#trekking tips

[aboutnepaltreks]

🌄 Shower and Laundry Services on the Everest Base Camp Trek 🌄

Are you planning to trek to Everest Base Camp? 🏔️ One common concern for many trekkers is maintaining hygiene along the journey. Wondering about shower and laundry services on the trek? We've got you covered! 🧼🧺

Our latest blog post provides all the details you need to stay clean and comfortable. Learn about the available facilities, tips for hygiene, and how to make the most of your adventure in the Himalayas.

Don't let the lack of amenities hold you back. With a little planning, you can enjoy every moment of your trek to Everest Base Camp while staying fresh and clean!

📖 Read more: https://www.himalayanrecreation.com/blog/shower-and-laundry-services-on-the-everest-base-camp-trek

#EverestBaseCamp #TrekkingTips #HimalayanAdventure #StayFresh #TravelBlog

[travelwithcharita]

Essentials for a Himalayan Trek: A Comprehensive Guide

Embarking on a Himalayan trek demands strategic packing for the challenging terrain. Here's a concise guide on essentials to ensure a safe and enjoyable adventure.

Clothing: Pack moisture-wicking base layers, insulating fleece or down jackets, waterproof gear, sturdy trekking boots, and accessories like hats and gloves. Consider the season and altitude.

Backpack and Gear: Opt for a durable backpack with a rain cover, a suitable sleeping bag, trekking poles, and a headlamp. Ensure your gear is lightweight and compact.

Safety and Navigation: Include a first aid kit, personal medications, a map or GPS device, a whistle, and a multi-tool. Prioritize safety with essential items for emergencies.

Personal Items: Sunscreen, lip balm, personal hygiene items, a quick-dry towel, and trekking permits are crucial. Carry identification, cash, and credit cards securely.

Extras: A camera or smartphone, a portable charger, and a lightweight daypack for side trips enhance your trekking experience.

Environmentally Conscious Items: Bring a reusable water bottle, eco-friendly toiletries, and adhere to Leave No Trace principles. Minimize environmental impact.

Cold Weather and High Altitude: For cold nights, pack an insulated water bottle, down booties, and any prescribed altitude sickness medication.

Preparation: Prioritize cardiovascular endurance, strength training, and altitude conditioning in your fitness routine. Mental preparation and flexibility exercises are equally vital.

Hydration and Nutrition: Stay hydrated with water purification tablets and maintain a balanced diet rich in carbohydrates, proteins, and healthy fats.

Conclusion: This comprehensive packing guide ensures you're well-equipped for the challenges of a Himalayan trek. Tailor your items to the specific trek and season, and always check with your trekking company for additional recommendations. Preparedness is key to a memorable and safe trekking experience in the majestic Himalayas.

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

do you have any tips for drawing Kirk? 🙏 TvT William Shatner’s stupid face is getting every single one of my goats

here are all of my top 10 kirk drawing tips

[aboveandbeyondalaska]

Among the various adventurous activity that one can indulge in high altitude trekking is one of the most popular ones. However, high altitude trekking is one of the most strenuous activities that require proper monitoring of your health and physical fitness. Apart from regular exercise your diet also plays a major role in keeping you healthy during your trekking. Have a look at the infographics to know the ways to stay healthy during your high altitude trekking.

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[spirkbitch]

tos spirk fic writers you know i love you

and i do hate to break it to you, but i really don’t think that these chairs

would allow for very much straddling to occur

[moonhibs]

Au where Julian is a child of divorce

[wwillywonka]

Well, Doctor?

2 x 03 - The Changeling

[fellowmellowo]

small mccoy painting, cause he's living rent free in my brain

[frangipani-wanderlust]

How To Call 911

So most of my followers know now that I started working last May as a 911 dispatcher. Super proud of myself. And now that I am starting (very much still starting) to settle in a bit, I want to offer some tips on how to call 911. So, hold on to your hats.

(no-color version if the yellow text isn't rendering on your screen correctly)

When in doubt, call 911. Don't take this as me encouraging you to jump at shadows. Your neighbors' loud party is not an emergency, google the local non-emergency line and call that. Neither is the dry cleaning not giving you your clothes (I actually got this call on our 911 line). Nor is the fact that you saw a fox inside city limits (also something a real human called 911 about). But if you see a situation unfolding and you think "this seems dangerous, maybe this is 911-worthy" then it's 911-worthy. Don't hesitate. Call.

If you call 911 and you are freaking out, that's okay. If you're in a crisis, you may not remember a single tip I'm about to give you. We are trained for that, we can handle it, just do the best you can. It's not the end of the world to have a hysterical or frightened caller, and these are tips, not rules.

Location, location, location. We can't send you help if we have nowhere to send it to. Ideally, know the address. Failing that, know the name of a business or a church or an intersection. It is not cheating if you read this off a sign. There isn't a set of invisible rules that says you have to have your exact GPS coordinates memorized. Be prepared to describe the location somehow. That way, if our connection drops and that's all you can tell me, I can still send some police out to come find out what's going on and they can ask for medics or firefighters or whatever if needed. But we absolutely must know where to send assistance, it is the first thing we're going to ask.

Location again, but with a twist. The first thing our office says for emergencies is, "911, what is the address of the emergency?" If a building is on fire, tell us where the fire is. If your neighbors are being robbed at gunpoint across the street, give us their address. If you witnessed a car accident, tell us where the accident happened. The location of the emergency isn't necessarily the location where you are. Don't send police and fire to your office building if the wreck is on the freeway.

