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Yep, all signs point towards it having just sat in storage for 30 years, but the leather’s still in great shape as far as I can tell—plenty soft & supple Tab looks brown through and through, and the lettering’s still pretty white, so I’m guessing it was this color from the start Love the United Carr hardware

Cool photos, but I always got super weird vibes from Tempo

Cross-posting from the M-series thread

First update (I think) on the Oki Rainbows my partner’s been rocking for around the last year Def. some colors starting to come through, although it doesn’t show much in photos Really cool jeans

Anyone have any info on this ???

As seen above, we spent the past week up at a friend’s cabin on a dammed lake in the mid-Sierra, fed by the south fork of the Stanislaus River. More on that later. As a little sneak peek, here are some shots from a lovely morning hike that I took on Friday, feat. contest jeans, Great Lakes hat + shirt, JK boots. The original idea was to make my way up to the peak of nearby mountain, center background in this shot: The approach to the ridge was scrambly, but before too long I hit a trail that seemed to be going in the right direction. Left the trail again before too long to follow the sound of water, which turned out to be (I think) the nearby Herring Creek Climbed back uphill to the path through a couple hundred feet of chest-high bramble… …and made my way to a spectacular vista point From this last perspective, the peak I was planning on hiking up is to the far left. The gorge to the right feeds the inlet to the lake, seen above. It’s straightforward to hike from the lake part way up the gorge, up to around the large pool seen near the bottom right of the gorge photo. In the past, I’ve made my way up far enough to see the first of the heavily wooded sections (slightly right of center), but have never managed to get there from below because of how steep the walls get to either side of the river. Looking down from above, it seemed like it might be plausible to work my way down to the wooded section by following the shoulder of the ridge (a.k.a. the Large Granite Slab). This seemed to align much more closely with my interests than waking the rest of the way up the mountain, so I scrapped the original plan and plotted a rough course into the gorge. This ^ was the final approach, around 4–500 vertical ft. down a ~80% incline slab of fully exposed granite. Intimidating, but Komperdell, JK, and lots of experience off trail in the Sierra were on my side. The oasis at the bottom was well worth the anxiety at the top. Some of the absolute prettiest water features I’ve ever seen. Stopped for lunch and a beer (ca. 10 am…time runs different in the mountains) and made my way back down to known territory.

It’s prime time for wildflowers in the mid-Sierra Nevada, and I’ve gone with a quantity over quality approach to photography Yarrow, lupine, pacific irises, columbine, mariposa lilies, fairies’ lanterns, shooting stars, Indian paintbrush, thimble berry, wild roses…what else can you spot?

The Vanishing West / Tezomeya / Roy / Russell

^ I have a couple pairs of boxers from O’Connell’s that are nice enough, but it should be noted that they seem to use polyester stitching for many of their main line of clothes, for whatever that’s worth

Tezo / Duke / Word of Mouth / Wearmasters

@ATWM I’ve washed on warm a couple times now and they seem to be about as shrunk as they’re gonna get just sticking with that routine, but I don’t think I’ll ever do ultra-hot nor put them through the dryer

@aho Those are looking prime, makes me wish I’d sized my pair to be able to put them through a more aggressive wash routine

I’m really glad this got brought up! The first shirt I got from Tender Co. was a long-sleeved Wallaby in this same cloth, but dyed khaki. It was given to me as a gift, used, so I never knew anything about the details of the fabric. The khaki dye over the blue reads as a lovely yellowish–green. It’s still a favorite of mine.

@Hopethisoneisnttaken Hasn’t gone anywhere to speak of, yet Need to take them in to work to borrow some acetone and use a fume hood, and I’ve been kind of slammed recently so it’s been on the back burner Will make sure to post updates once they exist, for better or for worse

^ “not good” is an understatement; I just picked up a backup pair of those a couple weeks ago (funny timing) in similar condition for ¥22.5k, and I felt like I was overpaying… For what it’s worth, they run small relative to the M41058, but in the scheme of things they’re pretty true to size

Couple days ago The Vanishing West / Columbiaknit / Duke / Cane’s / Wearmasters

@Fooleo What are the upper thigh and rear rise measurements on those 1002?

Agreed with @okimoto that Buzz Rickson’s x William Gibson would be my first go-to for that sort of thing

Great Lakes x2 / Tender Co. / The Vanishing West / Union Special / Hollows / Word of Mouth / Russell

Bi-weekly(ish) shiny car day @Broark How’s the new Rivian treating you and the family?

Helmet hair / Tender bag / The Vanishing West / Sure Mfg. x TCB / Duke / Word of Mouth / Hoggs of Fife

Big enough to hold two quarts of ice cream with room to spare, and wooly enough to keep them mostly cool 😎

@Fooleo I might be interested in those. Am I remembering right that their pocket bags aren’t as shallow as the standard Warehouse fare?

So which one of you was it that neglected to turn in your jeans for the bonfire?? https://jp.mercari.com/item/m46218017480