Morning Hike and Technology Disconnection Reflection

Morning hike on Monday, October 21, 2024, in rainy Pacific Northwest conditions. rswfire is in Oregon, staying at a campground, with plans to visit the coast on Thursday. Currently in a phase of exploring the area while working out logistics of RV living and power management.

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October 21, 2024

30:35

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rswfire

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[0:00] good morning fellow humans it's 10:00 in

[0:03] the morning here

[0:04] Monday it's been raining all night so I

[0:07] wanted to see how the river

[0:09] looked I don't think it's grown very

[0:11] much yet doesn't mean it isn't pretty

[0:16] good to fog up there in the

[0:17] mountains Cloudy Skies grain no sun

[0:23] anywhere and this is the Pacific

[0:25] Northwest for

[0:27] you it was very pleasant

[0:30] night the rain drops on my RV roof

[0:35] were very

[0:39] pleasant oh I guess I got across this

[0:44] tree I do want to build a bridge here

[0:47] but I was thinking about it and I don't

[0:52] think I am amazed people do this

[0:55] actually you know what it's that tree

[0:57] isn't it yes

[1:00] okay like something feels off

[1:04] here

[1:07] um I mean it's you know it's wet and

[1:09] slippery

[1:11] so

[1:12] crap yeah I'm not risking it I'm not a

[1:15] child anymore I know other way

[1:19] around oh what was I

[1:21] saying I just don't I don't know my

[1:24] bance felt off

[1:26] so there's a way out of here up to the

[1:29] road get over to the Redwood

[1:33] Forest um so I don't know if I have much

[1:36] to say

[1:38] today but every time I say that I end up

[1:41] talking for an hour so I guess we'll

[1:42] find

[1:44] out um so it's Monday and today is the

[1:49] day that I picked for

[1:54] um adding work to my new

[1:57] life so I'll be doing that when I get

[2:00] back I got my RV mostly

[2:03] organized small number of things I still

[2:06] need to figure out a place for

[2:08] but it's

[2:11] always I mean that's something that will

[2:13] just be ongoing for the rest of my life

[2:15] I

[2:17] feel I don't believe in any like final

[2:21] sedan I'll always be moving stuff around

[2:23] and

[2:30] but I would like to get as organized as

[2:31] I

[2:32] can I'm very

[2:36] close all

[2:38] right I feel

[2:43] like I need to do this every

[2:46] day

[2:48] I'm not as physically conditioned as I

[2:51] thought I

[2:52] was

[2:55] although I think I know it's the vaping

[2:59] I will quit that it's been on my mind so

[3:05] much a little

[3:08] bit

[3:12] um I mean I don't know the right word I

[3:15] guess

[3:17] afraid that it will be a challenge

[3:21] and

[3:24] um you know so there's that

[3:31] but I can't know this with

[3:34] certainty have to try and see what

[3:38] happens for

[3:40] me when I'm ready to let something

[3:44] go you get rid of everything associated

[3:47] with it then you move

[3:50] on that's you know so but I mean with my

[3:53] finances the way they are if I did that

[3:57] it didn't work out

[4:00] well that would be difficult

[4:03] so I don't

[4:06] know been learning a lot about these

[4:09] trees the

[4:11] Redwoods they're fascinating one single

[4:14] tree can make its own

[4:16] microclimate and at different vertical

[4:19] levels trees so when it sech growing

[4:24] branches those branches get soil on them

[4:27] just plant der bean stuff turns into

[4:29] soil

[4:31] and then other trees can grow there like

[4:33] they were on the ground a whole other

[4:36] tree just growing on a on a redwood how

[4:39] cool is

[4:40] that the seeds get up there from

[4:42] different ways like when but also from

[4:44] the animals like

[4:47] squirrels probably

[4:50] Birds

[4:52] um be looking for these there's a name

[4:55] for these kinds of trees they're not

[4:57] parasitic because they're not

[5:00] taking anything from the tree they're

[5:01] just they're living on

[5:04] it it can even add stability from their

[5:08] own Roots growing around you know and

[5:10] wrapping around the branches and the

[5:11] tree and stuff just

[5:17] fascinating nature is

[5:20] amazing all right so we're at the

[5:24] trail wish I knew how to pronounce that

[5:27] SSU sisu Rogue River where is this Rogue

[5:32] River I'm not sure I've ever seen

[5:34] it no

[5:41] brochures oh I'm not sure I even looked

[5:43] at this map actually oh look at

[5:46] that they do tell you the numbers what

[5:48] they

[5:49] mean all right let's see

[5:58] here there's a large red

[6:03] wood I don't see anything about fairy

