161 Wool Down Gortex Layers For October Outdoor Work
Picking chanterelle mushrooms near the coastal mountains. Wool base layer clothing. Puffy insulation down vs synthetic. Gortex rain shell. Layers for October outdoor travel in the northwest.
161 Wool Down Gortex Layers For October Outdoor Work
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161 Billy Newman Photo podcast mixdown Wool Down Gortex Outdoor Layers For October
Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I appreciate you tuning in to this recording. I’ve been out kind of traveling around a bit through October, which has been cool. I’ve been liking a couple of the nice, weathered weeks that we’ve had here, a bit of an Indian summer thing going on. So I kind of like some of that stuff. But a lot of other crazy stuff is going on too. But it’s been cool to get to kind of jump out in the outdoors a little during October. And I think like October, well, September, October, and November are really like maybe one of my favorite outdoor seasons. And it’s probably kind of set up that way for a lot of people that have like a tradition of going out on hunting trips through October, or you know, like going out on the opening day or something like that in Oregon, I think it’s October 1, maybe in other states, it’s in a part of September. So I think it’s been tuned and tied to the hunting seasons in like the American cultural lore for probably 100 years or eight years or so, as it’s kind of been a part of the American mythologies. Still, it’s cool, though. I like going out in the fall; it’s one of the best times to go camping; it’s when you get to kind of take or make use of all the equipment and stuff that you procured over time. You also get to use some of the skills you’ve been trying to scout out or train on to see how they work and their application. You know, in the summer when it’s nice out. It’s cool to go out and camp, and I’ve always had a great time doing that. But like the hot weather camping, I know it demands a little less, I guess it’s kind of obvious, but the environment is something that you don’t have to contend with as much. And in the deep winter, the environments are probably too much to contend with. So there’s a cool kind of pocket that I like, like an idea, but a cool kind of weather pocket or environmental pocket between, I guess like parts of the fall until November when it kind of gets too deep into it. And then the price of the spring as we’re coming up into the summer, where you can kind of noon kind of feel like you’re getting to do a bit more fires. So kind of a no, right? Over the winter is springtime to do that. But at least like in late falls, like in November, or these like northern Oregon areas after you start getting like a layer of snow or a significant amount of rain in the fire. The emergency level drops back down to green; there’s a lot of open burning that you can do on campsites that you set out the public land and stuff. So I think that’s always a fun part of the winter, like late fall camping stuff, when you get to set up like a bigger fire, gather some wood, gather some big logs to be kind of like your fuel for the evening. It’s fun, and it’s sort of like that more. I don’t know the first kind of connective to like the real kind of root camping stuff. But as it goes for a lot of the year, like in the summer-like hot weather stuff, you kind of like doing it around water, or it’s not like we would do stuff, you know, you do rafting or something. So it’s kind of like enjoying the day, you don’t have to lay, or you don’t have to wear like a dry suit, or you know a bunch of different I don’t know warming layers you have to be conscious of, so I think this is kind of where you start getting into more of that now I think like now like river trips and stuff, you know, they sort of shift from like the recreational summer tourism, whitewater stuff you get between, I guess, like May and Labor Day. And now, as you get kind of further into September, and now deep and October, you have people, I guess coming down just kind of strictly for some fishing season stuff. So you get like instead of rafts, you’ll have many drift boats comes down, like fishing boats and stuff, guided tours and stuff for some lower river staff or just people out on there. That kind of setup and prepped for fishing trips. But it’s cool. Yeah, a lot of enthusiasm around some fishing stuff during this time of year. I want to get out and do some fishing stuff. I got my fishing license earlier this year, and I’ve gotten it a couple of times this far. But I need to, I guess, commit a little more and kind of set it up the right way. I think I’m always kind of doing a couple of too many things. Like I’m trying to like to set a camera up to record footage, and then throw some casts and let the line set, and then you wait for an hour or so but maybe if it’s a non-optimal time, or you’re going to have to something else and move on and stuff. So I haven’t caught a lot of stuff that was keeper-worthy. I picked up a couple of things out of the lake, and it was like a cheap, little tiny game, or a little like tiny Sunfish or Rain. What is it? Yeah, I think it’s Sunfish like these, like the kind of like bluegill. Not a lot, you know, a little better than a minute. But yeah, I want to try and get into doing some more fall fishing stuff through now until the end of the year. And I think there’s a couple of good seasons that kind of come on through November, but I think it’d be cool. I want to try and try and jump into that a little faster. I think there’s also some kind of controlled like stocked ponds that are nearby where I’m at; I think they stocked them with trout through the winter. And I’m interested in trying out a couple of those places, and they seem like they’re, you know, just too kind of the numbers to talk about. So that’s, that’s kind of cool for that kind of thing for stock fishing kind of thing. But I’ve been trying to get a little more into, like, what I can harvest, what I can prospect, what I can kind of, kind of gather from natural resource areas that are around me, and I think it’s been kind of fun to do is, I guess, sort of hobby. So along with the photos that I am trying to do while I’m out, I tried to like us and get a fishing license. So I can do some fishing stuff on the side or pick up a bit of information