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Originally posted by SteveGl:
Good.

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Originally posted by Nganga:

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Originally posted by SteveGl:
Good.

Please expand, "GOOD"

Thanks Steve

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Originally posted by SteveGl:

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Originally posted by Nganga:

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Originally posted by SteveGl:
Good.

Please expand, "GOOD"

Thanks Steve

Too many people view the wilderness as a playground. They're anti-hunting but see nothing wrong with off-roading (bundu-bashing over there ... right?) ... or any of the other stupid things that people-who-have-nothing-better-to-do do to amuse themselves.

Then there's the "Take only photographs; leave only footprints" crowd.

I don't know which is worse ... but I have no use for either.

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Originally posted by SteveGl:

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Originally posted by Nganga:

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Originally posted by SteveGl:
Good.

Please expand, "GOOD"

Thanks Steve

Too many people view the wilderness as a playground. They're anti-hunting but see nothing wrong with off-roading (bundu-bashing over there ... right?) ... or any of the other stupid things that people-who-have-nothing-better-to-do do to amuse themselves.

Then there's the "Take only photographs; leave only footprints" crowd.

I don't know which is worse ... but I have no use for either.

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Too many people view the wilderness as a playground.

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Originally posted by Scottyboy:

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Too many people view the wilderness as a playground.

Doesn't every person on this site do that in one fashion or another?
Hunting, shooting, hiking, climbing, fishing, biking, boating, skiing, etc, etc, etc..

That is a ridiculous statement.

I view the "wilderness" as my oyster. I derive a great bit of my personal pleasure from it.

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Originally posted by Nganga:

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Originally posted by Scottyboy:

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Too many people view the wilderness as a playground.

Doesn't every person on this site do that in one fashion or another?
Hunting, shooting, hiking, climbing, fishing, biking, boating, skiing, etc, etc, etc..

That is a ridiculous statement.

I view the "wilderness" as my oyster. I derive a great bit of my personal pleasure from it.

Maybe we should just skip Kilimanjaro, just a damn playground anyway

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Originally posted by Manyathelo:
@ SteveGI you need your head read mate! How in any way can that be good?

This guy is an elite athlete taking part in a series of mountain bike races that take place in local game reserves. The money is a great help to the running and maintenance of these reserves. And by the way they also allow a limited number of trophy hunts on the property/s.

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Originally posted by Upton O. Good:
And people think it is only the Big 6 that will hurt you in "unprovoked" attacks. Wild is wild.

I look at my red hartebeest now with increased admiration.

Love it.

....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1
DRSS Charter member
"If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982

Hands of Old Elmer Keith

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Originally posted by MacD37:
That boy is just lucky that wasn't a lion!

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Originally posted by Nganga:
It never ceases to amaze me…..the disregard, those in our society give to people who pursue a passion different from their own. SPECIALLY, fat old men past their prime. This forum is replete with guys that cannot get out of there own way, climb a flight of stairs. Walk from hither to yawn without running out of breath.

I would think an elderly gentleman would respect someone who obviously takes care of one’s own temple, his body. Perhaps it’s just a bit of envy?

Drink your single malt, smoke your cigars, and you live with the consequences. If I have a dislocated shoulder, broken wrist, broken collarbone, I will take full responsibility for my actions as well.

Imagine this, you’re a 40 year old fit American, you get off your charter at some remote airstrip in Tanzania, your PH waddles up to shake your hand out of breath, he’s 55 and weighs in somewhere north of 300#. That’s what PH's see in many of us.

BUT…when I’m able to still hunt this planet’s wildest and highest places at 65 and perhaps more, I will enjoy the fruits of my labor, a labor of love. Cycling.

There are no more athletes, dedicated and committed to their sport than cyclist. WE must maintain our conditioning all year, every week up to 30 hours weekly, if we fail to, we loose conditioning. If a fat ol’ range rat miss’s a range day or two, all he’s done is not inhaled the guy’s cigarette next to him for a few hours, probably a health benefit. Oh, yes, you had to walk several hundred yards to check your target.

I’ll readily admit that I am a pariah, I don’t fit in with my hunting demographic because of my cycling and willingness to defend it and my cycling demographic is exceedingly anti hunt, anti gun and I make no apologies to them either.

That bike crash was enough to sustain serious injuries, I’m glad you have enough compassion for your fellow human being to act like the fool that you obviously are.

And worship them as gods? Christ, this forum sucks up to PH’s as bad as or worse than any athlete.

Steve

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Originally posted by Scottyboy:

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Originally posted by Nganga:

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Originally posted by Scottyboy:

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Too many people view the wilderness as a playground.

Doesn't every person on this site do that in one fashion or another?
Hunting, shooting, hiking, climbing, fishing, biking, boating, skiing, etc, etc, etc..

That is a ridiculous statement.

I view the "wilderness" as my oyster. I derive a great bit of my personal pleasure from it.

Maybe we should just skip Kilimanjaro, just a damn playground anyway

At 19,341ft, I am very much looking forward to each step upward.
The summit pic will be the highlight of my trophy room and my most treasured African trophy.

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Originally posted by Brett Adam Barringer:
have also treated a few hit by cars. Brett

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Originally posted by Frostbit:

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Originally posted by Brett Adam Barringer:
have also treated a few hit by cars. Brett

I've been hit twice on training rides. Once in Pennsylvania when someone made a lefthand turn in front of me at a greenlight when I was on a descent and probably doing 40 MPH. Once in Texas when a pair of well meaning fans deliberately ran their pickup into me to push me into the ditch. I was riding on the shoulder at the time.

Best example of karma in Texas. I was riding from Buffalo Gap to Abilene on a training ride and as I past a rural house someone opened the door and hollered "get him". Two large dogs with ill intent barreled out. I came out of the saddle and started to sprint in order to get out of the "territory". As the two dogs sprinted across the highway to get me a truck hit both.

Cycling can be dangerous (first example) without people that irrationally hate (second and third example) those that ride.

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Originally posted by AnotherAZWriter:

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Originally posted by Frostbit:

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Originally posted by Brett Adam Barringer:
have also treated a few hit by cars. Brett

I've been hit twice on training rides. Once in Pennsylvania when someone made a lefthand turn in front of me at a greenlight when I was on a descent and probably doing 40 MPH. Once in Texas when a pair of well meaning fans deliberately ran their pickup into me to push me into the ditch. I was riding on the shoulder at the time.

Best example of karma in Texas. I was riding from Buffalo Gap to Abilene on a training ride and as I past a rural house someone opened the door and hollered "get him". Two large dogs with ill intent barreled out. I came out of the saddle and started to sprint in order to get out of the "territory". As the two dogs sprinted across the highway to get me a truck hit both.

Cycling can be dangerous (first example) without people that irrationally hate (second and third example) those that ride.

Frostbit:

Ms AZW got hit on her bike. Some idiot was on a cell phone blabbing and cut a left turn too sharp. She was in the left turn lane waiting for the light. She saw him coming, but couldn't get out of the way. She was on a road bike and her clips only come out to the outside, so when it hit her it smashed her tibia and fibia; the bone was sticking out.

You think modern medicine can do anything, but in this case they nearly amputated her foot. Instead, a surgeon scraped bone from her pelvis and rebuilt the bones (about 2" worth). He then put a rod down her leg with 14 bolts into the most damaged bone. She had a cast on for months after; we even went to Paris with that on her leg.

12 months later she met met me in Moshi TZ to climb Kilimanjaro. She still has that hardware in her leg.