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KY, USA
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Posted: 12/10/2023 11:28:40 PM EDT
Is anyone doing Pioneer stuff in Kentucky?
Is anyone going to the Warfighter Challenge in May? |
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Posted: 12/12/2023 9:40:51 AM EDT
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Not to my knowledge, no. There used to be groups in Louisville and Lexington, they both died out during the Rona. Subsequent attempts to revive have met with failure.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 1/4/2024 10:09:21 PM EDT
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Bumping, per discussion on the APC thread.
Hoping to get some guys together to have some fun in the field. Hikes, shooting. I'm around Louisville. I do semi-regular ruck hikes at the Parklands, usually at Turkey Run Park. I do lots of shooting in either Clark State forest or out at a friends out east of Lexington. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 1/4/2024 10:18:10 PM EDT
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@arowneragain
I've signed-up formally on the APC website. I have ordered a book. I have no idea where this will go, if anywhere. You're certainly welcome to participate if you'd like! @unlubed @Atropian_Defector |
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Posted: 1/4/2024 10:33:15 PM EDT
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Thanks!
There’s a handful of us in TN that would be interested I think. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 1/5/2024 8:47:12 AM EDT
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Well shucks. I think it's a great idea. I need to get back in shape anyway.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 1/5/2024 8:51:31 AM EDT
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Looks like the APC membership part of the website is down?
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Posted: 1/5/2024 9:46:59 AM EDT
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Tag from central KY
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KY, USA
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:41:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By arowneragain: Thanks! There’s a handful of us in TN that would be interested I think. Where you at in Tennessee? I have a bunch of family in Knox County. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 1/5/2024 1:29:36 PM EDT
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Warfighter actually looks like a good time. I need to get a ruck on and see if I'm up for 12 miles, probably in the next week or two.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 1/5/2024 9:57:47 PM EDT
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I should be picking up my Task Book on Sunday, so I'll take a look and see if this is for sure something I'd like to commit to. I'll post events as they come up or ones that i organize. I have a few places I know of around me that are good for either hiking or shooting. Some are public, others are on friends lands.
I've got a telegram channel that I use to post interesting stuff: https://t.me/KYWilderness Once some events get planned, I'll post them there too. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 10:42:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 7255: Not to my knowledge, no. There used to be groups in Louisville and Lexington, they both died out during the Rona. Subsequent attempts to revive have met with failure. I was part of some of the rucking in Louisville during coughy I need to get my fat ass out and do more |
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Posted: 1/7/2024 6:33:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By craig24680: I was part of some of the rucking in Louisville during coughy I need to get my fat ass out and do more Where did you ruck at? |
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Posted: 1/8/2024 1:34:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CreativeBall: Where did you ruck at? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CreativeBall: Originally Posted By craig24680: I was part of some of the rucking in Louisville during coughy I need to get my fat ass out and do more Where did you ruck at? I'm pretty sure he was part of the same crew I was rucking with those four years ago, and those hikes were around exit 29 in Indiana and the Parklands in Kentucky. I wish you well in starting this up. |
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Posted: 1/8/2024 1:36:07 PM EDT
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My last 12 miler was 2.5 years ago now
 Hiking the grand canyon in march, so started my train-up this week. I’m good to meet up for rucks. |
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Posted: 1/8/2024 2:09:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 7255: I'm pretty sure he was part of the same crew I was rucking with those four years ago, and those hikes were around exit 29 in Indiana and the Parklands in Kentucky. I wish you well in starting this up. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 7255: Originally Posted By CreativeBall: Originally Posted By craig24680: I was part of some of the rucking in Louisville during coughy I need to get my fat ass out and do more Where did you ruck at? I'm pretty sure he was part of the same crew I was rucking with those four years ago, and those hikes were around exit 29 in Indiana and the Parklands in Kentucky. I wish you well in starting this up. Pretty sure, yes Downtown Louisville Beckly Creek park |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 1/8/2024 7:22:20 PM EDT
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I've been doing Turkey Run or Broad Run parks.
