@WedaPashi that's great news! I've found my fitness / stamina is alrwady improving from running twice a week... I swam a lot longer and better than I had expected to :)
@WedaPashi not this year certainly! We have a lot of plans for next year... Our holiday to Norway, climbing Scarfel Pike, taking our open water diver course. It's going to be a busy year!
@Ara: great :-) My dog doesn't like the rain, so all she does is sit home on my sleeping bag, not listen to what I say/shout at all, make innocent noises and faces when shouted at, shoo away the pigeons and eat ice cream on weekends, and that won't change till September end.
@WedaPashi awww! Blaze doesn't mind the rain and he's happy to wear his coat. I've a week off in Sept, we were going to go away for the week and stay in a cottage but have decided to stay at home and get Blaze used to the tent in our garden!
@Rory: If I memorize right, I have read you commenting on one of the questions about pre-dosing yourself with Ibuprofen. If thats true, please reconsider doing it. Ibuprofen is banned in various parts of the world.
It's the only non-prescription painkiller I can use. Paracetamol doesn't work for me - plus it gives me ulcers. But I have taken at least 500mg of ibuprofen almost every day since 1996 and it works very well. Keeps me mobile and reduces the pain a lot. Occasionally need codeine it stronger. And occasionally tramadol. It's a necessary part of my life thanks to a single drunk driver
@RoryAlsop ouch... My back twinges on occasion, I initially hurt it carrying my niece down the stairs. Luckily my matteress seems to reset my back every night lol!
Still, Mum had slipped discs so I know how hard a bad back can be :(
Yeah - the car came in through my side at 50mph, so a lot of soft tissue damage around my lower 3 vertebrae. Really sucks, as the damage can't actually be repaired, just contained
@RoryAlsop oh shit. Well if we ever go on a trek you'll have to let us look after you. Despite Dyna have a dodgey knee and I have the Hip of an old lady ;)
@Aravona my mother in law used to be chief physio for Ayrshire, so got some good guidance and exercises from her. And I have a lovely physio who beats me up at least once a month
@WedaPashi shire is basically a bit like county... Almost every British county has shire after it. Even if we drop the shire often. Devon is actually Devonshire, but it's not commonly called it.
@WedaPashi it's just an easier way of saying the county of, like Buckinghamshire is the county of Buckingham :)
Though commonly like I said we shorten them... Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire become Beds, Bucks and Herts... Much easier and quicker!
There are 16 subspecies of Ursus americanus, the black bear. The Wikipedia article describes their different physical characteristics and geographical distributions, but not differences in temperament.
The article discusses attacks on humans, and attributes the majority to habituation to people...
I was just reading through a couple of posts here on outdoors.SE and saw some advice which was a lot more strict than I am used to. For example, in the country where I hike (central europe, brown bears, but that's it) you wouldn't worry about the tent or shirt you sleep in smelling after food fro...
@M'vy you are however right we have had some focus on bears recently. Not that they are any sort of issue in the UK hah, but t does help when treking abroad to know the issues with wildlife.
@M'vy the thing with TGO is it does cover a vast range of topics. And we do overlap with a few other sites a little... But generally if it's an outdoors activity that is leisure not sport, you're probably fine to ask.
We do like some identification questions, as a lot link to hunting and foraging as well :)
Meme: Bears
Originator: @ThomasPornin, @ScottPack, @AviD
Cultural Height: July 2011
Background: Our highest rep user, cryptographer Thomas Pornin created a couple of distinct accounts with bear avatars.
Being a rather prominent and respected member of the community, this has earned him som...
@M'vy: I am afraid we don't a meta post discussing "whats on-topic/off-topic", but as @Ara said, we have a wide range of questions that are considered valid. Say from Bird Identification to High Altitude mountaineering.
@Rory: I think we don't need to, since like @Ara said, we have hardly had any questions that needed to be closed off as Off-topic. But again, thats just my opinion.
@WedaPashi haha well mostly I think we close as duplicates or opinion based... Because we all have a bloody opinion on bloody everyhing... Bloody outdoorsmen, they ruined the outdoors.
@Aravona Thomas (and Tom, his alter ego) is incredibly smart - one of the top cryptographers in the world - and writes very very amusing answers. He is more productive on Sec.SE than our next few folks put together.
There are 16 subspecies of Ursus americanus, the black bear. The Wikipedia article describes their different physical characteristics and geographical distributions, but not differences in temperament.
The article discusses attacks on humans, and attributes the majority to habituation to people...
Meme: Bears
Originator: @ThomasPornin, @ScottPack, @AviD
Cultural Height: July 2011
Background: Our highest rep user, cryptographer Thomas Pornin created a couple of distinct accounts with bear avatars.
Being a rather prominent and respected member of the community, this has earned him som...
