#sustainable hiking

[hikercarl]

The Environmental Impact of Hiking: What You Can Do to Help

Discover how to minimize your environmental impact while hiking. We'll explore eco-friendly hiking practices and gear to help preserve nature for future generations.

We love exploring the outdoors and hitting the trails. But, we must remember our activities can harm the environment. Our gear, food choices, and camping in protected areas all have impacts. In this article, we’ll explore how hiking affects the environment. We’ll also share ways to be more eco-friendly. By doing so, we can protect our trails and campsites for future generations. Key…

[wanderguidehub]

Your Ultimate Hiking Guide to the Old Faithful Area of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Welcome to the heart of the wild! Our comprehensive guide to hiking in the Old Faithful Area of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is the perfect companion for all avid adventurers. Every year, millions of people visit this iconic geyser, but few truly explore the abundant, untamed beauty that surrounds it. Whether you’re a seasoned hiker or a novice trailblazer, prepare to discover spectacular…

[thebibliosphere]

The process of updating my paperback prices (and all my files) gave me stress hives, so that's fun.

Also, if you suddenly can't see Phangs in your ebook/paperback retailer of choice, that's why. I had to upload new files to correct some minor typos and also update some metadata, so I'd no longer be deadnaming my illustrator. And that required me to take them off the market so the new files could be processed. They should hopefully go live sometime this week.

Payhip files are also updated to correct metadata, but there should be no pause in availability there.

I have no control over when the new prices will roll out, but looking at Ingram, at least, the new price changes will go into effect on March 10th, 2023. The paperbacks will be $17.99 from here on out. Sorry. Ebook prices remain the same. Thank you for both understanding and encouraging me to up my prices so that I'm actually making money instead of losing it. I'll get a whole two dollars going forward! Instead of a penny 😅

Edit: Also, all the ebooks have been added to Smashwords. It just took 3 years and Draft2Digital acquiring them so I wouldn't need to remember another login for me to do it 💀

[thahxa]

i wonder how much of the "economy doing bad" is just that we stopped giving stimulus money b/c of the end of covid (and also because of the inflationary effects) which has caused real incomes to go down since 2021

[justashadetalkative]

Status

Extending the break! Family is visiting, I still have some projects to finish, and my focus is just… very thoroughly elsewhere, ahaha.

I should be more active again sometime in January!

In the mean time, I hope you’re all doing well and that the new year is gentle for us all. o7

[lowwasteorbustanut]

Just remembered an important point about the low waste community.

Don’t forget disabled people.

I am disabled, and so will never truly be 100% zero waste. My pill bottles aren’t recyclable in the everyday containers, I have to wait for a special recycle event that the county puts on.

One of my meds is a biological self injection. Obvs that goes in a sharps container to be disposed of safely. The single use alcohol wipes I have to use before injecting myself are also trash.

And I wear glasses! Which means as I wear a (washable fabric) mask, as an immunocompromised person to help protect me from covid, I need to use single use anti fog wipes.

But all of these things are necessary for my survival! I literally cannot survive without these things.

So remember to include disabled people in your talks about the zero waste lifestyle. And that some people can NEVER completely eliminate their waste, and that’s ok!

Because human life matters above all else. And there is nothing an individual can do to reverse climate change.

There need to be laws to regulate the companies that got us here. So remember to vote! And communicate with your representatives about what you want to see! And to treat people with kindness!

[abimee]

@maitroll i understand this thinking but i am not this type of person

All of my re-occuring commissioners (only around 2-3 people, but some have been doing it for years!) have shown me an insane amount of kindness and support through these commissions, including helping me buy a birthday gift for myself and accepting that I am going to take a longer time to work on things than usual, alongside tipping me and donating to me outside of comms. If they want to pay more, they can freely, otherwise I am perfectly content with the contract i've formed with them and will not form any sort of ''resetment''.

And if I wanted to raise these prices, I know I would be able to go to them and inquire about how much more they're willing to pay, because as repeat commissioners they have opened up a very honest dialogue with me. I am not someone to dig my own grave and wallow in it, if something sucks I trust that I can tell the commissioner as such or they can tell me.

