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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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A missing person report prompted a massive search and rescue effort in Oregon. The missing mountain biker managed to self-extract himself from the wilderness after 6 days, and has made it home safe.

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[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It isn't even that hard to do either. Tons of places where you can go for a week or more and not see anybody. Less so on the east side, but the Midwest and west half of the country is nice and quiet.

Last time I went backpacking, I was about a half hour from a small town and didn't see anybody for a week while I was wandering around a large wilderness hiking trail.

The downside is that you can end up in a dangerous situation because there is no cell service and you may not see another person for days or more if you can find a road.

A lot of Europeans come here and think they are dealing with their type of "wilderness" and die because of their hubris. You can get turned around and walk for days in the wrong direction with no landmarks to navigate towards because all you see are trees. You can think a water bottle is enough to hike for a few hours in the desert, and find yourself dying while hiding in the shade with heat stroke. You can get mauled by a bear, killed by a mountain lion, violated by a Bigfoot, trampled by a moose, or risk starvation because raccoons stole all your food 3 days from your car. In the northwest and south east you may come across the biggest hazard, two-legged predators that may kill you or worse. Hundreds of people die in our wilderness areas every year, on average 360 die in just our National Parks alone.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

violated by a Bigfoot

Could you expound on this so I know where to < ahem > avoid?

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Definitely don't go to 48.222, -121.368 and bend over a log with your pants down after midnight on a full moon.

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I would have told you sooner, but I like to watch.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I imagine it would take a fair amount of, uh, bushwhacking to get to that exact spot.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, ya'll have worse lands to venture into unprepared because everything wants to kill you.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Spider rain season is a nope for me dawg