They sent me this tent a couple of years back and I only just today set it up for the first time.
(I have a kayak adventure planned for a little more than a month from now. Since I’ll be camping along so much water and damp areas, my concern is about the possibility of unusual amounts of mosquitos. For that reason, I’m considering taking a different type of shelter - enclosed - rather than the open types I usually favor.)
If I want a fully enclosed shelter, and it’s just me and my dog, this is the style of shelter I would go with every time.
The brand I show off here in this video doesn’t appear to be making this particular style anymore, but I’ve included an Amazon link of what is essentially the exact same tent for those of you who are interested.
Ultra light weight, ultra simplicity, fully enclosed, enormous vestibule, plenty of space, only stakes and a single pole needed - could use any ol’ stick off the ground, basically. Will set up within two minutes in the rain. ...
I got tired of carrying booze, fuel, and medicine and got the bright idea to see if a strong enough whiskey might not serve all three purposes.
#WhiskeyStoves #BoozeForFuel #PocketCooking #ThePracticalWoodsman #PleasantHillbillyPickle
All the abandoned and out-of-service railroad lines across the United States.
The U.S. railroad network reached its peak in 1916 at roughly 254,037 route miles, following decades of rapid expansion that connected farms, mines, factories, and small towns to national markets.
Railroads became the backbone of long-distance transportation, helping drive American industrialization and westward expansion. But their dominance began to decline as cars, trucks, and airplanes provided new ways to move people and goods.
After World War II, the Interstate Highway System accelerated the shift, while passenger routes and lightly used rural branch lines became increasingly unprofitable. Railroad mergers and deregulation later contributed to the abandonment of thousands more miles.
Today, about 138,000 route miles remain in operation. Many abandoned corridors have disappeared beneath vegetation and development, while others have been transformed into roads, hiking trails, and new communities.
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On December 1976, a crew was filming an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man inside a funhouse at an amusement park in Long Beach, California. There was a body hanging from the ceiling, painted orange, part of the ride. A crew member went to move it out of the shot and its arm came off in his hand.
There was bone inside it.
The dummy was a man named Elmer McCurdy, and he had been dead since 1911.
McCurdy was, by any measure, one of the worst criminals in the history of the American West. He was born in Maine in 1880 to a teenage mother, learned about explosives in the Army, drank heavily, could not hold a job as a plumber, and decided to become an outlaw instead.
His first big job was a train near Lenapah, Oklahoma. He got to the safe. He then used so much nitroglycerin on it that he melted the silver coins inside and fused them to the wreckage. His crew sat there scraping metal off the frame.
He tried a bank in Chautauqua, Kansas next. He spent hours chipping through the outer wall, blew the vault, destroyed...
