Official Outdoorsey Adventurous Sh!t Thread (2 Viewers)

[Trihonda]

Yes sir! Rocky Mountain NP and Boulder.

Colorado is the nutz!!!!

We JUST got back from RMNP/Estes... Crazy hiking in the park, some MTBing in Boulder, and white water rafting.


My 12 yo daughter and wife.

Me during a crazy fun mountain descent on my new MTB

 

[spikeithard]

I'll add here...
Here is a clip from the long weekend about a month ago in tobermory on the Bruce peninsula. Such clear nice water! Heading back Sept 10th weekend to kayak more.

Just got a new kayak. Was not liking the inflatable route so I sent back the inflatable and picked up this Necky manitou 14 footer for 500 bucks off MSRP. ! taking it out for its maiden voyage today. Then point pelee tomorrow morning

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

 

[fish72s]

 

[AK Chip]

I'll add here...
Here is a clip from the long weekend about a month ago in tobermory on the Bruce peninsula. Such clear nice water! Heading back Sept 10th weekend to kayak more.

Just got a new kayak. Was not liking the inflatable route so I sent back the inflatable and picked up this Necky manitou 14 footer for 500 bucks off MSRP. ! taking it out for its maiden voyage today. Then point pelee tomorrow morning

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

I have the manitou ll

 

[fish72s]

A tired Komodo dragon and a very tame Tiger.

 

[fish72s]

A few years ago I hiked up a few volcanos in Central America.Ometepe.
Maderas on Ometepe island in Lake Nicaragua.
Irazu in Costa Rica,
Cerro Chirripo in Costa Rica
San Pedro on Lake Atitlan in Guatamala.
Telica in Nicaragua
and then just a few weeks ago there was Ijen (and the eternal blue fire)

in Indonesia.

 

[fish72s]

This is Cerro Negro in Nicaragua. Only about 2500ft but this is where you can surf down from the summit.
I don't have any pics of me but google Volcano Surfing or Vocano Boarding. Damn that was fun!

 

[fish72s]

Sorry if I am going a bit overboard. You caught me at the right time. I just got back from SE Asia and I have spent the last week going over all of my pics
Here are a few from some jungle hikes I went on. First one was a 2 day hike deep in the jungles of Luang Namtha in Laos. The last 3 are just 'day hikes' in
Cat Ba island in Vietnam, Khao Yai in Thailand and the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia.

 

[pltrgyst]

A tired Komodo dragon and a very tame Tiger.

An over-sixed iguana and an orange tabby. Big deal.

:

 

[pltrgyst]

Great shots, Greg -- the trip of a lifetime, for sure.

 

[spikeithard]

Poker is such a indoor game , its nice to see some outdoor adventures on here!

 

[MegaTon44]

After seeing all of these cool pictures, I realized that I have entirely too few hobbies, none of which involve having to leave the house. [emoji53]

 

[tommythecat]

Sorry if I am going a bit overboard.

Overboard?!?! I say not enough!! Keep 'em coming!

 

[Señor Tony]

In 2010, myself and three good friends entered as a team into a raft race in Iquitos, Peru. It proudly holds the Guinness World Record as the "Longest distance raft race competition" in the world. In short, teams of four get half a day to build a raft from 8 balsa logs which they then race 112 miles down the Amazon river over three days.

Piles of gear including water, food and building supplies for the race.

Waiting for boats to transport teams and gear to the opposite side of the river to get started building our rafts.

Finally on our way to get building, only three hours behind schedule!

Teams of four get half a day to construct a raft out of 8 balsa logs. The main constraint was that the raft must be 8 logs wide (can't be a 4 x 2 raft). We started by balancing the warped, bent and different diameters of logs in the best way we could. We ended up having to trade with two other teams to get 8 logs that worked together.

 

[Señor Tony]

Although we spent almost two months constantly discussing how we were going to go about building our raft, with the logs sitting in front of us for the first time I think we got a little overwhelmed by the occasion. We spent too long trying to figure out the best plan of attack, kept changing our minds from one method to another and wasted too much of our limited sunlight building hours.

We finally decided to just get stuck in and let the raft evolve naturally as we went. Even though we were able to trade with other teams, we could not get rid of the "s" shaped log in the centre! We decided on placing the largest diameter logs on the outside and attempting to balance the sizes laterally as best we could.

The local Peruvian police providing security for the event don't seem too impressed with our raft building skills!

Time got away from us and we were still working on our raft under head torches well into the small hours of the morning. We spent a sold 3 hours carving the front and backs of our logs as well as tying them as best we could. After tying the logs together with cross members and rope as best we could, we used the large nails provided by the
organizers at the end for some extra holding power.

