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EFFORTPOST I've claimed Mt. Marcy in honour of the WPD cat

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< me on day 3 of 8 hours of fricking BOULDERING with a 45 lb pack a day to get this stupid flag on the summit

Some info: yes Mt. Marcy is a real mountain lol. when I've told some of you about it you've gone "wtf is that real" :marseyxd: but it's actually the highest point in the Adirondacks/NY in general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Marcy

I made the flag emblem with my cricut and I used my serger to size down a cheap truth and reconciliation flag to fit on a stick :marseyrake: . If I had my druthers it would be ironed but it seemed like a lot of work at the summit of a mountain :marseyantiwork2:

Since this is /h/outdoor and I did genuinely the most arduous horrible journey of my life I am going to hope I can do enough :marseywords: under expands to get effortpost status bc wow I was unprepared and I need to be compensated in some way for this terrible decision I made entirely of my own volition

Day 0.5

Started off the journey canoeing out to a campsite at Saranac Lake so we'd be able to get out to get to Marcy quick the next morning :marseyclueless: calm waters, nice warm day, perfect for a short hour long paddle

got a pretty nice island campsite, came with a big rock to put your stuff on canoe camping is great because you can just load things up heavy af and not have to worry about carrying any of it :marseysatisfied: was a cozy start to the trip surely it can only get nicer from here!

Day 1

Woke up bright and early to start the day! But what's this... the fog has rolled in and the horizon has disappeared. That's okay :marseyclueless: just retrace our steps it will be easy and we'll be back to the truck quick

moments like these really make you understand why neighbors thought they could just tip over the edge of the earth

It took about 2 hours with 0 visibility navigating around islands that would only appear when we got really close to them, but we managed to get to land, loaded up the truck, consolidated the packs to bring JUST what we needed to get through the next few days of backpacking. It's just hiking+camping, so we felt pretty confident that our 45 lb packs would be fine. People who need expensive ultralight gear, lmfao, kitties, imagine spending thousands to have a light pack when you could just GIT GUD and be strong :marseyclueless: !fitness knows where this is going. Now that we were set up with the essentials we got on our way :marseydance: ....

...to spend $75 on parking alone :marseyflushzoom: they also made us get a bear barrel because bear hangs are illegal there :drafts: it's the northeast, if a bear comes for your peanut butter just tell him polar bears go way harder than him and he doesn't deserve any lil treats and he'll run away crying. We purchased our barrel that totally fit all of our food :marseyglancing: and set off!

The first day we did this portion of the trip in red The first hour or so took us 2.5 miles to Marcy Brook. Nice dirt path, mostly flat, just a tiny bit uphill, boy this trip is going to be great! this is Marcy Dam :marseybeaver: so beautiful to see the mountains in the distance, the trees changing

Hm, there's campsites here, but if we go another half a mile, it'll be more secluded, and we'll be even closer to where we gotta go! What's another half a mile when we're already making such great time? :marseyclueless:

I can't begin to explain to you how fricking bad of a decision this route was. It immediately switches from flat, dirt paths to climbing over gigantic rocks. this is about the nicest that the path got, which as anyone who backpacks knows, this still sucks butt when you have a big pack and 4 days to go where you can't risk twisting an ankle. It got much worse than that but I had to lock in and didn't take pics unfortunately. Hiking when your knee is coming up to your chin to clamber over rocks is already tiring, but do this with a 45 lb pack as a 120 lb girl and it becomes a nightmare very quickly. I kept getting stuck in positions where I'd have to get on my hand and knees and pull myself up over rocks that were nearly as tall as me, and half the time my hiking companion would have to lift the pack as I stood because I couldn't stand up under the weight of it after 8 hours of pushing myself til my heartrate was hitting 180 :marseyflushzoomzoom: GET A SECOND JOB IDC JUST BUY THE ULTRALIGHT SHIT IF UR A LITTLE GIRL TRYING TO DO THIS

Occasionally, there would be short breaks with very beautiful views that my camera cannot adequately portray the feeling of being very small in these giant gorges is incredible

