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Hi Guys,

Looked at my Bucket List recently & I seem to have lived longer than I expected to. I've done a couple laps around the country on a motorcycle, hunted dangerous game, had some epic trout fishing trips & bird hunts, a bunch of other stuff. What's left involves not-so-intense activities, mostly involving shorter bike trips, rivers & fly fishing. I've just re-read Jim Corbett's account of fly fishing for mahseer in the foothills of the Himalayas, I'd like figure a way to do that.
Anyway, what's on your Lists?

Uplander
 
control the fabric of all space and time. ( dunno I feel pretty well set, all that is left to do is destroy the universe)
 
Appalachian trail in one stretch
My daughter (almost 5) seems ready but we need to wait for her 2 year old brother to grow up a bit more. Problem is when her brother is old enough she'll be in the school system and taking her out of it for so long might not be so good from an academic/social perspective. I don't even know if a kind of "homeschooling" on the trail is allowed (wouldn't be in my home country for sure but since we live in the USA it might)
 
Probably learn a hell of alot more useful stuff on the trail than in a classroom. Although that's a pretty tender age for that sort of a trek.
 
yeah sounds like a worthy thing though, they would definitely let you get away with it as homeschooling
 
Thx Bawanna and Gehazi,
basically I take care of our 2 kids during the day and work a bit in the night. My wife works during the day. Since I am responsible for them most of the time I tend to expose them to things which I like too. Nothing too crazy like "little Hercules" http://www.kidzworld.com/article/5566-the-worlds-strongest-boy but I make sure they get at least 1 hour of exercise, 6 days a week. My daughter does Pushups(35), Pullups(10), Climbing Pole(20), Situps(200), Squats(100), Running, Monkey bars, Step Ups (40) on a regular basis. (in brackets is her current numbers she can do without a break) Many times we do some irregular more fun stuff or substitute things like situps with leglifts and so on.
I try to keep it versatile to prevent joint damages. No need to drill them in only one thing since I don't want them to be any olympians. Overall badass is much preferable in my opinion since it means less hurt and no steroids :thumbup:
How do you get kids to exercise? Once they are used to it its easy. Until then just be a good role model. Guess what I do on the playground? Yep same stuff as them :)

Yes there is also education and art but that's less interesting to read since that is pretty normal for most kids. Most of the time they play and they have room to discover their own interests. My daughter for example is big time into rock climbing. I have no idea where that came from, but why not?

For the trail, all they need to be able is walk a bit every day and carry their own water. The rest I can manage :)

Walking lots sounds hard until you try it. Saw a few first timers doing 100km in 24hours in hilly terrain. One of them was a a fat reporter who never hiked before. He didn't seem to be an exception. From all who started less than 20% gave up. I think we are all of capable of much more than we think, especially in walking, a human specialty.
 
The hiking is exercise, what gets most is the accomodations after a days walking. I walked from Canada to California in 70 to 80 or 90 mile segments when I was in scouts. Walking in heat or rain or foul weather I could deal with. Camping in wet miserable conditions wasn't near so much fun.

I remember clear as a bell all those years ago, we stopped for the day on a hill top with biting horse flies. That sucked really bad. I pleaded to pack up and move on and get away from them but the adult leaders wouldn't do it.
That was also the same night something stepped on me while sleeping. Not sure what it was a mountain goat or what, don't recall if I was bright enough to look for tracks then or not.

Of course this was all BC. (before chair). Be a little trickier now.
 
human beings are born to walk, to walk insane distances as well, we are the only endurance hunters on earth other than wolves.( and dogs)-- but I think it would be a great experience for them and you, but only if you carry a gun. or arm your kids with HI khukuris
 
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Heli-snowboarding in Alaska
Climbing Denali
Climbing and snowboarding down Mt. Ranier
Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Hiking the Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana sections of the Continental Divide Trail
Get dropped off by helicopter 200 miles from the nearest road somewhere in Alaska and live to tell about it

I think I may need to start saving more money...
 
I done a big chunk of the Crest Trail. I'd love to do that Continental Divide Trail, that would be cool. You can have the rest, I don't do mountain controlled sliding much.
 
Billygoat,
A cousin of mine took a float plane 200 or so miles up an Alaskan river, got out on a sandbar, inflated a raft & floated down. Caught & ate lots of trout, was watched by critters that had never seen a human.
Uplander
 
Bawanna said:
The hiking is exercise, what gets most is the accomodations after a days walking. I walked from Canada to California in 70 to 80 or 90 mile segments when I was in scouts. Walking in heat or rain or foul weather I could deal with. Camping in wet miserable conditions wasn't near so much fun.

I remember clear as a bell all those years ago, we stopped for the day on a hill top with biting horse flies. That sucked really bad. I pleaded to pack up and move on and get away from them but the adult leaders wouldn't do it.
That was also the same night something stepped on me while sleeping. Not sure what it was a mountain goat or what, don't recall if I was bright enough to look for tracks then or not.

Of course this was all BC. (before chair). Be a little trickier now.
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Scouts are great. Hoping they do similar things at Girl Scouts and don't limit themselves to selling cookies and bedazzling handbags. Will check them out because all I know about Girl Scouts is from some family movies on TV.

Environmental condition makes or break things sometimes but also makes memories more special. I remember us swearing a lot at our sergeants when crawling through mud camping wet, from hiking 20miles in rain, at water freezing temps in the night. Looking back however it's something not many people have done :)

I like your definition of BC.
You sure look like you could do more than lots of people without a chair. Wouldn't be surprised if you climb up a rope with your arms while I would fail when using all 4 of my limbs.
 
I like your definition of BC.
You sure look like you could do more than lots of people without a chair. Wouldn't be surprised if you climb up a rope with your arms while I would fail when using all 4 of my limbs.[/QUOTE]

Funny you mention rope climbing. I couldnt do it now but in High School I could easily. The PE Teacher/Wrestling coach always made me demonstrate. I bet I went up that goofy rope a 100 times. I need to get something going, I'm going to seed fast now, need to get back down to my fighting weight whatever that might be. My son went to personal trainer school and I'm fat?, that don't make no sense at all.
I helped my dad during the summer working for a fence company. There's something about working post hole diggers that builds the muscles you need for rope climbing, shooting a bow and best of all arm wrestling. I was just a little bitty guy in High School, 130 pounds dripping wet but nobody could beat me arm wrestling. Can't do that no more either. Maybe I need to dig some post holes?
 
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