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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.

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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...

Gorgeous!!!

Orcas Island sunset...

I'm fine with wolves, having encountered them 'up close and personal' in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. They pose no significant threat to humans. I believe that if we made losses for livestock loss compensation rapid, equitable and requiring a less onerous application process we'd find...

Resurrection of the Kingdome.

A return (and expansion) of funding for scientific research of all types.

When trolling from my Hobie kayak I'm in reverse mode and watching the line trail out...and if the water is clear (and it generally is where I fish) I can see the orange marker sections of the sinking line, which is a valuable reference point in terms of replicating a successful line depth for...