#women who hike

[wanderlandjournal]

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[katietrekks]

July 12, 2019

Hike to Big Tree from Oregon Caves Visitor Center

Oregon Caves National Monument

3.2 miles

876 ft Elevation Gain

[lauraepartain]

I'm not the world's greatest at social media. It feels that I can be a bit of a fish swimming in a different direction than the proverbial school sometimes too. I’m a photographer, never a content creator. I make photographs, not content. I’m a creative person, not “a creative”. Modern wordage saying things we’ve said before? Maybe, maybe not. I just don’t relate. Maybe I’m a fuddy-duddy at 33 for feeling this way; maybe I’m protecting my personal sense integrity where I can. My hope is always to print my work (books or prints) and have it seen in such a way. I’ve been so fortunate this year to do be apart of two gallery shows, both at Cedarhurt in Mt Vernon Illinois and The Frist here in Nashville. Right now I’m toying with a few major project concepts. Been busy making a few album covers, doing some commercial work, and wrapping up a series I shot in Scotland when I have time. It’s hard to believe we are well into September, but it’s been a great year with lots of great people and projects. I’m just trying to make honest work, study photography I love, stay positive, and be a good person to the people in my life. My thoughts are don’t let social media or capitalist mentalities consume you, get off your phone, make plans to immerse yourself in time with people, the planet, experiences, and so on. That phone in your hand, that toxic email, those situations or people that made you feel unwell, don’t let these things absorb you. Look for the deep stuff in life and suck the ever living marrow out of it - adventures are not only photoshoots and thru hikes, but so are coffee dates with friends and smelling the flowers in your garden. You won’t get any of this time you are given back - make your days magic, my friends. Tha beatha àlainn! Taken at the end of a 156 mile walk across Scotland | Loch Ness | May 2023 | After this portrait, I walked Eastbound a few more miles and found a pub and an inn. Apparently, this 18th century inn hosted many including Charlie Chaplin quite a few times. Anyways, I bought myself a room, veggie curry, and a few pints. Ended up sitting with a group of older ladies from Northern England and getting a little tipsy with them. That night I fell asleep stuffing my face with Walkers Shortbread biscuits in bed. The next day I caught a bus to Inverness, and then a train back to Glasgow, the place where I began my walk.

[heavenskiriot]

Sugarloaf Mountain | Boulder, Colorado

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[wellashell]

first hike of the season! slowly making my way along the nj section of the appalachian trail one bit at a time!

[rambrandt-the-painter]

Finally drawing older trans women

[cerise-on-top]

Rudy with a jealous s/o? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I NEED THISS

Hello! Here you go!

Rodolfo with a Jealous!S/O

The moment he sees you’re jealous he’ll chuckle a bit but also be a bit worried. It’s nice to see that you like his attention enough to want it most of the time, but would he really be able to calm you down from your frenzy? He most likely could, but the worry is still there. At first he’d be a bit apprehensive about approaching you, especially if you’re being snappish and keep hinting at you being mad at him for spending time with someone that wasn’t you. If this doesn’t happen very often he wouldn’t know what to do, but if you’re a very jealous person and it keeps happening then he’ll have a talk with you. It’s not particularly fair to him that you always snap at him whenever he spends time with his teammates or friends, so he’ll sit you down and discuss your behavior and how you can both improve yourselves. Communication is very important to him.

If you don’t get jealous as often, then he’ll approach you after a bit and ask you what’s wrong. It’s up to you whether or not you honestly respond to him, but he’d much prefer you being upfront and honest with him. He won’t really know too well what to do if you just keep lying to him, pretending that you’re alright. Rodolfo will, however, take you to a secluded place if you’re out somewhere together and just talk to you. While he may not be the biggest fan of PDA, he would give you a small kiss, either on your lips or your cheeks, maybe even a hug if you’re especially mad, and apologize to you. He knows it likely isn’t his fault, but maybe an apology could calm you down. If it’s late and he’s been with his friends for a while now anyway then he could make time to just leave, especially if nothing important is going on anymore and the main events and conversation topics are over. However, if he has to stay for a bit longer, then he’ll apologize again, but promises you that you’ll be going back home soon enough.

Once you’re back home all of his attention is on you, if you want that. If you prefer to be left alone then he will let you be, but will check up on you once every hour and ask if you’re doing alright. But if you don’t want that then he’s more than happy to talk with you, or spend time with you in general. You wanna cuddle? Play a video game? Bake some cookies? He’s not opposed to any of those things. Because, truth be told, you being mad but quiet sort of scares him. He has to deal with loud, angry soldiers almost on a daily basis, so he knows how to put someone in their place if they’re being openly aggressive. Therefore you being so quiet is very worrisome and he’ll be on edge this entire time. As soon as you laugh again he knows he did something right, though. That’s the goal: To get you to calm down and smile, maybe laugh even. But he knows that, at the very least, it will likely be over by the time you both wake up again in the morning. If he can, then he’ll spend the next day with you. Or at least as much of it as he can.

