The Great Outdoors Thread

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I've been meaning to make this thread a while. All hikers, climbers and campers gather round. Let this be our talking grounds for all activities nature based. Post pictures of your latest adventure. Talk about your latest paycheck wasting haul from REI, Cabella's or Bass Pro Shops.

here are some pictures from my last serious hike in November up Mt San Jacinto. 10 Mile hike through freezing snow:

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I haven't done crap in a while. :( Nothing real serious in a couple years in fact, though I did some hiking in Vermont over the summer. I'll see if there's any pictures.
 
i went on a skiing trip to winter park over the weekend. it was swell. pictures later. previous to that, a couple things with the scout troop i'm involved in. nothing major. i cant find people to do any hiking/backpacking with
~gR~
 
the only time i enjoyed myself in a forest/mountain type place was when i got head from this girl in 9th grade
 
Awesome thread. I'll surely be posting pics here before long.

My next goal is actually to do some fishing, maybe this coming weekend. I haven't fished since I was a kid. I bought all this gear for it near the end of last summer, and was planning a trip with some friends, but it ended up massively raining that weekend so we decided to cancel, and then the weather just got cold and shitty shortly after that, so it never happened.
 
That sucks, vihris. My girlfriend is way into fishing, and we go every now and then off one of the piers near where we live.

My next trips planned are to this low level foresty area called the Big Santa Anita Loop and then a trip out to the desert to explore The Devil's Punchbowl (for the second time). Won't be for a couple weeks because I'm goin to Lake Tahoe for Spring break, though
 
We go floating on the river once it warms up. About a 4-5 hour float, we put a couple of coolers on their own rafts and then use 550 cord to loosely tie everyone together and shove off. One big amorphous tangle of floats and tubes and drinking friends.

I don't get to go camping as much as I would like to but that should change. Plan on going on some hunting trips this fall. Sighted in my scope this past weekend.
 
I haven't really taken a hike in a long time. Last summer I went up a few one to two mile mountains, but that's it really. Also went canoing a bit in some lakes, for a day. I love camping though.
 
Now is probably the best time to walk in the woods in Maine, because the snow isn't up to your knees, it's warm, but still snow to make it feel more awesome
 
snow hiking is nice, but it can definitely be a bitch...especially if you're postholing (walking through knee deep snow with no trail), not to mention physically exhausting
 
For some reason I always find skeletons of sheep near this farm by the woods across the street. It's weird because the farm is just a wheat farm. Sometimes the remains still have wool and the pieces of flesh are distant and separated.
 
I used to do a lot of camping and hiking when I was with the Boy Scouts but now I am usually limited to doing outdoors stuff once a year. Probably my biggest and most enjoyable outdoor experience was nearly two weeks of backpacking in 2006 at the Philmont Scout Ranch which is in northern New Mexico. It was a struggle but it ended up being awesome. Before we went to Philmont we acclimated to the altitude in the Colorado Springs area and saw this cool red rock formation called the Garden of the Gods an we visited the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Here are some pics:

On top of a mountain. I am front right
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Setting up camp at Great Sand Dunes. Yes I am the one epic failing
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I wish I had more but most of the photos of the trip were not uploaded.
 
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