2018 NH Summer/SH Winter Photo Thread

I like that bike path. Nice turquoise water, too. Doesn't look like 53°N

View from train in Sweden


View from train in Norway


Our first hike was in Svolvær. Overcast with clouds at 150M ASL though. Walking on mountain ridges with 30m visibility where if you look down the overhang, all you can see is whiteness straight down was a bit sketchy.



As we started making our way down to the Svolværgeita (geita=goat), the clouds started to disperse and rise a bit, so we got to see stuff.


The day after that we went and checked out a beach. Pretty cold though at about 16'C and windy on the beach in Ramberg. Really beautiful though.




Then we hiked up a nearby mountain to the flakstadtind. The fjord there was absolutely absurd. Here's a panorama.


After having taken a swim in a lake in the mountain valley at 350m asl (it was warmer up in the valley than down by the beach, and because there was no glacier run off, the water was surprisingly comfortable to swim in. Really refreshing) we continued up the actual summit (only like 550m ASL). We lost the trail and chose a super steep path. Very exhausting, and pretty dangerous.


Panorama from the top.


Honestly the view was better down where we took our first stop, but the top wasn't bad either.


The day after that, we hiked up Reinebringen. Absolutely surreal view of Reine there.


We continued a little further along this pretty cool and slightly scary ridgeline. (Previous image was taken from the right-most peak)


Then we got to this place with a 100-300m vertical drop with slight overhang. I got some pretty nauseating vertigo from doing what my friend on the picture was doing.


And here's the last midnight we spent in Norway.

Damn Babs, as much of an irritating little gronk you are at times, that's the best album I've ever seen on here

Gotta visit that part of Norway sometime, I just have to.

jajajajajajajajajajajajajajajaja bro, Lund maded sexier beaches than Lofoten maded.

Just got back from trip to subtropique Washington D.C. 

Rained pretty much all day Saturday when I arrived with temps 69F - 71F during afternoon. Other days were in 80's with more scattered rain. There was a heavy downpour I walked thru Sunday afternoon on way to museum and got soaked. A couple of lightning strikes with that event, but didn't hear that much thunder over the trip.

Alexandria, VA before landing at airport.



























Saw areas of brown grass. This is at Arlington Cemetery. Guess it didn't recover yet from hot, dry conditions the first half of July.





Storm delayed flight home at airport in Arlington yesterday evening.



Interesting cloud formations above storms in Virginia



Highway in Houston area.



Sky over eastern Houston area on flight back to Alexandria, LA. Glows from refineries. 

Yesterday. Temp: 36°C. Dew point: 13°C. Desert indice: 215556533.





Today. Temp: 24°C. Dew point: 20°C. High: 37°C. Monsoon indice: 11.





Holy fuck these are beautiful! I need to go back there and see it under clear skies instead of the sideays rain I got. 

My village this weekend is invaded by a lot of people because of a free camping + free music + cheap beer event. 


That's the central street of the village, normally you can hardly see anybody around.

The camping area. Everywhere you look at, you see tents and campers around.









Some panoramic pictures of the roads around the village. We are actually having a quite wet summer in comparison with the last few years, so that's the greenest scenery you can see around here in this period of the year.

















Bonus pictures:

That's my youngest cat resting in a cool place:




While this one is my uncle's turtle. We found it some years ago wandering in the vegetable garden and since then it lives in the garden.








Edit: I've just found a drone picture with an aerial view above the main camping area (evidently the picture is not mine):

some July photos I didn't get around to posting yet. July 7 after the heatwave ended. Greenfield, MA







life advice from rural 'Murica…





clothes drying in rural America





up at 1500 feet



beaver enhanced dam







hi there



hills are bigger here, do they count as mountains?





think that's Mt. Snow



in Readsboro, Vermont



railroad tunnel over the Hoosac Range



railroad bridge in the other direction



not very sturdy road bridge



Deerfield River rapids



placid Deerfield




back in the hills



Deerfield in Shelburne Falls







Mt. Snow again from the Patten



The Patten from below



Connecticut River at sunset

My favorite tree



The grass looks terrible. I bet almost no place in Europe is safe from it right now.