[lunawolf444]

Good morning loves ❤️

I’ll be your hiking baddie… I mean buddy 😈

[marzipanandminutiae]

have you seen that annoying try guys video about corsets. why’re they tightlacing like it’s average wear?

Yeah, and it's just a lot of nonsense. Like all of those videos.

Why do they tightlace? Because that's what people want to see. Not everyone; a lot of people are genuinely interested in learning. But unfortunately, a loud minority wants to believe the easiest, least complicated, most sensational version of the past. And that loud minority votes with engagement. You CAN get clicks for saying the corsets were basically the bras of their day, and women's relationship with them was similarly complicated and individual, but they were not unilateral torture devices- look at the success of costube in recent years -but that takes effort. Why bother, when you can just play to the lowest denominator of historical clothing knowledge?

(On some level, I do understand where the impulse comes from- the eras where pairs of bodies/stays/corsets were commonplace were also times of intense systemic misogyny, so "women were forced into torturous undergarments" seems par for the course. And the pressure on women to look and dress a certain way is obviously wrapped up in misogyny, then and now, even though women were not suffocating themselves into 15" waists like pop history insists. It's a myth that makes sense given its context; that's how it's survived.)

(That and the fact that the women who wrote the most about corsets were the ones who hated them. Likely a minority compared to the vast numbers of women then alive in corset-intensive cultures, but their strong feelings compelled them to speak out in ways that the probable majority never did. Who sits down and writes "Dear diary, another uneventful day wearing an ultra-commonplace support garment that I'm fairly neutral about?")

(But if you absolutely loathe wearing something- due to sensory issues, perceived hassle of dressing, feeling like your needs aren't met or are impeded by the garment, etc. -and social pressure says You Must...yeah, you're going to have some Thoughts on that subject.)

[hotadventures69]

Thick pawg 🤤

[katietrekks]

July 30, 2019

Nisky Trail and Joe’s Trail Bass River State Forest, New Jersey 3.64 miles 23 ft Elevation Gain

The Pine Barrens may be flat, but the scenery never disappoints. Short but super sweaty stroll through Bass River today. Since I spent $5 to get in, I figured I'd also take a quick dip in Lake Absegami at the end.

[lauraepartain]

Thank you Official West Highland Way for sharing some of my xpan photographs from my April 2023 thru hike. What a wonderful adventure it was!

[heavenskiriot]

Arthur's Rock Trail | Fort Collins, Colorado

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[katnissgirlsmakedo]

also fun fact. you can effectively punch holes in plastic glow in the dark stars using a push pin and a rock and just pressing it really hard into your carpet or something so it doesn’t damage anything once it penetrates the plastic. in case you ever needed to know that

[sweetdreamspootypie]

The piercers keep reminding and recommending that I don't sleep on my side for at least another 3 months

But (to use the Tumblr phrase) I sleep like a rotisserie chicken

They suggest using like an airplane travel pillow thing but I still can't really see how that will help

We've managed to save the helix pericing but the lobe one healed over in like. Less than 12 hours. So I have to wait a couple weeks to heal fully and then repierce and start from scratch on that one.

[ahedderick]

Chainsaw

   It’s Saturday, and my husband opened up a six-pack.

   My daughter and I made a ‘date’ for today to work on the new trail, me with the smaller chainsaw and her removing the cut material. I haven’t used the saw myself since last year, and my husband had to go over the startup procedure with me. Then he took the larger saw down to Home Farm to cut some firewood.

(Don’t let this photo from a few years back fool you, I HATE using this thing) Because it is a bit smaller than a standard Stihl, it is safer for me (a medium-sized woman) to use, but it also not as good as a bigger Stihl. For instance, the orange casing on the back will sometimes pop right off. Not good.

   We dragged it up the ridge and got to work on various downed branches, small trees, and large bushes.

This delightful mess, for example, I very very carefully cut through. Unfortunately, after less than an hour of work I had to shut the saw down to tinker with the loose case. I couldn’t get it started again. Boy, did I try. It was frustrating to get a day when we both had time, the weather was decent, drag the tools up the hill, and then get shut down because the saw was grumpy.

   We will try again. If not tomorrow, then next weekend.