After literally 8 hours straight of hauling myself up rocks, sliding off rocks taller than me where I was dropping down feet after that, getting stuck in between :marseysweating: (I was seeing even shorter azn women come back the direction toward me with their dogs, b-word how the heck did you do that these rocks are 6 feet tall, there was 0 way I could've gone back through this path), doing the thing where you climb up cliff faces with your back wedged against them and shimmy up with your legs (chimneying?) we were no closer to finding a camp site. Morale was at an all time low. We were passing people, doing the wealthy mayo sport acknowledgements "hows it going" "you too" where you don't even really hear each other, you're just saying stuff to let each other know you're normal. Finally one asked "hows it going" and in my moment of personal 9/11 I was like "really bad actually we've been going nonstop all day I'm exhausted but there's 0 campsites and infinite giant boulders" and they indicated there were secret ones back a ways since the maps you buy at the lodge don't have campsites just lean-tos and they were all taken :marseyschizotwitch: god bless those people

It was pitch dark by the time we found a spot to set up for the night even though we started at 6 AM. We brought a pot to put on the jetboil to fry up some spam for our dinners but it wasn't compatible :marseygunshotsuicide: so we just put wet soft spam in with knorr pasta packets and boiled em with the little jet boil thing made for boiling water , and that doesn't sound especially good but after that day this was literally ambrosia. After wondering for the past 4 hours if we were going to find a spot at all, my mind was too wired to fall asleep. Thank god for benadryl :benadryl: :snorecat:

Day 2

It could only get easier from there. Not even a :marseyclueless: moment, it really only could. It wasn't easy but anything compared to that first day was nice

We did this part in yellow ending up at the Feldspar campsite by mid day.

The day started off with a pretty light hike it wasn't so much a ton of climbing as much as just trying to keep your feet as dry as possible when you have to ford these large river sections

It was my first time crossing a rope bridge! it was pretty neat, but my pack got readjusted so it was even heavier that day, and I had to climb a big rock to get up to it and embarrassingly got stuck in front of a bunch of gay dudes lmao I had to take the pack off to stand up :marseypaperbag: . I can squat 200 but turns out starting flat on ur belly after you've been gassed for hours is a whole other game :marseydoomer:

There was still a lot of climbing over large rocks, but they were only like waist high instead of chin high. there were a couple "what the frick" moments too though. I think this image actually represents the whole trip very well

We got into camp relatively early that day since there was still light out and it was nice for a couple hours til some randos came and set their tent up literally 5 feet away lmao wtf is with people :marseyxd: the northeast has so many people that you climb boulders nonstop for 2 days and you still gotta listen to people talk about what growing up in a jewish home was like well into the night :marseypop2: on a good day, in solitude, it's impossible to not make racist jokes in the tent, so I have to imagine we were probably pretty bad that night :taygrimacing: black bears are not worth being afraid of so we brought some trail mix in to snack on so before you set ur tent up right next to someone else consider: if u are afraid of bears, they may not be, and they're probably snackin in there

When the "would you choose the bear" thing was going around this is why it was stupid af btw, I could hulk probably a crowd of 10,000 Jewish women, I am not afraid of them nor even moids, but if I had to choose between a bear or Abby Shapiro and her giant milkers in the woods I would pick the bear. He's supposed to be there! I went to the woods to get away from you people :marseyraging:

Day 3

To the summit! we did the green part of the map up to the summit and then back to the campgrounds. We left our shit set up and just took light packs. And what a good decision that was :feelssogood: It was very very steep the first half. I've never been more happy to have sewed a full linen outfit for this trip than at this part - highly recommend investing in some linen if you're doing sweaty shit.

we kept coming across little flat areas where I'd try to prevent myself from looking up at the peak and :marseydespair: at how far away it was. But the views were pretty lovely and :marseyhope: because at least if it was arduous, it was arduous somewhere pretty

We stopped for lunch on this big flat rock just before you have to lock in to get to the summit, looking at the peak once again had me :marseydespair: but sitting on this big rock and eating pepperoni and cheese wrapped in a tortilla hit in ways you couldn't even imagine

It started getting less "climb up rocks and boulders" and more "try to find a tree to grab while you walk up steep rock faces" until we finally reached the point when you can SEE the summit, and jfc

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I was expecting something of a trail. Maybe with a rope! You could hold it so you could pull yourself up kinda, and stabilize yourself!

NOPE

It's just some spray painted marks to tell you vaguely, the fewest humans have slipped and rolled off if they went this way. the perspective on this picture is kinda fun, almost looks like it could be me taking a photo below me of a flat area. No. It's straight fricking up. AND YOU JUST HAVE TO WALK UP IT

and you know what happens after you walk up it, right?

