Keep 'em coming Aimless
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I was a couple miles off trail for this one. The lake is called Hidden Lake and the granite ridge is the backside of Eagle Cap:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2726/4497757518_41f4bdaa41_b.jpg
― Aimless, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy amazing!!!
I always love to see pics of ppl's adventures!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
One last pic. This was a brief lifting of the rainstorm that dogged me the last two days of the trip. The trail is leading up to pass over an 8000 ft. ridge. On the other side was 7 miles of trail leading back down to the trailhead and my car.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4497757942_f4c016ce69_b.jpg
― Aimless, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice shots, the place looks amazing.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
It's one of my favorite corners of the universe. To see it properly, you absolutely need to load up a pack, hoist it, and get more than one day from any road. That's where the best magic happens.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
wow
― caek, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
bad fuzzy pic but i saw this guy today:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2z59e9z.jpg
― mr. waffles (Nijoli), Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
himingood
― billion holla baby (roxymuzak), Friday, 16 April 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
him was!
― mr. waffles (Nijoli), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going back to this place sometime this year, will strike a pose this time...http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/2706419643_6893fec3ea_b.jpg
― not_goodwin, Friday, 16 April 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kind of glad you didn't try to upstage the clouds.
― Aimless, Friday, 16 April 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
nice photoshop work! j/k
― mr. waffles (Nijoli), Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Hope you don't mean me?http://www.flickr.com/photos/carljgodwin/sets/72157606398062088/
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i was kidding. it is such an amazing picture that it almost does not seem real.
― mr. waffles (Nijoli), Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, sorry for minor tantrum.
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
aw. no worries. i should have been more clear. where is that picture exactly?
― mr. waffles (Nijoli), Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Austria, see the link.
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha nice photoshop work made me lol
― billion holla baby (roxymuzak), Monday, 19 April 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
do y'all work out in preparation of getting back into hiking?
i'm starting back into my routine of doing several hikes a week and it's like coming out of hibernation. i feel like i lost all my butt muscles, so maybe i'll just concentrate on that
― billion holla baby (roxymuzak), Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ITT a butt
― am0n, Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno part of the appeal of hiking for me is that it's a sport/activity that i can wholly divorce from "fitness"---like i'm not gonna sweat getting into shape for it because that just happens the more you do it. but yeah, squats oughta sort you out right quick
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree w/u gbx, though it is hard to wholly divorce it from fitness when you return to your usual caliber of trail and find yourself having heart attacks
― billion holla baby (roxymuzak), Thursday, 22 April 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
omgosh dont have heart attacks, they're dangerous!
i guess i meant i like to mentally divorce it---hiking, though sporty, is something i like to keep as a relaxing "i'm just walking in the woods thinkin baout thangs" activity
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 22 April 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
oh me too. i guess i like to divorce my walking thru the woods thinking baout things hikes from my getting ripped/really hard hikes tbh
― billion holla baby (roxymuzak), Thursday, 22 April 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Hiking is separate from fitness for me, which is why I LOVE it. But... it's hard to enjoy the first few when I am fucking winded as shit. I promised myself this year that I would work out all throughout the winter so I could hike 14-ers this summer BUT OF COURSE I DIDNT
― homosexual II, Thursday, 22 April 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
bet if you start now you will be hikin 14ers by august
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 22 April 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I plan on hiking this weekend if the weather's nice!
― homosexual II, Thursday, 22 April 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i miss mountains. i want to hike.
― tehresa, Friday, 23 April 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
so yesterday the wife and i backpacked out to this very isolated rustic campsite in the middle of kettle moraine state forest, wisconsin. our first actual backpacking trip where we're not basically camping in a tent next to the car. anyway, around 4 in the morning (cause it started getting light out about an hour afterwards), we were woken up by this EXTREMELY loud, EXTREMELY close cougar scream. i had never actually heard one before, but when we got home today i looked it up and yep this is exactly what it sounded like, no doubt about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKw4OFAu1WM
needless to say, it scared the SHIT out of us. almost sounded alien at first and it took a few moments for the reality of what we just heard to sink in. it was LOUD, very loud. it sounded like it was probably a couple hundred feet from our tent at most. we woke up and just stared at each other, pretty much paralyzed with fear, not wanting to move or even whisper anything for five minutes or so. started imagining all these nightmare scenarios in my head where the cougar would come over and smell us in the tent and start ripping it up and gorging on our insides. i had a very weak, hand-crank flashlight and a hammer in the tent, and i was trying to decide whether i should should put on my shoes and go out there in the pitch black forest and flash the light around and blow the whistle, try and scare it away. but i also didn't want to catch it off-guard and scare it so bad that it would attack me. opted to stay in the tent, wide awake until dawn, holding my hammer and flinching over every rustling noise we heard, telling myself that it's not a bear and it won't seek us out.
of course, it didn't help that the day before we left, there was a report of the first cougar attack on a wisconsin cow in over 200 years. but that was 100 miles away.
anyway, mountain lions screaming near your tent in the middle of the night with nobody else around you for miles. good stuff.
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh there was only the one scream this morning, but listening to that video again, i get goosebumps.