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Posted: 1/8/2024 9:36:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CreativeBall: I've been doing Turkey Run or Broad Run parks. Weather depending....how does a ~6 mile ruck sound early afternoon on Sunday, Jan 21? |
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Posted: 1/8/2024 9:41:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Unlubed: Where you at in Tennessee? I have a bunch of family in Knox County. I’m in Maury county. We have guys in Rutherford, Lincoln, maybe (?)Marshall county that might be interested. |
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Posted: 1/9/2024 9:57:59 AM EDT
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If we do combine up, Bowling Green may be a reasonable meet-up
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Posted: 1/9/2024 12:20:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Unlubed: Looks like the APC membership part of the website is down? There is a lot being revamped. The short version, is that there won't in the future be any sort of formal registration with the national organization outside of groups having a POC and providing raw numbers of regular participants and events held. |
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Posted: 1/10/2024 7:53:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Atropian_Defector: If we do combine up, Bowling Green may be a reasonable meet-up Any ideas on where to go rucking? I don't know what area. |
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Posted: 1/10/2024 11:24:14 PM EDT
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Im going to do a ruck on 1/21 (Sunday) in the Parklands outside Louisville. 2:30 PM start time. Weather depending - if it's raining or snowing, I probably won't go out.
45lb pack. 6 miles. On trail, but lots of small hills and rises. I'm trying to keep it at the 3mph standard for APC, but if you can't do that, it's fine. Come on down anyway. Id be happy if you would like to join me. https://maps.app.goo.gl/DvfMagUxNF7NfRuH9 |
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Posted: 1/10/2024 11:31:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CreativeBall: Im going to do a ruck on 1/21 (Sunday) in the Parklands outside Louisville. 2:30 PM start time. Weather depending - if it's raining or snowing, I probably won't go out. 45lb pack. 6 miles. On trail, but lots of small hills and rises. I'm trying to keep it at the 3mph standard for APC, but if you can't do that, it's fine. Come on down anyway. Id be happy if you would like to join me. https://maps.app.goo.gl/DvfMagUxNF7NfRuH9 Solid maybe Highly weather depending |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 10:05:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CreativeBall: Im going to do a ruck on 1/21 (Sunday) in the Parklands outside Louisville. 2:30 PM start time. Weather depending - if it's raining or snowing, I probably won't go out. 45lb pack. 6 miles. On trail, but lots of small hills and rises. I'm trying to keep it at the 3mph standard for APC, but if you can't do that, it's fine. Come on down anyway. Id be happy if you would like to join me. https://maps.app.goo.gl/DvfMagUxNF7NfRuH9 Can I put rocks in a normal backpack or something? Interested in this so possibly in. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 10:20:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cmmeur01: Can I put rocks in a normal backpack or something? Interested in this so possibly in. Your back will hate you. Try getting a alice frame or cheap frame pack. You want the weight as high as possible/close to your shoulders. A 45lbs plate strapped to it works. |
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Posted: 1/14/2024 7:47:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cmmeur01: Can I put rocks in a normal backpack or something? Interested in this so possibly in. You could...but why wouldn't you bring your 3day/mission pack along? |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 10:36:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cmmeur01: Can I put rocks in a normal backpack or something? Interested in this so possibly in. Blankets, beans, and rice make better weights than rocks. And you can shape the load in your pack to be easier on you. Don't do rocks, really. Not unless you hate your spine. And hips. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 11:18:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CreativeBall: You could...but why wouldn't you bring your 3day/mission pack along? Presumptive of you to think he has such a pack. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 12:20:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Atropian_Defector: Presumptive of you to think he has such a pack. Yep, all my gear is in dry bags currently from my last canoe trip. I’ll have to do some research on the packs. From a cursory search seems like the molle packs are better than the alice packs? |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 12:32:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Ben]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cmmeur01: Yep, all my gear is in dry bags currently from my last canoe trip. I’ll have to do some research on the packs. From a cursory search seems like the molle packs are better than the alice packs? