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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

reminds me of craters of the moon for obvious reasons

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

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.

watched the wildest dream last night. awesome stuff!