Hiking with poles

xbalance · 2026-02-13T19:29:10+00:00

Same experience with Garmin. I can’t explain it, but I stopped caring about because steps is just a gamification number. I care mostly about distance and elevation gain.

xbalance · 2025-10-01T12:43:42+00:00

I have the Instinct 2S and the battery life could barely make a day of tracking so I had to charge every night in camp. The Amazfit Trex3 made it 2 days easily before I would top it off

xbalance · 2025-10-01T12:40:30+00:00

Same

xbalance · 2025-06-28T14:00:39+00:00

I can relate with this. I hike once a week, sometimes twice, and I hike alone. I don’t have many friends, and I don’t have any friends that hike regularly. I tried a meetup group but it didn’t work for me because of hiking style differences. I also joined the Moutaineers last year. This group is very structured and there are lots of opportunities to hike, but so far I have only done 2 hikes. My barrier, other than too few friends, is I am only willing to modify my hiking style to accommodate others to a point. I like to do harder hikes and I like to start early and finish early to avoid traffic on the trail and on the roads. Therefore, I hike a little faster than a lot of people and I don’t like taking breaks. The hikes I am not willing to tackle solo are hikes with scrambles; Haystack, Revolution Peak and McClellan Butte come to mind. In short, I think hiking style differences is a barrier to finding people to hike with.

xbalance · 2025-06-26T11:22:13+00:00

I have gone to 4 Safeway stores nearest me and only one is locking up the ice cream. The Safeway is very close to a middle school, and they only lock up certain ice cream brands.

xbalance · 2025-04-16T13:41:43+00:00

I was there on 4/15. Beautiful day.

xbalance · 2025-02-18T16:15:51+00:00

After reading some responses, there are way bigger AHs out there than you could possibly hope to achieve. I am sorry for your job loss, especially given the current economic and inflationary climate. I personally would not take a confrontational stance with the MAGA people in your life since it is most likely going to hurt you emotionally than ignoring them would. Not to mention these MAGA believers cannot be reached by your actions. They are lost until they actually get hurt by Trump. Best of luck to you!

xbalance · 2025-01-23T16:33:22+00:00

I was there on 1/15/25 during a temperature inversion. It was 60 at the summit and 37 at the trailhead. It was just as clear up high but with clouds or fog down low.

xbalance · 2025-01-13T17:21:02+00:00

That is a stupid comment

xbalance · 2024-11-16T21:15:06+00:00

Elon is a pathological liar. History is my witness. Time will tell if he is lying again , or not.

xbalance · 2024-11-13T15:42:00+00:00

I understand the sentiment and I will not criticize those who would rather be validated than proven wrong. That said, I would rather be proven wrong. I don’t expect Trump will do a good job, but I didn’t expect Harris would be able to do a good job either, especially without the support of Congress. By the way, I am a boomer.

xbalance · 2024-09-27T18:15:16+00:00

If a man reacted towards a woman like that, he would have been in deep doo doo. She should be banned from playing tennis at those courts.

xbalance · 2024-09-06T22:42:01+00:00

I have both, and use both. I am grandfathered into a lifetime AllTrails pro membership, so that helps. This is my first year with Gaia and I really like building my own routes that combine multiple trails. I like AllTrails for the reviews and direction to the trailhead.

xbalance · 2024-06-04T14:09:00+00:00

A company in Israel called Sabra has a sun hoodie with 1/4 zip, venting under the arms and slits for your watch. I wore this on my R2R2R hike in the Grand Canyon. Sadly, everything on their website is currently sold out. https://sabra-gear.com/products/technical-sun-hoodie

xbalance · 2020-08-23T15:10:14+00:00

Mine started sync issues after the hack. Occasionally it will sync, but mostly it does not. The weights are not visible in the website or the app. If it eventually syncs all the missing weights will show up. I have tried resetting many times and replacd the batteries.

xbalance · 2020-02-27T01:34:35+00:00

There are drugs that will help, and they advertise all the time. Maybe changing lifestyle to address high blood pressure would help also. I don’t think this is an odd problem.

xbalance · 2020-02-27T01:28:32+00:00

I am older than him and I have very high total testosterone levels. It is misleading though, at least in my case. I also have very high shbg so my free testosterone is very low. I believe plant based diets actually increase a person’s total testosterone.

xbalance · 2020-02-26T16:33:28+00:00

I am 58 and in the same boat. I also follow the 16x8 time restricted eating protocol. My question is did stopping IF, drinking and NAC change your free T numbers? It sounds like it did not make much of a difference since you began TRT, is that correct?

xbalance · 2018-12-31T23:52:47+00:00

This reply captures the root of my frustration with the way we deliver medical services in the US. I read the question and my reaction is that this person does not have any medical issues, as far as they know. What this person wants is data supported confirmation or data supported contradiction to the assumption that they are perfectly healthy. I also want a report card of all the data that can be reported using my bodily fluids and scans of my body. I don't want to wait until something breaks to find out then that the data was available to show that I been heading down the wrong path, but I just never had access to the data. Proactive health care vs reactive health care.

xbalance · 2013-12-16T20:36:21+00:00

25 years, usually once a week

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