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

whoa those are SO COOL

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

the sky is so blue

is the first pic a huge dune or just a hill covered in sand (lol who cares i guess)

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

cooooool
and u can email them to!

You can email any national or state park, iirc.

lol

i just saw the pic of tipsy in shorts in the snow from a month ago. lord, give that boy some pants!

http://i.imgur.com/iMbOF.jpg

if sand dunes sing then they can write emails i guess

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?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_sand

105db!

have never been there nij, i was just looking at photos

that singing sand thing sounds crazy! i love it.

Helpful trailhead signage:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5394164155_9e4f34814c_b.jpg

wow, that is amazing.

I esp like the "throw children" advice. I shall have to start bringing some along with me.

that is great!

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.

crap, though crab mobile phone sounds good.

everything looks super cool in the scottish highlands

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!

Mists make for mystery, unless they are miasmas, which make for misery.

Nags Head Wood trails today

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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

beautiful imo

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

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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

best view ever!

daaaaaaaaaaamn

aimless what beach is that

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.

i went to cape lookout/cape meares last year, looked pretty much like that

In the pic looking north, the dark spit of land at the furthest point north is Cape Lookout.

caek - WHERE is that? like what cabins?

The ends of the earth. There's a link in the quoted text that explains which particular end.

70°N, i.e. 4 degrees inside the arctic circle

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.htm
www.idlewords.com/2010/07/mission_burfjord.htm

tomorrow:

http://hikinginthesmokies.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/chestnust-top-view-south-web.jpg

be still my beating heart. my envy goes with you.

whoa

I can't wait to see mountains when I get back to TN and the east side of NC!

(next week)

i did this today and broke in my backup hiking boots - at the expense of my feet

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/5077221464_429df3c9d2_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/5076629811_8de4997111_z.jpg

Cape Lookout? I saw a baby bear cub there in 2002. Cute as a bug's ear. Scared the shit out of me.

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

sooo pretty

Does anyone have any tips for hiking in Spain, particularly in Ordesa y Monte Perdido?
Suuuuuuuuper psyched about this trip.

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