Jdubs

They probably smelled your cooking!

Sunday Funday, MMM.. OSA

Stole it.

Kodiak pancakes with fresh blueberries, raw local honey and thick cut cherrywood smoked bacon.

Stout time.

So today I learned that I need a solution for carrying a pooped 91 lb Golden Retriever down a mountain.

Posted before I guessed, but nailed it!

That's a good looking porch bomb!

Celebrating my daughter's first 46er hike with me today, Cascade!

Mega collab Omnipollo #5 a/k/a Fatamosiacddhdreamatomicdobishredder! Whoo Hoo!!

Great drinking weather tonight!

Tropical fruit notes bursting out of the glass of this triple collab 8.8% IPA! Amazing beer!!

Most of the SAR reports that I've read tell of people not prepared for the weather near the summits. A 70⁰ day at the trailhead is all fine and dandy, but the weather can turn nasty in a hurry at 4000'+. Mt. Washington in particular can be especially brutal. The lack of proper gear for hiking in freezing temps, rain, snow and wind chills has killed people. Just last month an 80 year old man nearly died on Mt. Washington from exposure. He lacked the proper gear for hiking at the higher elevations and may be sent the bill for the rescue effort. https://www.pressherald.com/2019/06/18/hiker-rescued-from-mt-washington-may-have-to-foot-the-bill/

Great thread! How did I miss this? I'm an avid hiker and take the warning, "Be prepared to spend a night in the woods" seriously. You can plan so much, but it's that 1% that might get you! Could be a medical event, a bad step that leads to fall and serious injury or simply a bad navigation decision. Now what? Keep your head and think through your options. Is self-rescue or hunkering down the best choice? Make a game plan and set goals. The tools you have on-hand and/or skill set that allows you to craft them will weigh heavily into your chances of success. Here's what I always take in my pack, whether it's a day hike or overnight: Shelter: Top priority right here. I carry a basic space blanket, duct tape, safety pins, paracord and SOL bivy. Total weight is less than a pound. My goal would be to build a simple lean-to fortified with evergreen branches and leaves to keep me dry and off the ground. Water: I have 3 to 5 options on every hike. Primarily, I use my own hack of a Sawyer mini filter and a Platypus 2L Big Zip bag. Simply scoop the bag into a stream and let gravity do the work. This fills my 1L nalgene and 1L Platypus soft bottles at a rate of 2 minutes/L. My backup method is carrying a bottle of iodine tablets. These weigh nothing and there's no reason not to have them. Next, there is the morning dew or rain water that can be collected, as needed. Lastly, I'll drink directly from the source and risk the beaver fever if desperate enough. It can stave off dehydration before the ill effects kick in days later. In the winter, I always bring a JetBoil so it's easy enough to boil snow or water. Only once have I needed to go to option #2 (iodine tablets) because a piece of downfall had unknowingly ripped open my outter pack mesh pouch and the filter fell out. Fire: Three methods at all times. 1. Bic lighter. 2. Storm proof matches in a waterproof container. 3. Ferro rod and steel. In addition, I always bring a candle, Wet Fire tablets and a baggie of dryer lint and vaseline. Birch bark is an excellent tinder that can be found almost anywhere in the ADK's. The candle and Wet Fire are most useful with wet wood; you need to get a constant flame on your tinder and larger pieces to dry them out enough to get the fire going. I never thought of bringing a flammable liquid, but tiki torch oil works very well because of it's slower burn rate. Food: I always pack extra so this is never a concern. Clif bars and jerky are my favorites along with peanut M&M's. You can live 3 weeks without any food so I'm sure that I could forage enough berries, worms and grubs to survive in a true worst-case scenario. First aid: I pack very little, actually. Basic band-aids and gauzes, some duct tape wrapped around a mini Sharpie, hydrocolloid bandages and silicone toe sleeves for blisters, butterfly bandages, Neosporin, some single-use alcohol wipes, Aleve and chewable benadryl. My worst "injuries" have been blisters, bug bites and some stings from one a**hole ground wasp. Misc: Headlamp with extra lithium batteries (since I typically hike at night), a Surefire E2D LED with extra batteries, spare headlamp, bandana, map & compass, spare boot laces, bug spray, sun screen, baby wipes, spare Smartwool socks, my Arc'teryx shell, seasonal layers and a multi-tool. This might sound like a lot of stuff, especially for day hikes, but it's really not. My typical hike pack is an 18L Osprey Talon that weighs 10-15 lbs with everything. I'll lay it all out and take a pic another time.

Yeah, right?! I took one step out outside to crack open my beer and said 'F this!"

Tough to pick a favorite from EQ, but this is probably it for me.

Quick fishing trip?

Happy Birthday!

Missed him by >< much!

Very crushable after pool beer.

Looks like you drank all of them!

Can always count on Pygmy! Multiple pages just like this in their cocktail book. I think Mrs. A. ordered something called a 'Bitchin'.

Sun's going down and the Players is warming up. Silky smooth collab with Three Chiefs!

Whoa..Deviation might be EQ's best, even better than Straight Outta the Labratory. Super stealth 10.5% TIPA is bursting with tropical juice flavors. Wow. What an awesome beer!

EQ beer run haul.