Recent content by Theosus

I'll second the no heater... I hammock tent, and I've gone down to about 20 degrees. The underquilt, fleece liner, and top quilt have been all the heat I need. I love winter camping, because there's less people out, no need for bug nets, and campfires feel good (last trip I was on it was 80...

I went to an ultralight fly in, in TN once. We were flying around over a field in a trike (like a hang glider with a go cart hanging underneath) and started seeing hunters everywhere. I think it was dove season, but we didn't know. I just knew we were going to get shot at, these guys thinking we...

Any plastic cup works for me. Sometimes when I backpack I take a couple of brown and serve rolls. Put them In a plastic bag in a plastic drinking cup near the top of the pack and they stay good. I made a little stand out of wire, and can bake them in my .7L mug over my snow peak stove. It sure...

I'm on call. Wife and kid have school (snow make up day, thanks Governor Haley). So we are doing ribs today... And tomorrow I'm probably doing some yard work and cleanup while everyone is gone.

I think I'll stick to the states, east of the Mississippi. The richness and diversity of trails here is plenty for me. I would like to do the AT in sections, and many other trails in my neck of the woods.

Phones in movie theaters. Who pays $12 to text for two hours? And it's not even the texting, at least some may need to communicate, but messing with Facebook or even playing games, wtf? They seriously need to build new theaters with passive signal blocking so they don't get reception...

I've thought about this a few times since reading it. No one wants their trip ruined, and no one wants to look like a wimp for leaving, either. Very nerve racking encounter. It's good to have a gun, and better when you don't have to use it. Im not going to say what YOU should have done... Me? I...

Sheee ot! Thats some good shootin right there.

Two black eyes Fred sees his friend John come into work Monday with two black eyes. He asked if John got in a fight over the weekend and John says "no, it happened in church." "Church?!" Fred asked. "Yeah, there was this fat lady in front of me. Every time she stood up to sing her dress was...

Three day event on the Foothills trail, from Oconee State park in SC, through a bit of NC, and into Bad Creek access back in SC. Very tiring and tough on me. Things I didn’t do over the weekend. | In the life of Theosus

Kudzu is "the vine that ate the south". There are crews in atlanta dedicated to control and eradication. It can grow six inches in A DAY under the right conditions. It looks sort of like a big grape vine. We have some problems with it around here, but not nearly what some other places deal...

Not worried about it, except where patents start to come into play. some of the stuff they do with so called "suicide seeds" is really scary. For example - you buy a few sunflower seeds, pick the best sunflower and strip out its seeds and plant them. You get a bunch more sunflowers for free. But...

Asheville nc... Still in the south, close to a lot of mountain stuff.

That some great survival equipment! You should be able to purify a lot of water in an emergency. I bet it would taste pretty good. No more need to buy distilled water from wal-mart!

Take something home? And have to pack out that weight? I know a few people that have taken plant samples like mountain mint, or small interesting pebbles. One lady took a big rock, this softball size beautiful round river rock. But still, packing that out for four miles... She must have really...