u/agate_magnet

This is a big win for me! Pretty sure this is a Cody base made of Spanish Diggings quartzite.... Square and edges seem ground. Wyoming

I have decided to update my Archteryx Bora 40 that belonged to my dad. It doesn't fit me very well. I went in to REI and settled on two models: Deuter aircontact 50+10 and the Osprey Exos 58. Both felt great but the construction felt more solid on the Deuter and I liked the access zipper.

However, I hate the colors. I do not want a screaming colorful pack.... I like being stealthy in the backcountry because I hate the the thought of being spotted from far away. The pack seems to come in pure black, though the store does not offer it. Will black get noticeably hotter than other colors?

Pictured is the pack I was leaning towards, vs another pack whose color would be preferable to me. Any recommendations for a similar pack to the Deuter that is a better color for me? I want to spend my money on something I'll be happy with.

I have decided to update my Archteryx Bora 40 that belonged to my dad. It doesn't fit me very well. I went in to REI and settled on two models: Deuter aircontact 50+10 and the Osprey Exos 58. Both felt great but the construction felt more solid on the Deuter and I liked the access zipper.

However, I hate the colors. I do not want a screaming colorful pack.... I like being stealthy in the backcountry because I hate the the thought of being spotted from far away. The pack seems to come in pure black, though the store does not offer it. Will black get noticeably hotter than other colors?

Pictured is the pack I was leaning towards, vs another pack whose color would be preferable to me.

Triplets are still giving me grief but some improvement. The inconsistency is frustrating. Sometimes they work, sometimes they slow me down or even make me rush.

For years I haven't been able to do fast triplets in tunes at session speeds. I have tried practicing slowly and gradually increasing speed to no avail. I have tried using more fingers vs arm and vice versa and experimented with softer picks. But triplets always bog me down. Any advice? Irish banjo players, how do you do it???

I'm probably confusing some parts of the A and B parts but oh well. Wanting to try accompaniment using GDAD bouzouki tuning soon.

Accidentally took a beautiful life with my vehicle. Not sure if this is honoring the animal or adding insult to injury....

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The garage this is in gets hot during the day, but I have a dry climate here and there is a fan pointed directly at the board. Hopefully all goes well.

I'm primarily a mando player because I injured myself heavily with chin fiddles. I miss it

Was going to post this in r/birding, but they prohibit nest pictures to discourage disturbing them. Not that this is much of a nest, or that I made a choice to disturb mom as I don't see these nests until mom scares away. There are many ground-nesting birds in the prairie as there isnt much else. Sparrows, nighthawks, doves.... but I don't know this one.

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Egg is a little more than an inch long. I briefly saw the mom; she had the same mottled pattern as a nighthawk but was slightly smaller and did not have the long slender wings. The color was a warm orange brown.

Montana agate. Have yet to find a complete point from this but I do have one broken one. Other artifacts in the area often include these random river cobbles....not sure if they were cooking stones or what. They are generally granite, quartzite, andesite, or basalt.

I only knew about 20% of the tunes.... Have some catching up to do.

I know there is green jasper in Oregon and WA, but this is my first time finding it in central Montana.

Been able to hide it for years. First noticed receding at 20 yo

I went out looking, but this was a freak find. Tumbling out of a game trail coming up out of a little drainage. I don't recognize the material, either. Nothing else within a square mile that I could find....not even a single chip. My guess is some late Archaic point, maybe Pelican Lake related.

P.S. Don't hide this in a bag of goldfish crackers