I’m assuming you go “off trail” when shroom hunting?
Yeah. I use the trees and terrain as the primary indicators of where I want to be, so if theres a stand of elms or beech a way off the beaten path, I just choose an arbitrary (but permanent) point to orient relative to, like a creek at the toe of the hill, power/gas line, etc. and form an imaginary triangle from where I am, where I’m going and where that object is.
I’m really fortunate in that the majority of my jaunts are within a few miles of my house. We have an extensive rail trail system that I’ve coined the “morel super highway”.
Obligatory shroom shot…
(That was before I discovered allergy medicine.)
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Uhhh, nah. Did so much fun filled most epic scenery 5 continent hiking with kit, ruck and weapons that I now have a titanium prosthetic installed in on the right side and must wear a sleeve or brace on the left when ever I go to the gym or mild runs. Atop of a fused L5/L6, anything over 40lbs is an old friend “misery” to follow me along contours, over crests and admire along side with my humble self at peaks. After seeing the world many times from. atop, I pass this along. Wear good gear ( boots, pack) never overload your pack, avoid descents straight down with gear on, hydrate hydrate hydrate. Have a med plan. Enjoy the view and keep heading up to view all the grandeur below.
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I wore these Carhartts yesterday for a hike and thought I’d share, as they were AWESOME, and at $70 are more reasonable than leggings I see at sporting goods stores or Athleta-type places. I could maybe go down a size, but mine fit like something between pants and leggings, which I like because they feel more appropriate to me (at my age) for wandering around in public or stopping for drinks afterward.
I posted this in the pets thread, but it was beautiful, so…
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Okay so I have like 2-3 days in the Grand Canyon coming up. Is there anything to do when the sun goes down or does everyone just pack it in and avoid roving packs of wolves (or whatever it is they have there)?
Well if you’re staying in any of the campgrounds in the canyon you can always socialize with other hikers. I like to break the ice with hikers by asking them how much they can bench press. It’s usually not very much.
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Ew, hikers.
We’re gonna be travelling by Cadillac and sleeping indoors, that way we get to experience the outdoors without experiencing the outdoors, lol.
Really though, I’d just rather not take any risks with a competition coming up like 2 days after we wrap up. That and we’re going to have a pug with us… a pug that’s never slept outdoors except on our back porch.
We’re “glampers” - if people still use that term. Except we’ll be in hotel rooms. That’s manly, right?
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Peyote seems like a nice way to spend a night in a canyon filled with echos, strange sounds and a clear dark sky.
Maybe shrooms or some good lsd. 
I still get a hankerin’ for halucinogens every so often.
Edit: find a nice pod of trout and spend the night catching them and attatching glow sticks to their tails before you release them. 
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I guess you’re still a wilderness voyager of sorts. I’m sure there’s plenty of tourist traps near the hotel. The canyon itself was mostly made out of rocks that are colored one way at the top and another way at the bottom. Plus there’s a river, but the only thing special about it was all of the rocks nearby.
If you have room in your Cadillac you could always bring Hungry Hungry Hippos with you to the hotel and never be bored.
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My experience traveling with kids was that after dinner everyone was exhausted and ready to goof around in the room for like ten minutes, then go to sleep.
Then we woke up at dawn, ready to go again.
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If you hike all day, you may just crash after dinner and a couple of drinks.
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I was typing up a huge response for you then read “hotel rooms.” You’re dead to me. Over.
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You can’t tell me an oz. of shrooms in a big hotel’s bathroom isn’t a wilderness voyage.
I mean you’re not wrong. Especially when you have to go over that 500 foot cliff when the floor switches from carpet to linoleum.
And if you have the mental fortitude to stay in the hotel, I applaud you. I’d just end up in a random creek in my underwear with cigarette burns, a torch, yelling about how I am Zanatose, god of the earth, and then make a rock collection.
That totally didn’t happen . . that one time.
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I can totally understand the black ones because they absorb all of the jagged light, but those other ones look way to mocha for my drug induced synesthesia.
It made sense at the time.
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Oh, I know.
I just don’t want to end up pooping rocks for two or 3 days after.
Spring was here yesterday! It was like 48 degrees and I was able to wear my regular hiking boots rather than the 400lb winter ones. We stayed at low-ish elevation and didn’t see a drop of snow. We still have patches of it at home.
It’s supposed to snow today and tomorrow, though. Which is fine, I like that, too, but to be out there without having to bundle up was AWESOME.
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