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Did You Know?
On September 3, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law. This law created the National Wilderness Preservation System to protect undeveloped land, "retaining its primeval character and influence" with "outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation." The Wilderness Act remains one of the world's longest standing acts of legislation for wilderness. The Act has been noticed by other countries as a way to protect their own wild places, biodiversity and ecosystems. No small testament to the power of protecting our most wild places not just in the United States but throughout the world.
Near Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness
It seems to me that if you have thru hiked the Pacific Crest Trail sights and sounds, landmarks and monuments get seen, heard, passed through and in some cases passed over. Section hikers on the other hand may have a similar experience to thru hikers but likely given the nature of sectioning may allow for lingering longer along the way.
Whether or not you are or know a thru hiker or you are or know a section hiker did you know the Pacific Crest Trail passes through fifty wilderness areas (both federal and state). More than any other National Scenic Trail in the United States. From fifteen identified wilderness areas in 1964 to fifty today, sixty years later, the importance of these lands is obvious. Acknowledging and protecting these spaces really hits anyone who has the opportunity to visit and/or pass through. Here are a some that you may have visited or heard about from south to north on the PCT; Hauser, Anza-Borrego, John Muir, Desolation, Marble Mountain, Three Sisters, Goat Rocks, and Pasayten.
Across three states these wilderness areas are a tribute to the importance of protecting large forests and watersheds that together help combat climate change. These spaces not only offer safe refuges for threatened plants and animals but offer a gateway for humans to connect more deeply with nature. Finally, many wilderness areas intersect and envelope indigenous peoples' ancestral lands. Taking into account the treasure these spaces hold as homelands for these native people.
Sixty years on the Wilderness Act is a shining piece of legislation that has evolved over six decades. As time as gone by the protected lands have grown from 9.1 million acres to over 111 million acres. The Pacific Crest Trail has enjoyed a great benefit thanks to the Wilderness Act.
If you didn't know it before, take some time to find out more about the wilderness areas all along the PCT. You can explore them even if it is a day hike. You will not be disappointed. In a these times when we question so many things including the choices our leaders make, we can be proud of the fact that sixty years later we still recognize the importance of wilderness. In this sixtieth year of existence protecting wilderness for generations to come is essential as long as we do not lose sight of why, as a nation, we value these places so deeply.
#Wilderness Act#Anza-Borrego#pacific crest trail#goat rocks#indigenous peoples#thru hiking#section hiking
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Matching T-Shirts for You and Your Weirdly Codependent Cousin
based on this excellent post by @casgirl
#20% off if you get it with the cheap mustache rides shirt#the locked tomb#nona the ninth#camilla hect#palamedes sextus#paul tlt#field sketches#*#trivia section - i usually use dark brownish greys for cam and light cool greys for pal#(side note: i am BEGGING the sixth house to open their hearts and minds to more interesting colours)#so if you ever see them wearing sth that doesn’t align with this colour scheme (case in point: pal’s socks)#it’s because they stole it from each other#i feel like cam would be really into hiking boots (theyre waterproof and have good ankle support) so i gave her some#no notes on paul except that they have that ally beardsley enby swag. i know this in my heart
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"It is gift enough that something endless and eternal and magical came here and loved us."
Brennan Lee Mulligan just fully ruining me with this whole section of World's Beyond Number.
The whole section was so beautiful, the let her go Vs try something else, the familial tension, the joy and sadness all wrapped together in the closing weeks (months?) of a life... I sobbed.
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just a few little bits from the past few days
#both the word count screenshots are from the same day - just different sections of the text. so that was like 4000 words in#one DAY.. huzzah!! (< making up for the fact that I did 0 words the 3 days before that lol.. so its not actually an accomplishment ghjjh)#In renpy I think you can have multiple separate texty cody whatever documents and still jump between them so long as they;re#labeled properly. Rather than like... having one extremely long 60.000 line file where in some places youre in a menu within a menu#within a menu within a menu within a menu within a menu within a menu jhbhj#But that was the way I started doing it lke 5 years ago when I actually made the base of everything so I feel like it'd be too much#work to change it all that dramatically now. But that means I cant just get the word count for the whole document I just have#to jump around to the few sections I worked on and highlight them to get the word count for only that portion#.. the one tiny fraction of the whole monster text wall. Though it is of course spaced out and organized into#clearly labeled sections within that because otherwise I have trouble discerning text on a screen. still.#Resuming a project that's been basically abandoned for 4-5 ish years is just always finding weird stuff like.. why did I do this that way..#why did I write that... why did I organize that in this manner... what the hell am I referencing in this note... etc. lol#Anyway... also......................cat with plum on his head.#everyone point and laugh at mr. plum head boy..!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:3c#I've been obsessed with Calico Critters' social media presence from afar (like how I mentioned one of my possible dream jobs would#be to be the person that sets the scenes and arranges all the toy animals at a tiny little table and etc. to take the type of pictures they#post on their facebook page and stuff) and I see all their photos of them posing the rabbits as if they're in a swimming pool#or on a nature hike or etc. etc. BUT I have never really seen them in person. Recently I was at a store (in a KN95 mask and not staying#very long still of course. wastewater covid levels are still high where I live (and most of the US truly)) and it just crossed my mind#to actually go to the toy section and see if I could find any....wow.... Its like meeting a celebrity.. the Latte Cats....#Of course I didnt buy them because they're like... very expensive?? like $25 - $40 just for one little pack of a few critters like#what is shown. but.... I still got to see them................ my beloved.. I want their outfits... T o T#Oh and then lastly just a pot of purple clover looking things. I just think theyre neat lol#photo diary
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Akari and Ingo hiking the poke-verse equivalent of the Appalachian Trail once they return from Hisui to the future... it’s their way of taking baby steps to get used to the modern world again, more so for Ingo than for Akari. Elesa, Emmet, Drayden, Iris, Barry and Lucas all join them on short stretches of their journey, but for the most part it’s just the two of them!
