The Base Camp

6:04 AM

Morning all

Morning

@EverythingRightPlace: hows u?

Fine, thx

Problem statement of the day, "Dude, can you turn my BLE dongle into a BLE sniffer?" Rofl

6:14 AM

@EverythingRightPlace: Good :)

iceclimbing.at/default.asp?dir=/0078145

Hows @liam @ArAravona @RoryAlsop today?

love this axe, I am likely to buy it :D

you can even rapell from it :)

Rappell off an axe? o_O

yep, see the two holes at the top

I was lucky to test them last weekend but well, ice axes are expensive so I am struggling a bit

6:21 AM

@EverythingRightPlace: ahh I see. Not sure since I hv never tried such an axe, looks nice though

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nhinkle

7:24 AM

School's back in session so I haven't been on as much lately.

But, it's a good term. I'm taking Rock Climbing and Wilderness First Responder.

7:52 AM

morning all

sounds like a good course

@WedaPashi busy as ever - and loving the winter weather. Minus 5 today

8:47 AM

@EverythingRightPlace That's pretty

@EverythingRightPlace That looks a little awkward

@nhinkle sounds good

@EverythingRightPlace I'd imagine the clip on your glove could get a little awkward too

9:11 AM

Thanks for that edit @Liam - not sure why I couldn't get the image stuff to work this morning. I can see my work network is a bit flaky today...

@RoryAlsop No probs

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10:24 AM

Good morning all!!

@Aravona Morning

Hi @binaryBigInt. New here?

@Liam @RoryAlsop the tag sugestion by ibex for Alpine is lacking... Alpine refers to more than just high mountains... It's a noun and adjective, if its approved remind me to improve ot lol

this tag alpine?

@Liam yeah, just seems lacking to me

Even for an excerpt, as Alpine can mean more than just high mountains

Can't see any edits on it?

10:35 AM

Hmm strange, there was a few mins ago

Hmm I can't edit it due to an edit pending.

found it

outdoors.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/4664

I've rejected it, it's too short and pithy

I think I'll write a meta question later on tags, we need more tag wiki's

@Liam true, I've done 28 and they aren't the best but I try and make them fuller than that...

Having googled it I don't think that's the correct use of pithy... :(

I think I'll reject the edit for the animals tag too

> Questions about different animals.

@RoryAlsop LOL

10:47 AM

replaced with

> Questions about animals likely to be encountered outdoors, whether from the perspective of food (hunting, preparing, eating), shelter (skinning) or for avoidance (bears, lions, other dangerous animals)

Probably needs a wee tweak further, but at least a bit more useful

I'm guilty of this too but we do need to get the quality up on these, but that said we need more done, hard balancing act

@RoryAlsop @Liam I am retrying the alpine one

@Aravona <thumbs up>

@Liam @RoryAlsop ok views on that compared to 'mountains above the tree line'

@Aravona much better

10:54 AM

Funny how some people don't realise how descriptive a word can be though lol

I spent so long doing that my debug session timed out... Whoops

I'm just going into a meeting, but anyone fancy sorting the maintenance tag? Ibex has proposed another rubbish wiki

@RoryAlsop I'll take a peek

I've already rejected it but nothing else I can do without a mod

@RoryAlsop lol np Liam and I can managr I think

@Liam fully rejected :-)

go for it :-)

Cool

11:02 AM

Haha awesome.

@Aravona and your Alpine one is approved

maintenance

@RoryAlsop sweet thanks! Also just bulked the Bears one up a bit...

Just addes types and added a little to the main description

Thought 'Questions about bears' was a little like Questions about Animals

@Aravona lol

Ok I should leave the tags alone and go back to my work lol!!

11:16 AM

Lost my connection...

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Q: Wiki entries could do with a little attention

1:15 PM

I think we could do with some more people taking an interest in writing wiki entries. We've got quite a list of tags without wiki's. You also get rep for writing approved wiki's so it's a good way to get some more unnicorn coins. Also we've had a few poor wiki write up's recently that have had...

1:33 PM

@Liam that's great :)

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2:35 PM

Weather looks like I might get snowed in tomrorow

Take my computer home just in case

@Liam good plan!

2:50 PM

Only sleet for us tonight

@Aravona 24 hours of heavy snow for us! Whne this happened over xmas I couldn't get out of my road

3:18 PM

@Liam it was too cold for us last night. Was -5 when I headed home about midnight, and about the same when I left for work at 6 this morning. So no precipitation, no need to scrape the windscreen etc

(I prefer snow, tbh)

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