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This is one of my favorite pictures I've found from the WI Dells:
http://www.hhbennett.com/images/bennet-island.jpg

― kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 15 May 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

My wife and I scrambled the descent/ascent of Black Canyon south rim in flip flops, it was actually pretty hilarious. What's amazing, besides the painted wall and all that, is that the canyon bottom is about this wide | |

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Lassen Volcanic Natl. Park. We used to go there pretty regularly when we lived in Redding.

Upper King's Creek Meadow:

Lake Manzanita and Lassen Peak:

Bumpass Hell (volcanic vents, smells just peachy):

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I went here (Ocean City, MD) for a short vacation this week. (Sadly, it was too chilly still to go in the water.)
ihttp://oscland.com/pics/ocean_city/layout/beach2.jpg

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think that's the kind of "wild" giboyeux had in mind

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.mind.net/dlmark/images/NPglacier1.jpg

glacier park is the most beautiful park in the US.

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

(that pic does no justice)

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.photo.net/philg/digiphotos/200206-south-dakota/badlands-national-park-1.half.jpg

I spent lots of time at Badlands National Park growing up

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link

henry's fork

http://www.flyfisherman.com/downloads/hf800X600.jpg

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

tuckerman ravine on Mt. Washington

http://www.tuckerman.org/photos/01-02tuck/images/1-21-02_tucks.jpg

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Ft. Jefferson at the Dry Tortugas

http://www.seaplanesofkeywest.com/images/ftjefferson1Lg.jpg

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

The 12 Apostles, seen from the wonderful winding Great Ocean Rd - about an hours drive west of Melbourne. An absolute dream to drive along this stretch of unspoilt amazing geography:

http://www.holidaysforcouples.com.au/images/p_vic-greatoceanroad02.jpg

http://www.goway.com/selfdrive/self_img/greatocean.jpg

ihttp://reislog.nrx.nl/weblog/images/australie_269.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

cannon beach, oregon

http://www.delsjourney.com/images/news/news_01-06-11/1-0799-Cannon-Beach-&-Ecola-State-Park.jpg

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link

It's maybe not as majestic as some of these gorgeous mountain- and seascapes, but this is a really beautiful glacial park:
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/images/veg/Wetlands_I_Plants/N._Kettle_Moraine_VK.low.jpg

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

salt flats. it's fun to drive off the freeway here for a couple of miles and camp...

ihttp://www.tor.cc/photos/travelogue/bonneville-salt-flats_1.jpg

great basin nat'l park + bristlecone pines. really amazing place, very isolated..

http://www.lamarus.cz/mista/great%20basin/gb%20010.jpg

http://www.rmtrr.org/WheelerPeak.JPG

http://www.visitortips.com/images/gallery/destinations/usa/nevada/gbnp/fullsize/gbasin1.jpg

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 16 May 2005 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Those gnarled trees! I love them!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I think those might be my favorite trees I've ever seen.
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― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link

With a little patience...

http://www.mountwashington.org/photojournal/2004/hi-res/2004_02_20.jpg

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

they're also the world's oldest trees... 1,500-3,000+ years old, truly awe-inspiring to see them up close.

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_national_park/nv/pin_gb.htm

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― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Oregon looks the SWEETEST. I've never been to the Pacific Northwest, but I definitely think of it as being the greatest place on earth.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 16 May 2005 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

You've got that right

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/Rainier/Images/Rainier84_mount_rainier_and_tacoma_08-20-84_med.jpg

Puget Sound, near Anderson Island

http://www.komotv.com/weather/viewer_pics/images/3105_jan.jpg

Hood Canal

http://www.vici-store.com/profiles/images/pt_hood_canal.jpg

Olympic National Park

http://www.olsztyn.mm.pl/~grzegorzg/gory/Olympic%20Range,%20Olympic%20National%20Park,%20Washington~1.jpg

http://p.webshots.com/ProThumbs/54/41254_poster405.jpg

http://www.photodonation.org/images/gallery/Olympic/olympic%20nf%20quinault%20rainforest%20wilabycreek.jpg

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/glin/SEA-SFO/Olympic/Olympic_National_Park_Postcards/Olympic_Seashore.jpg

on the coast at La Push

http://www.migulski.com/seattle/Seattle-La-Push-Sunset.jpg

Deception Pass

http://www.richmondblogs.com/Deception/Deception%20Pass%20_0.jpg

Whidbey Island

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/art/pacificnw/2004/0613/cover01.jpg

Mt. Baker, from Lopez Island

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/orcas/fridayharbor/BakerFromLopez-m.jpg

the Skagit Valley

http://www.djc.com/stories/images/20040729/PriceTag_Cascades.jpg

Lake Chelan

http://www.acoustics.washington.edu/~gauthier/Photography/PN/13_Stehekin/DSCF1107.JPG

Mt. Shuksan, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~holzmann/images/CascadeMtns/MtShuksan_from_TomyhoiPeak.jpg

Glacier Peak and North Cascades

http://students.washington.edu/phiguera/GPandrangeatsunrise.jpg

Sahale Arm, North Cascades

http://www.dwave.net/~tony/Sahale/big/arm1.JPG

Alpine Lakes Wilderness

http://www.evergreenhiker.net/rach2.jpg

Snoqualmie River

http://www.alanbauer.com/images/Rural/Fall%20view%20up%20Snoqualmie%20River%20from%20Fall%20City%20bridge-Vert.jpg

Nisqually River

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jeffrey/dpics/20030618-washington/09-river.jpg