[6:07] circles I don't have any fairy

[6:11] circles that's what I want to

[6:17] see those trees are

[6:24] pretty

[6:26] so I don't think people really watch my

[6:29] he videos very much which you know it's

[6:33] not why I do

[6:34] it um I don't you know I'm not seeking

[6:37] validation or trying to entertain you

[6:42] guys this is just me about about me

[6:44] documenting my life

[6:48] and I don't feel like I have much else

[6:50] to say so I'm just going to stop it here

[6:54] we'll see if there's anything more I

[6:55] want to share I don't know if this will

[6:58] show up on my camera real well but this

[7:00] is nice this

[7:03] fog that's another thing I learned about

[7:06] um

[7:07] redwoods they draw in the fog and they

[7:10] bring it down to ground

[7:12] level which helps to bring more moisture

[7:16] down here redwoods are pretty amazing I

[7:20] mean the more I was reading about them

[7:22] more impressed I

[7:26] was I mean they're not

[7:32] I guess they're just different they're

[7:33] not you know my kind of trees

[7:36] but I think they're so cool cuz they

[7:41] are they're very diverse

[7:45] things so I've been hiking I don't know

[7:47] a couple of

[7:50] Miles not sure how close I am to the end

[7:54] here probably pretty close

[7:57] though elevation game was about 400 ft I

[8:01] don't know if that's a lot I sure did a

[8:03] work out on my lungs my legs a little

[8:06] bit even though I do it every day

[8:09] so I am wondering what that's about I

[8:12] feel

[8:14] like it ain't acceptable I've been

[8:16] hiking my whole life so I'm age is not

[8:20] going to stop me I will keep doing this

[8:22] until it just becomes as simple as

[8:24] breathing to

[8:26] me um so Thursday I leave for the Coast

[8:30] for 3 days I'm going to be at a

[8:31] campground right on the coast that'll be

[8:34] fun you know we'll check out the ocean

[8:36] and stuff hopefully it's raining I don't

[8:38] know um the weather forecast chain so

[8:41] quickly here that it's kind of hard to

[8:44] know right now it's saying it isn't

[8:46] going to rain

[8:47] so but it's going to rain all week

[8:49] pretty much I think I mean it's kind of

[8:52] sprinkling right

[8:54] now it's just

[8:56] nice I like this

[9:00] rain is what I am looking forward to the

[9:01] most just constant rain for days and

[9:04] weeks at a

[9:05] time anyway

[9:08] so Thursday I'll go to the coast for 3

[9:11] days and then I'll come back here for

[9:12] two weeks and I think after that I'm

[9:15] going to start heading

[9:17] North I have been looking at different

[9:21] possibilities I may go quite a ways up

[9:24] north I may

[9:26] not

[9:28] um it's going to take it more casually

[9:31] but uh I've you know I've explored this

[9:34] area a little

[9:35] bit

[9:38] and

[9:40] um I don't know we'll see I'm still kind

[9:43] of you know I don't want to be skipping

[9:45] things stuff like that but like for

[9:48] example there's this mountain called

[9:50] Humbug Mountain and there's a campground

[9:53] there seemed really nice but it's very

[9:56] busy I mean it's it's middle of October

[10:01] I don't want to be on a campground with

[10:04] tons of other people that's not what I'm

[10:05] looking for that's not why I'm out here

[10:07] it's that why I even started this like I

[10:10] it was culture shock for me to learn

[10:12] about the rvers and the van lifers I

[10:14] didn't know about them that's not why I

[10:17] did this

[10:19] so

[10:21] um I feel like I just need to get up

[10:24] north more there was one Campground I

[10:26] saw that it had like nine

[10:30] sites puts them close together though

[10:32] you know you're

[10:33] not you got nine sites so you probably

[10:36] got nine people right around you I don't

[10:38] want to be in a little box of sardines

[10:40] with others either so it's like I'm just

[10:43] trying to figure this life

[10:45] out obviously for me

[10:49] offgrid wound docking is what will make

[10:53] me the

[10:54] happiest um I just feel that I'm not

[10:56] real ready for that I don't feel I've

[10:59] done it a couple times I've enjoyed it a

[11:02] lot oh which way feel like I should know

[11:05] the answer to that you know what I know

[11:07] where I am I know exactly where I am

[11:09] okay cool um so

[11:16] anyways I just feel

[11:22] like it's complicated there's something

[11:24] I don't there's some things I want to

[11:25] talk about you know so I just I have a

[11:27] lot going on in my head right now

[11:29] and as he just call it a liino state you

[11:32] know I'm

[11:34] still I'm still working

[11:38] out how to approach my life