about what kind of rock counting I can do in that sort of area. Or what kind of like foraging stuff I can do or like wood gathering opportunities to have. So I’ve been trying to do some of that stuff a little more often. Like, I don’t know, email me if there’s some other cool stuff I can do. But, but yeah, it’s been cool. Like now in the fall, I’ve been trying to go out do some Sion trail picking. So if I can find some good spots for it, it’s like a lot of stuff, like kind of near the coast coastal range in Oregon, probably. I don’t know what like Florence to a story, probably a lot into Washington, too, that I have no clue about. But I think like crows’ foot foothills of the mountains, they’re kind of getting the moisture, and they have the right type of like temperature range for them to grow during this time of year. It’s interesting, though, how those growth patterns go. I don’t understand. I don’t understand mushrooms and how those mushroom rings work or how they like their populations work, but yeah, it’s fascinating how they grow. And just like certain patches, like where they are, there’ll be more of those. But where they’re not, there won’t be; it’s kind of it’s just weird going around to find him. But we find one you’ll find like more around in that area. If it’s been like a good climate for it for a while, though, a lot of Octobers still has been just a little. We’ve got a little rain here and there. And I’m glad systems are moving through, but it’s been dry enough still that some forest floors aren’t quite moist enough yet to start bringing on the fungus growth that we need to get like a good crop of edible mushrooms out of it. So we’ll see how it goes. And I guess there will be a window of it sometimes like the years are better or worse for it. And I will see how it goes through the rest of the year. Sometimes, as soon as you snap into November, you get a week or two weeks or three weeks into November, and those are pretty, pretty good weeks. But as soon as you get a few days with sort of where you get like a strong frost or freeze overnight, that messes with the growth of those mushrooms. And if you get him consecutively for like three days out, that’ll knock out anything for one of them, you know, the mushrooms that grow so fast. So if you have a freeze, A hard freeze on Monday, but then it warms up Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Thursday, you’ll be able to get like he wouldn’t even notice, you know, you’ll be able to get a good crop of new newly grown mushrooms out of you know that same area. So it just depends on how it goes. But as soon as you start getting like a set of hard freezes, man, it just seems like I’ve gone out and seen like a bunch of them that had been growing in the now they’re just like mushy. And you know, they just got a deep freeze. The frosted over, and now it’s like a dead plant, and it’s just kind of turned to mush. And that man, those mushrooms turned to mush real fast. It’s peculiar. I was looking at a ring that’s growing in our yard. It’s just toadstools, you know, like out pay, like the apple tree. It’s cool that they come on, but they come on, and like I think, kind of late September is when they start to pop up this ring out there. And then there are some other areas that I’ve noticed around town to it seems like it’s just like a certain time of year and boom, here’s all these soon as the conditions get met, right? But yeah, right where are those are they come up, and then they last about I don’t know, maybe five days a week or so it’s been a week and a half now, but they start to decay, and they start to kind of fall over fall apart. And it’s interesting to see how the grass responds to the grass a lot around it. It looks like it’s been fertilized heavily. But yeah, just boom pops up bright, dark green grass, about three inches, or maybe three, I don’t know, maybe twice as tall as the rest of the surrounding grass. So yeah, it seems like there’s a little toadstool mushroom for the lawn pretty well. But yeah, I think there’s like another growth of them coming on now, which is kind of interesting. They come on in a couple of phases, but some fresh ones are coming up in the ring area around it. And then those that don’t know that last for a couple of days and then wilt out over again too. But check out some mushrooms and stuff around here. But yeah, I’ve been trying to go out and sort of seeing what I can forage around for, which has been fun. I’m not sure what other sensors are here. There’s What is it elderberry. Here about that being looked for? And I remember now this is another one I remember seeing a person There’s a strange circumstance, I was driving on and on a forest road out in the mountains here pretty deep in the mountains, and didn’t see any cars ran didn’t or didn’t pass a car that drives up, you know, you see a car, and you’re like, oh, there’s probably person around with that car. And then after we pass this, we didn’t see a car either, but we were driving. And then there was a shorter man with a hat. And he had two big racks of these like branches, maybe about as long as like your elbow to your fingertip or so. But these long, like thin branches with these big broad green leaves on them. And it’ll be maybe 24 inches or so. And they were all on these stacks. And then they would there’d be like a kind of plywood thing. Or I don’t know what it was, maybe newspapers of the paper. But then it was more stacked on top of that. And then another layer more stacked on top of that. They just had this big bundle of sticks with these big broad green leaves on them. And he was standing there on the edge of the road. And we drove by. And then we drove down the rest of this road and the other we never saw a car that he was staying in. But this guy was out here collecting these green sticks and leaves. So I’m not sure what that looks like, elderberry. I’ve never really identified it exactly. And it’s something that grows up here. And I know people will try and forage for it. But I’m not sure before or how it works. But now that I know they do it, I want to do it to sort of have a shot trial thing came out. I think a lot of people never really even heard of that. Or a lot of like the mushroom picking stuff like Morales morels got popular stuff. But I think it’s kind of because people sort of found out that you