Does anyone backpack or hike?
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Wildcat Diva
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aaaaaand. He has a swollen lymph node in neck. Took him to both his scheduled appointment to his immunologist (ocular) and regular med clinic doctor yesterday. So now he's both off his medication (Humira is linked with Lymphoma) and also per the medical doctor, we are just watching the lymph node to see what's next. No treatment or diagnosis for anything related to the tick bite/ potential Lyme.
The colors in McKittrick are grand in the fall:
https://www.google.com/search?q=mck...ved=0ahUKEwjVsvL2sLjSAhUHyGMKHfMyBUkQ_AUIBygC
Oh man yeah. I bet that view up high is incredible. This fall I managed to see Lost Maples, it's known for its fall colors as well, just a little closer to me. The hardest part is getting time off from work - so much to do, so little time.
About McKittrick, anyone else stop by the Pratt Lodge? When I did I got this really creepy feeling I was being watched. I went up to the porch where they have a few rocking chairs you could sit in and take a load off. I barely touched my buns to the seat, didn't even scoot all the way back or even rock once before I hopped up because everything inside me said "No way! Abort! Leave!" I grabbed my pack and scooted. I just kept thinking 'people died there'
So weird you wrote that. I did stop at the lodge but nothing happened there. However, later on up the trail past The Grotto and toward The Notch, when I was in the open I had the strong feeling I was being watched from the woods so so I turned around at that point and went back down trail to the McKittrick Visitor Center.
Wildcat Diva
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Two of my Boy Scouts and my husband hiked some beautiful country this weekend at Colorado Bend State Park. Pictures to come.
They had a lovely time until the last straw of years of drama happened when one of the other Scouts they have had a problem with (bullying, cliquey behavior) for a while got in my fifteen year old's face over who was cooking apparently. When my fifteen year old barked back a drop of spittle flew in this other boy's face and this boy slapped (!) my boy across the face hard as he could and then ran off while my shocked kid was figuring out what just the frick just happened right here and so my husband rounded the corner and was like we need to finish this messed up shit right here right now and told them all it's been the last straw in a long line of continual BS and F this and F all y'all and bye and I hope all this camping gear of yours that I hauled in my truck is gonna now fit in that Prius y'all got.
Sooooooo.... I guess he's not gonna be Scoutmaster any more. Oooops. Guess we are finally gonna move troops years after I've been saying that I'm tired of how things are going with this troop. Miserable for years there. Same group of boys calling my middle son 'fat' continually and my youngest mocked for not wearing expensive enough Nike's (!) and wearing military style clothes instead of sporto styles. My eldest needs to finish up Eagle but won't go around these boys whom he's told to their faces that he hates being around them because of how horribly they act. Another troop was there to see all this too. Told husband that they don't see how my middle son had that much restraint; but he said that by the time he figured out what just happened here and was just starting to make a fist when the kid scurried away that quick.
Longstanding problems have been addressed over and over and even got the committee chair involved. Never stops and then my boys don't take that shit and have talked shit back to the boys which was not appreciated as "inappropriate." Eldest says he can't be around them lest he lose his cool and risk assault charges, which he doesn't need to get.
I'm kind of glad it didn't get any more physical than that today (despite husband and son suggested to continue and settle it) and they left. I wasn't even there but now I need a drink.
Husband just just told me that middle son countered the slap with "is that all you got bitch?!" So at least he didn't cry. But damn.
here is pix:
They had a lovely time until the last straw of years of drama happened when one of the other Scouts they have had a problem with (bullying, cliquey behavior) for a while got in my fifteen year old's face over who was cooking apparently. When my fifteen year old barked back a drop of spittle flew in this other boy's face and this boy slapped (!) my boy across the face hard as he could and then ran off while my shocked kid was figuring out what just the frick just happened right here and so my husband rounded the corner and was like we need to finish this messed up shit right here right now and told them all it's been the last straw in a long line of continual BS and F this and F all y'all and bye and I hope all this camping gear of yours that I hauled in my truck is gonna now fit in that Prius y'all got.
