Outdoors Activities

Hand and field guide for scale.

In nicht mal mehr 2 Monaten ist es soweit und das 13. OC-HQ-Event findet statt. In diesem Jahr treffen wir uns vom 28-30. August in Glücksburg bzw. Flensburg. Organisiert wird das Event von JG24. Am Samstag folgt das Hauptevent in Glücksburg auf dem Schloss Glücksburg inklusive Führung.https://opencaching.de/OCHQ13#OpenCaching #GeoCaching #OConly #OCHQ13@geocaching@geocaching

I went for a kayak and found some cool canadian shield.

Das #OCHQEvent 2026 findet statt. In diesem Jahr treffen wir uns vom 28-30. August in Glücksburg bzw. Flensburg. Organisiert wird das Event von JG24. Den Auftakt macht am Freitag Abend, 28.08.2026 um 19 Uhr das Auftaktevent bei Mäders in Flensburg.https://opencaching.de/OC1881A#OpenCaching #GeoCaching #OConly #OCHQ13 #OC1881A@geocaching@geocaching

Heute Abend um 20:30 Uhr findet wieder der #OC_Talk statt. Es gibt #Uhrlaubsgrüsse per #Snailmail, einen Bericht zu den 20. GC-Meisterschaft und eine neue OC #Coin wird vorgestellt.Infos und Zugangslink unter:https://opencaching.de/OC10356#OpenCaching #GeoCaching #OConly@geocaching@geocaching

I just think it’s neat.

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This bad boy has enough amatoxins to painfully and slowly kill you( Slaps cap emphatically). The all white appearance is wonderful on these, all I can think of is a ghost.

Stupid Anker advertises a tiny charger and doesn’t say the weight anywhere. It really is small though, about 28x28x35mm per my crappy measurement. I got it for around $14 shipped during the recent sale. Interestingly I ordered it from the Anker site and it was delivered on Sunday by Amazon, hmm.

Since the river is totally dry, I decided to take the dogs on their morning hike in the riverbed.

It is always nice to see the vibrant red. Found in NW Indiana

If you consumed a wild mushroom and suddenly started seeing tiny people around you, you might reasonably assume it contained a familiar psychedelic.

Probably chanterelles, but I am no expert.

Per usual mushrooms do what they want. This species is not supposed to be popping right now until later in the year. The conditions were right though to fire it off though.

I make these shiny objects out of rocks I collect, dichroic glass, and solid glass bricks. It’s a really laborious but also meditative process.

Another coral I stumbled across in the woods. The color on these guys is incredible.

Stone has a small space cut into the bottom that a small neodymium magnet is friction fit in place. Base has magnets close to the surface of the top by drilling a hole from the bottom.

Found this guy growing on the root flare of a dead oak in central Texas. Eye-catching lacquered appearance on the topside and stem.

Regular quartz, smokey quartz, and something else. This is after stage 2 or about three weeks into tumbling.

The DNR has confirmed that a new state record-length lake trout was caught in May.

I think Oudemansiella furfuracea but I know these guys are weird/are actively being studied. From what I read the genus is being fleshed out and sequencing is making things complicated on what species are what. Also they did the old genus switcheroo on me as happens in mycology as I use to call these Xerula. I will go to my grave using Armillaria bulbosa though, can not take that one from me.

I’m looking forward to the fruits next year! What an amazing gift from this tree.

These guys are pretty common around here. They are edible but I have never been a huge fan. As far as fun texture, I will give them a 10/10.

These rocks came in a bag of tumbling stones and I have tried using this app, Rock Identifier, to ID them but it have me inconsistent reports. It says it could be Chrysocolla in Quartz, or Aurichalcite, or Quartz, or Agate, or Brochantite.

I found it in a jar of buttons. I like the lines.

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I haven’t found many cool rocks lately, so here’s a big one to fill the space.

Found in my local park

A couple days ago, I was booking a hut-hiking holiday in the Alps with some friends. It was however quite time consuming to look for hikes, then check all individual huts and see if they have free beds on the desired days. That’s why, while procrastinating on my thesis, I’ve been writing this little website. It automatically fetches a lot of huts and official hikes. It then checks their availability and gives you a list of possible hikes you can do.

Very green out today.

I don’t know what the top of this raptor looks like, the closest I’ve ever gotten is where they perch at the top of this tree. I can tell they have a mostly white belly with black (or dark brown?) feathers along the wings edge. I wish they would have called when I got this video, but not this time. I live well within city limits, so this is an urban setting, although in a small-ish rural town, so not a bustling area. I have become quite fond of them, they regularly return to this tree and I would love to know what kind of raptor my neighbor is c: I am not sure, but thinking perhaps a Swainson’s Hawk?

Agaricus augustus were everywhere this weekend, time for some good eating.

I’ve been asked to help ID this plant.

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In my backyard

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I found it in the driveway.

Ich war auf #Urlaub in #Madrid und #Valencia (#Spanien). In beiden Städten gibt es für mich überraschend viele #OpenCaches. In Madrid erzählen einem Virtuals über besondere Gebäude und in Valencia führt ein bunter Mix an Caches in die Vororte, raus aus dem touristischen Zentrum.

Smokey quartz and regular quartz taking a break from my tumbler.

Cultivated enoki (*Flammulina filliformis*) look completely different because they’re grown with limited light to make them come out thin and pale.

From a grab bag of rocks I ordered for tumbling.