Word of Mouth - The Crust & Fades Contest

[aho]

^LOL had to double take to make sure I was in the right thread, great progress @nopal!

[reallypeacedoff]

15 hours ago, aho said:

^LOL had to double take to make sure I was in the right thread, great progress @nopal!

Thought I was in the Denime thread tbh. After washing and drying, defintiely getting Denime vibes.

[JRendon02]

Quick trip to Paso Robles and Santa Barbara. Crappy pic due to the sun being in my eyes. 

[CSL]

I think you look cool and happy. A good combination.

 

[JRendon02]

@CSLthank you for the kind words 

[Jared_Lee]

Through a second proper wash. They're doing what jeans do. I was surprised when people initially said these were fast faders. I certainly haven't experienced that. Interesting to see how that opinion has shifted. I'd put them in the neither fast nor slow, but just normal jeans in that regard.

 

In fact, that's what I love about this pair so much. It's just a standard, no frills '50s straight that I oversized for fit. They're fading that way too.

 

We're about to head out to Vegas, Zion, Grand Canyon, Route 66 and back to Vegas on a motorcycle trip next week. Should be fun to see how the road wear through the desert affects them. For now, here's some post-wash photos in the best light I've been able to get lately, admittedly not good. Haha.

[julian-wolf]

Seafood boil yesterday for a friend’s birthday (our contribution was boiled peanuts, not shown)

[fabes]

Looks good @Jared_Lee are you doing the laundromat wash + dryer with these?

And I agree these seemed to knock off a chunk of indigo with the shrink wash and first week of wear, then settled in to neither fast nor slow fading. 

[Maynard Friedman]

18 hours ago, julian-wolf said:

Seafood boil yesterday for a friend’s birthday (our contribution was boiled peanuts, not shown)

What’s going on there? A load of food stuck on a wallpaper pasting table or travelling along a conveyor belt? I’ve never heard of a seafood boil, please explain…

[Broark]

I'm not Julian but I'm pretty familiar with crawfish / seafood boils, essentially everything gets thrown into a big pot (usually outdoors) and boiled for a few hours.
When everything is done they'll pour it out on a table covered in butcher paper (or news paper) and you can just come by and fill up a plate.
It's definitely a southern thing (to my knowledge) and usually used as a good excuse to stand around and drink for a few hours while you hang out.

[julian-wolf]

@Maynard Friedman It seems you’ve got the gist of it

Seafood*, sausage, potatoes, and veggies go in a pot on a propane burner and boil for a while with heavy seasoning, then get dumped out on a big table (often on butcher paper, as here) where everyone gathers and eats with their hands

* In the South, shellfish is common, usually prawns and crawfish (crab if you’ve got good friends); the sausage is hot links or andouille; the seasoning is Zatarain’s Crab Boil or Old Bay, or a mix. I know that folks in the Midwest do seafood boils with whitefish. This was the Southern kind. The foreground looks light on seafood ‘cause the pot got dumped from one end of the table to the other, and I guess shrimp is less dense than potatoes 

[Maynard Friedman]

Thanks for the info gents, sounds like a good idea to me. There are some green things in there that look like cabbages and I’m sure there’s a banana too!

[julian-wolf]

The cabbages are Brussels sprouts (not standard, but delicious); the bananas are lemon halves (absolutely essential)

[Maynard Friedman]

Of course, I see now, had the scale completely wrong! 😑 

[Jared_Lee]

@fabes, yep, just the usual trips to the laundromat as needed.

[vIGGiou riou]

after long time...

 

 

 

Edited May 9 by vIGGiou riou

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Nice puckering 

[Jared_Lee]

Vegas>Valley of Fire>Zion

So far so good. Jeans for a soaking on the last half mile into Zion yesterday. Took a mellow hike up Kayenta Trail to Scout Outlook today. 

 

[vIGGiou riou]

looks like amazing trip Jared...

[Jared_Lee]

@vIGGiou riou, it's been amazing so far. Nothing compared with the views and experience you get backpacking it like @julian-wolf, but stunning nonetheless. As a fun aside, a young woman shouted me out as the "best dressed man on the trail" yesterday. Lol.

We're heading to Page, AZ getting our first glimpse of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon over the Historic Navajo Bridge today.

[julian-wolf]

@Jared_Lee Y’all really look like you belong in Vegas, but the cool cinematic mid-century version

What route did you take for that leg? The Utah 12 and 24 are some of the coolest drives I’ve done; it would be great to go back on a bike. Looks like a really sweet ride so far—Southern Utah always has my heart

[Jared_Lee]

@julian-wolf, We took the big roads from Vegas to Zion, 15 out of Vegas to get to Valley of Fire and then 9 off of 15 to get out to Zion. Today we left Zion and ran 59 out of Utah onto 389 in Arizona to 89a to go through Kaibab National Forest, down into Marble Valley and up to Page on 89. Postcard views the entire ride.

 

[Josh'N'Roll]

On 5/6/2025 at 9:23 AM, vIGGiou riou said:

after long time...

 

 

 

 

The jeans are looking great, but that Type 3 is badass! Is it Boncurra?

[aho]

11 hours ago, Jared_Lee said:

As a fun aside, a young woman shouted me out as the "best dressed man on the trail" yesterday. Lol.

Did you respond, "Thanks, I'm in a contest!" 😄

[vIGGiou riou]

14 hours ago, Josh'N'Roll said:

The jeans are looking great, but that Type 3 is badass! Is it Boncurra?

No Josh. Type III is LVC MiJ...

[reallypeacedoff]

Fresh out of the wash…

[UkeNo]

My first question is…Do you have Jeans hanging nails on your fence?
That’s a great idea! 

Edited May 11 by UkeNo

[reallypeacedoff]

6 hours ago, UkeNo said:

My first question is…Do you have Jeans hanging nails on your fence?
That’s a great idea! 

I do! Originally for hanging the dogs' cleaned leash et al, but it's a nice neutral wood fence, so figured it's a lot easier than using a hanger. 

[julian-wolf]

Lots of these guys flying around today

I wonder what they’re up to

[Jared_Lee]

Ran 89 back down through the Navajo Reservation and onto 64 into the Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday. We rode the south rim and checked a couple scenic overlooks. Then we headed down 64 S to Williams, AZ. We took the historic Williams, AZ train up to the park yesterday and walked the geology trail along the south rim. Headed out onto Route 66 today.

It was a bit hazy both days at the canyon and very hard to do it justice in photos anyway, but here are a few. My partner took the train photos. I'll try to have them send a few over to post later on.

The train was fun. A bit of song and dance for entertaining the digital generation, but cool to ride in vintage cars from the '20s and '30s pulled by a nearly complete original locomotive from the '20s that fits the models that carried people to the canyon for decades before the ubiquity of the automobile. Its resurrection in the late '80s after two decades out of commission revitalized the town of Williams and kept it from being wiped off the map.