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Adam Roy

@adnroy.bsky.social

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EIC of Backpacker, journalist, hiker/skier/climber/paddler. Very tired dad. Jewish, probably too much. Opinions mine and mine only. Signal: adnroy.02

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 21d

Surprise: After procrastinating for two months, I finally relaunched my personal website. In my first post, I wrote about shirtless bouldering, a big land acquisition in Montana, and why Goldie is simply the best to ever do it. adamroy.net/the-new-joint/

The New Joint - Adam's Cool Website

Daddy's got a brand new website. Plus: bouldering, horror novels, and a big land acquisition.

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to tell you but I think I'd rather leave you in suspense.

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this would be an excellent time to remind everyone about the giant frog who taught Rabbi Hanina Torah.

The dish was set upon the Seder table, and when Rabbi Hanina opened it, he found a second dish within, and inside of this a live frog, jumping and hopping around gleefully. He gave the frog food and drink, and by the end of the festival he was grown so big that Rabbi Hanina made a cabinet for him, in which he ate and lived. In the course of time, the cabinet became too small, and the Rabbi built a chamber, put the frog within, and gave him abundant food and drink. All this he did that he might not violate his father's last wish. But the frog waxed and grew; he

consumed all his host owned, until, finally, Rabbi Hanina was stripped bare of all his possessions. Then the frog opened his mouth and began to speak. "My dear Rabbi Hanina," he said, "do not worry! Seeing thou didst raise me and care for me, thou mayest ask of me whatever thy heart desireth, and it shall be granted thee." Rabbi Hanina made reply, "I desire naught but that thou shouldst teach me the whole of the Torah." The frog assented, and he did, indeed, teach him the whole of the Torah, and the seventy languages of men besides. His method was

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think she appreciates it.

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

Going to make a swear jar for my house but it's for when I accidentally call my wife "bud."

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

It's a violation of the TRO, the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of the press, and, judging by what's on video, probably whichever section of the Illinois Revised Statutes says assault and battery is illegal. But as always, I'll be surprised if anyone in government does anything.

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

I think people underestimate the amount of physical and moral courage it takes for local journalists to cover events like these where the likelihood that they'll be brutalized by the police is non-trivial. This is not a new thing—it happened in 2020 and before—but seems supercharged in 2025.

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

I'm being glib, but these masked agents' actions are so far over the line that it's disappeared somewhere over the horizon. This is one of a thousand direct attacks on the press we've seen in the past few months.

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

In terms of "direct attacks on the city of Chicago," brutalizing a WGN producer is like one step down from arresting Michael Jordan, the Empire Carpet guy, or that hotdog dressed in the caveman costume on top of Superdawg.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

Hiking the CDT: very hard! Hiking the CDT followed, immediately, by the Great Divide Trail: almost unprecedentedly hard. Jessica "Stitches" Guo became the first known woman to do it last month, and spent four full weeks without seeing a single other human being.

She Became the First Woman to Complete This 3,600-Mile Thru-Hike—and Brought Thousands Along for the Journey

This September, Jessica "Stitches" Guo thru-hiked the Continental Divide and Great Divide Trails in one five-month push, a deep-backcountry journey that saw her spend weeks without seeing a single oth...

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 2d

Eternal mood

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 3d

I can think of at least one population that's almost 100 percent circumcised, if anyone would to check if this is true.

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 3d

This is antisemitism, to me.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 5d

It's like that joke goes: How many Dragonball Z characters does it take to screw in a light bulb? Only one, but it takes 10 episodes and Krillin dies.

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 6d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 6d

Buddy you are in for a wild ride.

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 6d

If you would like to find out that answer to this and other fascinating questions, watch here: www.backpacker.com/gear/footwea...

The Biggest Myth About Hiking Shoe Tread, Busted by Science

More teeth equals better grip on the trail, right? Not so fast. We paid a visit to the Outside Lab at CU Denver to learn more about what makes some hiking shoes perform better than othersl

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 6d

Shoutout to our video editor, who told my colleague and I to "just talk about whatever" so they could check levels, then promptly used that footage as the intro.

Adam Roy: What percentage of this outsole do you think you could eat before you had to go to the hospital?

Adam Trenkamp: Ooh, 1 percent? Well, before I had to go to the hospital or what would actually make me sick?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 6d

You're gonna pay for your bad sleep habits in a way you didn't in your 20s.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 9d

when I tell you I would not have written these words with a gun to my head

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 10d

I had no idea how close I came to human sacrifice wandering through those woods as a child. Wiping sweat off my brow.

Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 10d

It’s pure, uncut Satanic Panic, I’m obsessed.

He said the bloody rituals take place mainly on satanic holidays but can occur at any time, late at night.
"They always are in very remote, hard-to-reach places, through brush that you have to work to get through," he said. "They have trail markers and lookouts, and some of them are armed.
They are booby-trapped with Vietnam-like pungi stakes or spikes hammered through planks.
There are trip wires and neck wires to knock you down."
He fixed an icy look upon some 150 cops in the room. "If you ever do walk into a ceremony, you'll never get your Model 66 out of your holster," he warned. "You'll be dead."

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 10d

This is a story about the forest preserves I grew up hiking in, published a year after I was born.

Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 10d

In honor of Spooky Szn, as a reminder to always fact check the official police narrative, & ESPECIALLY to never use a cop as your sole source for a story,

may I present to you this 1989 Chicago Tribune story about baby sacrifice in Chicago Forest Preserves:

www.chicagotribune.com/1989/02/26/s...

SATANIC CULTS GROWING IN PRESERVES

This is going to be an ugly little story about how some people use our forest preserve woods outside Chicago. It is not about goofy picnickers or drunken hijinks or the wanton, inexcusable slaughte…

www.chicagotribune.com

Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 12d

Hikers now need to be U.S. citizens and apply in advance for an Army permit to access the southern terminus and first 1.1 miles of the CDT: www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...

Continental Divide Trail Hikers Now Need U.S. Citizenship, Background Check to Access Southern Terminus

The first 1.1 miles of the CDT are now only available to US citizens who apply for permission to enter the National Defense Area.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 18d

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 18d

CHOTINER: So eating well is important to you?

ME: Yes, extremely

CHOTINER: In 2019 you tweeted a picture of yourself loading a whole box of Honey Buns into a ski pack.

ME: OK, so—

CHOTINER: You wrote in 2022 that "Swedish Fish rule because they're wax-coated so you can put them in your pockets."

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