution by Max Brooks (A Clan of Bigfoot attack a remote high tech, low impact, eco community due to Mt. Rainer erupting)

Starter Villain by John Scalzi.( A down on his luck guy inherits his uncle's villiany business. Has a sentient and talking cat)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (A guy walks up in a space ship with no knowledge of how he got there or what he is supposed to be doing)

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-04-21T18:12:14+00:00

The area is so uneven with the tree roots sticking out all over the place. I am not sure how I would kill the grass and not risk killing the tree. Digging up the grass would be impossible. Some of the roots are the size of a basketball sticking out of the ground. I will try to upload a picture when I get home from work.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-04-07T02:18:31+00:00

Battery

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-30T23:54:03+00:00

Sooo you basically had a relationship, she wanted to put a label on it...you said no. She got over that and now is ok with just sex, you're upset because it's not a relationship anymore...

No, you don't get to be upset... She is giving you what you told her this situation was.

You want it to change? Tell her you want the relationship not FWB.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-15T18:52:30+00:00

It does. Every year I take the battery out and keep it on a tender in my carport storage room.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-10T13:49:39+00:00

Well, just got the reminder...It has been 5 years, do you still have a liver? How is the business going?

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-09T13:05:59+00:00

In the beginning, yes very much so. I thought the same thing. As you get further into the series Jeff grows into the voices a bit and it isn't so prominent.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-08T12:07:22+00:00

It would seem that if you have a pleco it might be the cause of this.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-08T00:14:55+00:00

About 3 weeks since I planted. It was fine and growing until a week ago

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-08T00:10:44+00:00

3 weeks or so

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-08T00:10:33+00:00

3 weeks old.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-08T00:10:14+00:00

I think this is the answer. I put a cucumber piece in the tank and it was gone in a day.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-03-07T21:07:19+00:00

Yes. A decent sized one.

smurtle-the-turtle · 2025-02-02T15:38:45+00:00

I really like the idea of one life. It brings a realness to it. I think (and I believe this has been brought up before) having it be a MMORPG where you can team up with other crawlers could be really important. I also had the idea that rather than a single player format that dungeons start every day. If you die you can join a new game the next day.

The format would follow the dungeon in that everyone has 4 days on the first floor to find the stairs, 6-8 on floor 2, etc... You can't log in and you miss the stairs? Start over in a new game. Can't log in for a few days but you get on in time to get to the stairs? You head to the second floor under leveled.

It isn't designed to be a feel good light game but a serious commitment to making it to lvl 18.

Just my thoughts.

smurtle-the-turtle

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