So what other hobbies besides rocketry do folks here do?

Pyrotechnics brought me back to rocketry, although this hobby has been on hiatus after my son was born. It is hard to justify spending a day or weekend when I'm off work, away from him to make a few dollars setting up public displays. It is also much more difficult to build in a safe and legal place. I'll return some day.

With my son, I can still enjoy outdoor activities like mountain biking, hiking, kayaking, and skiing. So far he has enjoyed doing all these with me and I love being able to show him hobbies I have enjoyed most of my life.

Plastic model cars and plastic model WW2 aircraft, 1/24th scale slot car racing, Hand launch gliders, towline gliders, RC airplanes, RC Hydroplanes, Caving, Rock Climbing, SCCA Formula Ford Road Racing, collector cars, (I have owned a 1970 AMC Javlein since 1972) , BEER, uh, i guess that's about it....

RC helicopters, fishing, working on my ML320 Mercedes, Rail Road Signals, Plastic WW2 airplanes and tanks.
Collecting radiosondes (Weather Balloons ) Looking up reference data for the 4 fin Black Brant 2

Amateur Astrophotography...

NGC3628 pass4 by Tom Whit, on Flickr

and Air guns

rocketkyle said:

bowling

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Hello, Rocketkyle 117

rc cars, quad rotors, hiking, shaping surfboards and surfing.

Lessee...
Miniature War Gaming,
Target Shooting
Mando Mercs
video gaming
Movies
Paracording
occasional woodworking
reading
comic books
paying for children's activities

Pyrotechnics, metalworking (lathe and foundry), gardening, reading (old-style SciFi, not today's fantasy), astronomy, going through the honey-do list.

caveduck said:

Besides being a chronic rocketeer (at NARAM now, next comes L3 project, case closed), motorcycles - 200k+ mi on my HD, astronomy, model RR, tennis, classical piano -- used to be real serious at that, flying (have private license), gaming (quake 2 era), occasional forays into other stuff.

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Dave,

I want to see you transporting your L3 on your Harley . . . LOL !

Dave F.

Amateur Radio, Electronics (difficult to separate, and overlap with other things)
Geology
Astronomy
Shooting (IDPA, CMP matches)
Mountain biking
Tatting (self-taught - interesting topological side to this)

Fishing is one of my other hobbies. Right now the catfishing is pretty good.

I also collect comic books and hang out with my Dad as he shows off his 1960 Corvette at local car shows.

Bicycling and antique pocket watches

Photography, car mechanics, skiing (qualified instructor), SCUBA occasionally, horse riding, 4WD driving, camping, traveling, home renovations, shooting and cycling.

In the "ex" hobbies category there are collecting carnivorous plants, playing cornet/trumpet and flute. I should get back into music again, in my spare time.

captbk said:

Fishing is one of my other hobbies. Right now the catfishing is pretty good.

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Fishing is't a hobby, it's a necessity! Now I wan't some catfish, maybe some Gatortail, Hog jowels, grits....

Other Hobbies: binge watching TV series, Model Railroads, Beer...

Fishing, hunting, hiking, camping, kayaking, woodworking, electronics tinkering, pyrotechnics (finishing pasting my shells for the year right now), computers (building a micro high performance compute cluster in a spare bedroom) and poking Steve Shannon when he isn't expecting it.

Working out, guitars, disc golf, walk/jog, gardening, watching football, computer stuff, great recipes, reading history. Of them all, rockets is my oldest hobby.

you mean besides necro-posting ...

woodworking and guitar, and then THIS happened...

Wow Glen, that is stunning! What woods? What electronics?

Thanks! Body is Mahogany and maple, heavy but has a good natural acoustic sustain, Seymour Duncan vintage Broadcaster pickups, cause it don’t mean a Thang if it ain’t got that Twang. Neck has a little jangle, bridge has some BITE.

Made that in my college days at the university craft center woodshop, where I learned all the safety rules and how to properly use fences, jigs, and push sticks so that I retained all my fingers while building the guitar so that I can still play it. More of an acoustic guitar church choir player these days though.

Interesting to see a thread I started back in 2013 revived and still going! I should add computer gaming to my original list now that I've gotten sucked back in to that time sink. I'm also a musician/guitar player and I write. I don't know why I didn't think of those as hobbies but I guess they are.

Shrinking steel. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.

Disc Golf-

This isn't me:

Amazing Drive
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A full 200' feet farther than I can throw on a good day.

I dabble in rock climbing.
This climb is called "Wheat Thin". It is on the cookie cliff in Yosemite valley.

Joel Levinson said:

I dabble in rock climbing.
This climb is called "Wheat Thin". It is on the cookie cliff in Yosemite valley.
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Sweet! I followed that climb on New Years Day 1989. Memorable experience- the climb and the major poison oak rash I came down with several days later. Who knew that Poison Oak can drop its leaves for the winter at the upper elevations of its range? My partner loved crack climbing, I loved face climbing. He loved the Valley. I loved Tuolumne.

Does this count as a hobby?

NateB said:

Does this count as a hobby?

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Eating or cooking? I would say cooking could be a hobby.

jeffjblack said:

Eating or cooking? I would say cooking could be a hobby.

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Well, first one then the other. I do enjoy making my own rubs and sauces before smoking food. I enjoy other forms of cooking as well, but grilling and barbecue is my favorite.

NateB said:

Does this count as a hobby?

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I would need to sample it to be sure it’s a legitimate hobby.