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Verman posted:That's cool. I've always wondered about that place since learning about it as a kid. It's not the desolate hellscape my wife was expecting. For the most part, you're not looking at a burning coal mine, you're looking at the forest on the mountain that has an on-fire coal mine inside of it.
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Safety Dance posted:My wife and I went out to Centralia, PA last weekend. It's a coal mining town that was abandoned in the 1960s when they managed to light the coal underground on fire. The coal will continue to burn for the next 150-200 years. A few people chose to stay, and their homes stand in stark contrast to the vacant lots around them. We didn't walk anywhere that explicitly said "No Tresspassing", or looked like it was somebody's property. Be careful, I doubt the coal is close enough to the surface to be a huge risk but a big danger with the Oregon wildfires last year was the root systems catching fire and drying out the soil above them. You can think your walking on normal ground and then collapse through the baked earth and your legs are buried in a thousand+ degree oven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj6DWmXrb3M
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Mr. Crow posted:Be careful, I doubt the coal is close enough to the surface to be a huge risk but a big danger with the Oregon wildfires last year was the root systems catching fire and drying out the soil above them. You can think your walking on normal ground and then collapse through the baked earth and your legs are buried in a thousand+ degree oven. Thanks. This is a good reminder.
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SuicidalSmurf posted:Did a sunset hike up Mt. Si Oh man! It was so much more hazy when I got to the top of the trail last week. The hike was still nice, though. Great shot!  
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its all nice on rice posted:Oh man! It was so much more hazy when I got to the top of the trail last week. The hike was still nice, though. Great shot! Thanks! The hike back to the car was a bit spooky, pitch black the last 1.5 miles. Glad I checked my headlamp before I left, very nearly headed out with dead batteries. I think I should stick to sunrise hikes. It was definitely the quietest I've ever seen the trail, though. There was a group of 3 headed up as I was coming down, and passed one couple and their dog heading down as well. Crosspost from the Dorkroom. Overnighted Rialto Beach/Hole in the Wall. Beautiful sunny day in the low 60s, pissed rain overnight, another sunny day to hike out yesterday.   
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Safety Dance posted:It's not the desolate hellscape my wife was expecting. For the most part, you're not looking at a burning coal mine, you're looking at the forest on the mountain that has an on-fire coal mine inside of it. We went last year and we were disappointed to find the graffiti highway covered with dirt. I was more fascinated by some of the surrounding Pennsylvania towns that are unlike anything I have in northern Virginia. I felt like I was in a scene from the Deer Hunter.
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I love the Australian bush. This is Mt French.
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theHUNGERian posted:Summer solstice sunset from the summit of Mt. Rainier. Fantastic. Some year I’m gonna make the party at Paradise Rock on Mt Hood.
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Megabound posted:I love the Australian bush. This is Mt French. I hope one day I can visit Australia and get into the Australian bush.
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    Skilak Lake AK. Visited right between two high-profile bear attacks with three victims down by the lake, probably by the same bear. https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/06/13/bear-attacked-and-injured-campers-in-their-tent-on-the-shore-of-skilak-lake-officials-say/ https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/06/28/hiker-with-dog-bitten-by-brown-bear-near-skilak-lake-on-kenai-peninsula/      Diamond Creek / Cook Inlet / Kachemak Bay,
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Went and did an overnight last Sunday/Monday at Flapjack Lakes. Escaped the heat a little bit, was in the low 90s, but UV was punishing. Not my best photos, pretty harsh light but the scenery is pretty inspiring. Oh, and my plan of spending the whole day in the lake was foiled pretty quickly. Apparently even 90 degree heat doesn't take the edge off snow melt, I lasted about 2 minutes before my hands and feet were aching with the cold.   
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Sometimes I wish I was a photographer and not a sweaty guy on a moutain bike with an iphone
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The good news is the only difference between a not-photographer and a photographer is time spent taking pictures, so take a lot of pictures and try to emulate pictures you enjoy looking at and it'll develop naturally.
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Withnail posted:Sometimes I wish I was a photographer and not a sweaty guy on a moutain bike with an iphone That's a nice shot of those elk though, even if it wasn't taken through thousands of dollars of glass/electronics.
