TIM RUSHLOW AND HIS BIG BANDThis is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment. Why nitrous might be the most damaging drug you use. Drugs)submitted by TL;DR Nitrous is safe but doing lots in a row causes oxygen deficiency which your body cannot detect and this causes serious destruction of brain cells. Nitrous is a great drug, very safe in moderation and used widely (with oxygen) in a medical setting. When you inhale pure nitrous though, there is a significant risk of oxygen deprivation, here's why: Oxygen is very difficult to detect, so instead the body monitors air quality by measuring carbon dioxide which rapidly lowers pH in solution and is therefore very easy to detect. This has been great for mankind because for thousands of years the only time we would encounter dangerous oxygen levels was when we'd been holding our breath and that meant that CO2 levels went up. In the last 300 years we've discovered how to purify gases which our bodies can't detect.

When we inhale a lungful, the CO2 in our blood diffuses out and is exhaled, and the gas diffuses into our blood to replace it because the lungs can't tell it's not oxygen. This means that the body thinks the air quality is great because CO2 is being removed at a normal rate, but there is no oxygen coming in and the brain has no idea. Lack of oxygen to the brain rapidly becomes dangerous as it begins to trigger self destruction of cells. Once or twice this is not noticeable on the outside, but over time this can cause serious nerve damage and noticeable cognitive decline. To avoid this there are two things you can do: Don't do multiple balloons in a row or double balloons. Giving into the cravings does not give your body time to recover oxygen before you purge all the CO2 which has been produced with a fresh balloon. Take a couple of fast, deep breaths before doing a balloon. This will raise O2 levels slightly above normal. Never, ever use nitrous in a way which would prevent you getting oxygen if you passed out.

This includes sticking your head into a bin bag, strapping the supply into a mask, etc etc. Be careful when filling the balloons. Crackers can get very cold and cause serious freezer burns and old balloons can tear easily. Regular nitrous use depletes B12 which can lead to serious irreparable nerve damage. You can easily buy it online but make sure the supplement contains at least 0.5mg (500ug / 500mcg) - some contain just 1% of this amount!meade backpack observatory review There are substances that protect from hypoxic neural damage like piracetam and vipocetine.1palomino backpack 550 π Rendered by PID 5662 on app-42 at 2017-01-16 10:45:53.200293+00:00 running d815524 country code: SG.wenger ibex laptop computer backpack dimensions

At fifteen below, dealing with equipment is painful. The “rip, rip,” of skins being pulled apart and stuck to skis can be heard echoing through the forest.You store synthetic mohair, or skins, by sticking the gluey side together to protect it.  The glue binds them to your boards. So as much as your cold fingers ache, you gotta’ pull them apart and deal. It’s the most efficient way to climb snow on skis.This is me, us, our group of seven, in the shadows of a canyon in central Idaho on a barely-plowed back road. sybil backpack fairyIt’s New Years Day and we’re preparing to climb 3,200 feet—roughly top-to-bottom at Snowbird or Mammoth.So one plastic boot in front of the other, we begin our slog up the mountain, slowly, across the flats at first, then the steeps begin, the alternating leader of the pack picking a safe route along the ridge, in the trees when possible, behind rock cliff bandsboerboel backpack

, protecting the group from potential avalanches.This I’m certain of: you lose a part of yourself climbing a mountain on skis. A part of you dies. The bad part, thankfully. You purge every substance you’ve put in your body for the last week: the craft beer, the gin and sodas, the M&M’s, the half block of brie and the blue cheese-stuffed olives, all of it.The first thousand feet hurts like hell. The sweat starts to drip from your hairline, running down your forehead and off your nose. buy minaal backpackYour nostrils were just freezing together at the car and now you have to stop and de-robe, pulling off layers and stuffing them into your backpack, hanging gloves and helmets off straps, stashing water bottles where you can reach them. And that’s just the first hour.The second hour, and the next thousand feet, you start to bonk. All the sugar from the holiday week is leaving your body. Breakfast is gone, too.

My bonk is sort of a dizzy, empty feeling. I try to push through but every one of us is stopping in our own place, at our own pace, filling our faces with sandwiches packed that morning and salami cut from big blocks purchased at Trader Joe’s or Costco. Then you get chilled.So you move on to the third hour and the next thousand feet. Again, one boot, one ski, sliding rhythmically in front of the other and you’ve found a groove. Now there’s a high from being out here, amongst it, the fresh, untracked snow, the big mountain ridgeline begging you to carve the crap out of it, the emptiness. My bindings sometimes creak with the rhythm and then my brain starts to punish itself—for every time I didn’t listen to someone I should have, or didn’t take a minute to ask how someone’s day was. Could I have spent a few extra moments with my groms? Am I giving them enough? Am I a fucking narcissist? Self-loathing bombs you in the third hour.And just when it’s hard to comprehend taking another god-damned step, the summit.