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  1. I've canoed through Santa Elena and Boquillas canyons and both are great, with SE being more dramatic. The river has been more or less perpetually low for a long time now but I think it's generally still high enough to run. Lots of outfitters out of Terlingua.
  2. Headed out there again myself this week. The gf's daughter has never camped. We're doing a Star Party at the Observatory and staying the night in Ft Davis to visit my grandparents' graves the next morning. Breakfast at the Drug Store, which is still good but not at all as cool as when it was a full blown soda fountain when I was a kid and not so much the sappy gift shop it is today... but I digress. Then into the park. Lost Mine, Balanced Rock, Hot Springs, and Santa Elena are on the agenda. Camping at Upper Madera in BBRSP and doing day trips into BBNP from there, except I do have one night at a spot down Old Ore Road. It's a spur of the moment trip and that's what was available. Coffee and breakfast at Espresso Y Poco Mas is a must if you're near there. We probably won't eat at Starlight this trip, but it's the best dinner meal around the park for sure.
  3. I don't know if you are just stupid or what, so I'm going to talk slow and assume you are. Mask and vaccines are not 100% effective at preventing transmission and were never expected to be nor described to be by any reputable expert at any level. People who argue against their use because they aren't 100% effective are just refuting a claim that was never made. It's a straw man argument and makes you look silly. Masks and vax are, however, effective at reducing transmission, even while not 100% preventing it, and that has absolutely been a game changer and many people are alive who would not have been had nobody masked up and/or vaxxed. A masked person can still infect others but not nearly as many. A vaxxed person can still get the vid but not usually as severely. So yes, in the sense they were expected to work, they have worked. That said, I'm glad we are now in an environment where we can cut way back on mask usage because I fucking hate wearing mine.
  4. I’d head into the mountains with Jed and Matt Ekhart in Jed’s Chevy stepside with some deer rifles, food, and ammo. Probably stop off at Mr Mason’s place for more ammo and see if his granddaughters want to come with us.
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  6. AISD going mask-optional March 7. I'm glad and I hope it sticks. https://www.austinisd.org/announcements/2022/03/02/were-going-mask-optional-monday-en-espanol
  7. A lot of people in Austin talk about a guy in Seguin that runs a bike park and has jump clinics. Chris Wood. Seguin Bike Park. It looks about how you'd expect a bike park in Seguin to look. Not much terrain, but lots of various sized wood ramps and drops. Never been but it looks fun. https://www.facebook.com/seguinmtb/
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  9. Thanks guys, this has been helpful. I going to do some more reading tonight and make a decision tomorrow. Headed to Big Bend in a couple weeks and would like to have time to play around and learn some before that trip.
  10. Anything specific you'd recommend me checking into in the same price range? Say $1200ish or less and the same or less for a lens appropriate for big landscapes and night skies?
  11. Rookie here. Talk me into or out of buying this camera: Nikon D810. Used. Excellent condition. $1200 Nikon 14-24 f/2.8 lens. Also used in excellent condition. $1200 Both are from Precision Camera in Austin. Reputable shop as far as I am aware. Both pieces have been inspected and are warrantied. I want to take landscape photos. Mountains, sunrises, night sky, Milky Way, rivers, etc... I'm tired of going to amazing places and coming back with iphone and GoPro pics that don't do it justice. Not too interested in portraits or sports. I'm a complete rookie and have never owned a nice camera. I'll need to take some classes and I don't mind the learning curve. The D850 is out of my budget and not an option. I became interested in the D810 based on interweb searches, articles, etc.. and it was confirmed to be a solid choice by the guy at Precision Photo. I have the money, but if I could buy something that would be almost as good for half the price I'd rather do that. One thing that I keep coming back too is the fact that there weren't cameras this great just a few years ago and yet people were taking amazing photos anyway. How much dropoff in quality would there be if I bought a lower tier camera, say $600-$700 range? What else should I be looking at? This will be a camera I'd like to own for a decade, use on 3 or 4 trips a year, and pass on to one of my teenage sons later on as he learns more about photography. It will never be my biggest hobby but I'd like to get decent at taking great pics of the places I go.
  12. Nah that's just the rocky area we camped in. Big Bend Ranch State Park, near Mota Mountain.
  13. The bucket shitter is legit. I take this rig camping. The Reliance Double Doodie bags combine bio gel and a double bag fit for a 5 gallon bucket. A fresh bag for every dump, double bagged, no spills, no smell, and toss it in the first trash can you find on your way back to civilization. Add in some wet wipes and it’s a very pleasant means of busting a grumpy in the wilderness.
  14. I could. But I think we’re both arguing two different points and I’m not sure we even really disagree with each other other than I really don’t like living in Texas anymore and you do. if I lived in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, etc. I think I would enjoy living there whether or not my family was around. I can’t say the same for Texas anymore. Doesn’t mean I don’t love Texas or that I’m not a proud Texan and proud of our history and heritage. I’ve just had enough of it. Moving to any of the other cities in Texas would not change that.
  15. It applies to other states for sure, but not to the places I’d consider great. To me great places are great on their own merits, not just for family reasons. I took his post about the “stickiness” of Texas to mean he thought of that as an indicator of how great it must be. I’m providing a counterpoint that lots of us are in Texas despite it not being where we’d like to live rather than because there’s something great about it. Me living here doesn’t mean I think it’s all that great in general (although I did list Terlingua for a little bit of Texan homerism).
  16. I don't think that's necessarily because it's such a great place. People get attached to their roots. People move for jobs or because the in-laws are somewhere else, or whatever. I live here because my family is here. I ventured out of Texas when I was a young man but came back when it was time to start a family and being near parents and siblings became important again. I'll probably leave again when my kids begin their adult lives. There's a dozen other states I'd rather live in if family wasn't a factor.
  17. I clicked on this thread expecting some great story about Matthew Stafford and instead got some rambling about high school glory days that culminated with "Stafford ran past me a few times and handed the ball off in one of our games." WTF is up with the melodramatic thread title?
  18. I look at every post that names like 10-15 movies and realize I've seen only 2 or 3 of them. You guys just like movies a lot more than me. But Jojo Rabbit is a great fucking movie.
  19. I think GoPro 5 was the first to include internal stabilization and then the 7 improved on it significantly.
  20. Kailua is pretty meh. Maybe Haleiwa instead?
  21. It still pisses me off when USC fans don't get called out on the 3-peat references. LSU won the 2003 championship. They have the trophy. AP votes count for shit. Granted, OU should've never played in that game, it should have been LSU vs USC. But it wasn't so fuck off with your claimed 2003 championship. Aggiest shit ever.
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