[loubella77]

Pretty flower :)

[gearsandbranches]

Why am I here? It´s storytime

Today I want to write about something different. About something personal. About the reason this blog exists and why I´ve created it in the first place. About nature and love and anger and hope.

In 2020, the profile picture of this blog was taken:

It was taken on a solo hike through Sweden, a hike that didn´t go as planned from the beginning, but couldn´t possibly have been more impactful and fantastic and marvellous than it was.

I wanted to follow the Southern Kungsleden, a hiking path from the southernmost mountain ranges in Sweden northwards. I had planned this meticulously, every single day, every grocery store availiable (there were three spread out over the 18 day hike), every ecological zone I would be in, every possible spot to spend the night. And I got stopped in my tracks on day two, because I landed in the middle of snowmelt and bad weather and it just wasn´t doable, even less so alone. I had to reconsider, get out of there, back to safety, and plan again. And when I set out on the second part of that adventure, after a few chaotic days, my planning consisted only of a biking map in a way too big scale to be of any use, the actual map, diverted into 10 pdf´s on my phone, and a vague scrolling through a few travelling blogs.

The second hike was the Siljansleden, a hiking path around one of the biggest lakes in Sweden (but when they say "around", it means, 30 kilometers away from it and then back in a biiig sweep). It was me, alone, in deep forest, populated by moose, wolves, bears, wolverines, lynxes, and many other things that hikers are afraid of. But you still have to sleep somehow, so you have to find your peace with that. And I did it by seeing myself as just one more creature of that forest going about my business. Trying not to bother anyone. Trying not to get into anyones way. Just one of the many beings roaming the vast forests, not to disturb and not to be disturbed. I slept in a tent in the middle of the forest, and in the depth of night, when nothing was to be heard but the whistle of the wind in the trees, when the bright midsummer night spread a soft, shadowless light around, I felt safe, calm and deeply at peace.

And so I went on, for 2 weeks, alone with the forest except for 2 stops in small towns where I stocked up on food and rest. Just me and the forest and the occasional chat with a friendly stranger. I encountered animals of different kinds (including a lynx, that was magical, but to be alone with a cat whose head is almost as big as yours at 2,5 meters distance in the middle of the night is, let´s say, INTENSE). I had good and bad and fantastic days, and while I wouldn´t necessarily say that hiking alone in the wilderness is an easy life, it is a simple one: stay warm, stay fed, stay hydrated, stay dry, and keep putting one foot in front of the other. During those two weeks, I turned from a stranger and a visitor in the forest to someone who was at home there. Coming back to civilization afterwards was shocking and jarring, as dramatic as that sounds. I had to walk along a road to the campground in the town of my destination, it was 1,5 kilometres and it almost drove me to tears. The asphalt was too hard and too hot, the sun getting reflected off of it weirdly, the road wasn´t even super busy, but the cars where so loud and it was just TOO MUCH! Was that really meant for us humans to live in? Why? It took a long time to get used to it again, and I never did the way I was before. I also never step into a forest in the same way I did before. Even though I don´t think I could immediately sleep as calmy out in the forest as I did then, the feeling of being at home there still echoes. I know it´s possible. I know what it feels like, to just be one more creature of the forest, to be embraced by it. I know if I went back for a few days, I would feel the same simplicity and joy and peace again. Now, imagine what it feels like when that forest is cut down.

