Hobbies

lets face it we all have hobbies other than backpacking and hiking, for instance I restore antique tractors, ride motorcycles, and bowfish in my spare time and I am just kind of interested to hear what yall do in your down time.
Korea

Scuba Diving, Boating, Fishing, Turkey Hunting, Hiking, Camping, Motorcycles, Salt Water Aquariums, restoration of John Deere tractors, Sporting Clays, Trap Skeet, Cigars, Scotch, RC Helicopters, Car Stereo

John Deere no, International is the way to go Aqua.

There isnt a big market for international where I am located. Almost entirely JD.

That understandable they are harder to come across,And i will admit JD make some very nice tractors always been very fond of thier model A and the way their engines will bog down but never seem to die.
Korea

Reading, singing in choir, listening to choral music, teaching a mid-week children's Bible class, playing with my dog. You reallyy don't want to be with me in my car when choral music on my CD player (such as Handel's Messiah) is at full volume and I'm trying to sing the alto parts!

JD and International, huh? I bet you've both told the third biggest lie there is: "I paid for this hat." (Comes right after "The check's in the mail" and "I made money farming.")

My hobbies: playing with the granddaughters (they are my best revenge); chess (and related strategy games such as go); golf; reading (nonfiction, mostly history.) Sometimes, just for fun, I push my wife's buttons by saying I need some new gear; that can light her up pretty good.

Building working scale model gasoline and steam engines and reading.

Running, Reading, Video Games, Overland Expedition - Self-Sufficient traveling, BMW motorcycles, traveling abroad, writing, kayaking, Indie Music

National Rescue Coordinator, rescue boat captain, and rescue diver for Lucas Oil Dragboat Racing Series. Scuba diving, underwater photography, whitewater rafting.

Amateur radio, astronomy/scope building, kayaking, sailing and hiking. And then there's music which probably trumps everything else.

Dare I say "you're all wet."?

This seems to be the morning for taking a perverse view of things. I was supposed to meet with a client this morning (I'm a CPA), but she called last night to reschedule so she could get some urgently-needed dental work done today. One of my employees analyzed it quite nicely: "So, she had the choice between meeting with you and having a root canal - and she chose the root canal?"

Nice to know where you stand.

I'm old, and I don't like to admit I'm out of touch - even though I am. I've always wondered what "Indie" is - would you mind helping me out so I don't look stupider than necessary in front of my kids and grandkids?

Root canal… That would be a good joke for the ‘daily chuckle’ Glenn. Too funny.

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES: Family, backpacking, biking, LED flashlights, building electronic projects, playing piano, music composition, basketball, volleyball, clogging, magic, small electronic gadgets

Clogging? Really? I play at contra dances and ceili's (irish dancing). Our new CD has some serious Shetland tunes...clog away!

Reading, movies, making stuff: clothes, knives at the moment, art projects.
And making outdoors gear, a big part of my hobbies anyway...

Making hiking gear, writing, reading, hand-forging tools and iron work, motorcycling, bicycling, restoring old cars (currently on back burner) bulls-eye pistol, reloading and cursing Democrats and Republicans on alternate days.

I have too many hobbies, which means I do poorly at all of them (spread too thin). of course, backpacking is a hobby. Also on the list: building furniture, biking, soccer, softball, running, snowboarding, wilderness survival, raising rabbits (hope to add chickens), swimming, doing stuff with my kids, making equipment (clothes, bags, packs, etc.), studying religion (mostly mine, but others sometimes), teaching my boy scouts, and playing video games (I am poor, so this doesn't happen all too often). I am tone deaf, so singing is out, but I LOVE classical and choral music. Luckily I married a beautiful soprano (beautiful in both looks and voice). I am trying my luck at knife making and blacksmithing (although not quite there yet).

Bicycle touring

Hm well custom woodworking, Riding my Harley, building my chopper project. Rolling chassie is built from scratch. Machining on the metal Lathe and milling attachement. Flying rc planes , Hiking, hunting ,Fishing, reading, repairing anything that is broke, including computers for good friend. Spending time with my wife and kids, even though most of my obbies are not theres.And my latest is gunsmithing. Im sure I forgot a couple. As long as it works my mind so I do not go idle it is my hobbie!

Designing, building and using: high performance solo pocket cruiser cedar-strip canoes, wooden bows, arrows and related gear, UL backpacking gear, anything else whereof I am dissatisfied with available products.

Trail building and maintenance, backpacking, long distance backpacking, paddling (upstream tripping), archery, shooting, reading (history, archeology, paleontology, anthropology, comparative religion, folklore, linguistics, fiction, poetry).

Well besides backpacking I really enjoy mountain bike racing anywhere from short track to long distance stuff like Leadville and 24 hour races. I also like climbing but have not been able to do as much as I used to. Wrestling and teasing my kids, camping with family, firearms, and some road biking. I have a new found interest in building UL gear and wrenching on bikes.

Guitar, ukulele, harmonica, Irish Pennywhistle. Chess.

Any chess players out there can challenge me to a game on Chess.com. I am Hikerhowie

Spock
So do you knap your own arrowheads? I admit that I use 1/4 inch wooden dowels from Home Depot, I make my own arrowheads, and tie feathers to them with artificial (nylon) sinew. I do not bow hunt so I can't say that my arrows have ever taken any game. But sitting by a lake in the wilderness with flaking tools making an arrowhead is pretty cool, especially when ya pull out a stone knife to cut up lunch with.
Jim

Motorcycle riding, boxing, video gaming, golf, fishing, kayaking, armouring/blacksmithing, and medieval type swordfighting

Yeah, and we KNOW that only takes 1 hour per week. HaHaHaHaHa!

Tango61
ASM T-107

Yeah, don't get me started....

*Hiking, mostly day hikes these days.
*Lifting weights. I'm not particularly well built but I love working out.
*Learning to weld. First project came out great.
*Reading. Usually books on how to do stuff. It doesn't matter if I intend to actually do the stuff.
*Gardening. I make my own hot sauce with peppers I grow.
*Tinkering, mostly with old camp stoves and WWII era cigarette lighters.
*Travel, experience different places/cultures.
*Trying new things.

hiking, backpacking, racquetball, woodworking, racing spectator (IndyCar, USAC Sprints, F1), racing blogger, NFL spectator (Go Colts), reading

Colts, huh? You're from Ohio - how about the Browns or Bengals?

(Of course, you've heard the joke about the little boy whose parents are getting divorced. The judge asks if he wants to live with his dad. "No, he beats me." So he asks if the boy wants to live with his mom. "No, she beats me, too." So the judges asks who he would like to live with. "The Cleveland Browns (the joke also works with the Bengals)." The judge asks why. "Because they don't beat anybody.")

(Oh, yeah, and did you hear that Columbus had asked for an NFL franchise? The commissioner turned them down, on the grounds that if he let Columbus have an NFL team, he'd have to let Cleveland and Cincinnati have one, too.)