YOU HAVE TO FRICKING WALK DOWN IT TOO

WITH YOUR FEET

I need you to understand that the angle here is such that it kind of hurts your ankles to be walking up it. You need good grip shoes here. Or you just die lmao. There's a doxxing photo of me where some rocks slipped under me and I shut down and just curled into a ball :marseyscared: for a few minutes until I started going up on my hands and knees while yuppies with their lil sticks were walking up, not a care in the world

But the peak! Again, photography fails me here, there's no way to capture what it's like looking DOWN on dozens of gigantic mountains, looking at places you've climbed for days to get to previously and seeing them so far below you. A couple screenshots from the panorama I took you could spend all day looking through the binocs up here

I spoke to the DNR worker at the peak and she confirmed they will be changing this to Marsey now that I've claimed it for us.

Climbing down the mountain sucked butt because I was scared of tumbling off, and we ran out of water and were thirsting over random mud puddles on the way 👀, but getting back to the tent at the end of the night and knowing that it was all downhill from here was so nice :marseysatisfied:

Day 4: The Final Day

Just kidding lmfao, the final day started off with a bunch more frickin uphill. we did the final blue part all the way back to the parking lot on this day. We packed everything up and lamented having to carry our giant packs around again :marseycry: but at least we knew at the end of the day we'd be able to buy a bunch of goyslop and go hang out in an airbnb with a hot tub.

In the northeast, when a beaver sets up a dam, they just... divert the whole route for everyone and you have to traverse through the mud. They should learn about tannerite! Beavers may have built America but there's no reason you can't just step on their dams if they wanna be peepeeheads and set up on the route, at the very least :marseyraging: I've seen dudes portage heavy butt plastic canoes over beaver dams while wearing CROCS, you're telling me these ppl expect you to be able to do the rest of this horrific trail but not walk on some beaver houses??

During the portions it wasn't muddy, it was lovely , during the portions it was muddy, it was funny to pass the yuppies with their lil sticks and white northface meanwhile I'm covered up to my waist in mud and almost lost my boot to the bogs

Eventually, we got back to Marsey Dam. And what a beauty it was. Past that, all flat land... that original 2.5 miles that made us think it'd be an easy trip. Seeing the truck again :marseychefkiss: I've never felt more relieved. We were grunting out "truck!!! truck!!!!!" covered in mud, stinking to high heaven, my white shirt was permanently dyed brown from tripping almost getting lost in the bog like Artax, one side of my butt burning in ways never before felt because I was leading the climb up the giant boulders with my right leg. We went to a grocery store and bought a cart full of goyslop for a 'oops we were in the woods for it' bday and gorged ourselves !goyslopenjoyers know what it's like after camping

Total distance for the trip was only 18 miles, elevation was 2466 ft from bottom to top. If you did it without packs or ultralight ones the rock climbing would likely be just moderately challenging instead of :marseyeyemixer2:

Overall this was definitely "type 2 fun" where it's not fun at all while you're doing it :marseydead: but in hindsight it was neat and I'm glad I did it. I'm also glad I had no idea it was going to be this butt because I would not have done it if I knew it was going to have 2 hours of hiking and then the rest would be rock climbing lmao. I would never do this again. If I had to, I'd do one of the day long routes where you don't camp and just bring a camelbak. No one seemed to want to kill themselves when they were doing the day hike so I assume it's not that bad, and the guide book says it's a fairly easy route.

I did see some really nice guys from NC with awesome accents struggling hard AF to get through one of the routes on our way out, I really hope they had a good trip and when they got back home it wasn't fricked :marseydespair: I can't imagine anything worse than going through avalanche pass and then getting home and ur house floated away

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I had to cut short my planned bike ride today due to mechanical issues. Dam.... (Note the dam in pic 3)

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Cockroach farming

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EFFORTPOST We had to do emergency vaccination and medicinal application to cattle yesterday, straight into the eyeballs of cows/cattle

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My father and other lunatics near his farm has had the bright idea to start a hobby farming into :marseycow: :carpcowboy: :marseycowmad: :carpcow: :marseysphericalcow: cattle

For the past 4 months they've been building a dipping kraal, or a medicine application bead/holding, which is just basically a pre-built fence or passage where cattle/cows/goats/bucks or any other form of domesticated bovines are herded through, preferably one-by-one to apply veterinary care,

like spraying their fur with anti-lice or anti-parasite poison, or injecting them with vaccinations or whatever the particular situation requires.

