No one should be fired for trying to get laid.

[regexcellent]

Under no circumstances would I ever go to ranger school. I'll pass on the starvation and sleep deprivation, thanks. I know it's a useful course for learning the limits of your body and ability to lead men under the worst conditions, but if that is what it takes to be an infantry officer, then I do not have what it takes. I know that right now.

[regexcellent]

What do people do when they're hiking? Look at trees?

Pretty much. I find dayhikes more interesting honestly. Go to the top of a hill, go back down.

[Dinner]

MREs are heavy for what they all.

Just carry a canister stove and commercial freeze-dried stuff. I've done hikes with couscous as the main food.

MREs are heavy and I normally only use them on day hikes for that reason though the MRE heaters have always been great. The freeze dried stuff is the best option on long trips (that along with a bag of trail mix, some tortilla, and a jar of peanut butter); I'm especially fond of Backpacker's Pantry's Shrimp Jambalaya with rice. You can eat it out of the bag it comes in but I like wrap it into a tortilla making kind of like a cajun burrito with a splash of hot sauce you have a quick hot meal.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Under no circumstances would I ever go to ranger school. I'll pass on the starvation and sleep deprivation, thanks. I know it's a useful course for learning the limits of your body and ability to lead men under the worst conditions, but if that is what it takes to be an infantry officer, then I do not have what it takes. I know that right now.

Sleep is overrated. And starvation can be cured by discreet grazing. It's only an honor violation if cadre catches you. And by tropical phase, they don't give a **** if you're not blatant about it.

[Lonestar]

I like Packit Gourmet's selection, personally.

[Aeson]

The best choice is, of course, to not ****ing go hiking because hiking is stupid and boring and dumb. I derive no pleasure from being removed from my creature comforts for days at a time and being forced to march with **** on my back for tens of miles. The fact that people enjoy this is something I can attribute only to a sort of psychosis where discomfort somehow goes around the end of the spectrum and becomes comfort.

Yah, it's insane how some people aren't mortally afraid of light physical exercise and leaving the beaten path.

[Alexander's Horse]

any fool can be uncomfortable, so Albie probably is

[Hauldren Collider]

Yah, it's insane how some people aren't mortally afraid of light physical exercise and leaving the beaten path.

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

[Jon Miller]

Hiking is amazing and I need it emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

I don't get enough of it recently, it has been city, city, city.

JM

[Jon Miller]

Right now a couple hour walk in the beach/park would be beneficial...

JM

[Hauldren Collider]

Sleep is overrated. And starvation can be cured by discreet grazing. It's only an honor violation if cadre catches you. And by tropical phase, they don't give a **** if you're not blatant about it.

WTF do you graze on in the boonies, berries?

[MichaeltheGreat]

It's not like they search everything in your ruck.

[Ben Kenobi]

serious lack of ensuite bathrooms

That would be Kuci. Which reminds me we should ask Jag how many bathrooms they have.

As for grazing, yeah, plenty of berries out there, even up north- fields full of strawberries.

[Aeson]

Right now a couple hour walk in the beach/park would be beneficial...

Sunday:

[MichaeltheGreat]

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.