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

[HikingMano]

Good stuff guys :thumbup: Rotte, that is a cool shot! :thumbup:

Owen, gla you dodged a potentially bad situation again.

A few from the phone so far, others from P&S will have to wait until I get back home to my computer:

 

[Galeocerdoshark]

I had yet another fossilhunting trip today. My fossilbuddy and me got up early to be ahead of traffic and ahead of the daytime heat. We arrived at the small exploitation at 7.30AM and continued our search up until noon, or maybe a bit later. We noticed that the fossiliferous layer was only 20cm beneath the surface at a certain spot. However, after prospecting that spot for a couple of minutes, some of the machine operators showed up and told us we had to leave that place since they were going to start cleaning that level to make it ready for a large order (it's a sand and rock exploitation). Bad start of the day. We had already seen were other fossilhunters had been before us. The fossiliferous layer is situated approx. 20-30 cm beneath a layer of solid sandstone that is atleast 20cm thick, even thicker in some places. The layer had been scooped out along the exposed rock. We tried to remove some of those sandstone plates, but they wouldn't budge, so we started digging underneath them. Quite dangerous, because the sandstone, covered by the weight of a metre of sand gives away from time to time. The best advice is to NOT go underneath that sandstone layer with your hands or body, so that's what we did, we only used our shovels underneath the sandstone layer, so we would not expose any limbs to the danger. We cleared about 8 metres in width and one, sometimes more, metres in depth beneath the sandstone layer. One of us was constantly scooping the sand up with the shovel into the sieves, the other was constantly sieving. The stuff that remains on top of the sieves of 5mm mesh width and 2mm mesh width was taken home (and I just finished washing that residue).
We found LOTS of teeth, but since they come from a transgressive layer, most of them are worn, although there are beauties among them as well.
I only just finished washing the residue, so I'll have to spend the next couple of days looking through the dried residue with care.

Enjoy the pics, and thanks for reading.

This is a close up of the fossiliferous layer. It's sandy, with reddish inclusions (oxidized sands, mostly). Often you'll see broken shells as well.

The end result of our excavation. We cleaned all of the material beneath the sandstone bank that was safe enough to extract. On the left side we stopped because the fossiliferous layer was getting thin and unproductive. On the right side we had to stop because we ran into the road on which the trucks pass.

This is the other side of the quarry, that is now going to be used as a landfill. That really blows because I had the chance to prospect this area as well, and the fossiliferous layer contained A LOT more shells on this side, which would probably have resulted in more vertebrate remains as well. We weren't allowed to search here, bummer!

Some of the finds...

Obligatory knife pic. The BK14 is on top of the residue we took home with us. This is the stuff that doesn't fall through the meshes of the sieve.

 

[vortex]

I missed this thread for a month or so and I spent the last three evenings with browsing through all of the great pics. :thumbup:

Last week we spent our holiday in Slovenia and we went for two light hikings (as my girlfriend wished).
During the first one we reached the Vogel summit (1922m/6306') near Lake Bohinj in Triglav NP (Julian Alps).

We reached our starting point (1535m/5036') by cable car from the lake and after a short walk we started our hike:

We stumbled upon this little fellow (adder/vipera berus) on the trail:

We had an excellent hiking weather.

The last 15 min. to the summit:

and the summit stamp:

The panorama from the summit:

Zoomed:

Having a snack on the summit is always the best part.

My companions:

The trail downwards:

We were lazy so we used this ski lift for the last section back to the cable car station:

Zoomed:

The cable car with Lake Bohinj in the background:

 

[lambertiana]

Galeocerdoshark - paleontology is one of my true passions, I'd love to go to that spot with you.

Vortex - Beautiful pictures, looks like a great area to explore.

