Get Your Hike On! - Picture Thread

[FL shaver]

Albuquerque, NM March 2011
While my wife was in a seminar, I spent a few hours in the Sandias. La Luz Trail!

I had traveled from SW Florida.

Post holing up to my hips!
Steep hiking near the crest! Beautiful!

 

[Heron]

This was taken near Lake Blanche, just a 30 minute drive and 3 mile hike from downtown Salt Lake City.
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This is the Grotto waterfall, near Payson, UT.

Little Wildhorse Canyon, near Goblin Valley State Park, UT (sorry, they're blurry cell phone pics):

 

[Groat]

I've been on a couple hikes during the past week or so. The first was extremely rainy and foggy. I didn't take my camera for fear of it getting soaked, though there wasn't much to take a picture of. Yesterday's day hike, however, yielded this beauty: It's at Mary's Rock in Shenandoah National Park.

 

[troymclure]

see the boots under the hammock? i woke up to one gone, stolen by a bear.

 

[andrew98]

see the boots under the hammock? i woke up to one gone, stolen by a bear.

So did you hike out sans boots?

-Andy

 

[bbauer09]

Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

 

[andrew98]

I lived in the UK from 2009-2012. These are photos of a weekend backpacking trip a friend and I did in the Lake District. If you've never been, drop whatever you're doing and go there now. It's lovely this time of year.











We did a lot of hiking, mountain biking, and climbing/bouldering during our time there. Wales, Scotland, and the north of England are amazing places to play outdoors. We could have happily lived there for the rest of our lives. We tried to, in fact, but there's that whole job nonsense that everyone tells you you're supposed to have.

-Andy

 

[troymclure]

So did you hike out sans boots?

-Andy

yep. 2.5 miles along the river in the water shoes i brought for fishing.

 

[andrew98]

yep. 2.5 miles along the river in the water shoes i brought for fishing.

Good thing you had something to wear and didn't have far to go.

-Andy

 

[troymclure]

yea, i had to pay and wait 8 hours to get my truck brought to the campground. the ranger there told me it was likely a bear that took my boot, as i unthinkingly kicked some fish guts/carcass into the river.

 

[JoshuaNY]

My pictures are not as spectacular, but I got back a few weeks ago from Shenandoah National Park. Here are a couple of my better shots.

 

[Dirk-Lerxst-Pratt]

Here's a shot of King Ravine from my hike a few weeks ago. I hiked up the ridge you see in the foreground to Mt. Adams, the tallest peak in the picture. Circled down to the other side of the ravine. This was my lunch spot. Hope to get out this coming weekend and do some big miles.

 

[Samurai-5]

Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas Hiking "Icebox Canyon"

 

[Dirk-Lerxst-Pratt]

Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas Hiking "Icebox Canyon"

I hiked there. Nice place to escape Las Vegas.

 

[Toothpick]

one of the waterfalls at Starved Rock State Park in Illinois. Earlier this year. There are about 3-4 other great waterfalls there but the trail that led here was the only trail open that day. Heavy rains made the other trails dangerous and they were closed.

 

[buddydog]

Some more New Mexico

 

[Dirk-Lerxst-Pratt]

Finally got a chance to get out again yesterday. Went and did a loop of the Baldfaces, which are some peaks on the eastern edge of the WMNF. They straddle the NH/ME line. Usually less crowded than the Whites. Lots of above treeline hiking with a nice breeze. Below the ridge it was like hiking in the jungle.

View from just under the South Baldface summit. Carter/Wildcat range in the background with the afternoon T-storms forming over Mt. Washington behind them.


Looking back towards the ridge I ascended, with North Baldface to the left of the giant cairn.


Looking back up to South Baldface from Bald Knob below it.


Where I'm heading. Down.


The great reward. Emerald Pool. Water temp was in the 50's. I lasted about 90 seconds. These rock jumpers have a higher pain threshold than me.

 

[Mad Man]

Abandoned mine shaft from c1880s. Blackwood, Victorian goldfields.

 

[Mad Man]

Stumbled across this bugger out near Mt Ida, Heathcote a while back...

 

[Mad Man]

Another one for the wildlife fans - this from Werribee Gorge, about an hour west of Melbourne.
The closest I ever got to a koala in the wild - shot with an iPhone (yep, I got to within about 3 yards).
This was last August I think...