Im working at Yellowstone this summer and have to check in at Gardiner then drive down to Old Faithful. The route around the park would take me an extra 16 hours so I’m just curious if the Loop is usually open during that time.
Hi all!
Minnesotan here visiting Yellowstone in late September this year! Wondering your thoughts on adding the 42 mile Teton Park Road loop to the itinerary! We likely wouldn’t do much hiking off the beaten path, maybe short walks near the loop.
Also, we will be there the last week in September. Is the driving safe? Does this loop take you through the mountains or just beside? Haven’t driven in mountains before!
Thanks so much for your advice!!! :)
I'm thinking about backpacking Grand Teton NP next summer, aiming for mid-to-late July. The two possibilities I'm looking at are: (1) Death Canyon loop; and (2) Webb Canyon/Owl Canyon loop. If anyone is familiar with either of these hikes and can comment on either or both of them that would be greatly appreciated. I'm especially interested in the amount of snow one might reasonably expect at that time of year, and also the water depth in the creek crossings on Webb Canyon/Owl Canyon. Thanks.
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The news is a couple weeks old but I didn't see it posted yet:
https://igf.com/finalists-and-winners
https://gdconf.com/news/unpacking-and-inscryption-lead-igf-2022-nominations
Only six games were chosen as finalists for the grand prize, from over 400 entries! This is how I heard about Loop Hero.
The actual winners will be revealed at the end of March at the GDC (Game Developers Conference).
Looking to do a ~60 mile loop trail for 4 nights at GTNP in late June / early July. Will also be doing some shorter hikes around NC during the year to test out new gear. I have done a lot of hikes and camping before, just never above 30 miles. This is the first time I intend to be conscious of my weight as I usually just pack whatever I feel like. Thank you all in advance.
Trying to cut down pack weight. My goal is to start accumulating more lightweight items without spending too much money (~500 total) - a lot of my gear is still in good shape from Scouting. Ideally need some help with choosing a suitable and versatile sleeping bag and a puffy coat. However, I am open to cutting down weight almost everywhere except the pack and tent because they were gifts.
Location/temp range/specific trip description: 5 day, 4 nights - GTNP
Goal Baseweight (BPW): 16lb
Budget: $500
Non-negotiable Items: Pack / Tent
Solo or with another person?: Solo, possibly going with my brother TBD
Lighterpack Link: https://lighterpack.com/r/5umdsp - Starred items I have yet to buy, everything else I currently own however, up to any suggestions
Hi /r/ProgressionFantasy
I'd like to share that I have posted the rewrite of my serial Dear Spellbook on Royal Road.
About 9 months ago I posted the original version of this story on Royal Road. Since then, I have gone back and performed a fairly significant rewrite to convert the serial into a book (1 of 3) which is now live on Royal Road. The original book 1 was 90k words, and the current is 120k, but on top of adding 30k words I rewrote another 20k.
The original version lacked the progression elements I envisioned it having when I started writing, but going back and editing it once it was done allowed me to fix a lot of that and make the progression more present in the story.
The story was born out of a D&D homebrew world I'd run a bunch of one-shots and games in. When 2020 hit and in-person things stopped, I kept going back to the world and planning things I never had the chance to use. At one point while washing bottles at my kitchen sink, I decided that I was going to write it into a story. The next session I'd prepared for my group—but had never gotten to play—involved them being trapped in a Mother of Learning time loop. With a couple of tweaks to PCs to make a MC and supporting cast, a plot began to take shape.
What to expect:
Many of the story elements were born out of an attempt to create in-world lore justifications for many of the tropes in D&D. You don't need to know D&D to enjoy the story, but it will add an additional layer if you do.
The magic system is one such element that is explored in depth. The difference between a sorcerer and a wizard is very much at the heart of this story due to our MC who is both.
New chapters are Monday, Wednesday, Friday until book 1 is complete (42 chapters)
Blurb:
Tal never saw himself as an adventurer, but the call to adventure never much cared for his opinion. Despite his best efforts, his search for answers on the murder of his parents ever draws him into danger. Accompanied by a group of seasoned warriors, thus far Tal has gotten by on his own meager magical talents, but when one day he wakes up to find himself back in his bed of the night before, he is faced with a challenge he must conquer alone.
I used to live in New Haven, CT and took the occasional road trip up the coast but didn’t see too much of New England.
I’m planning another trip for late April. Current plan is to fly in to Boston (no longer living in New England, very sad) drive up to Maine and then turn around, making a loop so that we see some coastal stuff one way, and interior the other.
I’m a little in the dark in destinations. Of course, I’m a sucker for all the stuff I’d see in Yankee magazine. Small towns, historic sites and BnBs, etc. Traveling partner is into antiques and art, primarily.
So far I’ve seen Portland, Camden, Stowe and Providence. With a smattering of some smaller towns.