For a change of pace, instead of simple scenery pictures, I thought I would post the pictures I took of my campsites on my nine day trip in Sequoia/Kings Canyon. They ranged from middle elevation fir forest to high alpine.
Night 1 - 7700'

Night 2 - 9200'

Night 3 - 9600'

Night 4 - 10,000'

Night 5 - 10,600'

Night 6 - 11,400'

Night 7 - 10,400'

Night 8 - 7700'

 

[vortex]

Lambertiana: Excellent campsites! :thumbup: My favourites are night 5, 6 and 7. What kind of method do you use for water purification? I hope we can go for a multiday hike in September too.


A few pics of our second hike in the Julian Alps.

around 1800 m (5905'):

zoomed:

that summit in the background is around 2860 m (9383'):

We reached our summit (Debela Pec 2014 m 6607'). Here is the summitlog and the stamp:

and the panorama:

Backward we passed by a herd of alpine cows

The award of the day:

 

[HikingMano]

GS, thanks for sharing another excavation trip with us. I hope you'll be able to find other sites that aren't slated for development or landfill use.

Vortex, Gorgeous! Looks like a stunning area, and you captured it so well! :thumbup: Thanks for sharing those! Is that District 9 knife related to the movie?

John, 8 nights... Iʻm so envious. Your camp on the 5th night is so idyllic :thumbup:

Back from Hawai‘i, will add a few pics later.

 

[vortex]

Vortex, Gorgeous! Looks like a stunning area, and you captured it so well! :thumbup: Thanks for sharing those! Is that District 9 knife related to the movie?

Thank you!
That District 9 is my new favourite heavy duty folder. I couldn't find any detailed info about it on the net. Maybe alien technology?

 

[lambertiana]

Vortex - The Julian Alps are the kind of place I would love to explore. Very nice mountains. They look like they are mostly limestone/dolomite.

I don't use any water purification in the Sierra high country, it is not needed. In most of those places there is very little human activity above me, and the water is clean. On that nine day trip, we only saw other people on five of those days, and even then it wasn't a large number of people.

Night 5 was in my favorite spot on the trip, and was the reason for the trip. The route was planned around the goal of reaching that spot. Here are a few pictures of that lake and the drainage immediately above it:

 

[HikingMano]

Just gorgeous! :thumbup:

 

[HikingMano]

A few pics from my trip back home this past week. The weather was perfect on O‘ahu. Enjoy!


Some shots from a walk we did behind my GFʻs fatherʻs house, in Pūpūkea. Thereʻs this military/emergency access road up in the hills there; itʻs really weird to walk up this dirt-road/trail and then have it turn into this well-paved road with guard rails in the middle of nowhere.

Good food on a good beach with nice views is always nice

Didnʻt get many pics of beach time, since I was most often in the water. I need to pick up a waterproof camera one of these days.

Here are a few shots from a hike I attempted, but due to a variety factors was unable to complete. The Pu‘u Manamana loop is known as one of the most dangerous trails on the island, with scrambling/bouldering on crumbly rock and crossing narrow knife ridgelines. Due to miscommunication, I ended up waiting for a couple others who wanted to join me in the last minute. I had intended to start around 8 or 9 to give myself lots of daylight to make the descent safely, but we didnʻt end up starting until around 12:30 :grumpy: That probably would have been enough time to do it before we lost all light, but the other factor working against us was the wind that day. As the day progressed, it became increasingly gusty. I did not want to attempt scrambling unknown class 2-4 terrain (the exposed knife ridges in particular) under such windy conditions. Anyway, even though truncated (we ended up making a shorter loop out of it, rather than coming back the same way we ascended) it was still an immensely enjoyable hike. I look forward to completing it the next time Iʻm back home.

The start of the trail is a bit tricky. Even more so when many of the ribbons were ripped or trimmed, much to my annoyance....

The climb begins.

You are rewarded with views pretty quickly, as the ascent is pretty steep.

‘Ōhi‘a.

We got almost to the top of Manamana ridge, where you then begin a ridge traverse to the summit at around 2,027ʻ.

Looking back down the trail.

View from our turnaround point. This is Kahana Bay.

Kahana Valley, with some rain sweeping across it.

Ka‘a‘awa. Films and shows like Jurassic Park and Lost used footage shot in Ka‘a‘awa Valley.

