Sunday Pic of the Day

noharleyyet · Aug 3, 2023

Bath...check, IPad...check, big baby blues...check, pre bedtime Mom & Dad's bed...check. Life is good.

GrantK · Aug 3, 2023

TOGIE said:
that's a great perspective. when you read the mountaineering forums you usually see the perspective of other hikers and climbers that constantly call these people out for putting SAR teams in unnecessary jeopardy by overreaching their experience.

the west gully incidents on the needle being the somewhat more recent morbid examples. in that, when you've found yourself off route, before entering terrain that you may not find yourself capable of returning from - and several have died trying to navigate once in - just return to the last on route point and reassess, which is something a lot of hikers and scramblers don't seem to be doing as much on popular colorado peaks. the attempts to bypass the knife on capitol by thinking there is a shortcut to capitol lake being even more sad and preventable and likely are due to people overstepping some experience and preparation for committing and scary routes. the recent diamond wall rescue is another more extreme example, the guys admitted to not being able/having the equipment to self rescue after embarking on a big wall ascent and finding themselves beyond their capability, putting park rangers and SAR teams in jeopardy for something that no climber should have done.

so i was just curious, the community seems to get super pissed at these guys, not sure if the SAR teams get fed up with some of it either. no doubt, assisting a guy back to the route and walking him out is a pretty enjoyable call over high angle extrication of bodies.

think about this stuff a lot, my tolerance for risk has changed a lot in the past few years, and extremely so since that kiddo was born.

to be fair, I think there is some misunderstanding from the general community about the risk that SAR teams are willing to take, risk mitigation is the first priority, every time, if it isn't deemed "safe enough" we aren't going, or we are going, but with safeguards in place, speaking for our team only one of the quickest ways to get booted from the team is being a cowboy dumbass... sure, bad things could happen but in general I view most SAR missions as about as dangerous as a casual hike with friends, and way less dangerous than a fair amount of the climbing I do on my own time...

I also know that my team is somewhat unusual in that we have far more applicants than slots for membership, we turn down the vast majority of applicants every year and handpick a very few new members, the people that have the skills and are willing to jump through hoops to get on the team really, really want to be doing this, to the point where we often have more people wanting to go on a rescue than are needed... I participate in some state/nationwide resiliency groups for backcountry responders and this is definitely not the norm, a lot of BSAR teams are continually struggling to keep members and recruit enough people, burnout is real, and I'm sure in those cases the continuous stupid missions are a real grind and I would expect those teams to have a much different opinion on "sorta" rescues than I do...

My personal belief is that it's good to be really, really uncomfortable in the mountains every now and again, and be forced to figure it out, I think huge personal growth can come from those times, the trick part is getting to that point without actually putting your life in danger... having really competent SAR available shouldn't be a deciding go/no go factor, or your first option to get out of a sticky situation but it seems to be becoming that...

Archbull · Aug 3, 2023

Little Big Man MT Chris · Aug 5, 2023

Another weekend another concert

Aaron Watson in Billings last night

Deleted member 28227 · Aug 5, 2023

GrantK said:
to be fair, I think there is some misunderstanding from the general community about the risk that SAR teams are willing to take…

Grant last week…

Straight Arrow · Aug 5, 2023

Latest backcountry project working on the Lookout platform renovating a rickety old tent frame someone threw together and installing a hitchin rail for daughers and grandaughter horse-girls and MSU Rodeo Team cowboy grandson.

Nameless Range · Aug 5, 2023

Last night, so not technically a Sunday picture.

Homemade Chicken Fried Steak from a mountain camp in the north country. Conceived on a Blackstone and sacrificed at the alter of my gullet.

Gravy on everything.

Magnificence.

Southern Elk · Aug 5, 2023

Nameless Range said:
Last night, so not technically a Sunday picture.

Homemade Chicken Fried Steak from a mountain camp in the north country. Conceived on a Blackstone and sacrificed at the alter of my gullet.

Gravy on everything.

Magnificence.

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The gravy on the green beans is a nice touch!

choc dogs · Aug 5, 2023

BrentD said:
My boy, Gus, in the blackberries.

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The t-shirt protects his belly that's full of stitches after minor surgery. He's getting out of control over this.

It’s least mine doesn’t dig in the thorns. He just pollinates the tomatoes

Nick87 · Aug 5, 2023

choc dogs said:
It’s least mine doesn’t dig in the thorns. He just pollinates the tomatoes View attachment 286822

Thought my lab was bleeding around her neck face when I got home....she got into my tomato plants.

choc dogs · Aug 5, 2023

Yeah. I hate that he knows when they’re ripe before me. At least early in the season

Last week I told him he was slacking and not eating his share of the cherry tomatoes, we’re overrun.