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Preparing for Rainier next month, did a hike up Mt. Ellinor from Big Creek campground for the first time. Adds on to what is usually a pretty short and sweet hike in distance and another 1500 feet of climbing. Bit socked in at the top but the flowers were in great shape.     
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Hi, Been bit by the nature bug the last two years, thought I'd share some photos from my trip across norway last year, and my trip over hardangervidda this year. (Not good photos, but photos of pretty dope areas in Norway none the less).    Taken atop one of the mountains surrounding Bygdin lake.   Just a quick picture of one of the awesome public use cabins in Norway, we've got 500+ of these sweet lodgings. Many of which have solar panels for charging and provisions you can buy. All of which has a kitchen, gas, wood and a stove to warm up by.    These are from Skarveheimen in Norway, various places along the mountain ridge from north to south  Another cabin at Skarveheimen, called Kongshelleren.  Me enjoying the sub-zero temperatures of summer weather in Norway.    Here are some of Aurlandsdalen, a pretty famous days hike in Norway. Recommended to start at 6-7am to avoid the huge crowd of people that starts at 8am. The last one you can spot a farm on the right side of the cliff face in the middle. This place is so remote that they used to have a designated tree to hang corpses from during winter because the trek back to the graveyard down the mountain area was too difficult during winter times.           These are all from my trip this summer over Hardangervidda, from Finse to Haukeli. Just as a quick tip, if you ever want to hike in Norway during summertime and you want to have it for yourself, go in June. Both my summertrips in June I've had nearly the whole trips by myself, this is despite every day ending at a Cabin. You will have to ford a lot of rivers though, as most summerbridges aren't set up before the end of june. Schnugaf fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Aug 20, 2021 |
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We visited Sweden several years ago and rather enjoyed it, but as we flew out we went over Norway and gliding over all those mountains it made me feel we chose the wrong country. (we were going to visit friends so didn't have a choice really, but it probably would have been worth alienating them)
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Now that the wife and I are double-vaxxed we decided to take the ferry over to Kumejima for a very covid-conscious week at a near-empty resort. Did a bunch of snorkeling, explored some caves, saw some weird trees. Most restaurants didn't have outside dining so we mostly just ate konbini food and drank a bunch of wine in our room at night. It was fantastic.            Just a beautiful trip. I started it feeling like this:  But by the end of it I was feeling like this: 
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 This is in an area called big lava bed in southern Washington. A couple of buddies and I went there last November. The area is a roughly 5 mile by 10 mile lava bed with a shield volcano in the center. The surface was mostly volcanic rock with stunted trees, making the terrain pretty rough and slow to pick through. That being said, it wasn't homogeneous, there were definitely sections that were basically normal forest. There were no trails and I don't think I could feel my hands by the time we made it to the center of the lava field but this one scene made the whole trip worth it in my opinion. https://i.imgur.com/I4GjR9q.mp4 This is the view from the top of the shield volcano.
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That looks like a rad place to explore. Is that picture from the valley on the west side of the cone? I've got the disappearing lake on my to-do list if I ever get to be in that part of the country in spring.
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Misty morning yesterday on Mount Rose - Staircase.
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xzzy posted:Is that picture from the valley on the west side of the cone?
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SuicidalSmurf posted:Misty morning yesterday on Mount Rose - Staircase.  some amazing photos itthere's a view of Mt. Adams from the Goat Rocks Wilderness in Washington state 
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:here's a view of Mt. Adams from the Goat Rocks Wilderness in Washington state That's beautiful. Where was this taken? Cispus pass?
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Verman posted:That's beautiful. Where was this taken? Cispus pass? goat lake
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:goat lake Goat Rocks continues to be one of my favorite backpacking trips ever, second only or maybe tied with the Washington coast.
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It was extremely pretty, up there with Enchantments. I plan to go back and see some of the other spots
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Cross posting from the climbing thread ages ago, because we're in lockdown here now for another month or so at least and I'm remembering how cool it was to go outside.        
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 Forgot about this one. This was a true test of willpower as I walked on by without taking a dip into this cruel mistress of a perfectly blue ice water pond.
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I dipped my feet into a glacial lake once, went straight past feeling numb to horrible pain. I could take about 5 seconds. It was great for submerging our bladders for 10 minutes though.. gave us some frosty cold drinking water.
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