camping catastrophe
May. 29th, 2003 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightbluegirlOur camping trip was... interesting. Tons of things went wrong. We biked for 4 hours (as expected) to get to the foot of the mountain, and then we took what we had been told was a "shorter, nicer, slightly steeper shortcut". Keep in mind that we had heavy bags on our backs, and stuff strapped to our bikes as well.
The shortcut turned out to be a loose-rock shale 70 degree hill. For a lot of it we had to bring the packs as far as we could, go back and get the bikes and carry them, and repeat.
THEN came the switchbacks. Which at least weren't shale.
Unfortunately, the shortcut took 5 1/2 hours. The long way would have taken 1.
We ran out of water on the trip to the campsite. We kept talking about the water we'd drink when we got there, the glasses and glasses of water....
But we got there to find out that the water tank had a leak in it. There was no water. A woman there gave us a small bottle of water, which we really appreciated. But there was no other water.
So we set up camp, and I made a stew with lots of vegetables, which assuaged our thirst, somewhat, since the vegetables let out a bunch of juice. And we drank soy milk, which we'd brought with us for oatmeal in the morning.
When we set up camp we found out that this tube of ""True Goo", this stuff you put in bike tires to help keep them from getting punctures, had opened up and put goo all over my backpack, and my change of clothes, and everything.
Then it rained. Which we didn't mind, actually! We were tired and the tent was up, and we were very cozy in our tent. We slept and cuddled and woke up periodically, and had a 2am snack, and it was very nice. We put out every receptacle we had to catch water, but unfortunately it was also windy, so we got very little to drink. A mouthful each in the middle of the night.
We woke up to 2 dogs in our campsite. Beautiful, cute dogs. We heard slurping as they drank water from the tarp underneath our tent, and we opened up the window of the tent to see a dog right in front of us. She was so excited to see people she licked the screen window. It was so cute! So we were accompanied by puppies for the first hour of our morning.
We were supposed to stay until yesterday, but with no water, we just couldn't do it - it would have been unhealthy. So instead we left on Tuesday morning. We made oatmeal (with strawberries) and drank the rest of our soymilk for breakfast, broke down our camp, and set out.
We took the long way. :-) It was GORGEOUS. Not only was it slightly downhill the whole way, which made it a relatively easy bike ride, but it was brilliantly beautiful. We took some pictures, and somehow, even though we had no water, we had a lovely time.
We stopped at the ranger station and filled up all our water bottles and drank drank drank like we were fish out of water. Then we biked the rest of the way home, and drank some more water. :-)
It took us about 2 1/2 hours to get home. A HUGE difference from 9 1/2 hours to get there!
So that was our camping trip. We spent a lot of Tuesday recuperating - we slept a lot, read a lot, and went out for sushi. Yesterday we walked to the mall, and got Andrew new shoes, and looked at books, and that sort of thing. Just wandered around, because we NEVER go to the mall.
I'm still kind of tired from our trip, but I'm SO PROUD OF US! We went through way more than we expected, and we lived through it, AND we weren't over-tired or over-sore or anything as a result! We are so fit!!!!! And we even ended up walking on Wednesday, to the mall and all over the mall and everything, even though we could have taken a bus.
We went to Torrid, which is a big girls store, with super cool stuff in it (for "alternative" girls) and we saw these super cute pants - so I tried on a pair of the size I am used to, and they were TOO BIGG!!!!!! So I tried on the size smaller, and it FIT!!! I am ALMOST of average size!!
So that was fun. I didn't buy the pants, but I sure was a happy lisa. :D
Anyway, then last night we ate a whole bunch of vegetables and watched "200 cigarettes" which was kind of cute, and read some more and went to bed and that's about that.
I'm very taken with the Raw Diet lately, we're thinking of trying it out. Not as in a "diet" to lose weight, but because I've heard a lot about how it gets rid of toxins and flushes out the system and gives more energy and all the rest of it.
The idea is that you eat only raw foods, which is a great way to cut out all refined products (including refined sugar), and processed carbohydrates, but it's not bad for you like the Atkins diet, because you still get carbs - from sprouted grains, fruits, and vegetables, and you still get protein, from beans and nuts! I'm excited about it, I can't really figure out why, maybe because it's summer, and it's HOT and I don't usually like cooking when it's hot anyway, and it would be tons of fun to eat lots of smoothies and salads with yummy home-made dressings and stuff.
We have to hang out with people tonight, and tomorrow night. I don't want to. I just want to stay at home and read. And maybe... read.
The shortcut turned out to be a loose-rock shale 70 degree hill. For a lot of it we had to bring the packs as far as we could, go back and get the bikes and carry them, and repeat.
THEN came the switchbacks. Which at least weren't shale.
Unfortunately, the shortcut took 5 1/2 hours. The long way would have taken 1.