can look for it and people are going looking for it. Or that it’s costly. You think like wow, it’s 15 bucks to look for it or 15 bucks to buy a pound of mushrooms chanterelle mushrooms in the store? Well, if it’s that expensive, it must be good. And if it’s that good, then I want to look for it sort of what it seems like a bit. Still, it’s cool going out looking for mushrooms, and stuff outside I hear people talking about like, like picking Morales and I guess those grow I guess as Miss grow in a different environment, like a different terrain or, or whatever it is I hear about a more like tour like in the east or like the Midwest. So I’m not sure, but I know there are different relationships of like the tree to the type of soil. And the type of like, an environment that it’s in all kinds of plays a part in, like what mushroom will grow? Is it a micro Raizel relationship I might have talked about last time, but I don’t understand how that works. But I don’t see what allows there to be like a Morel versus a good spot for a Shawn trail to grow or a portabello or what is one of those regular white ones just as criminy just regular ones that we stuff, so I’m not sure what kind of like allows you to farm some but not farm others. And that’s a big one; he can’t effectively farm morel mushrooms. I guess you can harvest them in an area that is set up as an optimal environment that’s about as good as they’ve had it. Like they found like where they’re growing and the time of year that they grow well. And they try and optimize for that. So they can go through and harvest more of it out of it. But they haven’t been able to take, I suppose, like an area that didn’t have the right environment for it and then sort of artificially grow more than the landscape would kind of bear naturally. I don’t think they figured that out, and I don’t understand that like how there’s some that you can kind of figure out a bit like it’s just like the complications between the relationships for some of them gets so complex that it’s like difficult to recreate. I guess some biologists work on that of like how to get or what is it biology is a type of biologist that studies mushrooms, right mycologist mycology think it’s mycology and mycologist for studying machines. But I also think there’s like agriculture. Interests. I think there’s a food industry interest in generating mushrooms with different varieties so that they’re a commercially available product. So I think they’re trying to work those things out. So sometimes it’s a mycologist at that level trying to study it and figure that out. But I think sometimes it’s like hope different companies and groups and teams of people trying to sort of source sort of figure out ways to sort out those problems with growing and harvesting submissions and stuff, you know, as you read about this other thing too, where if you get a bunch of mushrooms. You’re not quite sure what they are there’s, I guess a few different ways where there’s a couple of problems where it’s difficult to identify certain types of mushrooms. Some mushrooms have. Well, I’ve never the shack goes. I don’t know anything about it. So I should leave with that. There’s a lot of them that are poisonous. I guess. It’s sort of like The cautionary point of it like people talk about mushroom picking a lot, but really, there’s a lot of mushrooms that are pretty dangerous or that are just going to make you sick likely. So if you don’t have much expertise in it, it’s kind of difficult to go out and do that easily, you know, because you’re just going to gather some stuff that may look like it or may look almost exactly like it. Still, there’s sort of some nuance to detail that makes it a different mushroom or different mushroom species that is, you know, not good for you or at least not edible. There’s a lot of there’s; I guess a difference between like, the neurotoxic mushrooms that will I think, kill you, or, or get you sick and like sick and like a neurotoxin away. But then I think there’s like a number of them that are just an edible in a way where the bill, I guess one from a range, make you very sick to eat. Or they’ll make you just kind of like mildly unhappy with what you ate. But generally, like, I prefer not to eat a lot of that stuff. Or like, if it seems like it’s bad, or like an unknown, I’d rather like not to eat just sort of an unknown mushroom. A lot of them, I guess you can eat, or there’s a number of them that are like, maybe not preferred but are edible, but may make you get an upset stomach. I was confused about that, like, Well, why would you eat? It’s like, Oh, you can eat it. It’ll make you sick. But yeah, you can. It’s like, well, what isn’t that what? Why wouldn’t you make that? I mean, it’s me; it’s a thing. I mean, it makes me sick, right? Like, I eat rotten milk, too, right? It just makes you sick. Like, I don’t want it. I don’t know. But I’ve heard of that as an explanation for some stuff. I also hear weird explanations for eating natural things sometimes. So, but yeah, I heard about this thing where you can put you can put a bunch of mushrooms that you’ve got down on like a screen and then put like paper on the backside of it. And then, if you cover him and let him sit for a while, they will end up throwing their spores after their cut. And I guess with certain mushrooms, you can visually see the spore pattern that’s dropped onto the sheet you put on that screen. And I guess that’s how they’re able to identify some similarly shaped mushrooms. Like if this mushroom looks this way. And this other mushroom of a different species looks almost the same way; you can identify how they are different by setting them on the screen and then getting a throw of their spores. And then identifying the sport as you know, one spore pattern will be like bluish or purplish or whatever. And the other pattern, or the other spore pattern, will be like a yellow color or something. So you’re like, Oh, well like this one, like through this kind of spore. And this one didn’t. So like now, we can identify this is this specific mushroom. I thought that was weird, though, like how, how to kind of figure that out. But fortunately, like that’s what’s cool about shrine trials is that they’re one of the easiest ones to identify the golden shun trials; there’s one that, like, almost looks like it. That’s a good thing