The NEW Post Your Campsite/gear/knife/hiking/anything Outdoorsy Pic Thread!

[lambertiana]

I'm on my way over right now...I'll bring the bacon, you supply the tomatoes. Those would be great for BLTs or burgers.

 

[HikingMano]

Come on over!

My GF and I have the big boys slated for burgers :thumbup:

 

[Myal]

Got this ugly thing for my cousin
He is a chef , short guy carries a big knife .
He knows kitchen knives , and carries a sweet one , but is kinda painfully patient when relatives give him presents of knives that would get you kicked out of any self respecting kitchen ...
so I figured this would at least spin him out some

He can rave for hours about his dream knives , hand made hi carbon steel , pretty solid .. one piece handles so they meet aussie health regs ..

I figure this one meets most of his criteria and is just useless enough to him that itll be about the perfect gift .

I put a shaving sharp edge on it too , just for kicks .

 

[OwenM]

Cool, Owen :thumbup: Nice to have pics to go along with memories.

I know! Wish I had a lot more. Obsessive picture taking is a more recent thing, though I've calmed down quite a bit the last couple months.
Finding some, but my outdoor photos from the days of film are few and far between. A camera just wasn't something we thought of as mandatory gear back then(probably 'cause we didn't have internet forums to show our pics to everybody on, and developing film cost money!).


Same two guys at the Big Tree in Sipsey Wilderness in 2003. We used to make a trip there every winter, and every time it would be the coldest week of the year, and we would never see another person.

Camillus had shipped the first run just in time for Christmas '01, so this was the 1 year anniversary of my BK7's first use:

Moron. That log was covered with a thin layer of ice. My soles were worn smooth, and I crawled across, rather than chance falling in the river.

 

[HikingMano]

[...]Finding some, but my outdoor photos from the days of film are few and far between. A camera just wasn't something we thought of as mandatory gear back then(probably 'cause we didn't have internet forums to show our pics to everybody on, and developing film cost money!).[...]

That's the truth. I'm young enough that digital cameras were just starting to make an appearance when I was in high school (big and bulky floppy disk running things that they were), but I never owned a camera and the folks who did have cameras (film or digital) never really thought to bring them along outside. At least, not the folks who weren't intersted in photography in and of itself. Nowadays, I don't hit the trail without the camera. And yeah, ever since I joined this forum, pics are as much for sharing as they are for my own reminiscing down the line.

Sometimes, I find that I go overboard too. Miss being present in the moment because I'm trying to capture the moment...

[...]Moron. That log was covered with a thin layer of ice. My soles were worn smooth, and I crawled across, rather than chance falling in the river.

Prudent!

 

[ISKski]

well aslong as we're posting graden pics here are somethings i picked between today and yesterday, halapenos - cherry tomatoes - a cucumber - and a walnut in its husk, i discovered that there are several HUGE black walnut trees in the area, and we had a big rain the other day blowing down several walnuts (usually the squirrels get to them first).. & there is a better shot of a few more...

Walnuts in the husk^

 

[HikingMano]

Nice! How does one husk a walnut?


Few more pics from our lil container garden:

 

[Galeocerdoshark]

Cool, Owen :thumbup: Nice to have pics to go along with memories.

My contribution for today, tomatoes right off the vine

*images of big tomatoes*

Those are some nice looking tomatoes!
However, I raise you... (Buck Vantage Pro -not the small one- as size comparison. There just hàs to be a knife in the picture on bladeforums;-)).

Picture 1 and 2 is the same tomatoe. There are several bigger ones in our greenhouse this year. They just need to gain some more colour and it's party time!

 

[HikingMano]

Wow! That's a beast! :thumbup: Heirloom, I'm guessing?

 

[ISKski]

Nice! How does one husk a walnut?

Well I just cut them open, and the walnut is just right there in the middle, i usually cut mine like you'll see, -- the reason the are called "black walnut" is because you can make a very dark nearly black dye from the husk, you can see i cut three slices out of it, and as the juices oxidize they gradually get darker and darker... pretty cool
be careful not to get the juices all over your hands, it takes several days to get the color off, and i use "gojo" at work a few times a day and it still stays on there.. in the second pic, the fresh cut side is usually much lighter right as you cut it, but between the time i cut it and got the camera ready again it had already started to blacken up..

 

[HikingMano]

Very cool, thanks for the info! :thumbup: I've never seen walnuts in the husk, and I never knew you could get a dye from it. I believe we have Black Walnuts here in Northern CA, I'll have to keep my eye out next time.

 

[lambertiana]

HikingMano - There are close relatives to the Black Walnut here - Northern California Walnut and Southern California Walnut. The trees look very similar, and the nuts are also very similar. I had a Black Walnut in my yard in upstate NY, and I can vouch for the staining ability of the husks. I would imagine that the Northern California Walnut would be the same, since the nuts look so similar.

