still fuckin with climb cuz climb pays: the ILX hiking thread

tomorrow: http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/snow-lake-1

wow! that's pretty damn pretty. take pictures!

it was so cloudy, you couldn't see snow lake! well you sort of could if you looked REALLY hard
it's down there:
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9353.jpg

but to make up for it, here is gem lake. it is v v pretty, btw:
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9367.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9364.jpg

and here are a few other pixxxxxxxxx why bc they look intersting (to me):
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9346.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9355.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9370.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9347.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9358.jpg

and i realized i really should have had sturdier boots instead of trail shoes for this. so rocky!

looks pretty metal imo

forgot this one this tree is badass

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9354.jpg

must. move. to. seattle.

yes plzzzzzz do bc i want to go hiking with like 2 people, not 7 people. and also want to go hiking w/ people that appreciate the scenery and not just say 'yay i went hiking'.

or maybe i just don't like people :( but maybe i could start a new thing: antisocial metal hiking.

that looks great. i agree re: hiking with people.

antisocial metal hiking.

haw this is totally us!!! aka my hiking cru which is me and one other dude

i know we touched on this before, but crazy rocky terrain made me think about poles since i am totally klutzy.

also roxy: jealous of u cru!

my niggaz wit altitude shirt caused quite a stir last night at a party which consisted of half frat boys and half homosexual metalheads

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started watching discovery's "everest: beyond the limit". so far the announcer is ruining it for me!

i didn't know you were so into everest. have you ever checked out "the story of the story of everest"? it's pretty remarkable.

would just like to mention here that u know it was a NEW ZEALISH person who climbed that fucker first

i have not checked that out but i will now!

yeah i got this weird everest obsession a few years back totally by accident.

dude on this show summits with NO LEGS!

i think the fascination is something to do with rubbernecking over the really irresponsible decisions people make (for a number of reasons -- some understandable, some not).

not as good as the story of the story of the story of everest imo

I got back a couple of days ago. Great trip! Actually two great trips - one being 4 days' and the other of seven days' duration, in some very remote mountains, where I didn't see another soul for as much as two days running.

I walked 105 miles in those 11 days, saw a herd of mountain goats up close, watched ospreys diving into mountain lakes for trout, did some x-country hiking, endured two thunderstorms and 30 continuous hours of rain (mostly at 7400 feet elevation) where I needed to utilize my survival fire-starting skills for the first time in decades in order to dry out before bedtime. In short, I was 100% alive and engaged.

It is only too bad it is over and I won't have such an intensive hiking experience again until next summer.

wow! that sounds amazinggggggggg. you went alone???

did you take pictures? please share!

Yeah, tehresa, I am one of those crazy solo backpackers who launches himself into the deep backwoods and sometimes off trail for a week or more at a time. After doing this for about 35 years now, I have a fund of experience to draw on, so I am not quite as crazy now as I was when I started this. I'm actually pretty conservative and careful, for a madman.

Oh, and the pics, if forthcoming, will have to wait a bit. I am leaving to go camping with my wife in a day or so, and I have too much packing to do.

see now you are making me jealous cause i'd love nothing more than antisocial hiking but i am just so damn paranoid about breaking an ankle and then sitting there til a bear eats me.

i've only done solo overnight trips - no extended trips. the first one i did, i had an anxiety attack about getting really sick - the fear was that i could try to splint a broken ankle or even crawl out or something, but that if i was insanely sick with some stomach virus, i wouldn't be able to move or think straight through my fever, etc.

so thank god the capitol peak thing i linked to above was called off, at least for me. anyway, now im trying to convince friends to do the much more friendly subway at zion in Oct. Anyone done it?

http://www.zionrockguides.com/zrmg/Canyoneering/Zion%20Canyoneering%20Info/Subway%20Top.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9372441@N07/2802107837/

must. move. to. seattle.

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holy shit otm

tza i bet my pals in seattle would go hiking with you, they are def day hike w/beers after type ppl

send 'em my way!
(but maybe warn them i am wary of people!)

also all of you: move here. now! i tell you, there are like 30000 apartments open in my hood alone.

maybe you've already met them ;)

i swear roxy is my soul sister. metal and hiking. <3

i have been doing a lot of hiking this summer ever since i spent a week in alaska. i need more hiking friends because my car can't make it to the mountains right now. and everyone always bails on me or just wants to do some like wuss 2-3 mile hike.

yeah. i have not been excited about any of the meetup group upcoming hikes since i went on the last one. and i don't want to hike with 10 ppl. mandee and roxy, plz to come hike with me!

Guys I'm taking a week off work to hike the 5 tallest mountains in Tennessee, tbh!

~~pound

~~return pound!

tbh it's like a nervous tic

what is

My need of the Great Outdoors.

I hear ya, tza. I went on a hike with six people last weekend and it was just too much. TOO MANY PEOPLE. I think three people total is a max for me.

I'm bummed because I was going to do epic hike in RMNP tomorrow but my hiking partner is bailing so now I have to do something in Boulder that is far less scenic and cool. BAH.

my hiking cru and i (man + dog + me) went to devil's lake this weekend. not terribly strenuous, but nice to be outdoors and in nature.

soon i will post pic of THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY (ie a rock formation)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2573/3871755027_0d67d15b69.jpg
this is actually from last year, but the rock and the dog haven't changed at all. my hair is longer.

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I spent the past weekend hiking with my bro and his dog. We backpacked in to a nice, little lake at 5000 feet near the PCT and set up camp just before a brief but heavy rainstorm on Friday evening.

On Saturday we hiked about 6 miles with 1000 ft of elevation gain, and visited four other lakes. This was about as much my bro and his dog could handle; my bro has some serious heart problems as a result of 45 years of insulin-dependence and his dog is 10 years old, so this was pretty epic for them.

We had a great time. I love my bro and his dog Diva is pretty darned nice, too.

Am off to the Lake District tomorrow for a wild camping and trekking weekend. Looking forward to it, but somewhat trepidatious due to a) the weather and ii) not having done much fully-laden-rucksack-walking before. I'm reasonably fit though, and we're not talking marathon distances.

Oh yeah, and wild camping is not strictly legal but tolerated, and one of the code of conduct things is do not light fires. But my buddies are so dead keen on the hardcore manly bear grylls ray mears lifestyle that I haven't been able to talk them out of it.

go get a beer at the Old Dungeon Ghyll for me please

I think we are planning on avoiding any and all signs of civilisation. Unless we cry off after 12 solid hours of torrential downpour.

i am signed to go on a relatively easy hike sunday (hooray for finally having weekends back!) but there are like, massive #s of ppl signed up to go and i'm a little wary.

also the weather is turning so it's v iffy.

ledge, take an umbrella in addition to your other rain gear. No kidding. It works a treat for hiking in rain, unless there are high winds with the rain. In which case, you won't want to stay out for long anyway.