met up with riz_aaroni last sunday...the 'shroom hike!

JV3

JV3

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the mighty izula was hungry so...
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it only took aaron and myself 3 months of chopping but the izula did get the job done :eek::D
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unlike so many celebrities this one doesn't need an airbrush to look pretty.
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from left to right, the knives are:

01. aaron's - ?
02. aaron's - ?
03. aaron's benchmade rant
04. aaron's mora
05. aaron's rc-4
06. my esse-4
07. my spyderco military
08. aaron's opinel
09. aaron's izula
10. my junglas
11. my bk-9
12. my gerber exchange-a-blade
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i think we brought enough cutting tools :rolleyes: i left my becker necker, izula, bk-2, rc-3, rc-5, & lite machete in the truck. i just had to see what all the fuzz is about all this ultra light hiking bs :D
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the mushrooms! there were a ton of 'em and i have no idea which ones are edible so we left them alone. aaron did find some wild berries and against his advice i quickly munched on a few of them. a few minutes later i complained of stomach aches/slight dizziness. sorry, bro it was a bad joke :eek::D

i trusted tonym when he said all segmented berries are edible. he was right since i'm still here :thumbup: i'll keep trying and see if i find an exception to that rule :eek:
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this one doesn't have white spots. the red cover in some parts just got taken off or munched on, appearing white.
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these were huge.
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what a strange mushroom! i vaguely remember eating tons of these when i was a kid but can't remember when/where :rolleyes:
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aaron - nice to meet you, bro. we gotta hike again soon. hopefully the other nj/ny crew...cough...rescueriley...cough...gonadz...will join us next time. neither of us turned out to be serial killers. whew :D
 
Great pics man! I personally think ultra-liting is over rated but d@mn bro...I'd hate to have to hump your pack if you ever got injured on a non-ultra-lite day :eek:

I love the last line it's hilarious but I do have to wonder about the mental disposition of a man, in possession of a Junglas, who chooses to use the Izula to chop...whittle...gouge...whatever...his way through a 5 inch log. :D

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Awesome, was great meeting you too. My saw is the crappy one you can get at Dick's Sporting Goods, though I forget the name. The next one is a Leatherman Charge AL. I don't think we brought enough knives though....next time we'll be prepared. Photos are great btw.
 
mistwalker said:
Great pics man! I personally think ultra-liting is over rated but d@mn bro...I'd hate to have to hump your pack if you ever got injured on a non-ultra-lite day :eek:

I love the last line it's hilarious but I do have to wonder about the mental disposition of a man, in possession of a Junglas, who chooses to use the Izula to chop...whittle...gouge...whatever...his way through a 5 inch log. :D

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thanks, bro. haha, i was just kidding. my usual hiking knives are the esee-4 & junglas only. if i go off-trail then i'll bring the lite machete. i brought most of my knives along that day so aaron can pick which ones he's interested in checking out.

that izula is a sneaky one! it waited for the bk-9 & junglas to do all the work and then swoop in at the end for the photoshoot & credit :D we did build a camp fire when it was 85 deg f :p disturbing...very disturbing indeed!


riz_aaroni said:
Awesome, was great meeting you too. My saw is the crappy one you can get at Dick's Sporting Goods, though I forget the name. The next one is a Leatherman Charge AL. I don't think we brought enough knives though....next time we'll be prepared. Photos are great btw.
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next time i'll cut down on water! holy moly 100 oz bladder and 40 oz bottle is freaking heavy. normally my pack without water is only 10 lbs or so. i keep forgetting it's a lot colder once in the woods compared to the parking lot/city.


RescueRiley said:
Hey I know that spot,... Nice Pics, Sorry I couldn;t make it.
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next time, bro.
 
JV3 said:
....aron - nice to meet you, bro. we gotta hike again soon. hopefully the other nj/ny crew...cough...rescueriley...cough...gonadz...will join us next time. neither of us turned out to be serial killers. whew :D
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Didn't even catch this the first time through lol. Good to know neither of us are serial killers.
 
JV3 said:
thanks, bro. haha, i was just kidding. my usual hiking knives are the esee-4 & junglas only. if i go off-trail then i'll bring the lite machete. i brought most of my knives along that day so aaron can pick which ones he's interested in checking out.

that izula is a sneaky one! it waited for the bk-9 & junglas to do all the work and then swoop in at the end for the photoshoot & credit :D we did build a camp fire when it was 85 deg f :p disturbing...very disturbing indeed!
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I was just giving you a hard time bro. I've got no room to talk lately. The last three outings I've been do photography for 3 websites, a blog, and some of my other work, plus studies in edge geometries. The last time I hit the woods with three tomahawks, half a dozen knives, 6 different ferro based fire starters, my photo equipment, and my personal gear.

I know that feeling too. Everytime I incorporate fire starting into a knife review here when it's 96 degrees with a heat index of 105 this little voice in my head keeps asking "why the h#ll are you doing this?".





JV3 said:
next time i'll cut down on water! holy moly 100 oz bladder and 40 oz bottle is freaking heavy. normally my pack without water is only 10 lbs or so. i keep forgetting it's a lot colder once in the woods compared to the parking lot/city.
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Well...good to see you've got your priorities straight :)

I know the feeling. That last trip I filled up my guyot with ice and water then got hung up talking to a friend in a parking lot for twenty minutes. I went back in with my canteens and dumped them and filled them up with ice and water too. After the four hours I was up there I still only drank the guyot and a few sips of one canteen.

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I thin water is one of those things I rather have way too much of than anything else. As long as you have water, you will survive. Admittedly we were going for a quick hike and not a month long adventure, but you never know. I did finish the 1.5L of water I brought, though I was thinking about bringing the nalgene I have.

On a side note, I wish I could camp out for a week or two and just mess around with knives and bushcraft stuff.
 
JV3- Im a few hours from harriman, I usually get up to the Adirondacks once a week or so, Sometimes the Cats, usually around Windham+northern catskills.
headed up to Grafton lakes State park as we speak. Should be fun to wander around for a day.
 
mistwalker said:
Well...good to see you've got your priorities straight :)

I know the feeling. That last trip I filled up my guyot with ice and water then got hung up talking to a friend in a parking lot for twenty minutes. I went back in with my canteens and dumped them and filled them up with ice and water too. After the four hours I was up there I still only drank the guyot and a few sips of one canteen.

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yeah, next time i'm putting quite a bit of ice in the bladder. carrying all that water weight made me work harder and sipping on warm water almost made me even more thirsty! i need to bring my golden retriever along so i can let him carry the water for me :D


riz_aaroni said:
I thin water is one of those things I rather have way too much of than anything else. As long as you have water, you will survive. Admittedly we were going for a quick hike and not a month long adventure, but you never know. I did finish the 1.5L of water I brought, though I was thinking about bringing the nalgene I have.

On a side note, I wish I could camp out for a week or two and just mess around with knives and bushcraft stuff.
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i was carrying 4 liters of water on top of the almost half a liter i chugged on the way there :eek: i promise if we get lost and i start running out of water i'll eat the mushrooms so i'll die quickly so you won't have to carry me back to the parking lot :eek::p


NYForesterXT said:
JV3- Im a few hours from harriman, I usually get up to the Adirondacks once a week or so, Sometimes the Cats, usually around Windham+northern catskills.
headed up to Grafton lakes State park as we speak. Should be fun to wander around for a day.
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you're way too far from us then. i'll probably be heading up there with friends this fall for some salmon fishing. we'll see.
 
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