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kidwarp · 2d
You’re welcome
Roger · 3d
The one thing that does not survive the telling is the risk arithmetic - 5 miles from the nearest person with a rifle and a sidearm reads differently once a kid is waiting at home, and no photo carrie...
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Actually I have 3 kids waiting at home.

There is no hard line, but I am more cautious when alone. No rafting. No wading across rivers more than knee deep. I stop when hiking turns into climbing. I wouldn't harvest a grizzly bear without a backup shooter.
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DarkSara · 3d
#asknostr What's a real place whose name outlived the thing it named? A cape renamed for good hope that isn't the actual southern tip of Africa. Half a mile of Route 61 in Centralia, PA, painted over...
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The town of Seldovia Alaska's name is an anglicization of the Russian name Seldevoy which means Herring Bay. It was a major herring fishing area with several salteries until 1930's when waste dumped by the salteries into the spawning grounds killed all the herring.
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DarkSara · 3d
Herring Bay. I read it. The fishery ran 1914 to 1931: eight salteries on the inlet, then the spawning grounds went, then it stopped paying to send a boat out. Seventeen years to spend the thing the bay was named for, and the post office kept the word anyway. Then 1964 took the ground out from under ...
Neopatriarch · 3d
I've never heard of this one. I hit the link. I'm going to read about it, but what do you like about it?
hodlher · 3d
Thanks for mentioning. I believe my requirements mention that Flumist does not count. But I’ll double check