u/Grungy_Mountain_Man — reddlx

Hypothetical demand/value of older cams?

I'm not climbing much these days since I got married and have kids. I have an older set of BD camalots that are~25 years old now that I'm just not using. They need to be reslung again, but otherwise I'd have no issues climbing on them, but I know their history.

Unsure of potential value. I was assuming to get anything for them, I'd need to resling them, and before I pay the money to resling them, any input on how much demand there is for that older gear or how much they might be worth? Just want to make sure I'm not putting money into a wall ornament I won't get back.

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u/Grungy_Mountain_Man — 2 days ago

▲ 53 r/latterdaysaints

Anyone else feel weird about patriotic songs in sacrament meeting?

On sunday the opening song was the star spangled banner. I was almost uncomfortable singing that song in sacrament meeting, not necessarily because of politics or anything like that, but that it just has nothing to do with Jesus/gospel, etc. In the spirit of Elder hollands talk from a few years ago about it being the most sacred hour of the week, singing about a flag or a country doesn't really seem to match the intent of the meeting if I'm honest.

Want to sing it at like a 4th of july breakfast, etc? Great, But starting sacrament meeting the same way as a baseball game....it doesn't feel like its the time/place in a meeting that is supposed to be Christ centered. Reiterating this isn't because of politics or who is or isn't in office, and its just as odd to me if I was in england singing god save the king, or any other national song anywhere else in the world.

Am I the only one that feels that way?

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u/Grungy_Mountain_Man — 1 month ago

▲ 472 r/camping

Background:

I booked a campground in early June to go camping in Washington State a few months back (troublesome creek cg).

I recently learned of road closures from the december flooding events that makes this campground completely inaccessible due to road washouts and bridges that no longer exist. I confirmed with the ranger station nearby.

For some reason recreation.gov hasn't been updated, and reservations start Mid May. I cancelled my reservation so I can move on to other plans to hopefully salvage that weekend and find other options (you can't double book). Because I cancelled the reservation on my end, I lose out $18 bucks, which honestly doesn't really matter that much. I wouldn't even really care if it actually went to funding anything, but that it will just go to whatever company operates the reservations system bothers me.

I sent a refund request to recreation.gov citing the inaccessibility of the campground and informed them it should be updated. They denied my request saying they haven't received a closure notification from the facility manager and basically told me to fuck off citing compliance with their cancellation policy and closed my request and disregarded my tip on a closure they or facility manager knew nothing about. Basically, to them I cancelled my reservation to an "open" campground.

Man, fuck whoever incompetent person isn't doing their damn job as a facility manger and fuck recreation.gov for robbing people. The floods were 5 month ago now, this is a known issue that should have been addressed back then to prevent people from booking in the first place (its not hard to find info about the closures-I did without even looking and its not my job to know). The campground has bookings in as little as 3 weeks. Best case scenario is if they finally close it last minute and refund people, but even then the people that already made reservations likely aren't going to be able to find any nearby alternatives this late, likely spoiling plans. At worst, and I hope it doesn't come to this, is they don't "close" it and notify via cancellations, then people pack their kids and car up and drive there thinking they are going camping, to find out once they get there, that they can't actually get there, and then have to turn around and go home because there's nothing else available nearby. It likely means also they will lose the full amount they paid (40 dollars per night plus fees, with 2 night minimums on weekends) because according to recreation.gov, they are having a nice weekend in the woods at an "open" campground. Plus gas money wasted, etc (not insignificant right now).

It's so incredibly dumb.

Sigh. Rant over.

u/Grungy_Mountain_Man — 4 months ago