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It's not a bad day, just not a busy one. The temp got up to, according to one of my thermometers, 64 or maybe a bit higher. I opened up the place just for some fresh air. Nice. Really. Then the temps plunged to 54 in no time. Something, weather or atmospheric, must have happened. The sun was the same, so that wasn't it. All good. A bit of fresh air was nice, has to help with mood and maybe health.
I've been meaning to order pants for hiking. The thing is, I hadn't been getting out. Jeans are my favored pant for common day to day, and some cargo pants. The jeans aren't the best for hiking, and the cargo pants are showing their age. New was needed. I looked far and wide, compared what companies were offering. I'm not going to pay $100-$300 for "hiking" pants. I don't care how "high tech" or groovy they are. Duluth Trader makes excellent seeming pants, cargo, light weight, nylon, sturdy, and on sale a good enough deal. I ordered three regular and one pair of lined. Unless I hike for months at a time, and probably even so, these will last a goodly number of years just for that. My only problem, which I wouldn't mind, is if I really hike a good deal I might lose enough weight to have to size down. Wouldn't mind at all. I'll review them when I receive them, and after using them a few times. I picked these out long ago, just haven't been out enough to spend the money on them.
It is a really good day. I think my sleep is going off the rails as the world warms up. It seems to have warmed so much and so quickly that I've been taken a bit by surprise and storm. Loving it though. It means hiking is much more likely. Even just a short foray or dozen, as the thaw sets, would be good. Oh, and fishing. I might have a fishing partner. Yeah, when you are this ill, it's difficult to get out on your own. A partner in crime helps.
Later.
$100-$300 hiking pants???
ReplyDeleteI guess I shouldn't be surprised. It's just that I did my fair share of hiking usually while wearing cut-offs which were once regular trousers. That, or a pair of gym shorts.
Right. Now, you didn't go when it was raining, snowing, shining, and for days or weeks at a time, I presume? Then again, you very well may have. While millionaires and billionaires go on expeditions, the rest of us simply go, do, as per want or need, but as we may. I was fine until .mil showed me just how many toys, gadgets, and such there are, and how to use such, even if quite often they weren't available in absolute time. Even so, still had to grunt through.
ReplyDeleteAnd there are reasons for some of it, if the operation is vital or you consider your assets worth keeping healthy, dry, unfrozen. I can certainly do without even these pants. My jeans are only $20 a pair, on sale. But if they get wet and it gets cold there might be a real problem. And, chaffing, always, with denim. You can hike a lifetime in jeans. But if you try even these, you probably won't ever want to hike in jeans again.
Oh, but the really pricey ones? Quite often those are just brands. Nothing you can't get, or cobble together, at a fifth, or less, the price. Just woke... was I rambling again? :p
It's true I never hiked Death Valley, or Aokigahara. But when my feet got itchy for a bit of distance over trails or such I'd just . . . go!
ReplyDeleteTo my way of thinking, people wearing designer "hiking jeans" or such are not so much interested in hiking as much as they're interested in being seen hiking. They're putting on a performance for some sort of audience.
No doubt, for many of them. Even if it's just them staring in their own show in their head. Remember, we live with a generation of kids whose parents only had one or two. They get everything, and yet can do almost nothing. Coddled, tech reliant, and socially connected, but completely incapable of handling the slightest of discomfort, criticism, or reality.
ReplyDeleteThere can be a reason for high tech, high dollar stuff. It's good when truly pushing it for real and good reasons. It's just that most don't need it. You definitely have a point. If I do happen to buy such gear, it isn't, strictly, from need. It's because I am pushing it just by walking out my door sometimes. So... a little tech to add surety might not be unwise. Thing is, very little of it really is helpful. Thankfully I don't have mommy and daddy coddling me and access to wealth just to toss away like that. Hrmm? I mean, I am cheap. Mostly. :p