The Base Camp

nhinkle

02:20

@WedaPashi I was busy backpacking!

Took some friends for the first time.

secure.flickr.com/photos/nrhinkle/14878859191

Aravona

07:14

Morning morning

Liam

07:43

Morning

Aravona

08:01

@Liam hows it going? Good weekend?

Liam

@Aravona Yeah not bad, got a littel climbing done but mainly house stuff

found a handful of small boulders up the road which was nice. Only V1's but was nice for a little afternoon play

Liam

08:27

Turns out there are a couple of higher grade problems

ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=10772

Aravona

@Liam oh cool :)

Liam

09:17

Did you get up to anything nice over the weekend @Aravona?

A good win in the cricket!

Aravona

09:37

Yeah I saw :)

@Liam kayaked Sat morning but requesting a replacement for my poor green kayak... I called her Leaky Jane...

She has a hole in in one of the drainage holes so she fills up.

Liam

I appear to be having an entirely pointless argument here

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A: Disposal of Gore-Tex or other membrane products

http://www.gore-tex.com.au/faq/w1/i1085252/ How should I dispose of a GORE-TEX® product in an environmentally safe way? Garments or footwear made from Gore laminates can be safely disposed of just like any other apparel product. Contrary to most other plastics, Polytetrafluoroethylen...

Aravona

@Liam I know little or GoreTex I went for full leather... as an ex rider I know leather lol...

Liam

@Aravona Bit sweaty on the long walks?

:)

Aravona

10:03

@Liam I got used to knee high leather riding boots so my walking boots are heavenly compared to those lol. I have walking shoes for better weather when I don't have a pack, don't think they are goretex though ... Karrimor Summit Womens I think they are.

Liam

@Aravona Oh, shoes! Yeah leather shoes are great. I thought you meant a leather jacket! :)

Aravona

@Liam oh yeah... my leather jacket is a bitch to make you sweat even in winter!! Lol oh god that would be horrific on a hike!!

Liam

@Aravona I did wonder, LOL

Aravona

@Liam lol don't worry my inability to explain myself will be something you get used to!

We are depating swinging up to windermere in Sept for a weeks kayaking

Liam

10:27

@Aravona That'll be nice

I know a really nice campsite on windermere if your interested?

nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/local-to-you/north-west/…

Low Wray campsite

It's national trust. Nice facilities and in a lovely spot right on the lake.

Aravona

@Liam my other half mentioned that one yeah :)

We have a week off early September so... trying to decide what to do with it

Liam

@Aravona Weather is normally nice around then.

"normally"

Aravona

10:44

@Liam lol well looks like we are camping in the rain next weekend so... can survive!

WedaPashi

13:26

@nHinkle: Those are very good pictures. :)

@LIam, @Aravona: Hey there!

Liam

@WedaPashi Hi Weda

Hows things?

Aravona

13:45

@WedaPashi heya :)

@Liam I think my other half was a bit miffed I posted on our blog about how he walked into my dads golf clubs and groined himself.

goliveoutdoors.com/buckland-canal

Liam

@Aravona ha ha

wood to the groin

@Aravona, did you know plas-y-brening periodically sell off their used kayaks

pyb.co.uk/kayak-sale.php

They were selling them a couple of weeks ago, I think you may of missed out

Worth keeping an eye out though

I like your people page

goliveoutdoors.com/people

Aravona

14:11

@Liam lol yes my other half enjoyed writing those... more to come as we venture forth with more people.

The kayaks we have have a life time warranty on them so any damage should just mean a new free kayak :)

Liam

@Aravona Cool

Didn't real;ise kayaks came with stuff like that]

Aravona

After reading an article today in the daily mail about this amazig welsh guy who walked 1500miles across mongolia solo ... at 25 I feel bad that my biggest accomplishment thus far is Snowdon lol... well I rode an Arab Stallion in the desert at Giza but still lol

Liam

@Aravona That's pretty cool! Different people have different goals. If you compete with everyone you'll always feel inferior! Well that's how I feel anyway. That said, given the right environment I'm super competitive!

Aravona

@Liam no it's not so much competetiveness as regret at laziness... we have so many plans to do so much... its just time we got on with a few! :)

That guy was just super inspirational :)

Liam

14:32

@Aravona which guy?

Aravona

@Liam that mongolia walk guy

Liam

@Aravona haha, I have no idea what your talking about? Am I being thick here?

room topic changed to The Great Outdoors: the bloody duct is f**king freezing my temple! [air-con-wars] [banana-measurements] [euphemism] [the-mongolian-walk-guy] [www-goliveoutdoors-com] [www-metaltech-me]

@Aravona Do you mean the K2 guide? If so he was from Pakistan...?