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus christ!! reminds me of "37 days of peril"
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 22 May 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the more i think about it (and i've been thinking about this a lot since it happened), the cougar wasn't "a couple hundred feet" from us. it was seriously within a hundred feet. it's difficult to describe the effect of hearing this noise, when you're sleeping in a tiny two-person tent in the middle of nowhere. i still can't believe it! especially after reading about how rare it is to encounter a mountain lion in fuckin' wisconsin these days. i called the rangers' office and reported it; the receptionist just kinda laughed and said "i'll make sure to pass this info on to my boss."
― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 22 May 2010 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Just as deadly, but not as big.I found some ticks stuck to my legs after trekking in the lake district, has anyone else had ticks/mites attached to them and what did you do about it?
I noticed them in the evening after having a shower, i thought it was a little spider and tried to brush it off, but it was stuck. I got some tweezers and pulled it out, had a look at it then googled it. It looked like a deer tick/lone star tick (not sure if lone star tick in uk?), anyway i checked and found about 8 in all. managed to get them all off in one piece and have another shower with added scrub action. I did some more googling and found they can give you lyme disease. Managed to get appointment with doctor next day who said i was right to come in as 12-24 hours after being bit, infection can get in blood. I'm now on a 2 week course of antibiotics which will clear up bites and stop any chance of the lyme disease hopefully.
Can't stop itching :(
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 22 May 2010 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
you pulled them out the right way... all the other things you hear (burn them off, cover them in vaseline, cover them in nail polish remover, etc.) are more of the "old country wisdom" variety and don't really work. you're supposed to grab it firmly with a tweezers and pull it straight out (not twisting).
8 of them is pretty hard core, though - i've only ever had one at a time. and you generally have around 72 hours to get the ticks out before there's a real danger of lyme disease, so even if you had 8, if you got them out right away and then went straight to the doctor, you'll probably be fine.
(the company i work for makes tick removers, among other things, so i've had to learn a lot about ticks.)
― a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (ytth), Saturday, 22 May 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
keep reading your name as 'a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw mormons.'
― tehresa, Saturday, 22 May 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
figured this would be the best place to ask, so how safe is DEET to use exactly? been having major problems with biting flies/midges. I bought some 3M DEET cream, but am a little worried about it being a cream. are sprays better/safer? it's around 35% DEET fwiw. citronella oil based patches/sprays are also available but I'm a little worried about smelling like a forest. we also have something apparently based on tomato extract. any thoughts?
― dyao, Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i work for a company that makes insect repellent, so i'm kind of biased, but i think the concerns about deet are overblown. also, the 3M ultrathon cream (which is the best deet repellent i've ever used, and i prefer it over my company's product) is good if you're worried about deet, because the actual chemical is suspended in the cream, meaning that it doesn't come into contact with your skin as much as it would if you were using a 100% deet spray. i have never had good luck with the natural stuff, so i usually either use ultrathon or 100% deet, because it works. there's also a chemical called picaridin that supposedly works really well in a 20% concentration - i've never tried it, though. but i've read the studies about it, and it's tests as good or better then 30% deet in almost every case.
― dad, i wanna be a lothario speedwagon (ytth), Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks!! yeah I got the ultrathon, used it today, worked great
― dyao, Thursday, 17 June 2010 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey now I have my hiking gear back! Now I just need a vehicle so I can get to mtns O_o
― tehresa, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Feelin this exactly ^^^^
― (roxymuzak) ((((d-.-b)))) (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
u_u
― tehresa, Thursday, 17 June 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I cannot answer the question about safety with and degree of accuracy.
I worry more about DEET when it leaves my skin and just enters the world-at-large than I do about personal health effects. When I am backpacking, I use it as sparingly as I can for this reason. I don't like washing it off into lakes and streams, or acidentally ingesting it from my hands after applying it.
There's no question DEET is the most effective chemical repellent. The only good non-chemical alternative requires wearing mosquito-proof clothing, such as a very tightly woven nylon windbreaker, or a headnet. This works well, but on hot days it has very limited applicability.
― Aimless, Friday, 18 June 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
BTW, as of 1 pm today, I am on summer break. I plan to hike my eye teeth out. Now, if it would only stop snowing in the Oregon Cascades and start melting. Sheeesh, it's been one cold, wet spring around here.
― Aimless, Friday, 18 June 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
just settled on great smoky natl park for major summer hiking vacay (vs cobbled together state parks in ohio, virginia, and west virginia). EXCITED! i'm sure the state parks would have been ok, but i am excited about staying in one place for a little while. would love some recommendations when the time gets closer! (rox, lookin at you :)
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Friday, 18 June 2010 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
<3!
I know everything about the park, I have devoted my life to it and I am dying to give you recommendations. lol
― (roxymuzak) ((((d-.-b)))) (roxymuzak), Friday, 18 June 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
that's what i figured. you're a ranger-in-training or something, right? i'd like a weather prediction if you have the time too ;)
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Friday, 18 June 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
also if there is a natural repellent for large families traveling en masse/annoying people please let me know
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Friday, 18 June 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
there are very quiet, unvisited places. no repellent needed. the park is really big!
and yes, i am a ranger in training.
― (roxymuzak) ((((d-.-b)))) (roxymuzak), Friday, 18 June 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome! i'll pop back in when i have actual questions.
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Friday, 18 June 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link