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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: February 20, 2024, 03:26:27 PM »
if you told me that he starred in varsity blues, Gossip Girls I would believe you



I think he'd have been great in the original footloose



Cobra Kai OG

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Snowbirding Insider Input Needed
« on: January 26, 2024, 03:34:29 PM »
Also if the place isn't fully furnished, furniture rental companies were easy to deal with and they deliver/pickup. Then you just need kitchen stuff, bedding, etc. We sometimes found these in thrift stores and then donated back when we left.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Snowbirding Insider Input Needed
« on: January 26, 2024, 02:47:37 PM »
These are great tips!  What was the weather like in those other spots in Jan-March?

Henderson would start around 65/40 in Jan to 80/55 in March
St George roughly 10 degrees cooler than that

Visited Henderson for the Cats game in November it was around 80, pretty nice. This is the "late night" trailhead just west of the city


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Snowbirding Insider Input Needed
« on: January 26, 2024, 02:01:01 PM »
I’d like to rent a fully furnished  2 - 3 bedroom house or townhome,  with a fenced yard for my dogs for 3 months.

not for snowbirding, but did this a bunch when my wife worked as a travel nurse. It can be tricky to find pet friendly short term rentals, especially in smaller towns. But beyond the hassle of getting housing and utilities setup, it is good fun to be somewhere new for a few months.

Tucson is good for cycling if you are still into that sort of thing. Also enjoyed St George/Hurricane UT, Henderson NV



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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Celebrity Deaths (whenever)
« on: December 14, 2023, 09:25:12 AM »
"we weren't assigned... we were requested."

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: December 05, 2023, 03:23:51 PM »
GCK?

jk, jk

DEN

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Kansas State Football / Re: Thoughts on NC State
« on: December 05, 2023, 03:21:15 PM »
Their campus features "Pullen Park" with a carousel, pedal boats, convenient access to the state prison, and tennis courts.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: November 17, 2023, 01:21:33 PM »
Strava version, wandered around this place for a few hours yesterday.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: November 17, 2023, 01:19:06 PM »

Thought I got another better pic, oh well

Catchacold would be all over this one but I’ll pinch hit… RDM.  Got any VQ pics to go with it?


lol barely recognized it from that photo. Maybe this one looks a little less third world:


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mini vq to vegas (go cats)

camped near Mt Shasta, Fresno, and Mojave Preserve






rode a bit of the river mountains loop trail yesterday near henderson


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doge says check out all these mf'ing larches




Rolling through town on the way to the trails


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017
« on: October 14, 2023, 12:26:21 PM »
Didn't see a thing in central Oregon, way too cloudy  :redX:

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the route is the Anaxshat Passage on bikepacking.com. in general i love planning out street routes, but i am uncomfortable coming up with wilderness routes without having been to a place before.
luckily we were smoke free. that's wild that you were just there! do you live around there?

Ah yes, I've heard of that route. I live in Bend so have ridden mostly in central Oregon, but have been wanting to do some riding near Hood. I've been looking at Stiletsi & the White Crane which was created by the same group. And that is true, good idea to follow routes that have been checked. google maps is not very reliable with forest roads, I have found a few dead ends that way.

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awesome, did you make your own route? Have some friends that created bikepacking routes near there, but I haven't explored that area much.

At least those are clouds and not smoke? We car camped near timothy lake a few weeks ago, and it got so smoky the next day we ended up driving to the coast to find clear air.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Police Blotter Thread
« on: August 09, 2023, 06:37:53 PM »
local happenings this week:

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Man shoots himself in the leg, crashes into parking structure

...reported that the pair had been shooting handguns earlier in the day and returned to the injured man's apartment where they were drinking bourbon and cleaning their guns. The man accidentally depressed the trigger and fired a round into his own left thigh. He then drove himself to the hospital, but lost consciousness and hit the pillar near the entrance

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Burglar arrested after stealing gun, jumping from ambulance during transport

...told jail staff he’d swallowed 10 fentanyl pills, so officers requested paramedics to transport  ... escaped from the ambulance and ran eastbound across 27th Street with his hands still cuffed behind his back

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Man arrested after menacing multiple people with weapons

...ignored police commands. He eventually climbed onto the hood of his car, and then the roof of his car, where he stood talking on his phone. ... had a 10-inch knife on his waist and a 3-inch knife holstered on his ankle. He was also wearing a harness and a kilt with multiple objects hanging from it.

go cats

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Hawaii
« on: August 09, 2023, 12:15:23 PM »
 :frown:

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Any cyclists?
« on: June 27, 2023, 10:05:44 PM »
Alex Howes updates from the Tour Divide are a delight, in the "yes pls i'll have more of this" thread sort of way.

instagram.com/mythicalstateof

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Dogs
« on: June 22, 2023, 02:32:28 PM »
tater could be the cousin of my buddy Ike

getting to be an old man himself with some hip and kidney issues



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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Any cyclists?
« on: June 04, 2023, 08:43:59 PM »
McKenzie Pass, an Oregon tradition, closed to cars until late June.






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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: IT'S FRIDAY!!!
« on: June 02, 2023, 04:29:25 PM »
 :zzz:

 :surprised:

 :billdance:

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Any cyclists?
« on: May 28, 2023, 09:22:20 AM »
I learned today that there is a 1000 mile gravel route thru the Flint Hills:

https://discovergravel.com/flint-hills-ultra

 :eek: Ashton Lambie leading a race on that route now: https://trackleaders.com/flinthills23

 

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Why does Ted's mom talk like that? Is that what people in Galena and Baxter Springs sound like? There's no way a KC and KU guy would want the world to think that KC people talk like that.

Not heard how his mom talks but definitely can understand why Ted talks the way he does

JS channeling a bit of Bill Self?  :dunno:

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Any cyclists?
« on: May 22, 2023, 04:08:00 PM »
did my annual loop around Mt Bachelor before the highway opens tomorrow. 40 miles & 3000 ft climbing. More snow than normal, had to hike through a couple patches.




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