I liked this cool little wooded area we had to crouch-walk through.

Hereʻs a fun Praying Mantis we came across when we took a break on one of the little peaks for lunch. This little guy knew no fear; while trying to get a couple good macro shots of him, he aggressively scuttled forward on the rock and then jumped on my hand. Crazy lil guy.

Trunk of the Hala tree. Lauhala, the leaves of the hala tree, is used by native Hawaiians in weaving and thatching. None of my pics of the leaves turned out for some reason. All blurry.

Hereʻs a vid from that hike, taken partway up the ridge:

[video=youtube;0TqKGyVhbDY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TqKGyVhbDY[/video]

Iʻm surprised at how few pics I took, for being there a week. I did spend a good deal of the time on the beach and in the water though Anyway, last couple:

Sunset from Waikiki.

I think this is a Gold Dust Day Gecko. Not 100% though. Not a native species, but pretty nonetheless. This guy was too shy and moved too quickly for me to snap a good pic.

Cutlery for the trip:

I ordered the Mora and had it shipped there to meet me, but it didnʻt arrive until the last day of the trip . The SAK Hiker and Micra did well enough for the trip though :thumbup: I usually only have carry-ons when I fly home, so I figured Iʻd leave these three on O‘ahu for future visits. Previously, Iʻd check bags or mail knives back and forth.

Hope you guys liked the pics!

 

[Galeocerdoshark]

Amazing pictures guys!

Vortex, I really have to visit that part of Europe someday, it's not thàt far away either so...

Lambertiana, great stuff! I really like the high elevation pics with the lake and the treeline stopping before the final mountain slopes take over the scenery. Awesome!

HM, sweet pictures of an exotic hike! Not an everyday experience. Travelling light with the mora, sak and leatherman I see. Didn't want to risk loosing your Fallkniven in the overseas trip?

 

[HikingMano]

No way Theyʻre all inexpensive and functional enough for me to just leave there, so Iʻll always have decent and familiar cutlery when Iʻm back there :thumbup:

 

[OwenM]

Great pics, guys. Love lambertiana's final destination, and those pics from Slovenia are awesome.

Good food on a good beach with nice views is always nice

You, on the other hand...your camera is in desperate need of a FOCUS priority mode:grumpy:

 

[HikingMano]

I know! :grumpy:

 

[baldtaco-II]

 

[vortex]

Vortex - The Julian Alps are the kind of place I would love to explore. Very nice mountains. They look like they are mostly limestone/dolomite.

I don't use any water purification in the Sierra high country, it is not needed. In most of those places there is very little human activity above me, and the water is clean. On that nine day trip, we only saw other people on five of those days, and even then it wasn't a large number of people.

I read a bit about its geological history. You're correct about limestone/dolomite. It's far from Kings Canyon NP but imo it's one the most picturesque regions in Central/Eastern Europe.

What would you recommend for a multiday hike for me? Purification tablets or some kind of filtering system?

Amazing pictures guys!

Vortex, I really have to visit that part of Europe someday, it's not thàt far away either so...

Definitely, and you can also test your car on the German autobhans!

 

[HikingMano]

Very nice, BT! I can't decide if I like the first or the last the best.

 

[baldtaco-II]

Thanks mate. I see you've been poking up some neat images yourself.

 

[lambertiana]

imo it's one the most picturesque regions in Central/Eastern Europe.

What would you recommend for a multiday hike for me? Purification tablets or some kind of filtering system?

You've got that right, very picturesque.

I prefer filtration to tablets. The filters are bulkier and heavier, but you can drink the water right away and they don't add any flavor. I have a Katadyn Hiker and MSR Mini-Works, both are very good filters, but I only use them now in areas where there is a lot of human and/or livestock activity above me. Fortunately, all of the Sequoia/Kings Canyon high country has clean water with very little human impact, so I don't bother with the filters there. Another good filter is the Sawyer Squeeze filter, it gets good reviews and is lighter.

 

[vortex]

I'll check those filters out. Thank you for your advice.