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

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

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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.
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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!

at Obed Wild & Scenic River hiking a section of the Cumberland Trail

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=17942739&id=846520075

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Y'all:

I'm organizing a huge crew of volunteers to clean up and maintain our Knoxville city park trails in honor of National Trails Day (June 4th). I encourage all of you to do the same thing in your own towns. Last year I volunteered in the National Park on Trails Day; this year I wanted to help take care of some REALLY raggy trails that always get overlooked. City parks are important - help take care of yours. If anyone wants to donate even a dollar to the Knoxville effort for litter bags, maintenance tools and advertising, shoot it to emily✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ on Paypal and mark it "National Trails Day."

Thanks for listening to the PSA.

That's emilysue at gmail dot com, obv!

On the last day of my recent 2 week camping and hiking trip I hiked up to Sky Lake, a small tarn at 8200 ft elevation in the Wallowa mountains of Oregon. It was a 14 mile round trip from the trailhead; I did it as a day hike. Here's a shot:

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amazing

so jealous

I saw this lil fella a few days earlier, in the Elkhorn mountains - they're not too far from the Wallowas, but even less visited. He seemed like a young male, kind of hangdog and lonesome, probably kicked out of the herd not too long ago by the dominant male.

At first he bolted when he saw me, but stopped a short distance down the slope and peeked at me from behind a rock. We had a nice five minute conversation. I left him a gift of some salt on a rock, in the form of my urine. I hope he liked it.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6047843467_e086118a1f_b.jpg

Did u name him Aerosmith?

(lol dumb joek soz)

public service announcement: it's free entry weekend at national parks!

Tis the season for a revival of this thread.

Last Wednesday I got my first real hike of the season (no camera, so, no pics). It was a steady climbing hike up the side of the Benson Plateau in the Columbia R. gorge, up as far as where fresh snow had fallen the night before and was now melting and dropping in large amounts off the trees -- and onto my head. That's where I turned around.

I estimate it was about a 2800 foot elevation gain, over a ten mile round trip. Now my legs aren't exactly sore, but they aren't exactly not sore, either. Let's say they are mildly perturbed.

:)

I got my first hike in a while last weekend. Felt so good!

i think i want to go to glacier soon

anyone have any beta on what it's like in may? aimless?