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Post by Steelernation on Aug 20, 2018 20:23:37 GMT -5
Well nei asked for photos so here’s some from my summer trip. I’ll try to do one for each day unless I was just driving or visiting family. From a dinosaur tracksite in SE Colorado. The largest one in North America! The things that look like potholes are tracks, also some that look like giant bird tracks:  Next day was a stunning drive to Moab through Colorado. Didn’t get many good pics since I was driving but here’s a pic of Blue Mesa Lake. Something special about lakes in arid settings.  First day in Moab area, hiked to horseshoe canyon to see some cool rock art.  Goblin Valley State Park:  Landscape Arch in Arches NP:  Did a hike in Canyonlands NP to this stunning viewpoint:  Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP (just did the scenic drive here):  Did a hike near Crested Butte, CO on the way to Boulder. Great scenery and a lovely town:  Medicine Bow NF got off to a great start:  Amazing hike the next day too, this one a nice 9 miles:  Climbed 12,025’ medicine bow peak the next day. Awesome! Hard to pick just one, really stunning hike!  And still amazing the next day:  First day of my backcountry in Yellowstone. Think this day was about 10 miles:  Third day of my backcountry on the way out:  Yellowstone:  Did a 14 mike hike the next day. Saw lots of thermal features including this little geyser:  View from the beartooth highway leaving Yellowstone. FUCKING EPIC DRIVE!  |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 21, 2018 0:06:40 GMT -5
Steelernation damn that last shot is gorgeous!
Looking more and more like Autumn here (took this pic on Saturday):
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Post by Babu on Aug 21, 2018 17:59:06 GMT -5
This plant looks very exotic. Does anyone know what it is?  Normally all the bunnies here are hares with freakishly long front legs, and they're only up at night. Today I saw what looks to be a rabbit (it had a lot less creepy proportions at least), and it was up and about in the middle of the day.  Some areas still seem to look a bit dry  I found this pretty huge ash (Umean standards), but it doesn't have any seeds or flowers or anything. Does anyone know why that is? I've noticed that all adult oaks have incredibly few acorns, like you have to look for up to 10 seconds to find a single one, if you can even find one. Saw a large hazel tree today without a single nut. Is it because Umeå is too cold and subpolar, or is it the drought, or is it the rarity of the trees keeping them from pollinating properly?  This has got to be guerilla gardening or something. There isn't a single adult maple in the vicinity, yet in thus particular spot there are like 100 maple saplings in a 15x15m area. Did someone just throw a basket full of maple seeds there or something??  This is the closest to the southern Swedish forests I've ever seen here in Umeå, with a bunch of broadleafs with relatively thick trunks. Normally, broadleaf forests are just a bunch of thin spindly trees. These weren't. I thought it was kinda amazing. I hate the forests here. They're all goat willow though which isn't very southern.  |
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Post by urania93 on Aug 22, 2018 3:49:43 GMT -5
This plant looks very exotic. Does anyone know what it is? To me it looks like a ricinus plant. Quite a lot of people are planting them around my village at the moment, because it is said to keep moles away from gardens. |
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Post by Babu on Aug 22, 2018 4:40:57 GMT -5
Thanks. So in the Mediterranean, they're trees, and here they die each winter but grow quickly enough to be nice and big again come summer.
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Post by Hiromant on Aug 23, 2018 4:48:24 GMT -5
Signs of fall are starting to show.  |
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Post by Babu on Aug 23, 2018 6:31:10 GMT -5
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Post by knot on Aug 24, 2018 3:11:33 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on Aug 24, 2018 9:10:57 GMT -5
Baba's tree is probably Manchurian walnut. We have some of those in the arboretum, but it seems to be a Japanese angelica tree. |
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Post by alex992 on Aug 24, 2018 12:27:22 GMT -5
Took some pics around sunset yesterday, not the best quality pics but the colors were very nice:   |
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Post by Babu on Aug 24, 2018 19:03:31 GMT -5
This is the most grotesque oak I've seen.   I still don't know what those giant ass leaves are. If you want to look at leaves just zoom in because this is a 40mp image.  I'm 14 and this is deep  |
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Post by urania93 on Aug 25, 2018 5:18:50 GMT -5
Yesterday we did the last mountain trip of the summer (the last because I have to return back to work and because the weather up in there is starting to be not so pleasant). At first we went to the Mont Cenis lake again [1]. This time it was actually kinda cool, less than 15°C and strong wind, so we didn't stay for long.  ^ those clouds looking toward Savoy and all that wind made me think that foehn wind was approaching. Now we are having some sort of foehn wind, even if not as strong as the winter one, so I was not completely wrong.  ^ this was the view looking toward Italy instead.  ^there were quite a lot of clouds on the tops of mountains, it is quite common during windy days. So that up in there it was too cool for people who have spent the last two months and an half with much more summer-like temperatures, we moved down of about 500 m to the little village of Moncenisio, which is really close to to the previous place and which is also the Italian municipality with the lowest number of inhabitants (28 inhabitants). The village is actually quite characteristic, those stones houses are really typical in this part of the Alps.    ^ this dog was really friendly. There is also a good view around there, and also another lake.      |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 25, 2018 13:35:05 GMT -5
Hasn't looked like this since April  |
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Post by ral31 on Aug 25, 2018 17:40:31 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on Aug 25, 2018 18:43:10 GMT -5
Went biking through our local hill forest. Do you prefer our deciduous forests?   Or our pine forests?  And here's a boring video. Watch at highest resolution and 2x speed unless you wanna die of boredom. Don't know why I'm even wasting your time with this. I guess it's late and I have no inhibitions. |
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Post by nei on Aug 26, 2018 0:28:33 GMT -5
Well nei asked for photos so here’s some from my summer trip. I’ll try to do one for each day unless I was just driving or visiting family. nice photos and nice rock art. Desert were cool, not usually scenery I'm typically into. Mountains don't look like the steepest of western mountains, more of an open grassland landscape with rugged peaks. Nice road bike road: how hard to follow was the scramble up Medicine Bow peak? that was the scramble you mentioned, right? Looks like a lot of loose rock. Yellowstone backcountry looks familiar, but better than i saw on my trip |
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Post by chesternz on Aug 26, 2018 1:40:33 GMT -5
Just a couple of (probably over-edited) sunset shots I took recently:   |
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Post by ilmc90 on Aug 26, 2018 9:00:57 GMT -5
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Post by Steelernation on Aug 26, 2018 11:55:26 GMT -5
how hard to follow was the scramble up Medicine Bow peak? that was the scramble you mentioned, right? Looks like a lot of loose rock. Yellowstone backcountry looks familiar, but better than i saw on my trip I definitely had to scramble and use my hands a lot but it wasn’t particularly hard. There was a large section of rockfields in the middle and the summit was basically a big rock pile but most of the rocks were large and not too unstable, much easier than scree. There were lots of cairns and signposts so the trail wasn’t hard to follow. The backcountry I did in Yellowstone was in the northwest part of the park, the trailhead was between mammoth and Gardiner, MT. What part of the park were you in? |
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Post by Donar on Aug 28, 2018 9:04:18 GMT -5
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