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
yall i fucked up my feet really bad on my last hike, enormous blisters turned into lots of terrible skinless patches that got infected, surprised i dont just have bloody stumps tbh
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 6 March 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Went to Amboy Crater in the Mojave desert last Saturday - it's an extinct volcano (1,000 - 10,ooo years old). Not very big by volcano standards but easy to get to.Highways to the old Route 66 in Ludlow, then the 66 to Amboy. The road is still in good enough condition to do 80-90 mph on.
From near the parking lot.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/hiking/ACDistance.jpg
About half way there (it's about a mile from parking lot to the base.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/hiking/ACCloser.jpg
The path in, the rim is lower on this side.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/hiking/ACWalkingtolowerrim.jpg
A view back toward the way in.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/hiking/ACView3.jpg
A view from the high part of the rim to the inside. I'm in a meetup group called Urban Adventures, and we left a mark. (Something elese was spelled out when we got there, we didn't despoil a virgin scene.)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/hiking/ACUA2.jpg
A view from the top looking out.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/hiking/ACView2.jpg
Another view out.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/hiking/ACView.jpg
These pictures don't really do justice to the colors of the landscape around there. Just beautiful.
― nickn, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
reminds me of craters of the moon for obvious reasons
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
went hiking around guadalupe mountains national park in texas a couple weeks ago, saw a bunch of elk and coyotes, no one was there, pretty amazing place
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
my biggest fuckin disappointment in hiking was when I was coming back to LA from oregon. I decided to go to this trailhead in the lost coast kings range or whatever that took fuckin like 2 hours to get to on an unpaved road uphill that half killed my suspension, and when I got there some storm or fire or something had hit and made everything unpassable unless you had like four people with machetes.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
watched the wildest dream last night. awesome stuff!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
at Obed Wild & Scenic River hiking a section of the Cumberland Trail
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=17942739&id=846520075
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Saturday, 9 April 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/205657_10150527603520076_846520075_17942736_5061117_n.jpg
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Saturday, 9 April 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Y'all:
I'm organizing a huge crew of volunteers to clean up and maintain our Knoxville city park trails in honor of National Trails Day (June 4th). I encourage all of you to do the same thing in your own towns. Last year I volunteered in the National Park on Trails Day; this year I wanted to help take care of some REALLY raggy trails that always get overlooked. City parks are important - help take care of yours. If anyone wants to donate even a dollar to the Knoxville effort for litter bags, maintenance tools and advertising, shoot it to emily✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ on Paypal and mark it "National Trails Day."
Thanks for listening to the PSA.
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Friday, 15 April 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
That's emilysue at gmail dot com, obv!
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Friday, 15 April 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
On the last day of my recent 2 week camping and hiking trip I hiked up to Sky Lake, a small tarn at 8200 ft elevation in the Wallowa mountains of Oregon. It was a 14 mile round trip from the trailhead; I did it as a day hike. Here's a shot:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6194/6044156097_87d7b2d7e6_z.jpg
― Aimless, Monday, 15 August 2011 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing
― tehresa, Monday, 15 August 2011 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
so jealous
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Monday, 15 August 2011 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link