LHET 🔜 Campin, outside

Just finished Ringworld by Larry Niven. Kinda a classic, but disappointing. Has interesting ideas, but doesn't delve deeply enough into most, and the misogyny is distracting. Even if 1970 was a different time, it reads as though the author is still on the fence whether women should be able to vote.

Picked up a van to make it easier to get out during the winter months

Finally read Watership Down, had a really good time with it! Liked the storytelling and worldbuilding, never felt like it was small scale. The best rabbit is Kehaar.

Back from spending 4 amazing days backpacking the Enchantments! The most hiking I've done in a weekend. With the two ascents to the core: ~50 miles with 8000 feet of elevation. Glad we could camp, had plenty of time to explore and enjoy it compared to the thru hikers that usually seemed rushed.

Off into the enchantments!

Gettin ready for some backpackin

The stepmaniax stage is mostly broken in, only having occasional issues with the top arrow dropping steps if I'm too light. It's been 10+ years since I played 4 panel regularly, but already back up to ~11s, (I was on 12-13s before). My foot speed isn't back but my cardio is better than it was then.

Love an excuse to have both fursuit and axe at the same time. CFT was awesome Thanks so much @celanor.org for the photo! #FursuitFriday

@lhet.bsky.social chopped so much wood for the red camp fire at CFT this year! Thanks for keeping us warm!

Finally getting my dance stage setup. Still needs some breaking in and some setup tuning but its really solid.

Last full day, nothing too exciting, just spent a bit of time in Reykjavik, but did spot a couple furry stickers and got some good fish and chips. Heading home soon!

Last full day! First went to Eldborg crater, then Thingvellir, then ended where we started at the Thingvellir campsite, did a hike there to some ruins. Great day to end the trip. Tomorrow we're hitting Reykjavik again, flying out that evening!

Today was a lot of driving, went to Snæfellsjökull National Park, stopped by kirkjufell. Have a bunch of camera photos but its real late now.

Started in Ólafsfjörður, and had to backtrack to avoid driving in very dangerous winds on the coast.snowstorm has been chasing us, so after a quick stop in Akureyri, took the mountain pass across the troll peninsula, finally out of danger of getting snowed in. Stopped by Fosslaug and a hot spring.

Today was super windy, cold, and rainy. Went to the geothermal Hverir and did the traverse there, extremely windy hike. Then travelled around Lake Mývatn. Headed up to Husavik, an extremely pretty little town, before heading around partway up the troll peninsula. Lots of incoming storm warnings...

There is the coolest most chill reindeer here! Just walks around in this super photogenic farm and doesn't mind anybody! Just taking a nap 20 feet away from our van!

Left puffin zone, did a hike, started heading west through the highlands and did a detour to the most amazing little campsite: Möðrudalur/Fjalladýrð

Saw plenty of reindeer and sheep on the way

Daytime was a long drive Borgarfjarðarhöfn

Some creature from today

Today hiked Mulagljufur Canyon, then diamond beach and glacier lagoon, followed by such a beautiful drive. Few more photos in just a sec...

Today, went to Dyrhólaey, saw a puffin! Did the long drive to Skaftafell, there was some great moss, then it was barren and kinda really cool. Hiked to the glacier, then hiked to Svartifoss. Doing really long days but it's a great time. Have so many more photos from my camera to dig through.

started with a hike to the reykdajalur hot springs, then afterwards Seljalandsfoss and Skogafoss. The former we could walk behind and the latter was an experience to stand close to the blast. So wet all day but my hard shell's been great. Got a bunch of better camera photos I'll pull out when I can.

Just some good moments from today

Day 1, didn't really get sleep on the flight, but managed to stay up all day. Picked up or camper, grabbed a great sweater in reykjavik and now camping in a beautiful place. The landscape is something else.

Getting away for a little bit....

Pretending it's still just barely #fursuitfriday

FWA was really nice, had a lot of great interactions both suiting and wandering, spent time with old friends and met new ones, and saw a lot of cool stuff. Had great luck avoiding elevator crowds for our room, and there was always something fun to do.

At FWA!

Decided to try a quick solo overnight backpack at mason lake, had the whole lake to myself! It was quite cold but brought more than enough warmth to stay out quite late.

First visit to the alpine lakes this year, went to Mason lake, it's so nice up there, still too much snow to go much further than the lake but it's beautiful.

Grabbed a cheap Pen W at a camera show, had a lot of little issues getting the top off to lubricate it to fix the shutter, due to some questionable fixes somebody did to it, but got it worked out and gonna shoot a roll or two this weekend. Half frame and fully manual, gotta focus and meter off vibes

[flashing, sound] PARTY'S OVER the new album by conelrad After a 17 year gap and 3 years' work, the followup to lauded album Sure is the Risk Made. Listen free to the whole thing in your browser (and buy it if you want to keep it) at bandcamp! Not on streaming! >>> conelrad.bandcamp.com

Painted an underwater scene for a craft swap, tried some new stuff. Oil/paper.

Lil painting at the bar #watercolor

Playing chess a bit more recently, passed 1400 on chess.com today. I think I've been here for a while, just cleaned up some of the more egregious mistakes lately. #chess

Here are our FC art show acquisitions! Lovely original pieces from @vecbart.bsky.social, @marandart.bsky.social, @echomary.bsky.social and animal camp art collective.

Didnt post this yet, but Im here at FC.

Taking a break at the river... Happy #fursuitfriday Thanks so much @grolar.bsky.social for the photos! Looks great on film!