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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 4/25/2005 9:03:09 PM | If I didn't love the outdoors, My house and machinery shed would be empty. What would I do with over a dozen canoes and kayaks, tents out the wazoo, (many needing to be broken in properly, take note Ritz), lots of windsurfers (haven't mastered the sinker yet) and a couple sailboats bought at yard sales, that I've owned for years but not had in the water, too many other fun things to do outside. Enough backpacks to outfit a small army, which I would like to make :-) or maybe it might sound better as an army of small ones. Making an army of small ones sounds much better. Don't want anybody to get a wrong idea there. Bicycles, motorcycles, 4wd's, and then all the little stuff that goes with the big things, paddles, life jackets, spray skirts, dry bags, scuba gear, camp stoves (wouldn't even venture to guess how many), different pots and pans, basically anything I find at a thrift store, yard sale, flee market, ebay, or clearance that's priced right and different so I might learn something new I get. Might say I'm a bargain basement gear techie. 6 months in Alaska, camped in every state but Hawaii and Oregon (major omission there, I'll rectify that soon) and sailed a sailboat last year for 8 months from Lake Erie to Florida, biking and kayaking everywhere I stopped.
I forgot to mention any winter stuff, that's another whole room in the basement, snow shoes (6 or 7 different kinds), XC skis (30 pair), telemarks, pack sleds, down bags, etc, etc, etc. I love the experimental stuff from Cabello's outlet stores, can't go past a Bass Pro with checking the bargain cave. I'm in the market for another inflatable Kayak, somebody in Muskegon felt they needed mine more than I did last fall. Had to swim back to my sailboat after an evening of CW dancing and a few hineys. They were nice enough to leave me my rectangular, cheap, make the warden happy orange life vest :-) I used it, cold water, a fast 3 mile bike ride, a few beers and a half mile swim after midnight is not a good mix. So do I like the outdoors, let me count the ways. :-) I don't have enough fingers and toes, can I borrow a couple , maybe If I use base 2 that'll work. Creative solutions to problems, that's what outdoors is about for me. Lets go create something. Back to breaking in those tents, no matter what we do every one of these forums always comes back to sex. Not that it's a bad thing. Would like to post on some of the others forums but, don't think I want that on my profile for national exposure. Mspicky needs new friends, great pictures dee and double cabin, need to share some of mine. Passinthru, surprized I haven't seen you at the falls. I have to agree with Ronniroo In and nips is better. Have a great day. Now time for those hineys in the tent. Speaking of a cold beer, one of these days I'm going to build a 3 pound portable fire recharged ammonia absorbsion refrigeration unit. Got it designed just need to build it. And then there's the car radiator heat exchanger hot water shower unit for after the long day canoeing. And the co2 cartridge lemonade to soda pop converter for the middle celebration of a long week of backpacking. | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 9/28/2005 5:55:48 PM | I dug this up because it is an absolutely beautiful blue bird fall day here in the upper Wind River Valley. Saturday I went out to close some breeches in our fence I thought the neighboring Ranchs cows had made only to find myself less than ten yards from an enormous standing Grizzly. After I did not crap in my pants I thanked Mother Nature for quite a thrill. The Elk are Bugling and the wolves have more or less stayed away since last Spring, they're busy eating Moose over in Grand Teton National Park, don't let some biologist behind a desk tell you otherwise. I've seen more Antelope here on the Ranch than I ever have, they usually stick to lower country down by the reservation. This afternoon I saddled up and got the last of those cows out of the upper pasture, and when I got back it was more than reaffirmed how fortunate I am. With Natural Disasters coming around like they haven't in some time I think some of us might need to remember the glory of being under the azure sky. Get out there folks, share what you see and feel, for with the way our world is wandering we need peace at times before we can keep on addressing the problems of our days. I'm still looking for my hiking hunnie, and I'm still lost without Quaking Aspens and crackling Cottonwoods.  | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 9/28/2005 6:06:03 PM | | <~~~ loves the outdoors as well.. nothing like walking through a forrest of big trees looking up and the cathedrel that is nature.. water give me a peace also.. i have a few favoright spots i like to set, fish, and just absorb nature and all its wounder.. by far my fav is setting on the beach late at night and staring at the billions of stars to the sound of the water lapping in and out.. | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 9/28/2005 6:30:37 PM | How odd it is to be surrounded by a created environment so much of the time. To be in nature is like coming home. I can be away for weeks and after ten minutes in nature the city and all the contrivances of modern life disappear and I feel whole again.
I had the most remarkable experience of spending the night in an old growth tree last weekend. Slept under a beautiful starry sky, nothing but tree around me, 160 feet off the ground! Healing. Rejuvinating. Enlivening. Bewildering. Spiritually uplifting.
It has been equally uplifting reading the impressions of others. Thanks for the thread. | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 9/28/2005 7:32:38 PM | ^^^I thought the fashion was to hug trees, not sleep with them.
We don't have those big trees down here friend, Douglas Firs here have much colder winters and less precipitation. I remember climbing Mt. Olympus in College. The trees belwo were incredible. I really want to hike the Wonderland Trail again too. I have grown far more appreciative than I was then. | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 10/5/2005 7:57:47 AM | It is 12 degrees here at 09:00. It is blue bird beautiful, and I have the joyful task of taking a beautiful ride to the dump. Dubois was once rated the second most scenic dump in America. It is a beautiful drive, and the there should be a foot and half less snow in town. The 100 footer is coming folks! It is just so d*a*m*n beautiful I had to shout out to all you outdoor lovers.  | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 10/5/2005 8:00:18 AM | Yep.
I'm at my happiest when I'm in the mountains stomping around a trail, chillin by a waterfall, and just looking at all the beauty around me. When you're at such a high elevation that when you look down you feel dizzy...that's just awesome. :) | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 10/5/2005 8:08:52 AM | it's more spiritual than emotional......i often ask the creator for help or guidance and it never fails to receive a sign.......if i throw in emotion...things and signals get crossed.............
although i live in a place of concrete and steel.....i can still find mother nature in places to take the time relax and enjoy it...get my out in a deep forest or mountains!!! i'm in my element then | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 10/5/2005 8:41:17 AM | | Nature is my biggest inspiration. To hike down a trailess valley or to stand on a mountain peak overlooking glaciers and emerald lakes. To see Gizzly bears frolicking in the rainforest (but not too close) or follow the tracks of a cougar down a deserted beach....ok I'll stop now!! | |
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| How many people connect emotionally/spiritually with the outdoors
Posted: 10/5/2005 9:59:27 AM | I'm from the Appalachians.....lived in flat-as-s-pancake SC for three years or so now...whenever I go home, I never fail to get misty when I see the mountains in the distance.
My Apsaroke/Crow father used to take us into the woods when we were little and teach us how to listen and how to see the life that was around us.
It soothes me to be reminded of my own insignificance when problems threaten to overwhelm. | |
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