There was a strip of forest that was a former nature reservation close to where I live. Ten acres of it got cut down last year to built a bigger road with three roundabouts. I´ve known this patch of forest. I biked on a trail in it back from work. I´ve explored it with skis and by foot and collected mushrooms there. It was beautiful and it was erased for a stupid road project that won´t solve any of the problems it´s being built for, because bigger roads have seldomly led to less traffic, quite the opposite. We protested, we talked with the city government, we screamed and begged, but it still happened. Our local community then met up after the forest was cleared, to celebrate our activism if nothing else, to mourn together and to find comfort in community. I went there and I saw the destruction and I was FURIOUS! I´m normally a positive, peaceful person, but that made me just BURN with anger. I wanted to DO something, SCREAM at someone, throw a molotov cocktail into the office of the municipality and watch it burn, just as they had watched that forest fall without feeling anything. Quite possibly without knowing what they had destroyed, because they had never been in or with the forest in the same way. I was so incredibly angry and I wanted SOMEONE who was responsible for this to hurt as much as I did. And then I started to collect cones. Because more destruction wouldn´t lead anywhere and because I wouldn´t change anything by being sued for vandalism. It wouldn´t make anything better. But I collected cones and dried them and put the seeds in one of the planting pots on my balcony. And now I wait and hope that they´ll grow in the spring and that I will find a safe place for them to grow big. The trees that were growing in that spot are gone, but maybe their offspring will have a chance.

I still struggle with that anger. It makes me hateful and cruel and I think about spitting that hatred into the faces of every person responsible for environmental destruction. But I start to understand that this anger is not leading anywhere good. My mom once told me a proverb that says "holding a grudge is like poisoning yourself and hoping the other person dies". Being angry won´t lead anywhere and throwing that anger at the immovable wall that is world politics is only going to leave me drained and depressed. So I try to put my energy somewhere else. Planting trees. Working together with the local activist group. Finishing my studies and working for a better future. I still get angry. But I will try to channel it in a different way. Like writing a blog post about it and trying to update more often to spread the knowledge I gained at university and elsewhere.

Thank you for reading this far and I hope you have a wonderful day!

(PS: if by any chance (which is close to 0) that story about the hike sounded familiar, I do have a side blog where I wrote about it before, named @theopeneye)

[bemushroomedbrewer]

I hate privet! Everything about it is awful and invasive and SO damaging to native ecosystems here in the American south

Any time your in the woods, do the earth a favor and pick as MUCH of it as you can! It’s very easy to spot. I’ll teach you how to identify it below!

The easiest way to spot them is their leaves, their branches have symmetrical eye-shaped leaves on either side!

Here is a closeup, another way is how they grow! They shoot up very tall very fast, it isn’t short and stout, it shoots almost straight up! Here’s a juvenile (the best time to pick them)

And lastly, dispose of it in a trash bag or dumpster! They are like a virus, they can grow from anything, even their own remains! It’s best to dispose of them in a synthetic material.

Do good, help the environment! Kill all the privet you can if you live in the US

[hikercarl]

Eco-Friendly Hiking: Sustainable Practices Every Hiker Should Know

Discover essential tips for eco-friendly hiking to minimize your environmental impact. Learn sustainable practices that protect nature while enjoying outdoor adventures.

I love hiking and always have. But I’ve learned it’s crucial to be eco-friendly to protect nature. Eco-friendly hiking is essential for us all. This article will cover why sustainable hiking trails are good. We’ll look at Leave No Trace principles and how to make hiking adventures greener. By following sustainable practices outdoor recreation, we help protect nature and connect with it more…

[birt-art]

Man I know it's simply the state of the world as a deeply complex place but it makes me so frustrated that some of the issues that are important to me are literally contradictory?? Like I think we should be using low carbon no plastic fabrics created by workers paid properly, an obvious answer to which is wool and more sheep farming, but also I deeply care about rewilding the ecosystems in my country that have been decimated by sheep farming which means,,, less sheep. I do not know how to do both, in an ideal world. Which is probably why it's a good thing I'm not a politician I do not know what to do about anything

[fysimerch]

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[aturnoftheearth]

dying to play sims bc i accidentally ended up creating a self-insert sim in my legacy save and i need to give her a good life asap but this powerpoint is due at 1am and the clock is TICKING

[campsajasafaris]

Discover Uganda: Wildlife Safaris & Gorilla Trekking Tours | Camp Saja Safaris

Uganda is situated in the eastern part of Africa. It boasts a varied landscape that is truly captivating. This remarkable country provides numerous thrilling opportunities for exploration and observation. Its natural beauty is showcased through its diverse range of features. To name a few are its stunning nature reserves, captivating primates, majestic rivers, picturesque lakes, breathtaking beaches, and an abundance of wildlife.

