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>>2845083ooƒ, gorgeous but you missed the money show by a couple weeks. where you at? NH, ME, VT, ON, QC?
>>2845129there's been very little rain since the end of maythis is northern pa>>2845128do you know anything about northern arkansas?
>>2845143Yes, its pretty but MUCH less biodiversity. I like the Ouachitas.
>>2845165saw a griz but he wouldnt lift his head
>>2845166Where are you at that's so cool. All we have are black bears and mountain lions lol. Stuck here in DA JUNGLE of dixie. I wish carolina parrots weren't eradicated I could larp as a pirate.
>>2845174>Where are youN. rockies
>>2845145I mean I like plants and animals and all that, but well-shaped hills mean more to me than that. >Yesanywhere in particular? I'm thinking of heading south this winter to explore the mountains of Missouri and Arkansas.
>>2845190The Ozarks of missouri are similar and not too much lower in elevation I think. If you want to have a more unique experience i say the ouachuta mountains are a better bet and far easier to traverse. They are basically a smaller version of the smokey mountains like ⅖ the hight.
>>2845196Ouachita *** wtf sorry
Fall colours in BC
>>2845178Nice, When I was a teenager I used to day dream larp about running away to the northern Rockies NO BULLSHIT like BC, or Idaho. Idk at least I wasent retarded to do it lmaooooo.
>>2845199How's the weather? Looks /comfy/
>>2845201Snow has arrived in the mountains, so these pictures are from september unfortunately. No more mountains for me until a little more falls and its time to break out the skis. We finally got our smoke and heat in early september after the wet summer, now its just cold and i'm /in/ wishing i was /out/
>>2845206Nice, Can't wait for our own kiss of winter here even if it is breif
>>2845206sometimes you have to take time to rest
>>2845196I have that one main Buffalo River overlook in mind, and I guess there's other ones, but I just did sorta a brief Google Maps search of the area, and there didn't seem to be a lot in MS/AR with sweeping views outside the Buffalo River gorge itself. >If you want to have a more unique experience i say the ouachita mountains are a better bet and far easier to traverseyou tell me where to go I will I've gone where /out/ told me to many timesjust figure it might not be TOO cold in winter relative to pa/ny and maybe not so crowded either
>>2845223direct sun - the enemy of good photosI've been trying to get foliage photos with red in them and have had basically no luck
>>2845214you're right, but i find if i don't get out into the mountains at least 3/4 days a week, I just end up vegetating, sitting around with nothing to do, scrolling my phone and smoking weed. Not super healthy. The good news is my work starts again for me in a few days, so I won't have too much free time on my hands during the shoulder season.
Some pictures from the expedition in September. Spent a week summitting Garnet pk, the highest peak in Wells Gray Park with the gf. Very seldom climbed due to its remoteness. We started the trip by canoeing 27k over 2 days. We woke up on day 3 and found smoke had rolled in so thickly from wildfires that we could barely see the other side of the lake 1km away, we spent a full day rucking our packs straight up a ridgeline and crosscountry down the otherside to setup our base camp in the subalpine. Next day we got up and summited Garnet peak shown in this pic. We were lucky and the smoke had descended to valley level, leaving the alpine clear. There used to be a permanent snowfield that would let you go straight up the face without much difficult scrambling, but that's long been melted out, so we tried a different route through the scramble climbing a *very* loose gully. It worked and got us to the summit, but was pretty shitty and hazardous with rockfall. Other than the few scrambley moves, the day was just a long day of crosscountry travel through talus fields, moraines and loose rock. The next day, we returned to the lake, detouring to climb a ridgeline and bag another 2 peaks on the way back. Straightforward fun scrambling, and we were lucky to have only a little bit of rain on the 2 days canoeing back to the car. Very succesful trip that basically went off exactly to plan, can't ask for much more. >>2845230Check out the huge avalanche track in that picture. You can see there's a giant laneway with not a single mature tree going all the way from the toe of the glaciar down to that little lake. In the winter winds would strip snow off of the southeasterly faces of the peak that picture is taken from and deposit them onto the northeasterly face in the picture. This would create massive cornices, windslabs and a very deep snowpack, which later in the season around March(ish) can create conditions for massive size 4 avalanches like the ones that creates those paths
more september pics, this one from labour day weekend. Had 2 days off between 11 day stretches of work, and wanted to make the most of them so drove 4 hours up to Strathcona park on Vancouver Island to try and summit Mt Big Interior. Did not end up getting what I came for. The standard route up Big Interior is typically done early season when snow covers the extensive loose rock fields that must be crossed to reach the glacier. I had brought a rope, ice axe, helmet, crampons harness and some climbing gear hoping that the glacier would be dry and I could just walk right up the glacier almost to the summit, but unfortunately the upper half was still covered in snow, and without partners to travel with one the glacier, the consequence of breaking through a snowbridge would be bad. So i didn't end up getting on ice and brought 10lbs of heavy mountaineering gear up for no reason. The approach was steep, hot and a hell of a lot of work with the heavy pack and clunky mountain boots. Passed Bedwell lakes, a series of beautiful subalpine lakes that were very busy with backpackers on the long weekend, ended up camping on a series of benches near where I would break from the trail to go for my peak. Hoping to save weight, i didn't bring the tent and instead just brought a tarp. I regretted this once the sun started going down and the mosquitos came out. It wasn't anything like the hell mosquitos we get up North, but it was enough to make me sleep with a bugnet, jacket and pants on, not super pleasant. The next day, I just ended up doing a small scramble up to one of the subpeaks of big interior and hiking back to the car. Little bit of a dissapointing trip with a lot of effort and time spent just to not get what I came for, but at least it was good training, and the views were still beautifulPic is of Nine peaks, one of the classic island mountaineering objectives. Always wanted to do it, but doing it requires going up, and over Mt Big Interior>>2845211wya anon?