to like, pull up a YouTube video to visually identify how to tell those differences distinctly, the differences apart between them, and sort of the way that the gills are fluted up the vein of the stem, and then as it comes up to the mushroom top. How does that transition happen with chanterelles? It’s the gills. They are shallow, and they start real low on it and then kind of sweep up the fluting of the stem up to the mushroom top and, and then with these imposter ones, I guess there’s kind of like a hard angle joint there where you see the gill line start. And then the gills come out from there with like a deeper, a deeper sort of cut to the gill. Ridge was sort of some final material, but those aren’t good. I think those are a bit more of white color. There are white Shawn trails to show how that goes. The difference between the white chanterelles golden chanterelles I thought it was like sun exposure. Like if they were kind of bleached out from being sort of hidden under moss or something, they always seem to be like a lighter kind of mole. Yeah, just like real light color. But then I thought the ones out in the sunshine had to sort of defense against that, like, got like more of a color to him. But I guess they’re kind of like a different set of mushroom types. Sort of, I don’t understand, but I’ve collected both of them in sort of the same areas. If you find one that it seems like you find both of them. So I’m not sure how that goes, but I appreciated kind of collecting them. And it’s cool to dry. And that’s what I’ve been trying to do is it’s hard to eat through all those mushrooms fresh as they are when you’re harvesting those mushrooms all at once. And so what I’m trying to do this year as opposed to what I’ve done in past years, right, just trying to make up a dish with all the mushrooms all that first time while they’re fresh, it’s fun to kind of go through the stuff you harvested and then like make a big pasta thing and like put a bunch of mushrooms in it. But this time, it’s just the ones that you harvested after you clean them. That’s cool. And it’s fun to put stuff like that together or whatever. Hoping to do I little gather enough stuff from going out a bit more frequently into a few different areas. And then gathering the stuff that I’ve got drying it out, and then having like dried mushrooms that are bagged and stored, so that I can have the kind of through the rest of the year. I’ve also heard about freezing mushrooms. Have you guys heard of that? Like early, you know, like when you thought out like it’s not the same material anymore at all. So it’s like, you have to put it into a sauce or something like that. So I was thinking like the cell damage that you get, it would just be way too much to use again after freezing. So I think what I’m going for is to like to do it to dehydrate the mushrooms. So I would like to cut them or leave them intact but have those mushrooms dehydrated. Which is there’s a lot of water if you like, especially after it’s been like really wet like they just soak up that water in the forest floor. And then it’s all within that sell mass of the Shawn trail. But when you put like, take a cut of a Shawn trail, it’s like a kind of thicker hardier one, you take a cut of it, you put it on a frying pan, it’s hot, and you watch like the amount of water that it releases. But it’s like, Wow, that is just almost all rainwater, that it comes down and fills the cell walls. And now it’s being released as you start to cook it. But you think, man, that’s a lot. No way. So that’s kind of cool. It’s cool. Going through October, doing some stuff, I’ve also been trying to go out, do some rock counting stuff. It’s cool; I just kind of been jetting over. I mean, this is like kind of the old and easy classic one. But jetting over to the coast, kind of keep an eye on the high tide and low tide times of the day in the month. But it’s cool to get out there and check out what rocks are sort of washed up on the surface in the sand on the beaches in times of the low tide. So it’s kind of cool going out there cruising the rock line and kind of just picking up some nice polished stones on the beach, whichever kind of tried to do some Jade stuff is kind of cool, you find like the little green ones, find some sand dollars and stuff, but you find like some cool rocks out there, I’ve been kind of having a good time trying to pull up some of those stones a couple of times we’ve got I get a couple of times it’s like the court, I think it’s like courts rock. And then, a lot of the time, it’s just some of their cool, normal. What is it, basalt, normal rock stuff, where it’s got a line in it or something that’s going to cool? You find one with like, a textured feature of it, you know, it’s. There’s some seam or something in there, I was like that kind of stuff to where it’s, it’s kind of combination stuff, but, but going out to the beach and trying to find some rocks and stuff through October and trying to get out and do some more active stuff, I get into some camping trip stuff that I’ve done here a little. But yeah, trying to go out to Eastern Oregon and check out some stuff and sort of poke around. And that’s cool. I like the like I say I like the October time, you know, it’s kind of a cool outdoor month for stuff. And that’s kind of what I’m going to talk about, too, is layering up stuff for October. I’ve been trying to build up the layers of clothes and the layers of shelter stuff that I have for some outdoor travel stuff that I got and do. And I do it on a budget, and I don’t have much stuff, and like other people, I have a lot more experience of just getting to try all these different pieces and see the benefits or the weigh out the pluses and minuses of different pieces. And so I’m sure like, it’s probably the case that like the best gear is always the best gear. It’s interesting to sort of go through those checklists, or, you know, like kind of in your mind, like seeing like, what, like how’s this work, or what’s better for me for this thing or not. So I’ve been pretty happy always have, or like, a Gortex range outlay for the last couple of years. And for a lot of outdoor stuff that I do in Oregon, later into the year, that’s been like a real lifesaver for having just like a hard waterproof shell that I can like the trust that has like a good hood on it that can