[11:42] here I'm not even sure organs is for me

[11:45] because for one thing that park ranger

[11:48] really upset me and the way people drive

[11:52] here is just insane to

[11:54] me and there's too many people here

[11:57] living this lifestyle there's no space

[12:00] for for us that's how it feels since I

[12:04] got here it hasn't been fun for

[12:06] me and makes me kind of wish I would you

[12:09] know go back to

[12:11] Nevada

[12:13] but there are good reasons to be here

[12:16] and I want to experience the storms and

[12:19] the rain and the different sky like

[12:23] there's a lot here that I I want to you

[12:25] know you can see where the the tension

[12:29] comes from it's not from the place it's

[12:31] from the

[12:32] people

[12:36] and you know I've been navigating that

[12:38] my whole life

[12:43] so okay yeah I know where I am

[12:47] okay

[12:52] um and I don't want you to get me wrong

[12:54] I actually like the van life where I saw

[12:56] yesterday running the generator I

[12:59] respect of that person they were

[13:01] offgrade on the side of a Road near the

[13:04] river just living their life and I think

[13:06] that's

[13:08] awesome it's

[13:10] not nothing in my world is black and

[13:13] white there's Nuance to everything

[13:16] so I wouldn't want to be parked next to

[13:18] that person but I

[13:22] absolutely love what they're doing with

[13:24] their life so you know

[13:26] there's it's just I need to find my

[13:29] place that's what this has always been

[13:32] about where I

[13:35] belong

[13:37] and haven't found it

[13:43] yet maybe it's in Washington I truly

[13:45] don't know maybe it's in Nevada I don't

[13:48] know I kind of liked Wyoming I liked

[13:50] Kansas so and I like exploring

[13:54] it's complicated

[13:57] so um I don't have all the answers and

[14:00] that's not how I live my life I don't

[14:02] live my life making up

[14:04] answers

[14:07] I I

[14:09] explore the world myself you know

[14:12] everything and very comfortable with

[14:15] ambiguity I don't need to have the

[14:18] answers I just need

[14:21] to um keep working

[14:26] towards the Contours of what works for

[14:28] me

[14:30] might be a difficult thing for some of

[14:32] you to

[14:34] understand like

[14:36] they're our boundaries our

[14:39] borders to what works for you and what

[14:43] doesn't and I'm striving to live within

[14:47] my

[14:48] borders just don't know where they are

[14:50] yet I'm still exploring

[14:54] them you know this is why I have

[14:56] comments disabled I'm not looking for

[14:58] comment I'm not interested in your

[15:01] commentary or your you know your point

[15:03] of view like it's not relevant to my

[15:05] life I don't know why

[15:07] people I don't know why

[15:10] people always want to inject themselves

[15:14] like for me when I started my YouTube

[15:16] channel I expected you guys to talk

[15:18] about your own

[15:20] lives in comparison to mine that never

[15:24] happens you are hyperfocused on me and I

[15:27] that was unacceptable

[15:30] focus on your own

[15:32] life what do we have in common you know

[15:35] build a bridge but you guys wen't even

[15:37] trying so you know I'm done with

[15:42] that um I had a point kind of lost the

[15:45] thread

[15:50] there okay we're back to the the rocking

[15:55] stairs don't have a belt on I keep

[15:57] having to pull my pants up

[16:02] you

[16:04] know AI told me there wouldn't be a sun

[16:08] there'd be cloud cover all the time gray

[16:10] skies

[16:12] rain and it will change

[16:15] you I'm like are you kidding me I am so

[16:18] excited for this but now I'm

[16:21] experiencing

[16:24] it I actually do love it I do

[16:30] so which doesn't to say I'd like to you

[16:33] know I'd like to see the sun sometimes

[16:34] like how's my solar going to work how

[16:37] would that even work so kind of feel

[16:40] like I need campgrounds at

[16:43] least at least to charge my solar but I

[16:46] I'm still working out the

[16:48] solar on my power

[16:51] consumption it's it's

[16:54] complicated because I need those

[16:56] batteries to last and

[17:00] you know I can go through 20 30% in a

[17:02] day or

[17:03] overnight um which obviously overnight I

[17:06] shouldn't be charging any I shouldn't be

[17:08] running anything right so but it depends

[17:11] like okay

[17:12] so my

[17:14] dehumidifier you know I

[17:18] actually oh I know where I am it's where

[17:22] I thought I was earlier when I said I

[17:23] know where I am actually that's funny

[17:27] okay we're almost out know so anyway my

[17:31] dehumidifier uses a lot of power you in

