The First Church of the Wrath of Baby Jesus and Open Bar™

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.

Mid-September is good.

[trippinprincezz13]

Got bored doing nothing at work all day today (makes a nice change), so I made this video as a little preview of what may await in regards to my proposed gameplay.  Nightmare gameplay, of course, level 8 for the first and level 10 for the second.  No commentary, because my headphone/mic are back in the UK, so you get some music instead.  Best viewed at 480p, because I used cheap free editing software.

Nice. I have yet to play either game on Nightmare but that would probably be good to try out for a little (or a lot) extra challenge. I imagine those are some of the DLC weapons and armor you had referenced? Cool that the mabari is more of a NPC rather than taking up a slot in your party. Mainly because often in the first game, there were times I wanted to experiment with other combinations of characters but didn't have the heart to take the mabari out of the party (that and the fact that besides me, the mabari seemed to be the strongest and most competent).

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.

Mid-September is good.

Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.

Mid-September is good.

Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html

Nice.  8 miles is a good training route.

PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important.  I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.

Mid-September is good.

Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html

Nice.  8 miles is a good training route.

PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important.  I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).

Wildwood Trail is 30.2 miles. 8 miles isn't "training" so much as a "morning stroll".

We're planning based on the info at http://www.pcta.org/ and some of the books that are out about hiking the trail; they are pretty comprehensive.

[Cain]

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

We're gonna do this one with packs: http://web.oregon.com/hiking/eaglecreek.cfm



I've done it without packs, it's a bitch of an elevation gain. But so so beautiful!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.

Mid-September is good.

Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html

Nice.  8 miles is a good training route.

PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important.  I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).

Wildwood Trail is 30.2 miles. 8 miles isn't "training" so much as a "morning stroll".

We're planning based on the info at http://www.pcta.org/ and some of the books that are out about hiking the trail; they are pretty comprehensive.

That's interesting.  I must have read the link wrong.   

[The Good Reverend Roger]

And if 8 miles in half-kit is a morning stroll, the infantry needs to start hiring tiny angry women.



Our qualification marches were 12 miles in half-kit.  Our field training marches ranged from 4 miles to 30 miles in full kit, and the longer (20 miles plus) forced marches would put us on the ropes for days.

What an average hiker would carry for an overnight trek is roughly the same as half-kit.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So, I was hanging out with Knuckles this weekend.  He hasn't changed, not a bit. 

I think I can see my days of boredom ending quite shortly.

[Suu]

I have something waiting for me at the post office from Canada.

I did not order anything that I know off from Canada. 

...And not just any part of Canada...Quebec. 


Well guys, they finally found me. The Quebecois are about to passively aggressively eliminate me by ways of parcel post.

[AFK]

Nobody Expects the French-Canadian Requisition

[Cain]

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[Suu]

I am getting a barrage of pictures of the parents' new kitten, Ace. This is good, since SuuBF is being taken back by the Navy tomorrow for a year and a half. I get to see him on weekends he doesn't have section duty, at least.    The kicker is that he's only going to be 2 hours away at a different base. But that 2 hours involves finding a way around Boston, so it may as well be across the country.