Being a landlocked country, Uganda shares its borders with Kenya to the east, Congo to the west, Sudan to the north, and Tanzania and Rwanda to the south. The equatorial region in Uganda was gifted with lush rainforests, vast deserts, and magnificent waterfalls. Leading safari operators in Uganda collaborate with visitors, making their tours and safaris an effortless and ideal experience.

Uganda offers incredible opportunities for game viewing and wildlife safaris. The diverse landscape supports a wide range of animals, including primates and gorillas. Tourists can expect to encounter over 75 different species of animals, including the famous Big Five (elephants, buffaloes, leopards, lions, and rhinos). Other species such as hippos and giraffes can also be found in Uganda's sanctuaries.

The country is home to several national parks, including Kedipo Valley National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Volcanoes National Park, and Murchison National Park. Murchison National Park, located in the northwest and situated on the shore of Lake Albert, is the oldest and largest park in Uganda.

Uganda safari holiday packages include Birding safaris. It offers the opportunity to spot a variety of bird species. Some notable birds include the Blue-headed Coucal, Giant and Malachite Kingfishers, Squacco Heron, Swamp Flycatcher, Sandpipers, Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill, Black-billed Barbet, Weaver Birds, Pied Kingfisher, Piapiac, Silver bird, Eastern Grey Plantain-eater, African Quail-Finch, Red-throated Bee-eater, Speckle-fronted Weaver bird, White-browed Sparrow Weaver bird, Black-headed Gonolek, Denham’s Bustard, and many more.

The Boating part of your Uganda safari holiday package takes you to the best places for sport fishing. It is a popular safari activity in Uganda. The Nile River provides excellent opportunities for fishing, especially when the water level is low and clear. Tour operators in Uganda can arrange boating safaris and fishing trips, allowing visitors to catch fish and witness the majestic giant crocodiles that inhabit the river.

The open grasslands of Uganda are a thriving ecosystem where predators and grazers coexist during the dry season. This unique encounter between different species is a sight to behold.

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[prep4tomoro]

Things I Wish I'd Known BEFORE I Started Prepping:

Don’t waste your time, money and energy by repeating the same mistakes many others have already made. Learn from our mistakes here. PREPPING TIPS:

1. Your Supplies/Stockpiles Won't Last Forever! Do It Yourself; become more Self-Sufficient and less reliant on technology and commercial suppliers. 2. Start Living Below Your Means Right Now 3. Don't Blow All Your Money In The First Month. Proceed slowly with pre-determined goals. 4. Store Plenty Of Water (NOT In Old Milk Jugs) 5. Don't Buy Food Your Family Doesn't Eat 6. Store More Than Just Canned Food. Dehydrated foods last longer and lighter to carry if bug-out is necessary. Remember water to rehydrate. 7. Use Sturdy Shelves For Your Storage 8. Don't Put All Your Preps In One Place 9. There's More To Prepping Than How Much You Store (knowledge and skills) 10. Don't Forget About Hygiene and Sanitation 11. Don't Forget About Those With Special Needs (glasses, prescription meds, oxygen, wheelchairs, etc.) 12. Don't Forget About Your Pets 13. Don't Be The Only Prepper In Your Household (the entire family needs to be on board) 14. Don't Tell Everyone About Your Preps (when disaster strikes, you'll have a line of people at your door) 15. Stay In Shape (emergency situations can be physically exhausting) 16. Don't Assume Your Stockpile Of Guns And Ammo Will Keep You Safe (avoid confrontation and Learn how to be stealthy) 17. Have A Plan For Getting Home or Reconntecting with family/friends (you may not be there when disaster strikes) 18. Don't Make Assumptions About What Will Happen (have a plan A and a plan B or more) 19. Test Everything Yourself (Dont assume equipment will work properly when they are needed) 20. Take Baby Steps (they will quickly add up to a very long way and stop frustration) 21. Be aware of signs and indications that something bad is about to happen. Put your emergency plan in motion. 22. The End Of The World Isn't Tomorrow (technically it could be but enjoy all that life has to offer)

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