We literally just had China hack our telecommunications and this guy wants to eliminate the agency countering overseas nation-state hacking. It’s almost like Trump’s cabinet is not really on our team…

Yeah, as if they have any principles to stand by. Our country is being run by psychopaths.

In keeping with the citrus theme, azahar means ‘orange blossom’ in Spanish.

Makes me think of Fritz Haber. His story is too complicated to sum up in a quick blurb. But essentially he was a German-Jewish chemist and nationalist that developed poisonous gases eventually used in gas chambers during the Holocaust. Even though he was basically a national hero he had to flee for his life once the Nazis came to power. There was an episode of Behind the Bastards about him for anyone interested.

I’m sure there’s other kinds but the most common Chinese sausage found in the States is cured and has a decent amount of sugar, which is probably a big contributor to it’s stability. It’s nice to have around the house, since it holds forever and can be used in a lot of different ways. It’s great as a breakfast meat. You can steam it with rice to reconstitute it. I like it in pan fried noodles or the sausage rolls from the Chinese bakery. It’s even served well in non-traditional roles like spaghetti carbonara. Grab some next time you’re at the Asian grocer.

It’s funny how everyone criticizes Obama for drone strikes, but but almost no one mentions the fact that Trump’s numbers were way higher before he decided to stop reporting them at all. President of Peace, my ass.

Yeah, no one should actually be fucking Elon

TIL. I always assumed doge coin was his thing since he seemed to promote so much. Either way, these guys are insufferable nerds.

Edit: I just read he actually referred to himself as the “Dogefather.” Fucking cringe.

Also, fuck that guy.

Edit: and by ‘that guy’ I mean Ramaswamy. Fuck Musk too.

100% Musk’s idea. Because he doesn’t think the other 8 billion humans on the planet are real people and none of this is of any real consequence to him.

Hope you’re a millionaire. It’s expensive to just exist there.

Average temp of tanning beds is 75° Fahrenheit, but they can go up to 86°. If that thing was on all weekend, I can’t imagine how disgusting things were by Monday.

M-E-T-H-O-D maaAN!

Why doesn’t he just use the presidential weather machine against his enemies? Wouldn’t he get the keys to it during transition?

You know, they say repetition is a proven way to get people to believe anything.

Did you end up going?

Don’t know how I missed this. Thanks! Definite potentially weird conditions, but if I can backpack later into the season here, I will!

Thanks. I believe the salamanders burrow under mud and go into a sort of torpor. There are a ton of meadows and marshes. It seems like the area supports a large variety of wildlife.

My SO read about the wolf sighting. We weren’t too far from Wyoming, which could explain it. I’m not sure of they’ve done it yet, but the state was planning on releasing some wolves as well.

Sad to hear about the fire but it’s all too common.

Yes, definitely. UC Boulder did a study and found that 84% of wildfires are human-caused. Nuts.

Got out for a few days. Originally planned for 4 days, but Monday’s weather was nasty and Friday was supposed to get snow and 50 mph winds, so we cut out part of the route and did 3. We got snowed/sleeted on the first night and woke to a completely glazed over tent. Super fun to clean up before packing up.

The rest of the trip was mostly uneventful beside winds picking up as the trip went on. We saw plenty of wildlife. Moose, elk, owls, bats, pika, a salamander. Someone supposedly saw a wolf there recently. Below is a very fresh mtn goat kill we found up on the ridge line.

We didn’t see more than a few people the whole time, but that didn’t keep us from having to put out someone’s still very alive bed of coals at their campsite. They could’ve easily taken the 5 minutes to do it as they were less than 100 feet from water. Extremely annoying.

Good trip otherwise. The fall colors were really starting to pop.

Cool, report. Very well written. I enjoyed this thoroughly. Not sure if you were keeping a journal or just wrote it that way, but it’s narratively effective.

One could be bummed about having to bail due to weather, but you made the right decision in the moment. And it doesn’t sound like a wasted trip at all. You saw some cool stuff, met cool people, got to hang out in/around SLC and got more hiking in where you could.

I know there wasn’t much time, but are there any changes you made to your setup you were happy with or things you would’ve done differently in retrospect?