Are there some must see sites or other recommendations I can check out to start pinning down the loop and where we’re going? I’d say we have about 6 or so days. But that’s flexible.
GTC strives to become more than just a P2E game or a crypto metaverse. Using artificial intelligence coded based on human behavior, the goal is to become a DAO with near real-life dynamics. Thereby incentivizing both law-abiding and law-neglecting behavior. Right from the start, the incentive-based economy is basic and straightforward, but as time passes the AI improves and the DAO advances. Providing a more dynamic experience. Grand Theft Crypto then becomes more and more a realistic economic trade-off.
Our story takes place in The virtual world “Encrypta” is inspired by Cartagena, Colombia a famous harbor city. The dimensions will be roughly the same, with some pre-build locations to set the famous colorful atmosphere. Landowners can (under certain laws that are subject for change) freely build and create their own household in the GTC-Verse. To protect asset loss land ownership cannot be lost, landowners can only be punished or rewarded in the form of lost or gained income, based on an advanced behavior penalty system introduced later in-game.
Website: grandtheftcrypto.org
It will take me a bit to get to the actual point. Please excuse me, I feel the need to fully explain the situation because time travel messes with our common sense.
When most people think of time travel AUs, I think it’s fair to say, they think of our heroes travelling back in time (either inhabiting their younger selves, or keeping their old bodies) and using the future knowledge in an attempt to change the future they know. This, naturally, results in the original timeline essentially being lost, that future no longer existing.
Yet, there is another type of time travel. The casual loop. It’s what Harry Potter and Hermione used in the third book of the series. It’s when you travel back in time, but you stay in the same exact timeline. No branching. That, of course, also means that you can do almost nothing to change things. Lest you feel like causing an actual paradox. There is some leeway, as Harry Potter showed, but the end result will always be the same.
In a casual loop scenario time-travelling you and original you coexist in the same timeline. That means that you cannot change anything that would affect the perception of original you. If you originally saw someone getting shot in the head and then you traveled back in time, you cannot change that. You have to let your original self see the same person get shot in the head the exact same way. The fun in writing casual loops comes from this loophole: Original-you saw X get shot in the head. Well, original saw what they thought was X. When you travel back in time you can feasibly save X by somehow getting an extremely convincing body double and tricking Original to think it’s X, when the double gets shot.
“Well”, you might say, “I don’t see anything bad here. Where are these dead stakes you mentioned?”
And you would be correct. There is absolutely nothing problematic when using casual loops… as long as the time travel is small scale. The moment, however, that you start jumping back years,that’s when problems arise. Allow me to explain:
Say the time travel occurs 5 years into canon and the main character goes 15 years into the past. 10 years before canon. We know this is a casual loop because (in this fic) the characters in the future remember the main character being there in the past.
What does this mean? Simple: No matter what the main character does. No matter what growth the characters in the past go through. No matter the challenges, the pain, the joy they experience. Every single
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I'm now eligible for a 3 month sabbatical from my job. Because of a probable waiting list and some expat visa complications it's not likely until 2016, but I'll have to put in for it soon so I've been thinking a lot about what to do with the time.
One of my life travel goals is to take the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian/Manchurian. Adding on a few stopovers along the way, and time to visit Moscow and St Petersburg at the start or end, would by my estimation take about one of those months to do well.
That leaves two more months. So my thinking was to take the Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing, spend a month traveling around China, and then take the last month to travel back by rail along the Silk Road through central Asia.
I'd love feedback from anyone who's done any of those legs, but in particular the first and last. My thinking so far:
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Leg 1 (Trans-Mongolian): Stopovers in Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk/Baikal region, Ulan Bator. Potential alternative or additional stopovers: Suzdal/Golden Ring, Omsk, Ulan Ude.
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Leg 2 (wander about China): no real idea yet, but likely sticking to coastal and southern China. Hong Kong would be great but I've been once before and I think I'd rather go southwest if time permits (Chengdu). Tibet would always on the table, but that could eat up a lot of travel time and also who knows what the permit situation would be. I'm not going to try to plan this leg out too much in advance.
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Leg 3 (Return along the Silk Road): Western China (Xi'an, Urumqi) to Almaty, Kazakhstan. From there the route options are a little hazy - there's just much less info out there than for the Trans-siberian routes. I'm thinking Almaty to Tashkent with an excursion to Samarkand, and then from Tashkent back to Moscow. That's a long single segment but there don't seem to be that many attractive stopping off points along the way. I'd love to see the Baikonur Cosmodrome but by all accounts it requires very expensive guided tours and also would have to be timed with a space launch I think.
Timing-wise, I'd ideally like to start in April/May 2016, but then that leaves me returning through central Asian through the height of summer. So more likely I'd delay leaving until July and then return in the more pleasant September/October temperatures.
I could also reverse my route and still start in April/May, but I think I'd rather start with the leg that's most important to me (and also most predictable) and work my way up to the trickier
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