keep me dry for most of the day. Along with I guess kind of like working inward, like the puffy jacket, makes a huge difference. And so I use like a puffy jacket all the time. There are a few different, like sizes, though, and you sort of have to look at the down fill layer to see what’s going to be best for you, and like the climate you’re going out to that, it’s kind of weird. It goes back and forth through me a bit, and so like out here in Oregon, where I am, like west of the Cascades, it’s a mild climate area a lot of the year. So I’m able to; I think you’re dealing with like above freezing temperatures most hours and on most days for the year I think like you know there are some sections of the year when you get some heavy freezes. Still, outside those storm times, it’s like pretty mild weather a lot of the time, and if I’m going camping or doing something outdoors in the winter. I well, there are a couple of different types. I use it but really, for a lot of like the three-season work I do. I use a light puffy jacket either because of the north face, thermo ball. I think it’s like a polyester-based one. It’s not a downfield, puffy jacket, but I’ve used that for maybe six years now, and I appreciate having that. I think it’s been great. That’s probably one of my most used insulating layers when I’m going out. And I mean works great, really all four seasons with the compared in these favorable weather circumstances like I am here in Oregon like that paired with that shell, it has been enough for me to go out. And in almost every kind of weather circumstance that I’ve been in when I’ve gone out and been working, or like when I was working outside a lot in the rain and trying to. Yes, I like most days through the fall and winter; it was excellent to do that with a strong or like a good GoreTex shell that keeps you dry all the way and a puffy, thermo insulating layer that keeps you warm. So it’s pretty cool, but comparing that, and I have like this Patagonia jacket that I think has a heavier down fill rating. And that has a lot of insulation to it, which is cool. Warm jackets are great. And I take that out kind of in deeper into the winter. But what I noticed, though, is that for a lot of circumstances, like I said, three-season work. And while you’re working or kind of like physically kind of exerting yourself, I’ve noticed like if it’s not below freezing, that is too warm of a jacket to wear. And so you kind of get to pick a little of like where your environmental thresholds are like what kind of environment you spend a lot of time and is it going to be above freezing temperatures below freezing temperatures, or is it going to be hot weather temperatures, like where you’re working, you know, your coldest temperatures might be 50. But you’re going up towards the 80s and 90s pretty regularly. And that’s kind of a different environment to work in. So I’ve been kind of trying to keep an eye on that. But as we’re kind of dropping into October, the outfitting stuff that I’m doing is sort of away from the heat gear stuff that I would have been using where I’m in, like lighter, synthetic shorts, and trying to use like lighter layers and stuff. Like in the winter, you kind of get to layer up and stuff. We just got to kind of fun sweater weather, right? What I picked up last year, I’m kind of excited to put some more use into it, was a wool baselayer. So I got a wool t-shirt, which is great. And I kind of appreciate trying to cut out some of the cotton material that I’m using when I’m going out and doing some more outdoor stuff. And I guess it’s because, back in the day, cotton was a great revolution, right? You know, it was a more breathable fabric, and it would dry faster than other fabrics that they had available to them; I guess that is part of what was cool about it. But as I sort of understand now, it’s one of the riskier types of fabric that you can wear as a base layer when you’re out in the woods for a couple of days, or when you’re out camping, or you know the talking TV shows about when you’re in a survival situation. And not that but yeah, when you’re out camping, or if you were going to go hunting, or you’re going to go on a couple of day photo trip in the woods. You’re just going to be living out of your truck, and stuff, it kind of is it ends up being a little difficult to use a lot of cotton pieces, especially if you’re going to get wet or if it’s cold, and you don’t want to get wet, but you do get wet. And that’s a bummer because the cotton stuff just kind of stays wet, and it gets cold when it gets wet. And a couple of those things just sort of lead to it being a bit frustrating, and I guess that’s where some survival complications have happened with people who are out in okay conditions. They get hit with cold rain or wet snow. And they’re in a like an outer let you know their insulating layers, but they’re like a cotton coating. Or like I guess tough, warm insulated Carhartt jackets hunting and that they got into some wet snow on the second morning, the Carhartt wet pants got, or the pants that were insulated got wet from the tall grass and brush that they walkthrough. Then the person became hypothermic because of their exposure to the cold soaked through their pants that got them very cold. And I think they had to like ditch the band’s get into their sleeping bag. It was synthetic, and then they tried to warm them up with a hot water bottle in a sleeping bag or something like that out of the Jetboil, but like it ended the trip, I think they can’t continue that sort of stuff. So it’s somewhat interesting. I like that kind of thing that can go, and people have probably heard anecdotes like that. Similarly, in the past, I’d hear someone else talking about a warm-weather thing where I think they were going out on a 42-day canoe trip. Can you imagine that like going through some great river system and Labrador up in Canada? Wow, fun times popping out in the Hudson Bay or something. Who knows. But they would go up there, and they would talk about like all like the specific limitations on the type of fabrics that they would select to use because like if they got wet in the river, or I think it was like a cold-weather or who knows what kind of weather you’re going to get sort of circumstances where you’d go between hot and cold and Canada, kayaking or canoeing down 1100 miles