We ran out of water on the trip to the campsite. We kept talking about the water we'd drink when we got there, the glasses and glasses of water....
But we got there to find out that the water tank had a leak in it. There was no water. A woman there gave us a small bottle of water, which we really appreciated. But there was no other water.
So we set up camp, and I made a stew with lots of vegetables, which assuaged our thirst, somewhat, since the vegetables let out a bunch of juice. And we drank soy milk, which we'd brought with us for oatmeal in the morning.
When we set up camp we found out that this tube of ""True Goo", this stuff you put in bike tires to help keep them from getting punctures, had opened up and put goo all over my backpack, and my change of clothes, and everything.
Then it rained. Which we didn't mind, actually! We were tired and the tent was up, and we were very cozy in our tent. We slept and cuddled and woke up periodically, and had a 2am snack, and it was very nice. We put out every receptacle we had to catch water, but unfortunately it was also windy, so we got very little to drink. A mouthful each in the middle of the night.
We woke up to 2 dogs in our campsite. Beautiful, cute dogs. We heard slurping as they drank water from the tarp underneath our tent, and we opened up the window of the tent to see a dog right in front of us. She was so excited to see people she licked the screen window. It was so cute! So we were accompanied by puppies for the first hour of our morning.
We were supposed to stay until yesterday, but with no water, we just couldn't do it - it would have been unhealthy. So instead we left on Tuesday morning. We made oatmeal (with strawberries) and drank the rest of our soymilk for breakfast, broke down our camp, and set out.
We took the long way. :-) It was GORGEOUS. Not only was it slightly downhill the whole way, which made it a relatively easy bike ride, but it was brilliantly beautiful. We took some pictures, and somehow, even though we had no water, we had a lovely time.
We stopped at the ranger station and filled up all our water bottles and drank drank drank like we were fish out of water. Then we biked the rest of the way home, and drank some more water. :-)
It took us about 2 1/2 hours to get home. A HUGE difference from 9 1/2 hours to get there!
So that was our camping trip. We spent a lot of Tuesday recuperating - we slept a lot, read a lot, and went out for sushi. Yesterday we walked to the mall, and got Andrew new shoes, and looked at books, and that sort of thing. Just wandered around, because we NEVER go to the mall.
I'm still kind of tired from our trip, but I'm SO PROUD OF US! We went through way more than we expected, and we lived through it, AND we weren't over-tired or over-sore or anything as a result! We are so fit!!!!! And we even ended up walking on Wednesday, to the mall and all over the mall and everything, even though we could have taken a bus.
We went to Torrid, which is a big girls store, with super cool stuff in it (for "alternative" girls) and we saw these super cute pants - so I tried on a pair of the size I am used to, and they were TOO BIGG!!!!!! So I tried on the size smaller, and it FIT!!! I am ALMOST of average size!!
So that was fun. I didn't buy the pants, but I sure was a happy lisa. :D
Anyway, then last night we ate a whole bunch of vegetables and watched "200 cigarettes" which was kind of cute, and read some more and went to bed and that's about that.
I'm very taken with the Raw Diet lately, we're thinking of trying it out. Not as in a "diet" to lose weight, but because I've heard a lot about how it gets rid of toxins and flushes out the system and gives more energy and all the rest of it.
The idea is that you eat only raw foods, which is a great way to cut out all refined products (including refined sugar), and processed carbohydrates, but it's not bad for you like the Atkins diet, because you still get carbs - from sprouted grains, fruits, and vegetables, and you still get protein, from beans and nuts! I'm excited about it, I can't really figure out why, maybe because it's summer, and it's HOT and I don't usually like cooking when it's hot anyway, and it would be tons of fun to eat lots of smoothies and salads with yummy home-made dressings and stuff.
We have to hang out with people tonight, and tomorrow night. I don't want to. I just want to stay at home and read. And maybe... read.
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Raw Food
Date: 2003-05-29 09:42 am (UTC)Re: Raw Food
Date: 2003-05-29 09:46 am (UTC)It's hard for me to tell what in this is fad and what is science, that's one of the reasons why I want to try it. Since I know that in the very least it's not unhealthy, trial and error is the best way I know to figure out if it's in fact MORE healthy... if that makes sense.
Re: Raw Food
Date: 2003-05-29 08:05 pm (UTC)Depending on what you're cooking, and how, it can also introduce oxidization byproducts from various proteins and carbohydrates etc. which are bad for you, even carcinogenic. That's more of an issue if you're, say, frying things by exposing them directly to intense heat, rather than, say, boiling them. Boiling, however, is one of the best ways to remove vitamins, which come out in solution in the water, which you then pour off...
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Date: 2003-05-29 10:50 am (UTC)I've heard good things about the raw diet. Your colon will love you too. :)
Adventure
Date: 2003-05-30 09:38 pm (UTC)Cam >B)