Aravona

@Liam I mentioned him like half hour ago... 23 year old who did a 1500mile walk across mongolia solo. I found that rather inspiring to get on and do some of my own goals :)

Liam

@Aravona OH I found it!! Sorry I'm obviously not quite with it today...

Aravona

14:51

@Liam ... I spent 30 minutes wondering if I had broken my phpmyadmin installation when I gave it a new virtual host... no I just had the wrong password...

Sod Mondays

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Liam

room topic changed to The Great Outdoors: Sod Mondays [air-con-wars] [banana-measurements] [euphemism] [the-mongolian-walk-guy] [www-goliveoutdoors-com] [www-metaltech-me]

@Aravona I'm trying to unravel badly written code....again....IF this job wasn't so close to the mountains I'd quit and find some well written code! :D

Aravona

@Liam haha... mountains are win!! ... so looking forward to Sat!!

Hmm no new questions in a while might have to think one up...

I was tempted to ask a geocaching item list for the UK... bearing in mind idiots... but thought that could be a bit OT

Or what people recommend in a geocaching kit.

Liam

@Aravona I wouldn't know what this was so it would be useful I'd say?

Aravona

@Liam cool I'll have a quick look then maybe right one

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Q: What are good geocaching items for the UK?

I started geocaching roughly a month ago and it's really fun activity to get into. I had a few questions (though one was answered already here > What should be carried in a standard Geocaching bag?) but my main question is typically for the UK due to people nature here, though all ideas are welc...

geocaching uk

asked anyway, debated an 'equipment' tag but it isn't really something you use regularly as drop off...

Liam

15:29

@Aravona Slightly edited your questions to make it a little clearer. Have I got the right end of the stick?

Incidentally I removed UK as you've put uk onto the question. It's generally good not to repeat tags as they are referenced separately by Search engines, etc.

Aravona

Oh cool no worries will check the edit @Liam thanks

@Liam perfectly happy with the edit... though those items are too big for some caches I like them for the big caches :)

Liam

15:49

@Aravona I'm not really a geocacher so it was a bit of an educated guess

don't tell anyone (looks shifty)

I reckon the light is pretty small. They compact down to a couple of cm's

@Aravona

another reason to leave SO alone these days

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I've seen a few users on Meta recently who appear to be getting lynch-mobbed on the site after either posting an unpopular opinion here, or being the subject of a post because of their actions. At first I dismissed it as being unrelated to Meta activity: You made a bunch of edits within the ...

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Aravona

@Liam ooh that is nifty then!

Liam

Hey @nhinkle

Aravona

16:10

@Liam I use SO to read answers... never asked there

Liam

@Aravona I've asked an answered a few. The patients are taking over the asylum though

WedaPashi

Its a lazy lazy Monday!

Liam

@WedaPashi hey weda

nice

I've been busy!

WedaPashi

I took a day off. Spent the whole day in my sleeping bag.. Cellphone battery was dead since morning, didn't bother to get up and plug it in for charging. Just got hold of Laptop, which too was hibernated, logged in, pinged you guys in the chat room, and slid the sleeping bag zip again.. Lazy Monday!

Liam

@WedaPashi I refer you too

2 hours ago, by Aravona

Sod Mondays

WedaPashi

16:24

@Liam: hahaha :D

@Liam @aravona, I took a day off. Spent the whole day in my sleeping bag.. Cellphone battery was dead since morning, didn't bother to get up and plug it in for charging. Just got hold of Laptop, which too was hibernated, logged in, pinged you guys in the chat room, and slid the sleeping bag zip again.. Lazy Monday!

@Liam: Now she'll envy me :D :P

Aravona

16:48

@WedaPashi .... sod :P

To be fair I didn't have too taxing a Monday I just kept making silly mistakes lol

WedaPashi

@aravona: Well, is that a weekend aftereffect?

Aravona

@WedaPashi probably lol

WedaPashi

@aravona: haha.. Thats unavoidable then :P

Rory Alsop

Afternoon all

WedaPashi

@RoryAlsop: hey there.. afternoon! (Its 10.25 pm in India BTW)

Aravona

16:54

Afternoon!

Ok... is there actually a difference between a walk, a trek and a hike? Or is it just preference?

I use hike / walk intermittently

Rory Alsop

@Aravona In terms of effort I'd put walk lowest, then hike, then trek

walk might be a couple of hours, not too much in the way of hills. Trek is a multi-day hike

(that's what I think anyhow :-)

Aravona

@RoryAlsop so it's just length / difficulty?

Preference I don't mind I just use hike or walk and mean the same thing usually lol

I wondered others views on the matter :)

@Liam ... picked up a thermos and asked my other half if he knew where mine was... his reply? You're holding it....

Rory Alsop

@WedaPashi nice way to spend a Monday

I spent an hour on a boat and 7 hours driving through storms today. Was very exciting :-)

Aravona

17:39

@RoryAlsop awesome :)

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