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A few years ago wife had the type of cataract surgery with lenses that are incrementally adjusted within the eyes via clinical exposure to light at various UV exposures/wavelength (which actually changes the lenses' optical dimensions and properties) over the course of weekly visits with the...

I'm not at all impressed with the quality of the Fly Roost device; it's very rough poorly printed plastic and the magnet tends to fall out. While this (and many other devices designed to facilitate threading tippet THROUGH the eye of the flyhook) do indeed accomplish that part of knotting on a...

Another native term is that for PNW warm winter winds is the commonly used 'Chinook'. As for worries about linguistic 'cultural appropriation'; different cultures have always borrowed words from the cultures they encounter. Thankfully nothing in this world is static.

Perhaps wearing glasses provided the entire basis for my considerable academic and professional success.... Fake it until you make it.

Well stated!

During summer vacation between third and fourth grade I ended up wearing glasses. One day walking up a busy street with auto traffic backed up next to the sidewalk I saw my third grade teacher waiting in her car for the light to change. She looked over at me and said "At least those glasses...

I don't know if recounting such things is therapeutic or not. Perhaps. Personally it dredges up decades of serious PTSD 'life and death' level stuff that never fully leaves my mind. I'm better off focusing on moving forward. I'm a firm believer that mood follows action. Rumination about the...

Invited a pretty high school girl to a kegger and nearly 60 years later she's still putting up with me.

Good 'very memorable experiences' or very bad ones? I've found that both contributed heavily to the development of my personal perception of reality. No light without darkness.

Front and back for Portaledges?

Exactly! Yeah...two flies are often quite productive, but I find that's more than offset (for me anyway) by the time consumed (and aggravation) straightening out the inevitable spectacularly tangled clusterf*ck that occurs when I use two flies. And I see the same thing happening to experienced...

I wouldn’t bet on it; I've seen the results of dirtbag climbing bums dipping their fingers in communal jars of peanut butter.

Bad time for the drizzle shits.

The real risk takers are those delegated to open and dump the contents of the Poop Tube.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/15/el-capitan-how-climbers-do-it-big-wall-yosemite%23:~:text%3DClimbers%2520are%2520required%2520by%2520law,of%2520back%2520on%2520terra%2520firma.&ved=2ahUKEwiVxf33-8-UAxUHwOYEHThZDcAQFno...

Yup...assessing (or even recognizing) relative risk is difficult for many folks. Somebody sees a wolf, cougar, coyote, large house cat, or there's the rare bear attack in the news, and everybody goes apeshit....but the multiple weekly traffic deaths, dog bites, burglaries, and assaults that...

It's all about developing a comfort zone by slowly flooding it with exposure to a specific risk. Fear of heights is very fundamental... young babies display aversion to heights (such as when crawling on opaque table tops that make a transition to transparent plexiglass). During my...

River otter Orcas Island...one of a bevy of five.

It's apparent that a few folks here watched way too many Seinfeld Newman episodes.

Sunrise Orcas Island...