No one should be fired for trying to get laid.

[Aeson]

I'm not mortally afraid of it, I just don't see it as particularly amusing.

So unparticularly amusing that it wraps around from the most uncomfortable thing in the world and can only be enjoyed by psychotics ... you are very brave to not be afraid of such a thing

[Aeson]

Looks beautiful Moby... where is the sword though?

I only did a little hiking/climbing ... mostly swimming. I get to hike out to the farm every day though.

[MikeH]

amazing, you guys have turned a thread about sex into a thread about camping with scouts.

[Aeson]

Any Scout Master using his position to try to get laid should be fired.

[regexcellent]

Grazing during Ranger School phases != grazing on your own leisure time. If you even have ripe berries, you don't have time to pick any and they'd likely give you serious ****s with the exertion and your core body temp. Wild berries can ferment in the gut.

Right, for those who don't know about it, Ranger School is the premier US Army infantry course and one of the main challenges in it is that they don't give you enough food. You get two MREs a day, which is only something like 2400 calories, and it's nowhere near sufficient. A few days in and you're eating the coffee mix just to get the extra sustenance. Grabbing food off of plants and stuff and eating it isn't allowed, but as a practical matter it's necessary to get through the course.

[Jon Miller]

From outside my building.

No hiking though

JM

[Dinner]

My Sunday:

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Arthur's Stone, Cefn Bryn on the Gower, with views to the snow capped Brecon Beacons. Part of an 8 mile walk with Sunday roast and a pint of Felinfoel Double Dragon at the King Arthur Hotel as reward...

Hmm, I want to know more about the beer. What makes it a double? Is it hoppy like a double IPA or more subtle like an English brown ale? I'm curious.

[Dinner]

This says it is an English Pale Ale but how can the national beer of Wales be an English Pale Ale, I ask you?

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1310/7403

Also how does an English Pale Ale differ from say a West Coast Pale Ale or any other kind of pale ale, really?

[kentonio]

Just because someone writes 'The national ale of Wales' on a bottle, doesn't really make it so.

[Ben Kenobi]

Isn't that the same thing in Ben's world...!?

Can't speak for other troops, but not ours.

[BlackCat]

Grab water from streams, use those disgusting iodine tablets. That saves a TON of weight.

Try this next time.

[Dinner]

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From outside my building.

No hiking though

JM

Is that South Africa?

[BlackCat]

Is that South Africa?

Looks like the car is driving in the right side of the road, so probably not.

[Lonestar]

Gotta say, I'm really happy with GSI Outdoors right now.

Been using their pinnacle soloist for 3 years, last year a hairline cracked formed on the nesting mug. I ignored it but this past Thursday it was unacceptably leaky, and I couldn't find a good replacement option. Sent them a email; they said give their CS a call, I did, they got my shipping info and should have a replacement out in a few weeks.

It's just a piece of plastic that probably costs them nothing to make, but still pleased that their go-to was "send you a replacement immediately".

[MichaeltheGreat]

Right, for those who don't know about it, Ranger School is the premier US Army infantry course and one of the main challenges in it is that they don't give you enough food. You get two MREs a day, which is only something like 2400 calories, and it's nowhere near sufficient. A few days in and you're eating the coffee mix just to get the extra sustenance. Grabbing food off of plants and stuff and eating it isn't allowed, but as a practical matter it's necessary to get through the course.

I bulked up from 178 lbs normal to 188 on day 1 of RAP, and 58 days later, was down from 188 to 142 with contact rashes, heat rashes, a million bug bites, blisters, sunburn, etc. First thing I did after graduation is get a nice hotel room with a real bed and a bath (which I didn't use til after I woke up, lest I drown in the damn thing) and slept for about 36 hours straight. Screw food or hygiene, my body said "sleep first, *******, and don't ever do this **** to me again."

It was ****ing awesome. HOOAH!