Was just pulling it out of the bottle sleeve on my backpack and this broke off; thoughts on fixes besides the obvious super glue attempt, and likely fail? Or just buy a new cap..?
If distance/ time is equal, which do you think is a more efficient use of time?
Option A: drop down into the canyon and back up? First half of hike is all downhill, lower heart rate followed by a 700’ climb to get back up with higher heart rate.
Option B: hike the undulating canyon rim where total climbing is only 200-300’ but that’s over rolling terrain. Medium heart rate the whole time.
When I drop all the way down I feel like I’m not working hard enough for literally half the time I’m out there. I did the rim this morning and it felt more like interval work.
For more context, I’m doing this immediately after 30-60 min of zone 2 trail running and the big picture for the rucking is year round training for mountain hunting. Current pack is 50lb.
- Previous salary: bills are all easily paid, a little discretionary spending, a little in savings each month.
- New salary: about $600 extra per month.
- student loan: about $18k left, 6.6%, $300/ month, 6.25 years left.
- car: $14k left, $320/ month. Something like 6.7% and 3 years left without currently looking at the details
- no other debt, besides the mortgage
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These are the options I feel like I have but don’t know the best strategy.
Option 1: extra $300 for one of the debts. A little extra in savings
Option 2: extra $600 for one of the debts. No extra in savings
Options 3: wife pays off car for me, and I repay her on similar monthly payments but without interest; while I continue to make an extra payment to the student loan, and then repay her like $1k per month once the student loan is done. *** she has much more in savings than I do, but we have a kid coming in about 2.5 months.
Option 4: I pay off a $4-6k chunk of one of the debts myself, and then continue to make an extra $300 payment per month, while also trying to rebuild savings.
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Options 3 seems to make the most sense from a money standpoint, but these are my debts and my problems and I don’t want to take from her (though she has offered many times). Plus the more ‘oh-shit’ money when the kid rocks around, the better.
There’s probably a perspective where it makes sense to sell the car for a cheaper one, and could maybe kill both debts that way, but I have a unique and long commute for for work and need something reliable (it’s a Camry, not like Mercedes or anything silly).
Open to thoughts, suggestions, general advice. Thank you in advance.
(Western backpack hunting btw)
This year I’m solving this problem for good. Basically every underwear I’ve tried over the years rides up and bunches up when I’m wearing a heavy pack and hiking all around the mountains and I spend way too much effort pulling the legs back down.
The closest I’ve have come to success is longer compression shorts on scouting missions, but those will stank after just a couple days in Sept. Solo long johns are also good but.. not in Sept.
Looking at First Lite Wick Boot Tops. UA 3/4 leggings seem like they’d be good as well but that they’d smell pretty quickly (I only bring 1 backup pair for days on the mtn). I’ll pay the FL price just to not go insane this year, but wondering what yall are using that you like (that may be cheaper) ?
With any flat palm push up I’ve had pain here in one wrist for many months. It’s feels like something in there can’t bear weight; even have taken to pushing on a fist to get off the ground in just day to day movements.
I bought the little push up bars to keep my hands more vertical and that helps but I’d like to address the actual problem. I want to be able to progress to archer push ups and other variations the bars don’t work for, as well as for when I’m trapped in hotels for work and only have the floor.
Advice?
Here’s my personal predicament but curious yalls thoughts on camp location in general. Sept archery. Elk will be on top on one specific mountain I’ve hunted in the past.
Options for camp are:
- at the bottom, at the truck, but it’s like a 2 hour dog shit hike up that would be next to impossible in the dark.
- halfway up but the flat, rock-free surfaces are few and far between, and still would be quite the undertaking at 3am.
- at the top, not in their bedroom but, definitely on the porch…
I’ve camped up top before and still saw and heard plenty of elk very close by, but have gotten in my own head about it and feel guilty about being that close. There’s not really other valleys or ridges or areas to be in this area, you’re either on the solitary mountain or not.
edit to clarify, mountain is only like 5 miles base to base and they use most of it
Edit 2: TIL about self inflicted heel rubbing! Sorry MTC! Thanks for everyone’s insight!
43 miles total. The difference between pic 1 and 2 is 4 miles this morning (after/ before). I haven’t grazed any rocks or scraped them or anything; the tear is literally just where the shoe flexes. I know trail shoes are meant to get torn up but this is super frustrating to already be here not even 50 miles in, and getting worse by the step.
Is this worth reaching out to customer service? Does anyone have experience with MTC cs?
edit to clarify: T1s
“fUHCK!”
What are some objective tests to find the better arrow build?
Build: 470gn HLR 250s, 175 total up front (50/125), 14.5%.
Mod: 20gn insert back weight to increase FOC to about 17%. Goal is to increase forgiveness based on reading the latest arrow ballistics study.
The lighter arrows already fly wonderfully and broadheads group with FPs up to 50yds so far (it’s been too windy to test much beyond that).
Without retuning anything the heavier groups seem ever so slightly worse (but maybe that’s a tuning thing?)
Testing through paper doesn’t make sense to me because I’d imagine I could just tune either one to bullet hole, plus I’m making adjustments after paper anyhow while bareshafting at distance.
disclaimer: yes I know I’m in the weeds and that 20 grains and an increase from an already high FOC is something most people won’t be able to tell a difference in ‘forgiveness’ anyhow. I’m just curious if there are ways to attempt to test outside of broadhead flight, which honestly seems to be the same.