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cmmeur01: Originally Posted By Atropian_Defector: Presumptive of you to think he has such a pack. Yep, all my gear is in dry bags currently from my last canoe trip. I’ll have to do some research on the packs. From a cursory search seems like the molle packs are better than the alice packs? That depends. I have ways greatly preferred the large ALICE pack, because I've broken the frames of multiple plastic frames MOLLE packs. But to be fair, all but one of the frames I broke were in Arctic conditions (subzero temps make the plastic brittle) or while parachuting. The one I broke at Quantico as a lieutenant had almost 200lbs of shit in it...wayyyy overloaded. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 12:42:11 PM EDT
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[#31]
Originally Posted By CreativeBall: Is anyone doing Pioneer stuff in Kentucky? Is anyone going to the Warfighter Challenge in May? As @7255 and @craig24680 said, we had a pretty active group going back in 2020. We’re getting 10-15 people together for fairly regular 10ks. Interest waned for me when APC changed and there seemed to be a push to have all organizers have prior mil experience. Not being that, I stopped promoting and organizing. At that point, support vanished. No one picked up the ball after that. Unsure what the current state of the apc is with regards to who can and can’t organize. Maybe @ben can elaborate or clarify. I think the rucks and other extra curricular activities are great, and hope it flourishes. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 12:48:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Damon_23: As @7255 and @craig24680 said, we had a pretty active group going back in 2020. We’re getting 10-15 people together for fairly regular 10ks. Interest waned for me when APC changed and there seemed to be a push to have all organizers have prior mil experience. Not being that, I stopped promoting and organizing. At that point, support vanished. No one picked up the ball after that. Unsure what the current state of the apc is with regards to who can and can’t organize. Maybe @ben can elaborate or clarify. I think the rucks and other extra curricular activities are great, and hope it flourishes. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Damon_23: Originally Posted By CreativeBall: Is anyone doing Pioneer stuff in Kentucky? Is anyone going to the Warfighter Challenge in May? As @7255 and @craig24680 said, we had a pretty active group going back in 2020. We’re getting 10-15 people together for fairly regular 10ks. Interest waned for me when APC changed and there seemed to be a push to have all organizers have prior mil experience. Not being that, I stopped promoting and organizing. At that point, support vanished. No one picked up the ball after that. Unsure what the current state of the apc is with regards to who can and can’t organize. Maybe @ben can elaborate or clarify. I think the rucks and other extra curricular activities are great, and hope it flourishes. I am very sorry if there was the perception that we wanted or expected organizers to have military experience. That was never the case. In fact, we have a non-prior military guy @Redbirdxx on our Board of Directors. We did want to find prior officers and staff NCOs to act as mentors, but it wasn't a requirement at all. If you want assistance getting stuff started again please let me know. Happy to chat by phone, text, or email. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 12:54:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ben: I am very sorry if there was the perception that we wanted or expected organizers to have military experience. That was never the case. In fact, we have a non-prior military guy @Redbirdxx on our Board of Directors. We did want to find prior officers and staff NCOs to act as mentors, but it wasn't a requirement at all. If you want assistance getting stuff started again please let me know. Happy to chat by phone, text, or email. Thanks for the quick reply. Redbirdxx is good people. He came to one of our rucks. Many of us that participated in the BB rucks still shoot and get together often. I’ll speak with them and gauge interest. Thanks again |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 1:10:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Damon_23: Thanks for the quick reply. Redbirdxx is good people. He came to one of our rucks. Many of us that participated in the BB rucks still shoot and get together often. I’ll speak with them and gauge interest. Thanks again Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Damon_23: Originally Posted By Ben: I am very sorry if there was the perception that we wanted or expected organizers to have military experience. That was never the case. In fact, we have a non-prior military guy @Redbirdxx on our Board of Directors. We did want to find prior officers and staff NCOs to act as mentors, but it wasn't a requirement at all. If you want assistance getting stuff started again please let me