Or something like that just big long trips like that. And they would kind of be particular about how like they, they won’t even have cotton boxers or cotton underwear because it’ll, it’ll be the thing that ends up being a problem other people or another person, I think kind of there’s, there’s a lot of great ways to sort of work through this next problem. Still, I think someone argued that they did have cotton on them to use it as a fire starter. If they needed a fire starter, I suggest they bring a fire starter or other material like that; I think it would probably get you by a little better than your cotton underwear. Best very sorry, that I’ve used and heard about was Well, I mean, yeah, like a stove or whatever. But if you’re trying to light a fire in the winter, like having a plastic bag with Vaseline dipped cotton swabs was like a pretty inert material. Just like having a backpack doesn’t smell like kerosene or something. And it has multiple uses, and you can use it cosmetically for everything’s our best, if your lips chap I hate it when it gets dry and cold. And you go, oh, man, my pores can’t handle it. They’re in a different environment. Five thousand feet an elevation difference. A day ago, too much change and too much seasonal change. Now you get like, and I don’t know, just rough spots or dry spots, or you use a Vaseline, you get the cotton swabs for all sorts of different things. But they’re fantastic. If you light that up. It’s a great little flame ball. And you can use that with the stack of your other drag materials to get a fire going. Even in pretty wet conditions, especially if you’re kind of keeping your Firestarter material protected. And some little part of your backpack, keep it dry and stuff. That works out pretty well. And I think it works better than like your under trip. I’ve heard that. Yeah, people try not to use those who try to drop their leather belts like they won’t take a leather belt out into the woods, either. I like having a sturdy belt. Like what you see, as people like big leather boots or whatever. It’s not because it gets washed, waterlogged. But I guess because it’s maybe a weight thing. I think that’s what the idea was for, for maybe they’re like going backpacking use Like a piece of nylon webbing as a belt at that time. Or other stuff. I don’t know, just little tricks and things like how you hide certain materials and other materials and stuff. But it’s weird how it goes. So I guess yeah, cotton stuff is sort of a go. They talk about using wool as a preferred material to make it out of or down here, like down stuff is a preferred material. And then I also kind of here similarly sided, bad things about sort of the petroleum developed products that you get from polyesters or nylons, or I guess like this polyester insulating foams, you get like those thermoball insulating foam that would be in the pouches of another polyester material that makes up like the puffy jacket that I wear. For the Patagonia one that’s a downfield, puffy jacket, you have little goose feathers poking, poking out of it all the time, too. Yeah, I feel like you feel around the right way a little goose feather; I’ll punch out the side and pull it out a little feather right there, a little down feather, which is kind of trippy. But those, I guess, are like a better insulating system than the synthetic kind of oil-based stuff. And I guess the same goes for sleeping bags, too, if you want to get into a sleeping bag to keep you warm. There’s something like the 15-degree bags that are, well, I don’t know, and it has a couple of other features too. I guess it’s as light, and it stretches down well. And if you get it wet, you can get it dry again. Well, I guess it depends on certain qualities down. Sometimes that kind of get, I think, is a little tricky. But the wall I guess you can get, you can have to get wet, you’ll stay warm, and you can get it dry faster. And I think that’s sort of the benefit of the wall on the animal that gets wet too. You know, like if you think of a sheep getting rained on all the time. I guess it’s sort of part of the fibers that it doesn’t attract a lot of odor because it has to be on an animal all the time. And I guess it does well not to have to like to make you cold when it gets wet. I guess that’s a big part of it. So a lot of the merino wool fabrics that have come out are the merino wool blends with some bit of spandex or some other kind of natural fiber product that they try and put in helps to kind of be a little more durable when they have those little blends. But mostly, you want a pretty strong merino wool fabric. And that’s pretty cool. You’re getting sort of like a bass player or something a little more tuned for the outdoors. It’s like wool sweaters or something that you can find, but that’s not quite there. Cool old wool shirts, you know, like an old, old Pendleton shirt or an old Filson shirt that’s like a lagers kind of wool button that would go under like a, like a canvas jacket. I kind of think it’s cool, but that’s sort of a different look. And it’s used to be the technical gear layering and probably still. You’d see if you get like, I don’t know, like a horse guide, like a guided trip with a horse or a mule or something like that, that’s the pack in a bunch of stuff, they probably still use gear that sort of similar to that without the kind of like the technical synthetic gear that you try and find it like REI hiking places or something or, or wherever, whatever else, similarly branded. But yeah, it’s cool, trying to do some wool Merino under layers trying to work with those puffy jackets when they can try to work with. Well, I have a soft shell that gets a lot less useful than it used to. I used to try new soft shells all the time, but really, I just kind of go with the wool, the wool base layer, The North Face kind of wore, you know, like warmer temperature rated puffy jacket and then have the GoreTex layer over that picked up a hat this year. That’s pretty cool; like in that boots, I had a couple of different sets of boots for the October stuff before it gets cumbersome and the in-season before it gets wet or rainy. Now while I’m doing some of this lighter outdoor stuff, I have a pair of heavy leather boots that are super cool for some deeper hiking stuff that you get into, especially after it’s wet and rainy and stuff. But