It’s a longer story but my wife recently told me people may think I look older than I am (36) because I’ve never taken care of my skin. She has also told me on the past she thinks when my hair is short on the sides it makes my head look too round and she likes it when it’s a longer; though I personally like it when it’s shorter. (All photos are within last 12mo. grey shirt selfie is from today and going to get a hair cut at some point).
How should I cut my hair and fix my quickly aging face to look better for her?
(For the record, we have a healthy relationship and I could probably go skin bald and dunk my face in acid and she’d shrug it off, I’d just personally like to continue looking my best for her. The aforementioned critiques are part of larger conversations we stumble into)
(Context: left foot is half size bigger than right)
Ordered some wide Asics GT2000s the other day, after trying on some normal width ones and feeling toes pretty cramped only on the bigger foot. Well… same problem with the wide; slightly better but still noticeable. The length is perfect for the bigger foot and just a touch big on the smaller foot, but way functional.
I don’t live somewhere where I can try on shoes willy nilly and most need to be ordered, then returned, then ordered then returned til I get the Goldilocks, so reaching out here to minimize the order/ return process:
Are these Asics just not for? Return and get a half size up? Maybe the toe cramp won’t be that bad once the fabric looses up?
fwiw, ghosts fit perfect but I just want something with a lower drop than ghost and not MAXCUUSSHHIOONN like other brooks.
Anyone have a lead on a local exterminator? I tried searching but only out of town companies come up.
Got, what I think, are cabinet beetles and the internets’ remedies aren’t super helpful.
Wife and I cannot come to an agreement on a middle name for an expected daughter.
There’s no real expectation with this request (challenge?) but I’m really interested in what yall come up with::
Bighorn Sheep, specifically Rocky Mountain, are my favorite wildlife. They became even more special to us when a small herd showed up while we got married at the bottom of a canyon. They frequent our ‘neighborhood’ (used very loosely) and surrounding area. They also very representative of where we live and are adjacent to my wife’s field of work.
All this is to say, there were some sheep on the neighbors place the other day and I made the JOKE ‘what if her middle name was Ewe??!?’; that got the wheels turning.
So…. Any female names you can come up with that are representative or inspired by… sheep?? Haha
-This probably won’t turn reality but you never know-
Installing additional light fixture in bathroom. Ran new wires from ceiling to wall switch (the yellow 12/3 bundle, or 12/2 with ground?). Changing switch from single rocker to dual rocker.
New fixture has black, white, and ground.
Three marked wires are all disconnected from old single switch; red hot, green ground, pink goes to light already installed.
My question is… I don’t know what to do with white/ neutral wire from new fixture???
Thanks a ton in advance!!
And still enough time to spare to start a Memorial Day pork butt!
Also, no one asked, but second run in the T1s and highly highly recommend (though I just wish they make some in black! I look like lost golfer miles back in the high desert…)
I have a 40lb (18kg) and a 24kg
For OHP the 40 is too light. Did 100 reps yesterday and had plenty more in the tank; but the 24kg is too heavy to do more than about 6-7 struggle reps (wind up push pressing) at a time and even after just a few sets that falls off (been stuck here for quite a while even through trying for progressive OL).
Best to:
- just stick with the low reps at 24kg and patience?
- spam a shit ton with the 40?
- both? Get what I can out of the 24 and then spam the 40 to near failure?
- something else?
I’m just not seeing rep progression with the 24 over what seems like months and I feel like the inability to do more than say 20 total reps, over 3 sets, is the hinderance.
Obviously the preference here is not to buy another bell right now.
I realize it JUST got announced, but just starting a discussion thread for initial opinions and thoughts and skepticisms
Can someone give the black and white differences?
What makes the Boonie about $100 more?
New ROTI system, don’t think I’d use it but maybe it’d be desirable in potential resale?
Just looking for thoughts
fwiw: western hunting, elk this year
A couple of years ago I went from a Halon 32 to a BT Core SS; mainly choosing the Core because I could do a lot of the work on it myself because the only shop I have near me sucks a lot. I figured I’d have the Core for a number of years and then evaluate as necessary. However.. after the first few months with the Core, I decided that whenever the time did come, I’d probably go back to Mathews because I simply shot it noticeably better and just liked how it felt more; though in no way was I planning to change out this year… but then I pulled an elk tag and the mental gymnastics began…
Arc 34 now gets me something I can similarly tune myself, longer axle to axle, 5-10 more pounds (70lb Core; I’d try 75-80 with Arc), less let off, and in theory overall more forgiving bow in a brand I have a history of enjoying shooting more.
Cons: money, starting from scratch 4 months out (not that big a deal because I shoot a lot but a consideration), possibly jumping the gun and missing next years new tech. Re. ‘Money’ - definitely can swing it and would be recouping some loss by, eventually, selling the Core but it doesn’t make it not hurt.
I’m planning on heading two plus hours away on Monday to test drive an Arc 34, so my pre-journey question is: think I am just new-bow high and any perceived gains are in my head? Or do you think it’s worth it to trick myself in having more confidence in something I, may or may not actually, shoot better, especially at a critter?