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My shittiest night big wall sleeping story: My first wall (May 2000) was "The Nose" right up the center of El Cap where the angle changes. We had no ledge, and our second night we were up at "Camp 6", roughly 2000-2400' up where it is near vertical to overhanging, but another party was there...

Risk is interesting. It's true it's cumulative and additive, and you take some risks to get to a place where a portaledge is needed. Its also true that humans are generally pretty bad at assessing actual risk and understanding the numbers. I bet if you run the numbers, taking a boat out on...

Likes: hang one of those from a tree in your backyard, or when you go camping, and your kids will consider you some sort of awesome amazing demi-god for the incredibly cool pop up play structure you just provided for them and their friends. Potentially worth it to get one just for this use.

Likes: most people who acquire one generally manage to eventually talk a significant other into one for the night, even if it's only hanging off the light fixture in your apartment living room, and you are desperately hoping your landlord will never need to know exactly where and why you managed...

I have slept in those way high up, and it's way better than you think. Not super comfortable, but you will never, ever sleep in a crazier place in your life. Quite an amazing life experience, you don't know what you are missing.

There are actually at least 200+ in those bowls, but it's very dry out there this year, so lots of them grew only an inch before they stopped and started drying out. Was fun to pick, though we mostly weren't the first ones through the burns we checked. we'll finish some of the already dry ones...

Not actually opening day on the lake I fished today, but the truck trout were deeply and profoundly abused by the kids today. They dropped several thousand this week, and we definitely would have caught them all, but the kids had quite enough of reeling them in after a few hours, so we went home.

I knew it was AI the second I read "humility"..

If you know where to look, there are certain trees on some fishing runs where a very informal version of this is already in play and has been for a long time. I know of 3-4 trees on trout and steelhead runs where some people tend to leave a fly that worked. Bit of a brag on the steelhead...

Thanks SF and Curt (though sad to read). I saw extra NS days added to MA 9 coho, that's the most we had had in years I think. What data is preventing any of the MA 9 NS coho days to be in October? Why exactly has October coho in 9 disappeared from the realm of possibility, based on the data?

Any insights into the scant possibility beach fishing is possible on the days closed for retention of kings? Like the old days, of just a couple years ago?

Elephant seals live there now, he couldn't keep doing that once they came back for real. I think NatGeo story had pictures of them on the second floor of the lighthouse, so they were using the stairs no problem..

Surfing is good for stories like this.. I surfed the red triangle for a bunch of years when in school and can relate.. one big, perfect late season south swell we surfed an off, off grid spot called Middens, which is just inside Ano Nuevo point near the island. It was crowded everywhere, which...

Send Billy.

Ladders work, and it does depend on how high the water is each year, but I liked to fish quieter beaches to the north and south of the usual ladder only beaches which tend to be shallower. In some places you can stand back from the dropoff and fish, even sight fish, the rock edges they cruise...

That's a lot of work to figure out what they are biting on. I understand, I have done the same.. How many did you end up catching on the Trout Magnet and Pink Plastic Worm? How did they cast/retrieve??

Several years ago, I had slowly leaking neoprene feet on a pair of patagonia waders, after several years of use. I sent them in, specifically asking them to repair the neoprene feet, but not just replace with new waders because I wanted to promote repair it culture over throw away and get a new...

"could do with 30 or 40 days in a place like that right about now." Fixed your typo for you..

That's a long way from anything Carrie Stevens dreamed of I think... It definitely worked!

They need to go right back to all their Aleutian killer whale friends and kin, reporting "we found the jackpot!!!", and bring them all back here..