#submas#johanna would join but she is probably the least equipped for hiking#akari sends everyone selfie udpates of herself and Ingo whenever they have phone service#does Emmet join them on the easiest sections only? possibly#does Elesa mostly ride Zebstrika? also possibly#barry definitely trips over more than one tree root in his haste
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barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.
last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?
i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.
and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.
#kaily and i shared a membership account for several years but she cancelled it over the summer#bc of them raising it from 25 dollars per year to 40. i'm sorry but we just were not spending enough to make that worth it#the benefits for a member used to be 10 percent off everything in-store and free shipping online.#now it's 10 percent off everything in-store AND online with free shipping. which sounds good enough#but not for a 60 percent pricehike. and a bunch of other supposed benefits no one would ask for#like a free tote (geez. thanks. yeah i really need a free tote every year) and like. a free treat at a cafe on your kids' birthday?#i dont have a kid.#between the two of us. we were not buying 400 dollars worth of stuff at b&n every year#oh and it's also 10 percent off the in-store starbucks. but im pretty sure that USED to be a benefit they had#years ago?? like i SWEAR ive gotten money off at the b&n starbucks so i guess they got RID of that at some point#and gave it BACK when they HIKED UP THE PRICE TO 40 BUCKS A YEAR#text post#barnes and noble#it's a shame bc where i live. barnes and noble is the only like fancy bookstore#and i live in an area that my barnes and noble... is like. what a boston barnes and noble eats for breakfast.#it's two floors. there are plenty of books that it doesn't have. plenty of sections that are very small#like the poetry section is just pathetic. i look at it every time i go and it just makes me sad.#i guess a lot of the book annex stuff contains poetry but still that's not really enough to entertain a rich interest in the genre for long#i outgrew the limited selection at my own local b&n poetry section by the time i was twenty. i was like i already know everything here.#which isn't to say i'm an expert in poetry. it's to say that the poetry section is barely bigger than a shelf#in fact ive never thought about it before but I OWN more poetry books than you'll find in the poetry section#at my local b&n. lol#i have a lot of nostalgia for b&n even though it is a big company that does not love me. i have very few books i bought new#that are not from barnes and noble. i got so many books that changed my life from them#i guess it's like a childhood/teenage attachment at this point bc ive had more mixed feelings abt the direction theyve been taking#for several years at this point.#and no i dont mean that theyve been expanding to selling more toys/games etc. theyve literally always done that in my lifetime. who cares.#they still have books#as an adult ive been more capable of seeing how limited their book selection is and how i have so many problems w that.#and it ultimately comes down to them being a big greedy company
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Made it to the top.
10/10 hike; will probably not do again.
It is rated "hard" for a damn good reason. There are multiple places alomg the ridge to the summit where if you fuck up, you absolutely risk death. I did find it easier to climb up the last chain section without using the chain, and hugging the ground next to it instead. I'll see how it goes on the way back down.
#Strøna#photography#hiking#photographers on tumblr#digital photography#hiking trail#norge#norway#vesterålen#vesteraalen#nordnorge#panorama#the last ~50m or so to the summit I was chanting “would you let fear consume you or would you overcome?” from Starset's “First Light”#because oh sweet stars that was a tricky section#STARSET#if you don't hear from memagain in like five hours assume I fell off a mountain and died
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just come back from an almost 10 hour hike and I need to shower and eat a bit but then I'm going to turn off all my alarms and go to sleep
#and it was a snowy hike!#for the most part at least#for kinda just wet by the end section at a lower altitude but yeah#great great fun#didn't quite go the way we'd planned cause our route was looking pretty tricky at one point just as a bit of a snow storm came in#so we decided not to risk it but ended up going further than planned by going the route we knew#a brilliant day in so glad we went for it in the end even having seen the forecast#melk rambling again
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Kendall Katwalk
#longest hike ive ever done!! almost 13 miles... my legs hurt but im glad i did it#i carried felix over the rockiest section because he has a hard time on loose rocks but he did the rest of it on his own#not bad for a 15 year old dog#rusthikes#felixmyboy
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“Fiat lux! If you want to talk improbable, let’s talk about this”—a scrape of stone on stone—“being three thousand and some years older than this.” A heavy clunk.