[17:35] an environment like this you do need

[17:37] it you need you know I need my electric

[17:40] heater I can't power them together

[17:42] that's another thing with my RV it's

[17:45] like two appliances is one too

[17:48] many so I can't run my ninja foodie if I

[17:51] have either of those things

[17:54] on um yeah this is right at the

[17:57] beginning I didn't okay that was a lot

[17:58] close closer than I thought we

[18:00] out

[18:04] um there just a lot you know I'm still

[18:07] working through it's a

[18:08] process one that I'm enjoying one that I

[18:11] wanted to share with you guys without

[18:15] the fragmentation of

[18:17] your point of view this is my

[18:21] channel this is my life that I'm sharing

[18:24] with you

[18:29] I just don't

[18:31] I I hold on a second all right just a

[18:35] lot of activity

[18:37] there I need to get down that road and

[18:39] see what's down there so many cars go

[18:41] down there but I know that's the

[18:43] national forest what is down there that

[18:45] so many people are going

[18:48] to and what can I find down there you

[18:50] know I just need to explore that

[18:57] area this is

[18:59] and I don't even know where the sun is

[19:01] at like where is it in the

[19:03] sky is it over there trly don't

[19:08] know

[19:15] fascinating it's a pleasant morning here

[19:19] how quiet it

[19:25] is stop the spread of sudden Oak death

[19:38] no idea what that about I'll find

[19:48] out one of my contact I can't see real

[19:54] well one thing I saw when I was looking

[19:56] at Maps

[20:02] something about this area closed to

[20:04] firewood

[20:05] Gathering

[20:08] interesting firewood Gathering not

[20:10] cutting trees down just Gathering that

[20:13] firewood

[20:17] um these forests

[20:20] have use maps for cutting down Christmas

[20:23] trees I didn't know we did

[20:26] that thought that was fascinating they

[20:28] broke them up in these little

[20:30] grids

[20:33] and sure they change them every

[20:46] here I'm excited to see this River girl

[20:48] it must get so big cuz you can just tell

[20:51] those look that's all that's got to be a

[20:54] river B right maybe not all of it but a

[20:58] lot of it

[21:00] that's rub could get very

[21:05] big I want to see

[21:08] it I don't know what this is called but

[21:10] it's fascinating look at that right next

[21:12] to the

[21:15] road I mean do you call that a sinkhole

[21:18] when they're like more like little

[21:19] Caverns

[21:42] I mean there's going to be so much water

[21:44] here I am just

[21:50] waiting all of it going into the

[21:53] ocean so

[21:55] cool I wouldn't want to see that

[22:00] we're going to cut in over here to get

[22:01] to the River View

[22:03] Trail and that'll take us back to the

[22:17] campground this is where the van life

[22:19] was by the

[22:21] way out here overnight

[22:46] theying this slowly cuz my hands are

[22:48] full

[22:51] and see

[22:53] very very wet slippery

[22:58] and we're

[23:18] down very proud of myself for coming out

[23:21] here today because I did resist it I

[23:23] didn't didn't feel up to it but I did

[23:27] it I hiked the whole Redwood Trail too

[23:30] so very

[23:32] proud got to do that every

[23:47] day so I made burgers in my ninja foodie

[23:50] last

[23:51] night that was

[23:53] awesome they were too big cuz I had I

[23:57] had 2 lbs of hamburger burger and I had

[23:59] to split that in half to make my

[24:01] chili so I made two burgers out of the

[24:03] rest which meant they were half PB

[24:05] each that took a long time to

[24:08] cook I learned from

[24:10] that make them

[24:12] smaller but they cooked and it was good

[24:15] I ate one and put the other in the

[24:17] fridge so I warm it up today in a ninja

[24:19] foodie I still have

[24:23] chilly um didn't need anything this

[24:26] morning but I'm pretty hungry I'm going

[24:29] to eat I'm going to get

[24:31] back some bagels or eggs or hash browns

[24:34] that's everything I

[24:42] got

[24:47] okay I

[24:50] am very far from home what was home for

[24:54] a very long

[24:56] time I drove here in an hour with my

[25:00] cat

[25:03] and I am doing something

[25:11] that

[25:12] well consider this quite

[25:22] profound and I'm determined I I'll find

[25:26] some new clients

[25:28] get some new work going

[25:37] and

[25:46] yeah leave it there I had of a clip from

[25:49] the other day on this trail that I'm

[25:51] going to

[25:53] um append to this video

[25:59] just talking

[26:00] about how this just this phone that I'm

[26:03] holding it's about phones I almost

[26:06] posted it called the phone but I

