MT Thoughts

@SageOfEchoes @Strava the times ive seen this, its due to the privacy setting the hides the start and finish of your run. so if you start or finish your run at the start or finish of the segment it wont count it.

I’m a little perturbed at @Strava segments. It said there was no attempts on Back to Chico segment from River Road. Then I do it and no crown. Says someone else has it with zero attempts. There’s another segment I have most attempts on and no crown, too. strava.app.link/4xkU6vUcO1b

@mountainslmao sad yer in shirt sleeves at modest elevation in march. pretty sure the heat acclimatization is gonna be rough this year.

Today's #FL. Got my pack loaded up to about 38 lbs. Aiming to do 3 miles in 40-50 min

corral creek.

meet me at the gaging station

@LoschbourStev pro-tip just use water with a dash of food coloring to match whatever color they say youre supposed to use.

Can I use Gatorade for engine coolant?

@wyomingdoc time spent with my kids. not much said but lots felt and lots experienced...together. memories.

@myMTthoughts Lovely.

@wyomingdoc happy birthday.

Helluva a day here on the shit-site. My birthday, no less, mostly spent at work. Started by a 20-something TERF doing their best to tell me about what happened in the 70s & 80s re: gay men. Followed by a cretinoid dumbass telling me:

@crick_critter they gonna get better?

the little pond that always has one million little newts in it

@SamUSOH up corral creek outside of red lodge.

@myMTthoughts Location?

@manoflemooses i got rid of all my structures books last summer. mine went straight to the round file.

Marie Kondo-ing my stuff and I found all my old engineering text books. Currently distributing them around town to all the little free libraries. That brings me joy.

@RodeoProfessor shuttle makes so much sense in yellowstone. not so much in lots of other places.

I strongly encourage you, if you’ve never been to Yellowstone, not to let these doomer posts bum you out. You can go to Yellowstone at peak and not experience any of this, you come in via the Cooke City NE entrance early morning, watch thousands of animals (wolves, elk, prongs) in the Lamar Valley, which is your heritage as an American, see the park, and not see any of this clusterf*ck. Sometimes you have a bad visit and you hit a jam, have some snacks and huckleberry beers in the car, so what, it’s worth it. Don’t skip it because you see the worst aspects of a visit posted online. Now, with that out of the way, the thing about the National Park crowding in America is you basically have 4 options, and 0 of these 4 are things that people want or like. I’m going to put a poll in the replies and maybe you vote on the one you like for me? First is you have “ticketed timed entry,” so if you don’t book on Rec dot Gov 6 months out, sorry but you’re probably not getting in during peak season. This is in place at high demand parks like Arches or Going to the Sun Road in Glacier. These work well for people who can plan their lives 6 months + in advance, but you lose the spontaneous American summer road trip which is a big part of the culture. Also, gate employees are suffering from unprecedented harassment and turnover from people who pull up to get in, have no idea they need a booking, and go ham on the 20 year old GS5. Option two is some form of dynamic pricing, lots of economists put ideas out like this but the social justice equity people wail about it, and I get that, you want Americans to access public land regardless of how much they make. This is probably my preferred option though, if you want to go during peak, be prepared to pay. People aren’t ready for a mid June $500-1000 YNP entry fee though, so it’s probably not really feasible. I also don’t think that’s the purpose of entry fees per the statutes that authorize our National Parks so it would be tricky. Third option is what we have today, everyone can enter but some lots (Norris, Grand Prismatic) are going to be a massive thorn in the side. The roads and lots were all designed for demand 50-100 years ago. There’s always parking over by old faithful, and a nice bar in the Old Faithful Inn. There’s always somewhere neat to see that’s not doomered out. Fourth option is you’re required to leave your car and take the shuttle around. This is in place in Zion and some parts of Rocky Mountain up near Bear Lake. Americans (including myself) like our cars and don’t necessarily want to want 30 min for a shuttle after a 10 mile hike with a bunch of kids, but this is probably the future of Yellowstone. Vote your preference in the reply for me if you want to.

@CanTrailRunning with the help of a friend i created this backyard loop. its freakin brutal. very little of it actually runable. ive done six loops on pace on this course and it was difficult. ive done 24 loops on a 'normal' course.

Nova Scotia to host Canada’s first-ever vertical backyard ultra: runningmagazine.ca/trail-running/…

@MapMakinMeyers hope it all comes together nicely tomorrow.

No Bueno

@heatherthomasm heckova find!

@myMTthoughts Me too!

first flower of the season for me.

@BonnieDool5t cant wait to see what you find.

@myMTthoughts I haven’t seen any yet. I better get out there!

@mountainslmao including today i snowshoed zero times this year. there was no snow at all today.

@myMTthoughts Snowshoeing was so much fun this winter

gonna be a good day