 

[HikingMano]

Thanks Lambertiana. I'll look for them the next time I'm out and about.

Now that I think about it, I would hazard a guess that "Walnut Creek" (a city east of Oakland) wasn't a randomly chosen name. I'll have to pay closer attention to the trees there the next time I'm in that area.

ETA: I've been thinking on this further, wondering why that fruit seemed to look so familiar to me even though I know I haven't seen one in person. Turns out I had seen pictures of Southern California Walnut before, back when the "Name that Plant" thread that ran for a while here in W&SS. I was even the person who guessed that plant ... Just never seen ones in husk in person. Apparently I also read about people being able to make dye from it, just didn't remember that part.

Ok, here is a small tree or large shrub that is native to So. California. It could be single or multi trunked. The Chumash Indians-Channel Islands/Ventura to Santa Barbara Co.ate the "fruit" off of this tree. Hope this is not too easy. It was a good refresher for me.

 

[Galeocerdoshark]

Wow! That's a beast! :thumbup: Heirloom, I'm guessing?

Yep! Marmande Heirloom tomatoes. Véry good taste, a lot of 'flesh' and not so much water. Although we have some watery species as well. They all have their own charmes.

 

[HikingMano]

Good stuff! My Yellow Pear cherry tomatoes are heirloom, but I've got to say, my favorite tomato variety so far is this Sun Sugar (a hybrid similar to SunGold) we have. Next year, I'm going to try one of those big boy heirlooms :thumbup: The Big Beef is quite vigorous and produces some fine decently meaty, uniform, nice slicer tomatoes...but the flavor is no where on the level of some heirlooms I've tried.

 

[Markus77]

The kids is to small for long hikes, so we just make day trips now. But we have done two days of fishing and one day of picking mushrooms and berries.
I forget to bring the camera most of the time, to bad, because I was out walking for two days in the woods in the north of Sweden, could have gotten some great photo there.
But here are some mobilphonecamera pictures of fishing this weekend.

 

[OwenM]

Going through pics I haven't really looked at. Most I've got this summer are from rock climbing.
Did go to Gatlinburg with my parents in April, but my ankle was wrapped up and in a brace, so I didn't get to do any real hiking. Decided even the little 10 mile overnighter I had hoped to do was too much. Loved the family time, though.
This was from the trail from Gatlinburg to the Ranger station:

Near one of the picnic areas(water was...rather chilly):

I did have a UFO sighting at one of the roadside overlooks:

 

[OwenM]

Sometimes, I find that I go overboard too. Miss being present in the moment because I'm trying to capture the moment...

Oh yeah. I am not much of a photographer, nor do I have a good camera. Stopped taking so many pics lately, because I realized I was ruining some of those precious moments by screwing with settings, and struggling to get a decent pic, while cursing the camera the whole time.
btw, where is your avatar pic from? That's a really nice scene.

 

[HikingMano]

Exactly :thumbup:

The avatar pic is a view of Lake Tahoe from the Rubicon Trail (not the 4x4 trail). Nice stroll with great views :thumbup:. Full size:

ETA: Guess I forgot to add these more recent pics to this thread:

[...]And, some pics from Big Sur camping this past July 4th weekend. I really need to get myself a good camera for outdoor photography. Sunny pics are virtually impossible with the GF's P&S...parts of the image are always either over-exposed or under exposed.

Creek right next to our campsite.

Views along the coast on the Vincente Flat Trail.

Immaculate ocean and weather that day.

No snakes, quite a few lizards basking.

This was one highlight of the trip. As we were driving on the cliffs along the coast after our hike on sunday, on the way to check out some beaches, I saw these dolphins playing in the waves. The pod was riding the waves, and then popping out the back of the waves as each petered out. It was an amazing and thoroughly entertaining spectacle. They were quite a distance away, so most of my pics didn't turn out. Here's one catching a dolphin popping out the back of a little wave.

[...]

 

[Galeocerdoshark]

Good stuff! My Yellow Pear cherry tomatoes are heirloom, but I've got to say, my favorite tomato variety so far is this Sun Sugar (a hybrid similar to SunGold) we have. Next year, I'm going to try one of those big boy heirlooms :thumbup: The Big Beef is quite vigorous and produces some fine decently meaty, uniform, nice slicer tomatoes...but the flavor is no where on the level of some heirlooms I've tried.

I've heard of that variety before, I've even tasted it in the past but I can't recall it. A good idea for next year to plant some of those Sun Sugars then!

Today, it was time to cut off the biggest tomato in our greenhouse, it's all nice and red now.
I decided to weigh it and the result was 1.580 kg. No world record, but still a heavy motherf*cker!