know. Happy to chat by phone, text, or email. Thanks for the quick reply. Redbirdxx is good people. He came to one of our rucks. Many of us that participated in the BB rucks still shoot and get together often. I’ll speak with them and gauge interest. Thanks again I'll take this a step farther. I will be doing a cross country trip in late March. If you get six or more people to commit, I will divert to Kentucky to teach a class on an APC topic of your choosing, at no cost, and provide all the necessary gear. Only condition is that it can't be strictly shooting. It can be a hike and shooting, or mountaineering and shooting, land nav and shooting, etc etc. I say this because lots of people mistake APC being a charity with it being a free ride. Yes- we provide ammo at shoots, but you're still paying for it. You just pay for it with sweat and effort to improve yourself instead of money. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 1:52:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ben: I'll take this a step farther. I will be doing a cross country trip in late March. If you get six or more people to commit, I will divert to Kentucky to teach a class on an APC topic of your choosing, at no cost, and provide all the necessary gear. Only condition is that it can't be strictly shooting. It can be a hike and shooting, or mountaineering and shooting, land nav and shooting, etc etc. I say this because lots of people mistake APC being a charity with it being a free ride. Yes- we provide ammo at shoots, but you're still paying for it. You just pay for it with sweat and effort to improve yourself instead of money. That sounds wonderful. Is national forest land entirely off limits for training if we are only doing mountaineering? Id like to learn how to go Up, since going down is easy. I may know people with a private range nearby as well. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 2:19:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ben: I'll take this a step farther. I will be doing a cross country trip in late March. If you get six or more people to commit, I will divert to Kentucky to teach a class on an APC topic of your choosing, at no cost, and provide all the necessary gear. Only condition is that it can't be strictly shooting. It can be a hike and shooting, or mountaineering and shooting, land nav and shooting, etc etc. I say this because lots of people mistake APC being a charity with it being a free ride. Yes- we provide ammo at shoots, but you're still paying for it. You just pay for it with sweat and effort to improve yourself instead of money. That’s a very gracious offer. Time is a precious commodity. Running it past everyone now. Unsure about the dates. A good number of us will be in WV the weekend of 3/23 for a NV rifle match. The 30th may work. Second favorite is the 16th. And agreed. Shooting is pretty far down the list of stuff to do. Rucks, land nav, mountaineering, comms, etc. are all more interesting and don’t require specialized facilities. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 2:55:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Damon_23: That’s a very gracious offer. Time is a precious commodity. Running it past everyone now. Unsure about the dates. A good number of us will be in WV the weekend of 3/23 for a NV rifle match. The 30th may work. Second favorite is the 16th. And agreed. Shooting is pretty far down the list of stuff to do. Rucks, land nav, mountaineering, comms, etc. are all more interesting and don’t require specialized facilities. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Damon_23: That’s a very gracious offer. Time is a precious commodity. Running it past everyone now. Unsure about the dates. A good number of us will be in WV the weekend of 3/23 for a NV rifle match. The 30th may work. Second favorite is the 16th. And agreed. Shooting is pretty far down the list of stuff to do. Rucks, land nav, mountaineering, comms, etc. are all more interesting and don’t require specialized facilities. Originally Posted By CreativeBall: That sounds wonderful. Is national forest land entirely off limits for training if we are only doing mountaineering? Id like to learn how to go Up, since going down is easy. I may know people with a private range nearby as well. We often use National Forest for training of a variety of flavors. The thing about national forest is that each forest has its own policies on a range of issues. Whether we can use a specific forest depends on what we are doing and what their policies are for that particular forest. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 3:51:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cmmeur01: Yep, all my gear is in dry bags currently from my last canoe trip. I’ll have to do some research on the packs. From a cursory search seems like the molle packs are better than the alice packs? I have both if you would like to try them out. I use the Alice mostly, but have done several multiday trips with my molle as well |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 3:55:26 PM EDT
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Do we want to get a signal chat group or something going? Is there an existing one?