really, for a lot of the light season stuff and sort of summer spring stuff. I have these Nike s f b boots, and it’s like that military boots; I picked them up in brown like a desert tan color. And then I also picked up a similar pair, the underarm remakes, and so they’re kind of like a lighter, more athletic shoe from the base, but they have like kind of tall neck that goes up to like your mid-mid-upper ankle there. And so it’s not like a real table, or like it’s not like galoshes, they’re not waterproof, they’re kind of vent on the sides. And they dry out. They’re kind of like a synthetic material that dries out pretty quick when you do get it wet, but it also has like a good bit of tread, and you can get them wet get them dry and wet. I think they’re kind of made for an okay dry environment that’s sort of where I use them most of the time is you know, hiking around for any this kind of lighter-duty forest I was nice because they’re light boots like with those other heavy leather ones like just the soles of the boots seem like they pound each you know, you kind of like feel it the first couple days, you get back into the use of them during the season where you’re like man, my feet are like four pounds heavier, it seems like each just kind of like walking with a weight on it. So it’s nice to have one of the newer sorts of higher-tech boots; they don’t have the same kind of ankle support as a thicker leather boot does, or they don’t have the same kind of heel support. I like to talk about those, you know, thick, like a two-inch heel or something like one of those whites boots has. Or if you get like Red Wings, they have a real deep, thick healer that you can use to kind of stomp in and cut in on some hiking stuff. And for these, Yeah, it’s just kind of like a good, a good sort of smooth walking boot. And you get some ankle support from that tall neck, but it’s sort of fabric so that it seems like if you just it’s a light boot, it seems like you’re ready to, you know, run, and you can do like an athletic maneuver in these pretty well. And it doesn’t seem like the boot is going to be too heavy to slow you down. Not right for every circumstance. Like if I’m going in a deeper area. It’s cool; really, it’s nice to have the kind of protection of a steel-toed leather boot. But like the normal, sfbs, I think, are not a steel toe. I think these Under Armour ones are, and then there are steel toe versions that are out there. But that does seem that I’ve kind of run into a few circumstances where after some of the more woodsy stuff, it seems like having the steel toe has helped a lot to keep my feet protected and stuff. And if you hike in a lie, you got to get to watch out for blisters and stuff too. One of the big things I’ve noticed to help is breaking in your shoes for three weeks or more. Still, three weeks of like pretty near full-time use to start getting them broken in or to get kind of the feel the break the crease, the kind of the fabric working together in the way that it’s going to fit around your body and stuff. But yeah, it seems like it takes about three weeks to sort of get those shoes broken into a spot that ends up being comfortable for longer trips and longer where I had like a pair of chocos in this jacket, they were great. You know you don’t wear socks if you like to buffer it with wool socks or something. But I remember working with those for like three weeks or so at first your feet, man, they will rub raw. Yeah. Yeah, they’ll, you’ll get some hot spots with the webbing on those chalk as it’s like this really kind of tough. Webbing, but after like three weeks or so like after, you kind of wear your foot into it so that it’s kind of strong enough to deal with it. And you also start breaking in the rubber of the boot, or the rubber of that that foot or the shoe through your foot. But once you get that all kind of broken, and I was able to hike for miles and miles in those and have no rub problems at all, I think I did. I think I made the whole hiking trip up to the summit of the paintbrush divide and the cascade Canyon, or like the Tetons trip that I talked about sometimes. Yeah, I made that whole hiking trip with the Tetons and early, mid-late September, probably right around now. But I made that trip in the Tetons, with just those, those black chaco that I had that had like kind of that boot tread bottom, and I did great through that whole trip, I did like a 42-mile trip down the lower road that was like a hiking backpacking trip, you have a back, back, pack on the got these little river shoes on. You’re hiking away on the trail. And yeah, a lot of the time, if you’re not really in shape for it, man, those will just rip your feet up pretty badly. And I’ve seen it affect people’s trips before, you know, like where their shoes just like really start to bite in on him. And it happens fast. As soon as you get like a hotspot or something, it can be just a quarter mile or another mile, and then like that, that problem has been exacerbated a lot. So as soon as like gets bad, the man gets bad fat, or he starts to degrade fast. And then once it’s gone, it’s gone on for a while, you know, it isn’t good. And it can cause some mobility problems when you’re out there. So I think kind of to kind of deal with some of that stuff. We’re kind of breaking them in the earliest School, which is what I’ve been trying to do with some of my shoes. But yeah, trying to get outfitted for this stuff in October. It’s been kind of fun, trying to work out the layers and stuff, picked up a fanny pack, I guess, and didn’t talk about bags and stuff is talking about that next time. But yeah, I picked up a little fanny pack. It’s cool. It’s sort of like a military-style one or sort of like a desert tan and has kind of a look. Whatever the bill, it’s got like a bullet hole, bullet holes. Got like little straps, like a cowboy belt would have to like put ammunition in. Like you have a couple of bullets, couple extra shells, sliding into this little belt lining here. Nice. I don’t know if I’ll use those a time. But I got this to pair with the binocular harness, and then now that is on the left side, and then I have a smaller camera bag sling that I take just the camera that is like the bigger gear bag in the track or something. And then I’ll have just the camera bag as a sling. Like a small light one