THE "TRIP" REPORT THREAD

[Core Shot]

There’s definitely a Venn diagram between downs and hallucinogens.

The intersection is happy amusement at whatever life offers.

[singlecross]

More Todd Snider stories

We got the coolest goalposts in the whole State!

[TBS]

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Last November a buddy and I scouted the Candle Creek fir grove in the Mt Jefferson Wilderness. This is a 35 acre grove of 450yo Douglas firs and 300yo ponderosa pines sticking out of a lava field. It almost burned in 2000.

Photo from last year. That tree is seven feet across


We made a plan to come back in the summer with fungi. Took until this weekend for the snow to clear, the wildfires to calm down and temps get to something reasonable.

The trail in is quite pleasant. Very much a west side ecosystem on the east side of the Cascade crest.


We found an old ponderosa to park under, munched down 3g each of cubensis and tuned in. Sadly, my photos didn’t capture the day’s colors or the heavy breathing of the trees & rocks.



The snowfield just to left of the peak has no official name. It will be henceforth called the Thunderbird Glacier.


This guy kept hanging around. Seemed friendly but had a hard time understanding him.


All in all a pleasant voyage

[chicken feathers]

Sounds like a great time. Old forests are psychedelic in their own right too.

I camped with a buddy a few weeks ago. While we were catching up, reminiscing about old growth forests was a theme. I was a bit envious of my buddy who got to spend seasons working in old spruce forests in NW CO prior to the spruce bark beetles in the late 90’s, early 00’s.

Munched on boomers the whole time. It was a great reset. Capped off by a storm rolling in the last night we were there, owls hooting, and other events all that cued up right as we were sharing past stories about those very things. “Actually, just like it is right now”

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If they are good enough for Tyson then they are good enough for me: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...g/74969058007/

Totally get what Mike is going for. I've been taking various amounts during outdoor recreation and have noticed an improved effect on performance for sure. Mtb, Dirtbiking, Skiing, Snowboarding. With Skiing and dirt biking, mushrooms helped me reach new levels and bust through the performance "plateau", opening my mind to new and different approaches to technique and terrain selection, skiing old lines that I had forgotten about or written off in the past. Not that I am really that good at either, but I am better, and happier doing them so will stay out longer because it is more interesting and enjoyable and the introspection that happens while in the middle of these activities is pretty rewarding as well. Definitely helps prevent the malaise of the mid-forties athleticism.

Eat a micro/macro dose 2-3g, put on some tunes un the helmet, and go spin some solo laps. I guarantee a good time.

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some great stories. Some about reaching psychadelic states through extreme conditions, others about using psychedelics and going big.

My experiences with tripping on epics have all been great, except one. Completely bonked last spring on a mt bike ride and fairly heavy dose (for me)of boomers. Thankfully not apes. It was a special hell. Had a hard time discerning how much was a rough trip vs was I really in trouble. Like most fuck ups in the mountains it could have been prevented by being better prepared.


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[gaijin]

We used to make mushroom tea and ski Kirkwood fairly regularly. It always felt like we were ripping.

I climbed and skied RoundTop on acid in a flannel shirt and leather gloves from the hardware store in a melt/freeze cycle. No crampons... just kicked our boots in and carved out holds with our hands and booted up Dogleg, or Crescent Chute... whatever it is called these days. Both gripped and feeling like a spider.

Also skied really sketchy chutes in July at Alpine Meadows on acid. The snow would melt away from the rocks, turning the chutes into bridges through the rock halls. While I have skied some of the gnarlier lines of my life on psyches, I can't say I'd recommend it. I don't regret it though. I think once you've reached a level of sport where you can do it naturally without thinking about it, it might be a good idea to "enhance" things a bit.

YMMV, and all that.