Answer the questions that you are asked. If the calltaker asks "Is the patient breathing?" don't start in about the seizure they just had (if they aren't breathing, the seizure they just had is not the biggest problem). If the calltaker asks, "Which way did the man you saw go when they ran?" don't tell them about how they broke down your door (if they are running away, knowing they broke your door down does not help the police know which direction to start looking). The particular question you are asked is being asked for a reason, and that reason is not frivolous but in an emergency, we aren't going to stop and explain everything.

Do not launch into a speech. If you're asked a yes/no question, yes or no is all the answer you should give. Your impulse will be to explain the yes or the no because more information is better than not enough, but overexplaining is its own problem. Now, we are hired for good typist skills, and are encouraged to get better and faster, but infodumping means things can get missed. The calltaker is going to have some information they're going to ask for by protocol and probably the option to drill down on some of it if clarification is needed. If you spend five paragraphs explaining your last answer, it delays getting other pertinent information.

Do not launch into a speech, part the second. You don't call 911 for things that happened last week, or even yesterday. Tell me the emergency that is happening right now. Ideally in one sentence. If someone is having a medical issue, and you call 911 about it, when the calltaker asks exactly what happened, do not tell them about how the patient had a surgery 5-and-a-half weeks ago. You called 911. What is the emergency that is happening right now. Don't be telling me about their surgery when the problem you called about is a broken leg. Yes, the surgery may have led to generalized loss of balance that has yet to return which caused the patient to fall which caused them to break their leg. Understood. But you didn't call because of all of that. You called because of the broken leg. Apply this principle to all emergencies.

Don't launch into a speech, part the third. When asked a specific and direct question, do not give an explanation instead of an answer. If the calltaker asks you "Is the weird person on the side of the road actually in the lanes of traffic?" do not explain to them how it's a very narrow roadway (see parenthesis for the story here). Aside from the fact that we're not asking these questions to be funny (see part the second), there's also the fact that now you are coming over as suspicious as hell. If I asked "how did that person on Facebook know what this supposedly missing kid is wearing and where he's going to be at 3:00 today?" and you say "well Facebook is a good way to spread information" I am now extremely suspicious of you.

(Also an actual call I have taken. The man was a totally ordinary guy out for a walk to the store, but this blue collar man walked through a Rich Person Neighborhood™ and according to Lady Catherine De Bourgh on the phone with me, that merited a call to the police. When I asked her if he was actually in the lanes of traffic [traffic hazard call type] versus not [suspicious person call type, on a technicality but technically...], she tried explaining three times that the road was narrow before she finally got the message that I was not going to stop asking until she told me the actual answer and answered "Well, I suppose so, yes." At this point, because she'd been so reluctant to answer me, I no longer believed the man actually was in the lanes of traffic and to this day believe that she lied to try and manipulate the police into a stronger-level response than was actually warranted. Because determining whether she was lying for sure is beyond the scope of my job, I put down what she said, but I didn't believe then and still don't believe now, that she told the truth. The totally ordinary and probably very nice guy was not arrested or hassled at all and was instead given a courtesy ride to the store.)

Be prepared to describe relevant people, maybe including yourself, and that includes race. If you have an asthma attack at a football game, the medics need to know how to find you in a crowd. If you are a black woman, that's gonna rule out everyone who isn't that. If you are a black woman wearing a yellow shirt, blue jeans, and a blue bandana over your hair, that excludes nearly everybody and when the medics arrive, they'll know exactly who to look for. Most of the time, someone's race isn't relevant information. When describing someone to emergency services, it absolutely is and it is not racist to accurately describe the relevant person or people.

There are more tips in the world, and I may come back to this post and add them as they occur to me. In the meantime, please enjoy this short treatise on how to call 911.

[tachyon-at-rest]

Slightly spoilery of Star Trek Lower Decks episode S04E04:

Things we know about D'Vana Tendi:

Alias "Mistress of the Winter Constellations"

(new) Alias "Tip of the Moonlit Blade"

(new) Tendi says they’re barely the fifth-largest family in the Syndicate

And thus I now give my brain poisoning to you. (Couldn't be sure which works better) :

Which of course references this ole gem

[joshorrorificthrills]

Rendered Spock head shot

This is my first time rendering, constructive criticism is welcome!

[myherokamalakhan]

Mr. Spock

I’m trying to develop an art style. All I know is I really like blending the skin so I wanna keep doing that, but the eyes? nose?! lips?!?!? Idk

[obsessive-daydreamer]

Lore might have been evil and homicidal, but can we just talk about what an icon he was? It was very obvious that he was constantly put down by the colonists, yet he took all of their insults like "weird", "freak", "unnatural" etc and went no❤️.

And then proceeded to declare himself a superior species that's above all life forms and develop a god complex? Absolute girlboss behaviour.

[aboveandbeyondalaska]

Most of the time people are excited about going on a trekking expedition. Trekking is one of the most popular adventurous activity that attracts people from across the globe. However, if you have not planned properly for your trek, then you might face issues like a heavy backpack which has the potential to spoil your entire trip. It is important to know about the things that you don’t need for your trekking. Have a look at the infographics to know the things that you must avoid packing in your backpack during a trek.

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