that I hike around with. That one works well. It’s like a smaller pro. Sling, it’s probably what it’s called. It’s got a little coffee cup holder in the front of it, one Bay to kind of hold stuff, but that goes around my side. So that’s got my camera in it, then I’ve got this fanny pack with any other tools or fixes that I would normally have had to put in a backpack or something. And that’s been like a pretty good and kind of light mobile bit to move around with when I’m not trying to carry a bigger backpack or water bottle or something. And that’s nice to do when I’m already carrying the camera bag on the side. So that the bio harness is on the front end back on the side. Jackets all around pretty set up and ready to go for some false stuff. So it’s been kind of cool, and it’s not been super exciting. It’s just kind of like sitting next to the truck on a cold day wearing a bunch of jackets, sort of waiting for it to get warmer waiting for my are trying to get my jet boil going jet bows are fast, you don’t have to wait much but trying to sit there next to my truck next to my tripod, hoping that I get some okay pictures that are going to like, Where am I sort of woods or something like well, I’ll take a picture I’m excited about it’s been kind of cool. I’ve been over by some Lake sites and stuff that are cool. So you get some nice lights and nice kind of open views, open Vistas the with the lake and the waterline and stuff. And then I kind of appreciate that getting out to Eastern Oregon seeing some sunrises and sunsets, that’s cool going over the ocean stuff getting up into the forests. So I’m trying to kind of keep it is moving through October. And I don’t know; it’s been a good time so far. So got a couple of new things that I’m going to be trying to work on. I’m trying to set up a twitch account. Okay, see how that goes. I know it’s kind of primarily focused on live-streaming, which isn’t maybe exactly what I want to do with it. But I do want to have a twitch account available that’s sort of operating some kind of live stream related to the type of media stuff I put together over the years. So I’m going to be building that out over the next couple of weeks, but you can try and check that out. I think it’s its twitch comm forward-slash Billy Newman. Maybe that’s it. I don’t know if there’s a different URL to it, but the username on Twitch is Billy Newman. There should be a billy Newman live stream going. That’ll be a lot of the Billy Newman photo comm content on there. Sort of rebroadcasting is Livestream hoping to kind of have that be a rolling tool that I use, which is kind of fun. So trying to get that up and running. And also similarly trying to do some video capture, it’s like some screen capture tools, trying to use those to make some videos around some editing work that I’ve done in the past. And so I can kind of walk through a photo, and then we can visualize the changes that were made to the photo, see kind of before, after, or with different changes sort of applied to it. So we can kind of figure out like, well, like from this picture, like, how do you kind of make it over here? And or how do you just even like, tune out some of the more distracting elements, so you just get to the base image that you would have seen originally in AC, like, it looks like that. But maybe if you push it this way, push it this way, you get different effects to it. So trying to do some of that work. And it’s just kind of slower, sort of casual look at some photo editing things that go on to make an image different. I’m trying to deconstruct it from being like a show, you know, like, you’re like me, we’re watching cooking shows back in the day you watch Emerald, or, or something like that. And as soon as like the hard part comes up of like, you know where they had to spend an hour doing preparatory work to get a meal ready, they just say like, well, we’re about to get it ready. And then they just kind of like slip it under the desk. And then right out of the oven, they pull the freshly baked one that’s like ready to go TV perfectly, you know, the one of the ten that they made that had the right type of browning over the top it kind of just like sort of the phony shown is a bit of like, Well, here it is, you know, without any problems, here’s a demonstration of how we get from point A to the very end. And so we’ll kind of see if it goes that way. But for the most part, I’m just trying to slowly walk through like I will like it if we make this kind of change to one of the dynamics, and then we also throw in this change; then we get like this powerful effect that’s too much. So if we back those down, then we get to kind of see where the balances are where those get a little more even or so just kind of like walk you through some of those things that I’ve learned over time, and that’s cool, but trying to put some of that up eventually on the twitch account on the YouTube account and on one of their other websites where the video was served and trying to make it available there. But I think the video should be like a cool part or a bigger part of what I try to do not to sell but just other stuff that I produced through 2021 coming up on it soon. So yeah, you can check out some of that stuff but go to Billy Newman photo comm to get links to everything. You got to find out more information there. Check out some recent blog posts I put up. I mean, I just photo stuff that I’ve been up to, and you’ll see some changes on the site and stuff over the next few weeks more podcasts to come that’s kind of cool. So trying to get out to do a bit more stuff here in October before we started to probably tune it down a bit after as a holiday started probably after around my birthday. So around like November 11, November 15 to November, we’ll tune it down a little for the holidays, which would be cool, but podcast throughout some stories throughout some editing some photos video stuff that’s fairly well I’ll work on that more. Still, maybe some of them, the deep woods stuff might tune down as the winter comes. So thanks a lot for listening to this episode of the building human photo podcast. You can check out Billy Newman photo comm forward-slash support to find ways to donate to this podcast and support the work that I’ve been doing to do photography stuff. 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