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/
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
must. move. to. seattle.
― a terrible camera... with fangs and shit... (ytth), Saturday, August 8, 2009 11:48 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark
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
― ovum if you got 'em (gbx), Friday, 14 August 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
send 'em my way!(but maybe warn them i am wary of people!)
― tehresa, Friday, 14 August 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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 ;)
― ovum if you got 'em (gbx), Friday, 14 August 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― homosexual II, Friday, 28 August 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― tehresa, Friday, 28 August 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Guys I'm taking a week off work to hike the 5 tallest mountains in Tennessee, tbh!
― crutie can't fail (roxymuzak), Friday, 28 August 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
~~pound
― crabRCISE (gbx), Friday, 28 August 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
~~return pound!
― crutie can't fail (roxymuzak), Friday, 28 August 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh it's like a nervous tic
― bamcquern, Friday, 28 August 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
what is
― crutie can't fail (roxymuzak), Saturday, 29 August 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
My need of the Great Outdoors.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 29 August 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― homosexual II, Saturday, 29 August 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Sunday, 30 August 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2573/3871755027_0d67d15b69.jpgthis is actually from last year, but the rock and the dog haven't changed at all. my hair is longer.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Sunday, 30 August 2009 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― tehresa, Monday, 31 August 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
go get a beer at the Old Dungeon Ghyll for me please
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I think we are planning on avoiding any and all signs of civilisation. Unless we cry off after 12 solid hours of torrential downpour.
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Umbrella = lightning rod?
― nickn, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
only if yr the tallest thing around
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome weather today for going up Ben Lomond. October in Scotland is rarely so clement.
http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/DSC00446.jpg?t=1255834188
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Sunday, 18 October 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
reminds me of view from the san juans but awesomer
― tehresa, Sunday, 18 October 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Loch Lomond. Less than an hour of a drive from centre of Glasgow and only a couple of hours hike and I was up there at really beautiful scenery. Bonnie, bonnie banks indeed.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Sunday, 18 October 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
up there looking at really beautiful scenery, i don't think i make a post on ILX without omitting a word.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Sunday, 18 October 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda makes me reconsider scotland!
― tehresa, Sunday, 18 October 2009 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Scotland is really beautiful. The weather is generally terrible.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Sunday, 18 October 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah scotland rules
didn't know there were so many islands in loch lomond!
― a perfect urkel (gbx), Monday, 19 October 2009 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah there are quite a few, though that is a particularly island dense part of the loch afaik. When I was a kid use to go out fishing with my granddad on the loch and often stopped for lunch on an island that had the ruins of some sort of dwelling place that you couldn't see until you got right up to it because it was surrounded by trees. Whoever stayed there was some sort of rad bandit i bet.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Monday, 19 October 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
weird sights- headlamps of big wall guys 1500 ft off the valley floor at zion at night.
hiked the subway on saturday- best hike/swim ive ever done by far. geological freak show, rappel 3 100 ft drops, swim with trout and canyon tree frogs. highly recommended for the non claustrophobic.
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Monday, 19 October 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
!!!
― rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 19 October 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
scotland is so so so beautiful
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/350665814_50f1bd98fa.jpg
i've been wanting to go back and see the highlands a lot lately
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 19 October 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
where the wellies things are
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Monday, 19 October 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
that's meto my right are some wicker man feet
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 19 October 2009 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
this link below has some photos that do a good job of capturing the feel of the middle part of subway hike--although like 2% of it. the scope though- the canyon walls above the subway formation go straight up over your head at least 200 feet of pure vert, with spires and slopes far higher.
also, there are so many little weird things. 50 yard long cracks/channels 3 inches wide running in perfectly straight machined looking lines with water rushing through at 20 knots. an almost spherical chockstone wedged 3 feet over your head as you swim through a 24 inch wide pool. a pothole of water with a hidden underwater passage into the pool a few feet away- you can dunk and swim through the tunnel under solid sandstone into the pool.
http://www.citrusmilo.com/zion2005/ilovezion8.cfm
the first pool swim was 49 degree water on saturday. really really cold in a farmer john with no jacket! i wouldn't do the hike without a wetsuit, at least this time of year. we did see a party without them, and two of the hikers were 10 or 11 years old. i will say TOUGH ASS KIDS. the water warms up only a short distance down the canyon, fortunately.
i didnt have my camera, so im waiting on the 3 in party that had them to send then to me.
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Monday, 19 October 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that looks really awesome!
― tehresa, Monday, 19 October 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
the chockstone i referred to- i guess its more like 5 feet overhead:
http://www.pbase.com/bjrhodes01/image/85974253
this is looking up the corridor, the direction from which you are swimming. i could just fit in between that narrows, it is shoulder width. just up out of view behind that bowling ball is a short waterfall downclimb. you can't touch bottom in there for most of the way, but its only 60 feet long or so.
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Monday, 19 October 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, dude's antelope canyon shots are impressive. maybe i'll see that someday!
http://www.pbase.com/bjrhodes01/lowerantelope
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Monday, 19 October 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
that is AWESOME.
― shaane, Monday, 19 October 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
omg
― rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 19 October 2009 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
so im all tryna figure out what other slots might be do-able for a semi-able guy like me and find this tragic and frightening story 8^0 :
http://climb-utah.com/Zion/kolob1.htm
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to go hiking :(i need more friends. with cars.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
while waiting for our shuttle vehicle at the end of the trail saturday we saw a tandem ultralight plane buzz down the valley and then turn up the adjoining drainage. we all were surprised that was legal in the park, and also that you could tandem an ultralight, and also that it would have enough juice to climb out of the valley-- it was very low and the canyon walls very high. today i read that it crashed, one guy broke his leg. they had to overnight in the park while waiting for rescue team.
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
exiting the subway formation, back into the light
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/IMG_1810pshop4x6.jpg
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
last one (for now):
the shower room. there is a waterfall that drops into a fairly large cave/room. this is adjacent to the final short rap into the big subway space
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/PA170133pshop4x6a.jpg
― honesty is not ordinary to the height of the bunny hop (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link