“Inexplicable, Warden.”
“Certainly not. Like everything else in this ridiculous conglomeration of cooling gas, it’s perfectly explicable, I just need to explic-it.”
“Indubitable, Warden.”
“Stop that. I need you listening, not racking your brain for rare negatives. Either this entire building was scavenged from a garbage hopper, or I am being systematically lied to on a molecular level.”
“Maybe the building’s shy.”
“That is just tough shit for the building.”
#hi. trying out new brushes / style. canaan house dungeon crawl let's go#camilla hect#palamedes sextus#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#field sketches#*#trivia section:#1) literally do not ask me how lighting works. i am making it up#2) also nobody ask about the list of rare negatives i keep in my notes app#3) the reason i keep drawing palamedes in the same shirt is bc i own it. if we all chip in maybe i can get him a new one#4) in addition to the cam hiking boots agenda i hereby present the cam sweater vest agenda. she's in her off duty librarian era
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YouTube really reading me lately
#the two sides of my sports persona#also my friend sent me a real about some people who ran a 33 mile section near Tahoe even tho they weren’t runners#as a way to prepare for a hike above 20k feet#and the girl was like ‘I hope it’s not as painful as this’ and I was like bro#ur gonna be 5000 ft below the death zone it’s going to be so much worse lmfao#*reel
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speaking of concerts: 1. disappointed that glass animals aren't coming to PGH on their next tour 2. DISGUSTED that seated tickets for their show IN OHIO started at $90
#I swear I saw them in PGH like 2 years ago for between 40-50$.#I just... if you wanted to be seated and not in the tiny nosebleed section of lawn a single ticket was OVER EIGHTY?? FOR GLASS ANIMALS?HELP#I veer towards smaller and midsize bands (popularity-wise) so usually mt concert tickets are reasonable...#like usually in the 40s before fees for floor tickets. I genuinely do not think I've spent over $100 on a ticket before#and I'm so grossed out by the price hiking that's happening!!!! aaaghhhh!!!#and like $90 in NYC I'd understand. but OHIO? THE MIDWEST????#anyways I refuse to pay $90 to drive to ohio so no thanks
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Evan thinks it’s funny I keep calling our trips stolen valor but he doesn’t understand the incredible drama on the pct Facebook group that I read like the newspaper like most fb groups I am a part of
#found a 30 mile loop that we can do in a weekend#If we decide not to do the shortest section which is like 55 miles#so in total with my other trips done#I have hiked 50 miles of the pct#out of like what 3000 lol
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The local figure skating club changed their rules in a way that is frankly baffling to me if their intent is to make money and gain more skaters because they now:
Won't allow guest skaters or walk ons AT ALL. Period no stop
Require you pass BASIC 6 before you can even step foot on the ice
Like so sorry but are you for real. How do either of those things encourage growth?
Also how do you expect me to pass Basic 6 without even attempting to provide extra ice time outside of Learn to Skate?? Am I supposed to skate on a public session, which my rink doesn't even have again until September???
It's not like the guest skaters were skating for free either, I pay $15 for half an hour and $25 for a full hour. I understand the desire to give higher level skaters time to skate away from us on the more beginner side but there's gotta be away to do that which doesn't alienate a whole group of people.
And the thing is I WANT to skate. I LOVE skating! I would LOVE to be a part of this club even though it clearly doesn't want me! But this does not incentivise me to skate more and get better like even a little bit! It does the exact fucking opposite!
I know we all bitch about how at the international level the ISU fails to promote skating and make it relevant again but truly skating is adverse to people it doesn't think are worthy at literally every single level, no matter how big or small.
#figure skating#yes I AM posting about local club politics on the hellsite bc I AM mad about it lmao#i could maybe understand if this was an elite rink but it isnt#the skaters are cheating DOUBLES like we ARENT going to be sending one to nationals or even sectionals#its just frustrating lol#there's other rinks in the area so its not a complete disaster but all of them are a hike
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no stop you can not do this to me I was an austrian Catholic scout and that time was SO GREAT. I miss it so much. I'm getting so nostalgic it's crazy wtf
SAAAAAME like goddd i miss being a scout so much sometimes, literally some of the best childhood memories ever </3
i left the church years ago but i even miss the christian aspects of it like not gonna lie, communal mass in summer camp was a BLAST and i miss campfire nights so much it hurts fr, i would give anything to sit on logs around the fire and sing with everyone waaaaaa
#inbox#anon#i miss night hikes and sleeping in someones barn and almost pissing myself in fear walking across the entire dark camp sit at night to find#the toilets and i miiiiiisssss the big mass at the end of camp where every group organised one small section of it and#the leaders dressed up and did silly bits and then we had a big celebration and special feast afterwards goddd
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My dad sent me not one, not two, not three not four, but SIX different ideas for bike routes we could take on Wednesday. I'm overwhelmed.
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