whoa those are SO COOL
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I had an amazing hike at Jockey's Ridge in Nags Head, NC today. My skin got totally dehydrated because the wind was nuts but I took a dog with me and he had more fun than he has ever had in his life.
Here are some pictures:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs063.snc6/167395_10150354684075076_846520075_16656956_5993343_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs043.snc6/167306_10150354682235076_846520075_16656895_844786_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs783.ash1/167306_10150354682220076_846520075_16656892_630077_n.jpg
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
the sky is so blue
is the first pic a huge dune or just a hill covered in sand (lol who cares i guess)
― deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
there are wind-blown dunes of over 300m high in the kalahari iirc
They are all dunes! It is the tallest sand dune system in the Eastern United States and looks like Star Wars.
You can read about it here: http://www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/jori/main.php
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
cooooooland u can email them to!
― deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
You can email any national or state park, iirc.
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i just saw the pic of tipsy in shorts in the snow from a month ago. lord, give that boy some pants!
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iMbOF.jpg
if sand dunes sing then they can write emails i guess
― deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
they sing?
also, the castle sticking out of the ground is one of the coolest parts of jockey ridge. it is part of an old golf course that got covered by sand dunes blowin' around. All you can see now is the very top of the castle but there is a whole ton of other stuff underneath the dune there. Did you go there nakhchivan?
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_sand
105db!
― deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
have never been there nij, i was just looking at photos
― deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
that singing sand thing sounds crazy! i love it.
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Helpful trailhead signage:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5394164155_9e4f34814c_b.jpg
― Aimless, Friday, 28 January 2011 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, that is amazing.
― tehresa, Friday, 28 January 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I esp like the "throw children" advice. I shall have to start bringing some along with me.
― Aimless, Friday, 28 January 2011 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
that is great!
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Friday, 28 January 2011 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, nice sign.
i am going to the highlands (scottish ones) tomorrow for a few days. i'll mainly be drinking, but going to go for a 4 or 5 hour long walk on Saturday and see some of that good ol' picturesque nature. will take crab mobile phone pictures if anything looks super-cool.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 3 February 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
crap, though crab mobile phone sounds good.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 3 February 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
everything looks super cool in the scottish highlands
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 February 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i have very little experience of the highlands, despite being scottish and them only being a couple of hours away by car, and that's even considering that technically they start not all that north from glasgow. basically i am a disgusting savage!
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 3 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Mists make for mystery, unless they are miasmas, which make for misery.
― Aimless, Friday, 4 February 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Nags Head Wood trails today
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185864_10150396465635076_846520075_17309421_6287798_n.jpg
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/185864_10150396465645076_846520075_17309423_5534999_n.jpg
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/184236_10150396467380076_846520075_17309444_1066950_n.jpg
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Thursday, 24 February 2011 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/184236_10150396467390076_846520075_17309446_1856718_n.jpg
nijoli, that looks like one sweet hike -- and lovely weather, too.
I haven't done any forest trails lately, but my wife and I did do a long 5 mile hike on an empty beach at the Oregon coast last weekend. We like to hike out a couple of miles, then sit in the dunes for a while before walking back. Once you get north of the small town where we stayed there are very few people out walking. We saw seals, sandpipers and a blue heron just standing at the surf's edge contemplating the world.
looking north:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5011/5472150287_f5a012dceb_z.jpg
looking south:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5052/5472741994_d02921a830_z.jpg
― Aimless, Thursday, 24 February 2011 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
beautiful imo
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Thursday, 24 February 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
thinking of kicking it here for a couple of weeks in the month between submitting thesis and doing viva http://www.banja.no/en/index.html― caek, Saturday, July 3, 2010 8:30 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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doing this in june. apparently it's magic hour for like 8 hours per day there that time of year. going to catch some fish and tool around in my boat.
this is the view from the cabin window
http://idlewords.com/images/banya_view.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 24 February 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
best view ever!
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 24 February 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
daaaaaaaaaaamn
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 24 February 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
aimless what beach is that
― am0n, Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
It is the beach that lies between Cascade Head on the south end and the Nestucca River on the north end. We stayed at the town of Neskowin, which has long been our 'go to' place at the Oregon coast.
― Aimless, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i went to cape lookout/cape meares last year, looked pretty much like that
― Dr Frogbs (am0n), Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
In the pic looking north, the dark spit of land at the furthest point north is Cape Lookout.
― Aimless, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
caek - WHERE is that? like what cabins?
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 26 February 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
The ends of the earth. There's a link in the quoted text that explains which particular end.
― Aimless, Saturday, 26 February 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
70°N, i.e. 4 degrees inside the arctic circle
― caek, Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
near tromso, norway
have wanted to go to that part of the world for a while, but found that particular island/cabin through this guy's posts
www.idlewords.com/2010/06/on_top_of_the_world.htmwww.idlewords.com/2010/07/mission_burfjord.htm
― caek, Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
tomorrow:
http://hikinginthesmokies.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/chestnust-top-view-south-web.jpg
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 26 February 2011 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
be still my beating heart. my envy goes with you.
― Aimless, Saturday, 26 February 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa
― caek, Saturday, 26 February 2011 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't wait to see mountains when I get back to TN and the east side of NC!
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 27 February 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
(next week)
i did this today and broke in my backup hiking boots - at the expense of my feet
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 27 February 2011 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/5077221464_429df3c9d2_z.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/5076629811_8de4997111_z.jpg
― r.i.p. hamilton (am0n), Sunday, 27 February 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Cape Lookout? I saw a baby bear cub there in 2002. Cute as a bug's ear. Scared the shit out of me.
― Aimless, Sunday, 27 February 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah u don't wanna run into mama bear who was prob nearby
i only made it about halfway out to the tip, it was too muddy and a lot of the trail had a str8 dropoff on one side into the pacific which made me nervous
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/5076629517_2ee2d79879_z.jpg
― r.i.p. hamilton (am0n), Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
sooo pretty
― tehresa, Sunday, 27 February 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Does anyone have any tips for hiking in Spain, particularly in Ordesa y Monte Perdido? Suuuuuuuuper psyched about this trip.
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Sunday, 27 February 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i made a new years resolution to hike the benton mackaye trail from GA to TN. it used to be 100 miles long - figured i could do it leisurely over spring break. started planning for it yesterday and uh - now it's nearly 300 miles and goes through 3 states!!
http://www.bmta.org/OverviewMap.htm
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 27 February 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link