>>2845232fuck it we photodumpingWashington anons here might recognize this mountain. Mt Baker seen from the Ptarmigan ridge trail on the North side. Had a pleasant dayhike here with Dad and the Gf. We made sure to fuel up in Canada before heading down so that we could avoid spending any money in America. Hope you guys down there come to your senses soon bc you're going down a dark path. One thing I admire though is Americans really do build excellent trails, and a hell of a lot of them. Wide, well graded, with few obstacles, and relatively little red tape to hop through in regards to permits. Its something we could definitely learn from. Mt Baker towers above everything in the North Cascades, and it's always been a dream of mine to summit it with my dad, and bring my grandfather's ice axe up to the summit while doing so. My father and grandfather summited it with a guide back in the 90s, but haven't been up since. I've been up a handful of times on skis, but since my dad doesn't ski I'm hoping to get there next june with some experienced friends so that I can bring him up to the top before he gets too old.
>>2845234i'm also canadian and i just wanna say your little political statement of not buying gas in the states is stupid an faggy as hell.
>>2845240>no pics of recent outings can't hear you from /in/ there
>>2845232South arkansas, down in dixie winter is barley a thing here and only exist because of the great plains.
>>2845240Dual citizen on the US side here. The boycott noticeably effects things at a local level.
>>2845341*affectFucking retarded moron
>>2845341Yes i'm sure its had an affect on a lot of higher end tourism businesses here in CAD. Personally I just think its stupid for people on the low level to protest the US for their choice of politicians when we in canada have possibly the worst political parties and candidates on earth. Regardless of what side you place yourself on the imaginary line canadas current prime minister used to be the head of the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the country and used to run the bank of england. How people can justify criticizing another countries politicians is beyond me
>>2845178cool pic
>>2845373*effectholy shit you idiots
those decidulous tree are inferior
>>2845542it's been really droughty so its not the best foliage season
guess country
>>2845579chile?
Haven’t been on here in a while but was scrolling through some pics. From February
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>>2846500Alright, those first ones were Crawford Notch State Park and Grafton Notch State Park. Now for East Windham Conservation Area
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>>2846502Hiked up a mountain for the first time yesterday :). I chose Mt. Oscar
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Sometimes the easier tours and lower mountains are the better choice. What a lovely day that was.
Got the wife and kids up to Hawk Mountain yesterday to try and see some fall colors. Looking at this thread makes me really want to hurry up my plan to get off the east coast.
>>2846715Where would you go?I'm not from the US, but I think the Upper East Coast looks like a pretty nice place to live. Unless you want actual mountains.
Okefenokee swamp.
>>2846733>Okefenokee swamphows the weather in winter?I don't like swamp environments much but I am considering overriding that just to get some hiking in this winter without it being too cold and maybe there's some interesting hiking in the deep south I don't know about>>2846715Is that the one that costs money and has limited hours?
Maple pass North Cascades
>>2845231very nice pic anon
>>2846723Right outside Philly, planning to move the family to the Rockies or PNW after my work contract is up in 3 years>>2846746>Is that the one that costs money and has limited hours?Yeah, hours are dawn to dusk and its 10 bucks per adult but kids are free. It's a bird sanctuary, we got to see some hawks and vultures which was neat. We did the Skyline Trail and to be honest it kicked my wife and my asses. Knees are still blown up.
