A poster created for the Donner Bike Camping Overnighter Last month's Pony Express Bike Camping Overnighter was so fun, I decided to do the August overnighter that California Travis convened, the…

It was around 04:15 on Sunday morning when I arrived at my chosen swim, the blackness of night just beginning to succumb to the inky blue of dawn on the eastern horizon. The forecast had it being a…

My beast of a sweet potato. It was sprouting, so I shoved it into the ground. We're both happy with this arrangement. Excuse the weeds - a skunk has been coming in & out of the backyard and I've been…

Less than a week to go until RG and I head off to Switzerland and Italy to trek the Tour de Monte Rosa with KE. Money The trip notes say to take 120€ and 200 CHF. I’ve got the Euros and…

A detailed trip report for Day 7 of a northbound, early-season, GR20 thru-hike from Hôtel Castel de Vergio to Refuge de Tighjettu covering Stages 6 and 5. The post GR20 Northbound Thru-Hike Day 7…

Las Vegas, like everywhere else, is getting hotter. Here’s how to stay safe…

A short travel and concert report from seeing Deftones live in Vienna on August 16, 2026.

How to remove oneself from the belay in a rope system.

You come back from a two week trip with forty hours of raw footage, and the editing alone eats up the next three weekends. That is the part of travel vlogging nobody warns you about when they see the…

Join our summer cross on August 29th to ride Mountain Bike or Gravel. We offer four routes: 33 km, 42 km, 70 km, and 100 km, on each route you will be provided with drinks and snacks. The two shorter…

Most “greenest cities” lists measure the wrong things, and I believe the 3-30-300 rule offers a better way to measure how green a city really is.

This is my 5th visit to Japan. (So far I've been abroad 6 times. I live in Taiwan :3) This one really impressed me. I tasted some sai kou (最高) foods. I got myself a used tamagotchi to add a bit of…

We've arrived at cooler temps and have been at our AirBnB for several days now, located between Courtenay BC and Strathcona Provincial Park. We see snow on the mountaintops from our balcony - what a…

We have dogs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, a hamster, oh and flies. But of all of our animals there seems to be something special about cows. Perhaps it’s a subjective thing and what I resonate with,…

The non-berry harvests started rolling in. Along with food, Nicole grows a lot of flowers. <i

The wind has eased throughout the day and we have been giving us more sail area bit by bit. We are still making excellent progress towards our destination. Watermaker ran the whole day in preparation…

Angkor Thom announces itself before you even get inside. You pass through one of its massive gates, a stone face gazing down from the tower above while two rows of figures line the causeway, devas on…

Yep, lowering the mainsail killed the boat speed while heaving to. More things I learned: Tie five butterfly knots every foot or so to make a short rope ladder. Hang it from a whinch or cleat to…

Glimpses of Ferragosto in the Syracuse area — celebrating the Feast of the Assumption with moonshine, tradition, and unforgettable views! ☀️🇮🇹 ::: grid :::

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Camping along the coast of Rio de la Plata, the southern boundary of Uruguay Vamo Arriba! Or “let’s go!” as they like to say in Uruguay. Uruguay was a gentle pleasure. It may not have had the scenic…

We had one more corner of the &#8220;Big Island&#8221; of Hawaii left to explore before moving on to Oahu. It was a late addition to the schedule. The younger kid who is pursuing an undergraduate…

And, a scorpion! Some years ago, I bought a long wave 365nm UV flashlight through a group purchase the local geology club made. I had a few UV flashlights, cheap "scorpion lights" you see at gift…

perhaps the first of who knows how many- (1/?) surf vids been watching a lot of surf videos. just rented a garage studio at the beach with my homie and we've surfing and bumming around the beach and…

Having both very much enjoyed the dam at Thompson Falls more than I thought we would - and having already completed two stages of the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route over the course of the day -…

Epic solo bike rides aren’t the only way to challenge yourself on two wheels.

How a road could change West Africa&rsquo;s urban future Kasoa is a snapshot of how unplanned urbanization is unfolding in the region. Its population growth is far outpacing the creation of new roads…

Birding photos from Dutch Gap on Aug 15, 2026 My best bird photo from this morning is a dragonfly (Eastern Pondhawk, I think). Least Sandpiper Green Heron Red-headed Woodpecker. It's a juvenile, so…

The heatwave in Germany is continuing and everyone is suffering. We’re simply not (yet!) prepared for so many days with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius. Thomas’s plants are also suffering from…

Earlier this year, an anonymous Montrealer declared Machi Machi to be "an elite Boba shop for YUL". I too am interested in having good boba, so I hopped on the plane to Montreal with my girlfriend,…

Notes from the only person in athens. Nevertheless, dining out thrice, one perseid, losing a job to ai, losing fitness to laziness, and drama sausages.

On Tuesday, August 11, I published Part 1 of my experience hiking the Alay Mountains of Kyrgyzstan. If you haven’t read that post yet, I suggest you do to get caught up on the first four days on the…

There’s something about Santa Barbara that resets you the second you roll into town. The Pacific on one side, the mountains on the other, and that soft golden light that makes everything look like a…

Celebrating Yorkshire Day the proper way. What better way to celebrate Yorkshire Day on 1st August than with a yomp up on Ilkley Moor (baht &lsquo;at?) People have been wandering around Ilkley Moor…

For the first time in a very long time I decided to take my morning coffee to the backyard, and since the 200-800mm was still on my camera I took that out too. There were a couple of small birds…

hitchhiking to spain for the 2026 solar eclipse

We had a visa appointment at the US Embassy in the capital city, Ankara, on Friday. We were supposed to go there by the sleeper train on Thursday night but unfortunately my wife, in a way very out of…

I misread my Eurostar departure time and while I waited, got myself some tgtg cookies. Then decided to avoid the construction north of Freiburg by going through Basel and doing the basel station hop…

From using your phone with a controller, to having a full on dedicated device. It could be android, windows, or linux, but in the end what do you choose? I share my experience with handhelds to help…

The more you know, the more you know you don&apos;t know&#x2026;-&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0; Not AristotleJason &amp; Pat on TTRT2026. These two high-t-high-tea bros have…

Several months ago, a good friend of mine, who knows I&rsquo;m into birdwatching, suggested I watch a YouTube documentary called LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching. Little did I know at the…

the usual https://solitum.net/posts/20260815-hike-bryce-canyon-2026/ -Overview The last time I was here I thought it would be fun to hike into the park from the Tropic Trailhead, but I wasn&rsquo;t…

Getting An Early Start Okay, I admit I&#8217;m guilty of heading out to do a climb at what must surely be a ridiculously early hour. This has been a lifelong habit, much to the consternation of my…

After a not particularly brilliant night’s sleep, my excitement at being in Mexico kicked in and fuelled a few hours of exploration on our first full day here.We started with...

When you walk into Tumwater Falls Park, the Olympia Tumwater Foundation office is on your left and the WDFW hatchery facility on your right, directly ahead of you is the uppermost falls in the park.…

愛屋及烏 : to love the house and its crow 放鴿子 : to release the pigeon 畫眉鳥 : thrush

In the past month, I have gone from 371 Common Milkweed observations on iNaturalist (17th in the world) to 678 observations (9th). Previously, I had not tried the &#8220;Identify&#8221; feature, but…