bloody footware, your feet must be killing you after that walkQuote:
Originally Posted by katie23
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bloody footware, your feet must be killing you after that walkQuote:
Originally Posted by katie23
^Lol. No, those are "ballet flats" , one of my several pairs of office shoes. That pic was taken today. For the hike, I wore trek sandals (with socks).
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^found those leeches attached to my socks when we reached the "campsite" and I went to the outhouse for a pee. Sometimes (or most times), you don't feel them when they attach.
More of the story in my hiking thread.
^^^^Nasty....!
Were you wearing a Crucifix Katie?
I am trying to calibrate the effectiveness of my new golden-guardian pendant so I need raw data for my research paper.
^^^^Nicely toned calves! :yup:
Well that's a new one on me.Quote:
Originally Posted by katie23
^I wore trek sandals because I knew there were river crossings (some parts of the rivers were up to my thighs) and I didn't want to hike with wet, heavy, squishy trek shoes like Merrell. I wore socks because I've had blisters while wearing sandals for long hikes. We finished the hike in 20 hours (0400H to 2300H) and if I didn't wear socks, I may have had blisters. Besides, the socks also protected me from the leeches. Not all of them, but I saw three or four of them sticking to my socks during the hike. I removed some of them before they were able to burrow into my socks to reach my skin. My leggings and socks were both black, so I didn't commit major fashion mistakes. :)
@looper - no, I didn't wear a crucifix or a rosary. But I did say some prayers while navigating some slippery rocks during the descent. I had an ankle injury just this April (also from hiking) and I felt the injury acting up when I put pressure on that foot/ ankle. Fortunately, it seemed like my prayers worked. I was able to finish the trek safe and sound.
You need to pray to St Bernard of Montjoux
The good St Bernard was born in the year of Our Lord 923 and canonized by Pope Pius in 1923 making 2023 the 1100th and 100th respective anniversariesQuote:
Originally Posted by malmomike77
Maybe an auspicious time to wear a St Bernard necklace on those kiss-the-wall knife-edge ledges Katie!
Or get a puppy with a brandy barrel to train as a trekking companion.
And hiking footwear with ankle support…
^As I've said, I wore sandals for this hike because of the river crossings. The socks were to prevent against leeches and blisters.
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^that was the state of my socks/sandals at the summit (also posted in my hiking thread)
I do have "proper" hike shoes but they don't have ankle support (maybe I'll buy soon). This was taken in April, the hike when I slipped & twisted my ankle. I partly blame myself since I was distracted and not paying close attention to the trail during the descent. I didn't take pics of my footwear itself, so here's the best that I can do.
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(I didn't post pics of this hike in my hike thread. This was a dry hike - no waterfalls or rivers to cross, so I wore trek shoes. )
@looper - yeah, maybe I'll wear a St Bernard pendant next hike. :) I haven't been hiking mountains with "knife edges" or "kiss the wall" parts lately.
wear all the Saints pendants like Indians do with their Gods - cover all basesQuote:
Originally Posted by katie23
^I would bring/ wear Shiva & Vishnu bracelets/ amulets too, but then I remembered that it's against my religion. (thou shall not have other gods) :)
This Friday/ weekend is looking like it will be sunny. The weekend prior to my hike was also sunny. My friends and I had the bad luck to hike on a wet & stormy weekend. If it had been a sunny weekend during my hike, I would probably have pics similar to that ^^ at the summit of Mt Irid, the leechy mountain.
Thou shalt have no other God before me. You must not make any idols, I assume that means wearing them too. Best not anger the boss.
Don't get me wrong Katie, I fully understand the reasoning and the advantages of the sandals for such a hike and I respect your bravery.Quote:
Originally Posted by katie23
The very thought of hiking is sandals absolutely terrifies me. The amount of snakes, scorpions, centipedes etc that I've encountered on hash runs...
...no chance!
I could have gone viral on tik-tok if someone had filmed my 'showered-in-red-ants dance' while cutting back my pomelo tree this morning.
Your socks have funky individual toe-fingers Katie!
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They should be proudly on display in sandals, not hidden away inside hiking shoes. Don't listen to Dirk!
or actually get some hiking sandals? they look like they have no tread.
^^ I have a pair of socks the same as that.
They fit like a glove.
^
Hope jour thumb does not look like your big toe, be a worry.
Don't forget it Katie for ours is a jealous and vengeful God...Quote:
Originally Posted by katie23
...the best kind of God!
:tumbs:
This shits me.
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I had the great good fortune to, by chance, feel a leech on my back while I was working before he really got stuck in. I brushed him vigorously and he dropped off which was handy. I looked on the ground and could not see him so I thought he might still be on me.
Went inside stripped off to check my body in the mirror. Nothing.
But I did not take my boots off and the coont had landed on my boot and silently made his way to my ankle like a squidgy ninja and feasted on me for half an hour before I felt him again.
He got salted purely out of revenge since he had already dropped off sated. I was letting my vengeful side out like in Ezekiel 25:17
But that still leaves me with a super-itchy leech-bite for 2 days, coont.
Sinners shalt be smote even those that sleepeth with dusky handmaidens sayeth the Lord, may the rubba johnnies be with you and delegate manual labour.
^^What a wuss
Stick one of these in your boots...
https://i.imgur.com/Zzob44B.jpeg
I rescued a bee drowning in the pool yesterday, fucker stung me. Ungrateful twat.
^^What is that fooker? Looks like a soldier termite
^Pics or it never happened
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Your hashing in the wrong spot dirk? Try subic or Angeles. They just run between bars. Done my down downs in subic . Sat on the block of iceQuote:
Originally Posted by dirk diggler
Great fun the hash
2 leeches latched on in half an hour. This is a biblical plague of vampire blood suckers and my gold crucifix is letting me down.
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Salt gets them to let go and kills them in 30 seconds.
This is the evilest leech yet. It is a cunning leech. I was working in the garden when I felt an itch inside my boot, down at my little toe. I did not do anything as it is a hassle to get my boot and sock off and on. When I eventually gave in I found a leech inside my sock in between my pinkie and 4th toe. That is him in the pile of salt on the driveway.
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He could not have got down there with my boot on so he must have lain in wait overnight in my sock and then bit me after I put it on. Who would have thought a leech could be so cunning.
Once the drama of my power cable rescue was over I became curious about the itching inside my boot.
It turned out to be a feckin blood suckin leech
I did not have salt on me so he got the jet-lighter treatment
He behaved very strangely when I subjected hm to the blue hot 1200c bunsen flame
Instead of panicking and scarpering away from it he stretched his pointy head end up directly into the oncoming flame and stayed in that position until he had become a carbon statue.
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Almost like he was eager to climb up to his next karmic incarnation having done his leech time.
Maybe I will come back as a leech one day in the far future :scratchchin: