More reading, and resting.

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Thankfully my friend will be pulling me out of the cave tomorrow.  Sure, to help him.  But usually when I show up there is food somewhere in the visit.  Food!  I did make myself a bit to eat tonight.  Nothing fancy.  What I thought was sausage but ended up being hamburger, fried, then with eggs scrambled in, packaged in tortillas.  Nothing fancy, but darn it, I was and am hungry.

I am guessing that, now, it isn't being worn down that got to me, or at least the last day or two.  The weather up and turned chilly.  The sun hasn't been out much.  We need the rain so I'm not even going to say "boo", and possibly jinx the rain.  I'll just need to remember to turn the furnace up a bit, as needed.  Yes, I have to consciously consider what most people would just know to do.  My body and mind aren't always in very solid simpatico.  It does it's things, sometimes dragging me around to do it.  And I do the same.

The book is an interesting thing, but... without getting hands on, it's... sort of dry in the immediacy.  I did check the navigation section, and, yes, it looks like a word for word abridgement.  Which, as I said, is fine.  There isn't a lot to orienteering, or more navigating as they describe just compass and compass and map planning and travel.  The thing is, quite often it can't really be used.  In the mountains, perhaps if you are lost.  Or if you decide to put up caches in various locations.  Maybe if you have a base camp, in a broader area.  But in that starter area, where I was hiking, you can't but go one way.  Well, two, technically, if you count turning back and retracing your path.  I suppose you could to a technical climb up the sides of the canyons, but... you wouldn't get lost.  Miles back, into the woods, I have some doubts about great utility.  Knowing where you are would be the problem.  It's more a guesstimate type of thing.  And, actually, if you are lost... that's pretty much going to make navigating just more of a guesstimation sort of thing.  Which might still be better, I suppose.  I guess what I am saying is that, when out there, either you know where you are or you are in some state of being lost.  Simply having an idea where you headed, roughly, so knowing which direction you want to go to return, is... all I expect from the science.  I'll see, I suppose.

The part that I really want to get a grasp on is knots.  And a bit into climbing.  Solo climbing is looked down upon, but for someone like me, it's about all I could probably muster.  There will be places where, to get down, and maybe somehow back up, a little ropework would be good.  Nothing fancy.  I won't be mountaineering for any reason I could imagine.  That's a sport, and for people who don't think they have enough risk in their life.  I am purely purpose driven.  Do I really need to get there, for my purposes?  If so, and there is something in the way, and no easy workaround, then...  then I might take a risk.  Risk, like money, is something to be spent, and wisely, not squandered on fluff, in my book anyway.  When men take extreme risks with health and life for fun, we live in a world that is a bit too wealthy.  I just imagine all of those men who went into mines to feed their families, and men who sailed the seas without engines or communication, who would much have preferred a safer way to make a living.  Though I do understand, risk is one of those things that... men need.  The need for speed sees many of us to an early grave, if that, probably, mostly, isn't the point.

Just... figuring things out and putting the score on the board.  Later, or good night.