Some locals sold us a pot of some sort of sealant for the bottom of our raft. They assured us it was safe for the river and would help us stay above the water for the entire three days. Most rafts start to sink lower and lower on the final day as the logs become water logged.

Between the mosquitoes, sand fly type bugs and the heat we didn't sleep very well at all.

We let the raft "sealant" dry overnight. You can see here that we ran out of sealant!

It doesn't seem like much but it took a surprising amount of blood, sweat and blisters to get to this point! It is tight, solid and well balanced.

After suffering in the sun for the entire previous day, the morning of the race we decided to rig up a sun shade as best and as quickly as we could. We ultimately had to remove the shade as the wind resistance it added was just not worth the shade it provided.

 

[Señor Tony]

My team mate after the first day paddling for 36 miles in absolutely horrific humidity and heat.

Sleeping condition were far from perfect but I don't think that stopped anyone from sleeping like a rock.

Pictures can't begin to capture the feeling on padding a raft in the middle of the Amazon river with three of your best friends. The river gets very, very wide at some points and in those moments our balsa raft started to feel that much smaller!

About half the teams were in it to win it while the rest were just there to play some music, chill out and enjoy the ride!

Unfortunately our only camera broke due to sand in the lens during the build day so photos of us on the raft are slim.

 

[courage]

View attachment 53964 in Indonesia.

Amazing pics! Was @H|Q in the area?

 

[Trihonda]

Sorry if I am going a bit overboard. You caught me at the right time.

No way, this isn't overboard. This is exactly what I intended with this thread. Awesome pics fish! Awesome hikes! Keep posting!

 

[fish72s]

Cool. I'll post a few more from my U.S. trip
Great idea for a thread. Last year I was sitting at the tables in Melbourne drinking a beer and I got a text with a pic of my seventy-something parent hiking the trail to Machu Piccu in Peru.
I should have started this thread right then

 

[fish72s]

Canyonlands NP
Antelope Canyon,

Grand Canyon.

 

[fish72s]

Redwoods and Sequoia NPs.

 

[Chicken Rob]

Went out on the lake today. Here's a shot of my friend Nick shot by me with an iPhone sitting on the other ski.

 

[Trihonda]

Went out on the lake today. Here's a shot of my friend Nick shot by me with an iPhone sitting on the other ski.

Chicken, I kept waiting for your friend to have a gnarly wipe out, or thought maybe this was one of those videos where at the very end, a giant shark jumps out of the water and eats the jetskier... Glad your friend wasn't eaten, but kinda disappointed..

 

[Chicken Rob]

Chicken, I kept waiting for your friend to have a gnarly wipe out, or thought maybe this was one of those videos where at the very end, a giant shark jumps out of the water and eats the jetskier... Glad your friend wasn't eaten, but kinda disappointed..

2 years ago I tore both rotator cuffs and a bicep tendon riding like that. I was also thrown about 20 feet off the jet ski. I'm still rehabbing the injuries (had frozen shoulders on both sides). Unfortunately it wasn't caught on film.

I've logged about 10-15 hours tops riding over the last 2 years.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Mrs Zombie and I went out on a 2-person Jet Ski a few years ago. One of the first things I did as pilot was to get it up to top speed and cut it hard left and watched Mrs Zombie skipping across the waves like a pebble. It was hilarious.

We've never gone jet skiing again.

 

[Trihonda]

I love how the outdoorsey shit sometimes comes full circle back to poker...

I organized a MTB trip with a few buds and neighbor's yesterday. We had two car loads full of riders and bikes. In my car, during the hour drive, one of the neighbor's I'd never met before suddenly starts talking about his local poker scene... Turns out the guy is really into poker, and we'd just never connected. Super nice guy too.

New player acquired.

 

[fish72s]

The Grand Tetons, Wyoming

Zion NP, Utah
Capital Reef NP, Utah

 

[fish72s]

The Langkawi Sky Bridge, Malaysia

Bagan, Myanmar

Mount Popa, Myanmar

 

[spikeithard]

Looking for a good GPS app for my phone for back country camping/hiking/kayaking etc. Any good suggestions?

I could of course us google maps (on and offline) but perhaps there is something better out there on the app store (google play specifically). Even paid Ill look at it

Im trying to not buy a hand held unit if possible but if thats the best way to go overall then I may go for that. (garmin etc)

thanks

 

[wetfoot]

Jeeping out on the Olympic Peninsula with a bunch of friends