This dipping passage system, can be technologically sophisticated

or locally rurally primitive - as has been done 100 years ago

https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/farming-basics/how-to-livestock/a-career-in-veterinary-nursing/

Large commercial farmers can even have hardcore systems to separate cattle into groups while applying medication, prior to selling for auctions or butcheries

THere's even companies which build custom, but pre-fabricated pens and dipping-passages which have proven to be very effective for commercial farmers

https://www.facebook.com/taltec.co.za/posts/tal-tec-se-sirkel-drukkraal-uitleg-is-n-kraal-om-jou-beeswerk-maklik-en-vinnig-t/4105574749474093/

all looks very complicated, but what it boils down to is to aid in the driving on of domesticated animals, without hurting cattle or ranchers themselves, while also leaving easy access to the animals for medication care. There is no definitive surefire method or structure, they are as variable as there are farmers and stock.

Some act as multi-purpose structures, where once vaccinated, cattle are thenafter driven onto ramps, up to transportation trucks

which again can vary dramatically, from humble specialized trailers, capable of being pulled by any pick-up truck with sufficient power, to gargantuan commercial grade trucks capable of transporting a 100 bastards at once

Anyways, the nutjobs near my father's farm had started to construct a homemade dipping kraal/passage, by using manual labour and a generator bolted onto an shopping trolley's wheels! (this was from a month ago)

The dipping enclosure were to have wooden beams with giant rubber strip lengths surrounding the enclosure, to protect the cattle from harming themselves when they bump into the wooden beams, a the soft rubber softens the blow like the softened corners of a wrestling ring.

These giant rubber strips were pulled tight around the wooden beams with a specialized fence-wire pulling tool, which utilized leverage onto chains with a clamped with each segment

This "Draadtrekker" or "Wire-Puller" has this teethed mechanism, to consecutively "climb" onto a chain, to pull a wire clamped onto it's tail end, and uses leverage to strengthen the pull onto each consecutive chain link. It's operation is very hard to describe into words. But it basically "climbs" onto the chain, with the teeth hooks.

It's soft of like like a ratchet wrench type device but not really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_(device)

The idea is to pull a wire or other material as taut as possible, to strengthen the wire's structure, usually for farm fences.

Saturday and Yesterday, my father had discovered that the 6 beeste had severe eye infections, to the degree that they were borderline blind. Their eyes were swollen and inflamed, and the cause uncertain - as they are supposed to be the type of local Safrican breed hardened against this climate and its parasites and illnesses. Regardless the cattle were really rough looking

TTheir eyes so swollen that they could barely see more than a few meters ahead of themselves.

One cow which was so angsty and evasive, literally ran away from my father in panic as it could not recognize my father - mistaking him from some other predator or whatever, despite usually running at speed whenever my father appears in the veld towards him, because my parents regularly feed them lettuce and carrots to make them used to humanity

This brought alarms to everyone, and soon he had called me from across the farm with dogshit 3rd world cellphone signal - i only noticed a "missed-call" in my SMS, and realized my father's intention. I had to run in 33 degree heat :marseyburn: :marseyfireeyes: and gather the two Lesotho laborers currently building the unfinished kraal, because the 6th cow was being so evasive, that it would require a multi-man concerted effort, to corral this beest into the dipping passage, in order to closely inspect wtf was wrong with it.

:marseysweating: after lots of sweating we managed to not just gather the blind-beest, but also the other 5 beeste, into the unfinished, but luckily fully enclosed kraal, i had to run like hooligan and ram pipes into the exit of the dipping passage , to block off the exit, and ensure the 6 cattle corralled into the dipping passage, would not just exit like water from a funnel :marseydead: so tired.

Then once they were within the kraal, structure we could clearly see at point blank, just how fricked up their eyes were. All 6 had problems, 3 of them had tears running down the sides of their faces endlesslly - it appeared that they had great aggravated suffering.

To compound this horror and bad luck, my father had enlisted the services of a farm animal vet, but he had decline to doctor them for eye and other parasite related shit, because he had stated that it was useless to apply medicine before symptoms showed :marseybeanannoyed: well now 2 weeks later we were all staring at blind 6 cattle with dark black tear streaks in obvious suffering.