>>2846875>hours are dawn to duskI could have sworn it was one of those things where there are gates and they stop selling tickets at like 4pm and kick you out at 5pm. >We did the Skyline Trail As I remember there's a bunch of different ones and it wasn't 100% clear which trail to take to just get the best overlooks without making it a hard/long hike but I'm sure once there they can explain that and it's clearer in person. You know there's lots of great hikes within a few hours of philly, you just have to drive a few hours and find them (some are kinda less publicized). You don't need to move to the rockies or PNW to get mountains just go a few hours north in PA and there's plenty as well as plenty over in SW VA, TN, WV, KY etc. and the weather is less extreme than it is in the west
>>2846876>I could have sworn it was one of those things where there are gates and they stop selling tickets at like 4pm and kick you out at 5pm.They have gates but has a direct trail to the AT so I dunno how they enforce any of it >As I remember there's a bunch of different ones and it wasn't 100% clear which trail to take to just get the best overlooks without making it a hard/long hike but I'm sure once there they can explain that and it's clearer in person.You know there's lots of great hikes within a few hours of philly, you just have to drive a few hours and find them (some are kinda less publicized).I like hard hikes, the over looks are just a bonus. Can you recomend any more hikes around Philly? I think i've done em all at this point>You don't need to move to the rockies or PNW to get mountains just go a few hours north in PA and there's plenty as well as plenty over in SW VA, TN, WV, KY etc.and the weather is less extreme than it is in the westI know but I lived out west after high school and loved it. I'm really open to move anywhere that has a lot of outdoor access, we don't have a set place yet. I just know the Philly burbs aren't it.
>>2846877>Can you recomend any more hikes around Philly?I mean uh not around Philly itself but in Northeastern PA there's a ton of stuffthere's a nice waterfall on a tributary of the delaware river called ringing rocksthen there's a view of the delaware river on the other side @ milford bluffshttps://www.njhiking.com/milford-bluffs/but its kinda annoying to get to - the last bit is a very steep scoot onto a narrow cliffy edge to get the full view - a guy who was there told me there's a less annoying view on the other side so basically when you get to the ridgeline (you start kinda at the bottom of the hill and walk up the hill to the bluff that's along the edge of the delaware)and make a left for one view and a right for the otherits on alltrails but I don't think the alltrails directions actually take you directly to the views just most of the way and you have to figure it out yourself council cup is a short hike to a great (180degree) view of the susquehanna with a nuclear power plant in the shot at some angleshttps://www.alltrails.com/explore/recording/council-cup-overlook--2?u=mIf you want hard this is hard:https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pennsylvania/smiths-knob-trailAlso boggs ridge west is hard too https://endlessmountains.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/west-boggs-run-vista-sproul-state-forest/if you go before feb 1 (whenever they close the seasonal hunting gate that's now open) you can park RIGHT at the atv trail and I wouldn't recommend going further (on the main road) unless you have a really narrow vehicle that likes mudbut the atv trail is kinda pointless I felt, not in great shape there's no trail for this one just follow the road until you are lined up perpendicular to the overlook (paste the coordinates into google maps and save it as a point) and then just walk towards itthere's also a view on the other side and you can do both in one day if you are extra frisky
>>2846875>planning to move the family to the Rockies or PNW after my work contract is up in 3 yearsSweet
>>2846903Thanks for the reply. I never heard of council cup, gonna try and wrangle the kids to go tomorrow. But this kinda proves my point. Everything is 2hrs of driving away from me. I gotta look more into western PA before I flat out move out west. I do like PA but after hiking and in general quality of life in the western states its really hard not to want to move back.
>>2847408I found it on Alltrails community section before they yoinked map access to that. If your kids can handle not being dumb near the edges of steep steep cliffs it's great, easy short walk. There's a mansion in nearby Berwick I recommend combining it in a visit with (mansion has tours).If you want to be closer to mountains I'd recommend State College, Williamsport, or Wellsboro. A lot of people move to Wellsboro to be near mountains because it's a decent sized town (not big mind you) that's very close to a lot of hiking and gorges. There's some overlooks on the Susquehanna or the hike to Hawk Rock north of Harrisburg but the nicest stuff is in the north central-ish part of the state for the most part and well worth a long day trip or an overnight if you can swing it. Also, what makes you think accessing mountains in the mountain west doesn't involve lots of driving too? Plus, there, what you aren't factoring in is that the climate is much more extreme and gets freezing much earlier in the year and stays cold longer with significant snow and ice at higher elevations.
>>2847410>what makes you think accessing mountains in the mountain west doesn't involve lots of driving too? Plus, there, what you aren't factoring in is that the climate is much more extreme and gets freezing much earlier in the year and stays cold longer with significant snow and ice at higher elevations.Deciduous schizo seething. Somethings never change. lol
We had clear blues sky 5 minutes earlier.
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Gammon Ranges N.P South Australia. These mountain ranges are 600 million years old.
>>2847500g'day mate
>>2847517>mountainHills. Those are hills, mate.
>>2847625Maybe, you would be too if you'd been weathered for 600 million years
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A bridge built by real /out/ists
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A quiet little oak grove in central California where i found a range of mushrooms.
>>2849553Didn't see too many edible mushrooms although i did find this bolete. But i didn't pick it since i was already on my way out and it seemed silly just to pick one mushroom. Shall be going back tomorrow to look for more though.
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