Thread degredation warning-- you want sticker shock most of the online cottage gear sellers must be having supply or worker issues. I did a major purge of some of my gear that wasn't cutting it and replacing with some that will--- at a high cost. Just took delivery of a dyneema tent 2P that I can li...

Yeah, depressing watching the 60-90% chance of rain to pretty much " maybe scattered thunderstorms" like any generic monsoon forecast.

Well, to get at the large older hiking population south of Tucson anywhere near the nearest Trader Joe's.

@Jim
The answer to the worlds problems--- Goats, millions of them.

Flash Flood warnings for Death Valley! A few days ago Furnace Creek saw 3 months worth of rain in 1 hour. Lake Manley might rise again-- I was so fortunate to see it a couple of years ago.

Weather people seem excited about a tropical depression maybe bringing rain to So AZ later this week. If it plays out my southern playground could get a lot of rain. Fingers Crossed!

IMO a great use of technology. The One Way FIre spotted in the Parashant monument via remote camera check on 8-19; now about 95 % contained at a little over 200 mapped acres. I am surprised they didn't let this one go as not much of anything out there. Love the views from the remote camera feeds-- w...

next up-- " sewage testing reveals Nantucket cocaine levels 50% above national average" There's a national average???

@ShatteredArm I guess I view DEI as competency not cultural, racial. My people were often referred to as "poor white trash"; and worked very hard to improve and make their way on their own merits. I guess I believe in is it meritocracy over DEI?? What does it matter the background or appe...

@ShatteredArm
A white guy can't be a DEI hire?? Clearly you hadn't met a couple of my old bosses. In that they got their positions not thru their intelligence, capability and job strengths.

I can just imagine the communications threads-- Guys on the line-- Hey, WTF this thing is getting ready to blow the F up! It's too dry and we don't have resources! Middle Management guy to the line: Ok, hold on, the weather report is not that bad and it's only a few acres yet. Middle Management guy ...

Could see it coming, the stores seemed to change when REI came to town. More glitzy, more clothing oriented, the pack and cooking, water treatment sections seemed to shrink a little. And high prices. A shame since locally owned, and not like you can get stuff cheaper at REI or Sportsman. Like a lot ...

Studying Billy fire map mult ruin sites in the burn area hope they fared ok. Unfortunately if the burn is severe some of the watershed re: Park canyon, Salome etc may have some negative impacts.

Yep, apparently fire managers ignored 4 critical warnings that the fire could get out of control by their own metrics---https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/officials-ignored-critical-warnings-on-grand-canyon-blaze-fire-plan-shows/ar-AA1KXHOq?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=aa9a8009c3dc4aa6b54fe6213af491ec&ei=...

Just saw where Tucson is supposedly in it's third driest monsoon since records started in 1895. Previous ones were last year and 2020. One of the weather experts stated the high pressure has been driving most of the rains into New Mexico and west Texas. So much for the " wetter than normal"...

Sometimes I just do a quick scan and find some of these more serious things kinda hilarious-- for non Onion or Babylon Bee stuff

" Airplane toilet water may help combat the next pandemic "

"Police suspect attempted suicide was just a trucker trying to cool off"

Firefighters save a piece of history from Dragon Bravo----https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/a ... wtab-en-us

Kinda interesting never knew about tree stands to do firespotting on the north rim.

If you can locate AZ nat Geo TOPO program on ebay you can get the set for the state usually pretty reasonably. Its been long discontinued and may not work on Win 11 if you are on that platform. However it works just fine on my WIn 10 desktop and I have a solid state tough book that is off line with ...

I came thru Monument Valley, Cameron area yesterday, air quality pretty bad at MV and impressive smoke plume from Dragon Bravo.

According to inciweb hwy 89A is reopened; of course 67 south Jacobs Lake still closed. White Sage fire is pretty high in containment but edges of it are almost right on House Rock Valley Rd ( you know White pockets and the Wave to the North).