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Posted: 1/15/2024 5:28:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Damon_23: That’s a very gracious offer. Time is a precious commodity. Running it past everyone now. Unsure about the dates. A good number of us will be in WV the weekend of 3/23 for a NV rifle match. The 30th may work. Second favorite is the 16th. And agreed. Shooting is pretty far down the list of stuff to do. Rucks, land nav, mountaineering, comms, etc. are all more interesting and don’t require specialized facilities. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Damon_23: Originally Posted By Ben: I'll take this a step farther. I will be doing a cross country trip in late March. If you get six or more people to commit, I will divert to Kentucky to teach a class on an APC topic of your choosing, at no cost, and provide all the necessary gear. Only condition is that it can't be strictly shooting. It can be a hike and shooting, or mountaineering and shooting, land nav and shooting, etc etc. I say this because lots of people mistake APC being a charity with it being a free ride. Yes- we provide ammo at shoots, but you're still paying for it. You just pay for it with sweat and effort to improve yourself instead of money. That’s a very gracious offer. Time is a precious commodity. Running it past everyone now. Unsure about the dates. A good number of us will be in WV the weekend of 3/23 for a NV rifle match. The 30th may work. Second favorite is the 16th. And agreed. Shooting is pretty far down the list of stuff to do. Rucks, land nav, mountaineering, comms, etc. are all more interesting and don’t require specialized facilities. very gracious indeed I'd be down |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 5:29:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Atropian_Defector: Do we want to get a signal chat group or something going? Is there an existing one? There was a Discord server for the Kentuckiana area Battle Buddies hikes, looks like it hasn't been purged yet. Anyone interested can DM me for the Discord invite. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 5:53:29 PM EDT
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Good to hear you guys might get rolling again, I was unaware of the misperception that apparently derailed you guys. You had a solid group going down there, hope it can come back together.
Ping me if you get a hike together, I'd love to head down again and say hello. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 8:17:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CreativeBall: That sounds wonderful. Is national forest land entirely off limits for training if we are only doing mountaineering? Id like to learn how to go Up, since going down is easy. I may know people with a private range nearby as well. When it gets warmer I can teach you the going up part if you don't mind coming to Lexington |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 8:22:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By scottr: When it gets warmer I can teach you the going up part if you don't mind coming to Lexington I roll through Lexington frequently, so its not a big trip. I'm looking forward to meeting you at some point. |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 9:16:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Redbirdxx: Good to hear you guys might get rolling again, I was unaware of the misperception that apparently derailed you guys. You had a solid group going down there, hope it can come back together. Ping me if you get a hike together, I'd love to head down again and say hello. Will do |
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Posted: 1/15/2024 10:16:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Atropian_Defector: I have both if you would like to try them out. I use the Alice mostly, but have done several multiday trips with my molle as well I bought a medium ruck and large molle ii ruck today on an impulse so I should be ok, I really appreciate it though. If UPS can get my stuff from Indy to Louisville by Saturday I’m in for the hike. Looks to be cold but whatever I ran 10miles in it yesterday. |
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Posted: 1/16/2024 4:58:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 7255: There was a Discord server for the Kentuckiana area Battle Buddies hikes, looks like it hasn't been purged yet. Anyone interested can DM me for the Discord invite. Just a reminder. There’s a Kentuckiana ruck server on discord. It’s a secure way of discussing and organizing rucks and stuff. If you’re local and would like to join in, please reach out to @7255 or myself. |
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Posted: 1/17/2024 9:47:48 AM EDT
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We have a group on signal for the HTF too
Mostly giving each other crap but it's been handy sharing info |
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Posted: 1/19/2024 8:40:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By scottr: We have a group on signal for the HTF too Mostly giving each other crap but it's been handy sharing info I really ought to get on Discord. Telegram eats so much of my day as it is though... I'm on Signal already (sorta). I'm hoping I'm in good shape on Sunday. I've been having what I think are gall bladder issues, so some days are really rough. |
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Posted: 1/21/2024 10:18:47 AM EDT
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I'm going to have to cancel my participation in the hike for today. Going through a treatment right now, and it makes it impossible to travel a distance on foot.
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