Lupine and Tatoosh Range, Mt. Rainier National Park

http://www.philarmitage.net/rainier/rainier4.jpg

Spray Park, Mt. Rainier National Park

http://www.photoseek.com/85SPR-01-14-MtRainier-SprayPark.jpg

Grand Park, Mt. Rainier National Park

http://www.alangrinberg.com/rainier/page01/Trail_1380.jpg

Goat Rocks Wilderness and Mt. Adams

http://homepage.mac.com/hshires/pcthike/goatrocks3.JPEG

http://pages.prodigy.net/stevehoglund/new42002/mtadams.jpg

Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

http://www.albertandbrady.com/images/small/img_1385.jpg

Yakima River Valley

http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd1661/yakima-river-valley-42.3.jpg

Columbia River Gorge

http://www.lewisandclarkpictures.com/albums/Photographs-of-the-Lewis-and-Clark-Trail-Washington/Columbia_River_Gorge.jpg

Columbia River

http://englishriverwebsite.com/LewisClarkColumbiaRiver/Images/mount_st_helens_mayger_fish_station_2005.jpg

http://englishriverwebsite.com/LewisClarkColumbiaRiver/Images/puget_island_coffeepot_island_barge_2004.jpg

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/3000%20to%2010000/C6CT3660.jpg

or do you know somewhere better?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link

where is the love for arizona?

http://www.securecms.com/iscas2002/gallery%5CYavapai-Tree-clouds-5x7.jpg

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link

pima canyon trail:

http://www.virtualtucsonmagazine.com/main/weekly/sunpimcan.jpg

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link

the tucson mountains in monsoon season:

http://monsoon.geog.arizona.edu/~jmcphee/mandy-tucson.JPG

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link

sunrise over the santa catalinas during a 2002 fire:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/slideshow/bullock_fire/sunrise.jpg

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=4344963&context=set-109446&size=o
looking across the west river into nh, from brattleboro, vt

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=4404479&context=set-110927&size=o
näsijärvi, tampere, finland

http://photos5.flickr.com/4724397_d5a0bb0239.jpg

http://photos5.flickr.com/4724412_68aaae6cde.jpg
sierra nevada, between reno and sacramento

http://photos5.flickr.com/4724916_2d0f8d1ab9.jpg
utah. from the air, salt lake city-oakland flight

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link

that didnt work out quite as well as i'd hoped

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i want to go to the northeast corner of california. what is the park that is near redding, i nearly went up that way once

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link

OMFG gabbneb. I NEED to move to the NW.

Although, the desert is also my fave. Southwest v. Northwest: FITE!!!

Man, I shoulda gotten some pics from Redstone CO yesterday. Beautiful bouldering in an amazing valley...

― giboyeux (skowly), Saturday, 21 May 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

It is one of the great tensions in life.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

British Columbia:
Mountains near Whistler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wck/14996426/

Huge cliff that sits over Squamish (much more impressive looking in real life)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wck/14996680/

Stanley park
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wck/14996971/

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 22 May 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

awesome series of the great NW gabbneb. There are lots of, er, Weiners in that part of the world; my dad's side of the family were among the original settlers of the Yakima valley. So many beautiful places, so little time. And while I've spent a lot of time in the SW (except for New Mexico) I can't bring myself to say it's as beautiful as the NW overall.

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i've lived in the NW. you'll get no argument from me that it's one of the most gorgeous places on earth.

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 May 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Exciting history, Don.

I think, gareth, that you would like to go to the black rock desert of nevada.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 22 May 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link

gareth would like tucson, very much

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 May 2005 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I especially like the first photo of Arizona. My sister says the view of the sky is amazing.

I like the photos of Sahale Arm, North Cascades; Glacier Peak and North Cascades; and Olympic National Park.

― youn, Sunday, 22 May 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

also if we're pimping Arizona we probably shouldn't forget Sedona

http://www.vrivacations.com/resorts/ssr/ssr-7L.jpg

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

or Mesa Verde, because it's in the SW, too.

ihttp://www.carto.net/andre.mw/photos/1996/07/02_usa/1996071317_co_cliff_palace_mesa_verde.jpg

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I want to go to Telluride pretty badly.

ihttp://www.flyaboveall.com/tel118.jpg

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Mono Lake, California

http://www.usatourist.com/slideshows/california/images/Mono%20Lake.jpg
http://simongurney.co.uk/america/california/mono_lake.jpg
http://www.paulfgill.com/images/Mono%20Lake%20Dusk%20300x451.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

The red rocks around sedona (and even moreso in Oak Creek Canyon to the north) are very nice (tho not particularly outstanding), but their wildness is compromised by Sedona and its dud jeep-tour and crystal-worship culture.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

otm

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd also add to that the cliched art culture, overpriced real estate, and invasionary spas. I'd rather go to the Badlands myself (or a bunch of places in Utah), but Sedona isn't ruined yet. The baby boomers might be able to accomplish that in the next couple of decades though.

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

there are places near sedona which aren't all jeep-touristy, new-agey, though. but if you really wanna get that type of landscape without the imprint of yuppy culture, go up north to s. utah.

― ()ops (()()ps), Sunday, 22 May 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Paria Canyon, Southern Utah

http://www.bay13.de/pics/desktop/morepictures/Colorado_Plateau_Paria_Canyon_Utah.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

whoah! Did you take that yourself?

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

It's my new desktop picture, at least for the rest of today.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

REVIVE, PLZ.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Arizona