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The NEW Post Your Campsite/gear/knife/hiking/anything Outdoorsy Pic Thread!
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Mistwalker
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New one from KFU
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Codger, nice! 
Fake it until you make it :thumbup:
Nice knife, Brian :thumbup: Looks practical. Vinegar patina?
Fake it until you make it :thumbup:Nice knife, Brian :thumbup: Looks practical. Vinegar patina?
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Thanks Russell, vey practical design. I got it in a Christmas swap, and still have some questions myself.
It's stabilized maple. I don't have many wooden handled knives, but the colors in this one are very nice.
My Cubscout and boy scout's first spoons and one I made while they worked on theirs. We need to work on it some more.
Really digging the Creeper spoon. Pun intended.
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My Cubscout and boy scout's first spoons and one I made while they worked on theirs. We need to work on it some more.
Looks like fun.
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Solid family fun! :thumbup:
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I just came home early so I could leave again in the morning to do a MTB trail. Yesterday, I visited Little River Falls, Martha's Falls, and went down into the canyon and followed the river back up for a little while, which involved some class 4 scrambling, then climbed up the side of the canyon to get out. Then I went up to DeSoto Falls, then down to DeSoto State Park and hiked a couple of miles down the DeSoto Scout Trail-the section I earlier said was now my favorite trail section in Alabama, and hiked back out in the dark. Drove back down to one of the backcountry sites, and camped there.
Today, I got up before daylight and drove into NW Georgia to Cloudland Canyon State Park. Did the West Rim Loop, Upper and Lower Waterfall trails, part of the Overlook Trail, and most of the Sitton's Gulch Trail("most" because the scenery was petering out, and it was already getting dark in the canyon). I'm in love with that trail, though. I could spend three days getting pics of all the cascades and waterfalls, and did spend the vast majority of my time off-trail. Sometimes way off the trail.
I have 654 pictures to go through, but here's a teaser.
See that waterfall across the canyon?
Here's what it looks like from just below the top
If they made a trail to it, it'd have to be a really long ladder...
So, yeah, my back is feeling a lot better this week.
Today, I got up before daylight and drove into NW Georgia to Cloudland Canyon State Park. Did the West Rim Loop, Upper and Lower Waterfall trails, part of the Overlook Trail, and most of the Sitton's Gulch Trail("most" because the scenery was petering out, and it was already getting dark in the canyon). I'm in love with that trail, though. I could spend three days getting pics of all the cascades and waterfalls, and did spend the vast majority of my time off-trail. Sometimes way off the trail.
I have 654 pictures to go through, but here's a teaser.
See that waterfall across the canyon?
Here's what it looks like from just below the top
If they made a trail to it, it'd have to be a really long ladder...
So, yeah, my back is feeling a lot better this week.
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Awesome Owen. Can't wait for the rest of the pics. Pretty badass!
Winter camo air soft with my kids
Kayak trip down the MacLeod River
The rest of the crew
This falls elk.... Missed getting to use my new BK15 on it by a week or so
Sons first year hunting and his first grouse
October camp
My place in the woods. Forest on three sides. Lots of bears and cougars to keep us on our toes
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Awesome! Welcome Jackfish :thumbup: Doesn't look like you're having fun up there... nope, not one bit
Owen, :thumbup::thumbup:, as you know.
Owen, :thumbup::thumbup:, as you know.
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Some got deleted by accident, and there were lots of dupes while I tried to get the settings right, but I took 872 pics in the last two days. I'm going to upload some pics, and do a thread about it, but it won't even scratch the surface. I'm not even sure where to begin.
I feel like I packed a week into today alone, and yesterday was pretty sweet, too.
This is from the Honey Creek Loop trail in Big South Fork National Park, which I did this(Wednesday) afternoon, after a great start to the day at nearby Pickett State Park.
You go up and down part of a canyon, and hike through woods, up and down slippery slopes covered with wet leaves over wet rocks and wet mud(everything was wet!). You follow ledges and clifflines, and streams, and go from the top of the canyon down, then back up to ladders that take you up a cliff to an overlook of the river, then all the way down to the river, and back up again through drainages and over boulders. There are hundreds of cascades, small waterfalls, and rock formations full of wild colors, several huge overhangs, and dozens of caves of varying size. They say it's 5.6 miles long, but to allow a minimum of 1 hour per mile. It's no joke, because it feels more like 20 than 5.6, and a good bit of it is slippery and dangerous. I've never seen anything like it.
The ladders must be newer ones, as they aren't "enclosed in wire" like the sign says, but the warning about not taking children is a good one. I don't know any adults I'd want to take through there, the way it is right now.
Perfect!
I'll throw some videos on here as I load them. May take awhile to go through and upload pics...
Tuesday afternoon I hiked to Needle Arch, Slave Falls, then Twin Arch, after which I had to hike out almost 5 miles in the dark. It was a lot of fun!
Needle Arch
[youtube]Kj-x5-fRQvg[/youtube]
Slave Falls
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Twin Arch
[youtube]tK1M_LDFBYY[/youtube]
the other half of the Twin, which is smaller in span, but more massive.
[youtube]U3heuKZnIMY[/youtube]
Natural Bridge at Pickett State Park Wednesday morning. I screwed up big time and snapped a bunch of quick pics, not realizing my camera was still in manual instead of aperture priority, with settings from viewing Hazard Cave that didn't match up very well with the sun that was starting to shine
[youtube]BUvPXUyh-Yc[/youtube]
Early on the Honey Creek Loop, Wednesday afternoon
[youtube]IHXcsIRUa2k[/youtube]
I feel like I packed a week into today alone, and yesterday was pretty sweet, too.
This is from the Honey Creek Loop trail in Big South Fork National Park, which I did this(Wednesday) afternoon, after a great start to the day at nearby Pickett State Park.
You go up and down part of a canyon, and hike through woods, up and down slippery slopes covered with wet leaves over wet rocks and wet mud(everything was wet!). You follow ledges and clifflines, and streams, and go from the top of the canyon down, then back up to ladders that take you up a cliff to an overlook of the river, then all the way down to the river, and back up again through drainages and over boulders. There are hundreds of cascades, small waterfalls, and rock formations full of wild colors, several huge overhangs, and dozens of caves of varying size. They say it's 5.6 miles long, but to allow a minimum of 1 hour per mile. It's no joke, because it feels more like 20 than 5.6, and a good bit of it is slippery and dangerous. I've never seen anything like it.
The ladders must be newer ones, as they aren't "enclosed in wire" like the sign says, but the warning about not taking children is a good one. I don't know any adults I'd want to take through there, the way it is right now.
Perfect!
I'll throw some videos on here as I load them. May take awhile to go through and upload pics...
Tuesday afternoon I hiked to Needle Arch, Slave Falls, then Twin Arch, after which I had to hike out almost 5 miles in the dark. It was a lot of fun!
Needle Arch
[youtube]Kj-x5-fRQvg[/youtube]
Slave Falls
[youtube]Sw_lv5vFqVU[/youtube]
Twin Arch
[youtube]tK1M_LDFBYY[/youtube]
the other half of the Twin, which is smaller in span, but more massive.
[youtube]U3heuKZnIMY[/youtube]
Natural Bridge at Pickett State Park Wednesday morning. I screwed up big time and snapped a bunch of quick pics, not realizing my camera was still in manual instead of aperture priority, with settings from viewing Hazard Cave that didn't match up very well with the sun that was starting to shine
[youtube]BUvPXUyh-Yc[/youtube]
Early on the Honey Creek Loop, Wednesday afternoon
[youtube]IHXcsIRUa2k[/youtube]
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