[26:09] didn't I was thinking about it on

[26:12] my

[26:13] um my hike today I'll just append it to

[26:17] this

[26:18] and cuz I'm

[26:24] contemplating I don't like the

[26:25] attachment to this phone I don't want it

[26:27] in my hand on all the

[26:29] time yeah I don't like the way it's

[26:31] changing us as a

[26:35] society if I'm going

[26:37] to share my hikes and talk about my

[26:41] life when I'm out here I think that I

[26:45] need

[26:46] to come up with a different strategy

[26:48] maybe my GoPro just attached to my rain

[26:51] jacket or

[26:54] whatever um

[26:58] CU I'm thinking I might start leaving my

[27:00] phone at home

[27:04] because I don't like what it's done to

[27:06] us

[27:58] for

[28:38] even in these natural

[28:40] spaces we pull our phones

[28:44] out there's someone sitting by the

[28:47] river drove their vehicle right up to

[28:51] it sitting down on the

[28:54] rivered staring at their phone

[29:00] and I'm not judging cuz I do

[29:05] it but I came out here today started

[29:09] looking

[29:09] [Music]

[29:11] around I Fu

[29:14] connected didn't need my

[29:20] phone these things do not provide

[29:23] connection they disconnect us from each

[29:25] other in the world

[29:34] you see that don't

[29:39] you I know some of you think you're

[29:41] connected to me but you're

[29:47] not cuz I'm not connected to

[29:53] you I'm just a mirror

[29:58] I'm a

[30:00] mirror of your own

[30:04] self the struggles you face the fears

[30:06] you have the triumphs of joy is allv it

[30:10] that's all I

[30:13] am I'm not a real person to

[30:17] you and you could never be a real person

[30:19] to me cuz I'm looking at a camera right

[30:24] now or a phone

[30:28] that has disconnected this entire

[30:32] world we should sit with that for a

[30:34] while

Energetic Signature methodical

Field State boundary establishment

Orientation toward authentic boundaries through environmental attunement

Summary

rswfire conducts a morning hike in the Pacific Northwest during rainy weather, checking river levels and exploring redwood forests. He discusses organizing his RV, planning to add work to his routine, and upcoming travel to the coast for three days. **Key themes include**: learning about redwood tree ecosystems and their ability to create microclimates, navigating crowded campgrounds and the RV/van life community he didn't initially expect, and ongoing challenges with power consumption in his RV setup.

**Location and movement planning**: Currently in Oregon, considering heading north to Washington or potentially returning to Nevada due to overcrowding and aggressive driving. Expresses mixed feelings about Oregon - appreciating the natural environment but struggling with the density of people living similar lifestyles.

**Technology critique**: Concludes with extended reflection on phone dependency and disconnection from nature. Observes someone at the river staring at their phone instead of engaging with the environment. Discusses potential strategy changes for documenting hikes, possibly using GoPro instead of phone. **Final philosophical point**: describes himself as "just a mirror" to viewers, not a real connection, emphasizing how phones disconnect people from authentic relationships and natural spaces.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission operates as a real-time boundary-mapping exercise, using physical environment (redwoods, river, fog) as both mirror and measurement tool for internal sovereignty parameters. The field is actively calibrating what works/doesn't work through direct somatic engagement with landscape, while simultaneously identifying and rejecting external fragmentation vectors (social media connectivity, crowded campgrounds, institutional interference).

Dominant Language

mirror disconnected borders/boundaries real person fragmentation my life exploring

Symbolic Elements

mirror bridge river fog tree roots borders phone

Ontological States

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transitional
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sovereign
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embedded
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calibrating

Subsystems

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somatic
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cognitive
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infrastructural
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relational

Signal Reflection

No reflections available

Reflections provide narrative insights into signals

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1280 × 720 @ 30fps

Duration

30:35

Bitrate

2,414 kbps

Codec

avc1.4d401f