Sooooooo.... I guess he's not gonna be Scoutmaster any more. Oooops. Guess we are finally gonna move troops years after I've been saying that I'm tired of how things are going with this troop. Miserable for years there. Same group of boys calling my middle son 'fat' continually and my youngest mocked for not wearing expensive enough Nike's (!) and wearing military style clothes instead of sporto styles. My eldest needs to finish up Eagle but won't go around these boys whom he's told to their faces that he hates being around them because of how horribly they act. Another troop was there to see all this too. Told husband that they don't see how my middle son had that much restraint; but he said that by the time he figured out what just happened here and was just starting to make a fist when the kid scurried away that quick.
Longstanding problems have been addressed over and over and even got the committee chair involved. Never stops and then my boys don't take that shit and have talked shit back to the boys which was not appreciated as "inappropriate." Eldest says he can't be around them lest he lose his cool and risk assault charges, which he doesn't need to get.
I'm kind of glad it didn't get any more physical than that today (despite husband and son suggested to continue and settle it) and they left. I wasn't even there but now I need a drink.
Husband just just told me that middle son countered the slap with "is that all you got bitch?!" So at least he didn't cry. But damn.
here is pix:
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txinvestigator
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I hiked a little over 5 miles yesterday with a buddy. The weather was great.
HKShooter65
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All the time.
Hiked/ambled about 30 miles in 4 days in Jasper Canada last month.
Then right after getting home, klutz me, tore a meniscus cartilege walking to my car after work. (it is a long flat asphalt 75 foot trek!)
Currently post-op day 7 from an arthroscopy.
Hoping too be well enough for modest hiking in Utah in a month.
Sort of SUX that I planned to be at ACL Music Fest at this very moment had I not wrenched my knee!!!!
Hiked/ambled about 30 miles in 4 days in Jasper Canada last month.
Then right after getting home, klutz me, tore a meniscus cartilege walking to my car after work. (it is a long flat asphalt 75 foot trek!)
Currently post-op day 7 from an arthroscopy.
Hoping too be well enough for modest hiking in Utah in a month.
Sort of SUX that I planned to be at ACL Music Fest at this very moment had I not wrenched my knee!!!!
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Wildcat Diva
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Oh no! So sorry.
This has probably been said, but Texas has some beautiful state parks with awesome hiking trails.
I recently took my wife and daughter on a day trip to Cleburne State Park. The hiking trails there is the main reason we went. It was hot and they griped the whole time lol, next time I'm going alone.
I recently took my wife and daughter on a day trip to Cleburne State Park. The hiking trails there is the main reason we went. It was hot and they griped the whole time lol, next time I'm going alone.
I need to do it to get more in shape and I'd really like to go with someone else because hiking alone is stupid.
Wildcat Diva
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Also girls tend to have to stop and pee a lot.
A couple years ago we did some short "hikes" on the trails at the local state park. I really enjoyed it but soon we succumbed to "got too much to do today" or "stayed up late last night, will go in a few days instead"
I should look in to it again. It's the most enjoyable exercise I've ever done. Only carried a small backpack with camelback compartment and a couple snacks. Pulled an off road cart with the kids in it, lol.
I should look in to it again. It's the most enjoyable exercise I've ever done. Only carried a small backpack with camelback compartment and a couple snacks. Pulled an off road cart with the kids in it, lol.
We didn't rush at all. Took the DSLR and would stop to take pictures of anything mildly interesting. Nothin we hadn't see before, but sometimes we'd just catch a nice view of a deer would wonder out.
Trailes were only a mile or two locally.
Trailes were only a mile or two locally.
We didn't rush at all. Took the DSLR and would stop to take pictures of anything mildly interesting. Nothin we hadn't see before, but sometimes we'd just catch a nice view of a deer would wonder out.
Trailes were only a mile or two locally.
Trailes were only a mile or two locally.