We were all tired from the corralling efforts in a humid crushing 33 degree heat (which is nothing i know compared to the 40 degree heat in actually hot places in the country), so we decided to start lunch while my father made a decision.

We made boiled eggs and noodles, and my mother shared the same for the 2 Lesotho men (many SA employers can be ruthless and let men work without break in the sun, nor ever give them food)

After lunch my father had decided, we cannot wait even a week for a vet to come again, and that likely if these cattle were not treated, they could form permanent cataract-like debilitating ailments, or just become blind. He still had eye-treating medicine stored in his shed. And OH BOY did i not yet realize what we were in for!!

The next stage was to corral the 6 cattle from the outer kraal, into the dipping funnel passage, and to our woes, the structure was not yet finished, additionally the 6 cattle were spooky and uncooperative and we found it impossible to fricking separate them, thus we were only capable of herding all 6 into the funnel passage at once, so that they were squashed tightly.

This was not done for the sake of animal abuse, but because it was decided if we did not treat these animals here and now, blindness would follow - and we were without all the cowtools we needed, the passage was unfinished and we had not fricking vet with us.

Ironically, the fact that the cattle had squashed themselves so tightly, meant that they could not bump their heads in erratic spontaneous movements and hurt themselves.

We were supposed to have a headclamp ordered, but it was still a city away and had not yet been delivered, but this was an emergency, and again we could not fricking wait

Thus we had to also make to with the only pitiful rope we had - which the Lesotho men tied around the nearest wooden beam, and then the horns/mouth of the specific cattle we wanted to treat, in order to keep their heads still and unmoving - and once again this was not done for the sake of animal cruelty

Cattle/cows are unbelievably strong. You often see videos of city-slickers and people who've never encountered wild animals or even domesticated farm animals before and tourists dangerously approach large animals into their comfort-zone, only to get mauled/hooved and their body battered.

Cattle have necks with the thickness and strength of ten men's arms - i've seen before how careless ranchers or farmhands have their hands crushed :marseyscream: :marseyeyelidpulling: and their bones splintered from just one spontaneous movement of a cow's head, pinning a man's hand next to a wooden bean, or alternatively bending backwards every fricking digit of a man's fingers :marseymonsterpenisshadow: :marseycringe: because the usually docile and pleasant cow gets spooked and have no idea of their own strength compared to a human's, and unintentionally can cause tremendous bodily harm to its owners. Just one random jerk of an unaggressive cow's head can gore the arm of a reckless man. :unicorn: :marseylonghorn:

The 6 cattle were stuffed and jampacked into the funnel dipping passage, and thus we placed two pipes at the entrace to the passage to block them in! i had to literally push the last cow in with all the force of my strength along with the two Lesotho men, while a 3rd pushed in pipes between the wooden beams to lock them inside!!!

From here on out we had to apply two types of medicine (which i cant spell or pronounce): One was a bottle of teardrop type medicine which was applied by lifting up the lids of the target cattle, and squeezing it onto the area of irritation/inflammation. The 2nd was an injection via needle which, as per the instruction of the vet, had to be injected into the eyelids of the cow!!!! :marseytrollgun: :marseyeyelidpulling: But a cow's eyelids are very thick and filled with blood-vessels, and much larger when compared to a human's

As you guys can imagine, no animal likes to have their fricking eyeballs messed with and manipulated, especially after they are hurting and highly irritated by whatever infected it, like a human's red-eye.

This was why we had been forced to stabilize the cattle's head, by tying it up, lest it hurt itself or us, in it's panic or pain.

Of course i personally was too much of a b-word butt wimp to personally handle the medicine and eyeball needle shit, so i balked at that part :marseytrollcrazy: but my father is giga hardcore and wen to great lengths to be gentle and shit.

finally after like 40 minutes, the poor cattle could dazedly and with stiff legs get the frick out of the cramped dipping funnel

we pulled out the pipes blocking the funnel exit, and they skedaddled out of there

what a nightmare

slice of life shit

Some mielie/maize bread baked by mother next to braai (open fire)

giant unused ordinance - from WW1, WW2 and 1899 boer war.

sister feeding cattle lettuce and carrots

Khoisan maize/corn/wheat giant mortal and pestle stones - smooth stones used to grind any edible grain or mielies into food capable of being baked into starch or other food like pap

im not nearly as cool as that other dramatard which built his whole fricking porch, but hopefully some of you found this at least somewhat mildly amusing

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