Photos From A "My God I've Gotta Get Out Of This House" Hike...

[Mistwalker]

Very nice pics but I gotta know how that Spartan feels at work out in the bush??? It looks so good and costs so much I don't know if I'd let it play outside

Thanks man, glad you enjoyed them. I think it feels awesome and handles very well in it's intended dual role. I love the ergos, and Bill Harsey did a fantastic job on the grinds. And that's one of the coolest things about one of my jobs, It was my job to take it out and see how it performed so I didn't get an option not to use it. It's a great design, it would be a shame for it to live out its life not being used.

I hope it is good weather when I come down there later this year. Don't need the bad weather at that time. I want to get my nephew some good outdoors time when I'm there. Should be a good trip. :thumbup:

Well, hopefully you're planning your trip for summer then Looks like it's going to rain all winter...usually rains all spring, then the summer dries out a little. I guess that's life in a temperate rain forest, but d@mn I swear this is the wettest, soggiest winter I can recall.

 

[Joezilla]

water dropped. Those sacs should be underwater!

 

[Mistwalker]

water dropped. Those sacs should be underwater!

Yeah, we had a a lot of rain at once a few times over a couple of really rainy weeks and then had a few warmer sunny days in a row. Given the usual fluctuations of those ponds I was surprised to see the frogs had laid eggs so close to what had previously been the surface of the pond. It's typically at about the level in these pics, then lower to almost nonexistent at times in the summer.

 

[scruffuk]

Great pics Misty. Glad to hear you are all well again.

Think I could do with a good trip to the woods, help blow away the cobwebs.
It's been a couple of weeks but it feels like an age!

 

[Mistwalker]

Great pics Misty. Glad to hear you are all well again.

Think I could do with a good trip to the woods, help blow away the cobwebs.
It's been a couple of weeks but it feels like an age!

Thanks Scruff, not exactly 100% yet, but feeling much better. I hope you get out soon, does the mind and body good!

 

[ROCK6]

Found this little pile of scat...maybe rabbit?

Well, if you think your Spartan-Harsey Hunter looks like rabbit scat…you could always send it my way…

I know your feelings to get out! I hope you're getting over that crud. Unless I get a good enough excuse to do some traveling, it’s with a difficult-to-get drive team and rushed! I’m stuck on a small base most of the time that is drab, boring and goes back a forth between slow and slush and ice. Thanks for sharing the trip buddy…it’s soothing to my trapped soul!

ROCK6

 

[Mistwalker]

Well, if you think your Spartan-Harsey Hunter looks like rabbit scat…you could always send it my way…

I know your feelings to get out! I hope you're getting over that crud. Unless I get a good enough excuse to do some traveling, it’s with a difficult-to-get drive team and rushed! I’m stuck on a small base most of the time that is drab, boring and goes back a forth between slow and slush and ice. Thanks for sharing the trip buddy…it’s soothing to my trapped soul!

ROCK6

Lol, not the knife, those little brown balls silly Actually I love this knife, it is without a doubt one of the most special knives I've had the pleasure of working with an owning. It has done everything the guys that designed and made it meant for it to do and has done them well. The size is perfect, the neutral balance is great in all around uses, the hollow grind was done just right and shallow enough that it is a great slicer without sacrificing strength. Bill did an excellent job on the grinds! It has handled all of the tasks, both rough and fine, that I have thrown at it and laughed and wanted more. That said, with me not being a soldier I sort of feel guilty just having it. I hold and use it and I love it...but I also know I am not the person this tool was designed for. I am not a combatant (those days are long gone for me I hope) in harsh environments in far away lands. I am a simple woods wanderer who loves knives, and I like to study ways to stay alive using knives as my favorite tools. I am going to play with this knife a while longer, enjoy the craftsmanship of it, and take some more photos, but before long it will end up in the hands of a Spec-Ops soldier. It seems such a shame for it to end up on a shelf somewhere not doing what it was designed to do, and me actually carrying it only draws interesting looks and leaves the opportunity for someone with a badge who's not so honest just to take it because he can. I have experienced that first hand in my younger days. I at first thought about a raffle to raise money for the wounded warrior project, and I'm still considering that, but even that could land it on a shelf somewhere and that really just doesn't feel right for this knife.

Thank you. Yeah it was nuts, I felt like I was in a cage. Still not 100% as I realized yesterday climbing up the rocks in the falls, but I feel a LOT better than I did.