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

[HikingMano]

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[OwenM]

External drive is ok. Virus hid the files.
The computer is toast, but my friend said he could probably get my pics off of it

 

[HikingMano]

Yeah, that's why I asked. I know viruses can do that. Sounds like all in all it's not too bad :thumbup:

 

[redsquid2]

Here is another minimalist fixed blade I recently finished. 154 CM. OAL 6 1/8". Tip to scales 2 7/8". Cutting edge 2 1/8".

Handle is white G10 on top of thin jatoba wood, with copper pins.

Combined weight of knife and sheath: 2.8 oz.

It's going to be in my mess kit when I hit the trail this Spring.

 

[scruffuk]

My Emberlit arrived during the week. Today I got a few hours to go try it out and have some al fresco dining.

Had my trusty Ryan Weeks necker with me for the fire prep

Have a new favorite slippy....

I had a few issues with damp(ish) wood....lots of creosote! But a few tweaks and a bit more attention to the stove and it was soon Shin Cup time!

Hope you've had a good weekend folks.

 

[redsquid2]

What stove is that? Does it operate on twigs? Where can I get one?
Thanks.
--Andy

 

[Hammer67]

Sweet slip. GEC?

 

[HikingMano]

Great pics, stoves, and knives guy :thumbup:

Will add some outing pics too later.

 

[scruffuk]

What stove is that? Does it operate on twigs? Where can I get one?
Thanks.
--Andy

The clues in the opening line amigo

It's the Emberlit stove. This being the standard stainless version. You can use all kinds of fuel in it, including twigs aye.

Sweet slip. GEC?

Yup. Tidioute #53 Moose, buffalo scales.

Great pics, stoves, and knives guy :thumbup:

Will add some outing pics too later.

Thanks amigo. I've not had chance to get out much over winter, but every now and then I can sneak off.

It was a really great day and spent an hour just listening to a woodpecker nearby.

 

[baldtaco-II]

Whatever happened to Baldtaco-II's posting here? I miss that guy's view of his side of the world.

Just found this on a trawl back. Thanks mate. Just got a bit disillusioned and out of the habit. Given that we are now in our second photos thread I got to wondering why it was still the same little posse of us that seemed to be the only ones reliably supporting the thread, [kinda wondered that about the chat thread too, but that's another matter]. I'd wondered that about other forums I'm on too – plenty of Hello Kitty, my grandchild's 5th birthday party, and stuff like that but little in the way of stuff I show up for save for mebe a few that had braved an overnighter. Then one fine day I was looking for the author of the quote “...there's only one thing that determines whether as photo is good and that is whether it is memorable” [paraphrased], and I stumbled across this acorn which grew . It suddenly all made sense. Our little band that were supporting this thread were oddities swimming against the tide, and my heart sank. I'm sure I'll put up a few more snaps at some point though.

 

[HikingMano]

Huh, funny, I've been experiencing a bit of the same malaise lately. Less motivation these days it feels like.

That's a nice tidbit. I'm amused that my artist girlfriend has been idly critiquing me with essentially the same concept about my pics ("all your pictures look the same, boring landscape stuff" haha ). She's always more interested in seeing the interaction, the natural world as a responsive frame and encapsulating biosphere for human consciousness and consequence.

Not much time, have to leave for train, but the other thought that comes to mind is what the concept and results may indicate about our culture and modern civilization as a whole, evidenced by selections of the crowdsourced mechanical turks. In brief, folks find such man-in-man-made-construct scenes so memorable because it's become the norm of modernized human civilization. Apply the same test to non-modernized contemporaries or our pre-industrialization ancestors, and perhaps the result would be different. More memory for landscapes and natural scenes because then, it's not just "nature", it's "that pass there looks likely to lead through the range" or "that grove looks like it might provide a suitable supply of wood" or "the clouds broiling there looks like something I'd be worried about".

Off to train, perhaps more thoughts, but definitely more pics, later


ETA: i'm mentally slow this morn. Yes, oddities, precisely what you said. :thumbup:

 

[HikingMano]

Day hiked to Alamere Falls in Point Reyes National Seashore this past weekend. It's one of the only two waterfalls in North America that falls directly into an ocean. The other is McWay Falls, down in Big Sur, which I've shown pics of in the past.

Out and back from the Palomarin Trailhead.

Gorgeous morning!

Douglas Iris. Pretty.

California Poppy.

Lush.

Approaching the falls side trail.

Cozy little trail through the scrub.

There's a nice series of small cascades that lead to the fall over the bluff.

The first of a series of smaller falls that leads to the big waterfall over the bluff and onto the shore.

Looking down Alamere Creek towards the final fall.

Looking back up towards the first and second fall.

Awesome panorama my GF took with her iPhone on the bluff.

Alamere Falls from the top.

Meeting the ocean!

View right over the top.

Wildcat Beach. Beautiful day to enjoy it!

Another shot from my GF's iphone, which often seems to do better than our point and shoot...

Cool friable shale rock.

Looking back as we make our way down to the little scramble needed to get down to the beach.

Enjoying the mid-bluff view before continuing down.

Slippery little scramble, required some care. All that visually cool friable shale makes for some non-ideal choss.

Looking back up.

Here we are! Looking onto the beach from atop the falls, we thought we'd have it to ourselves until other folks possibly started showing up. Turns out some folks practicing Japanese martial arts had beat us. They were hidden from overhead view if you didn't cross over to the south bank of the falls.

Great spot to train. It looks like they hiked down the beach from the Wildcat Camp end. They might have stayed the night at Wildcat.

Looking back up the use-trail scramble.

Perfect day. The point and shoot, as usual, doesn't do the scene justice.

Turkey Vulture. We saw a few of them as we passed Bolinas Lagoon on the drive in. They were warming up in the morning rays while perched on a power line - I wish I had had the camera out to snap a shot of one posing with his wings spread, still as a statue.

Within five minutes on the beach, we spotted a little piece of blue glass, score!

My GF gathered a few choice pieces while we strolled around.

Alamere Falls, february flow.

Love the carpet.

We were staying for a while, so I set up some shelter (ID Siltarp 2, trekking poles, Kelty Triptease, loop-to-loop to tie-outs and tautline to deadman anchors). In retrospect I should have been farther away from the often unstable cliffs. Noted for next time. We got in lunch, a nice lil mini-nap, and just enjoying the surroundings.

Pelican Lake we passed on the way to the falls, better lit in the afternoon as we headed back to the trailhead.

Bass Lake. Next time we're back, we'll have to make some time to explore around the lakes.

View south as we returned to the trailhead. Couldn't have asked for a better day out in Point Reyes, which is often fogged over.

Hope you all enjoyed the pics


ETA: I don't know this is, but I just noticed that uploading pics to photobucket and posting them washes out the images for some reason. It's pretty annoying. Perhaps it's time to switch over to another host.

 

[OwenM]

Well, this oddity's friend has had his computer the last few days, so I'll see what he was able to do with it tonight at work.
I got to see some really cool stuff the last couple of days. Knocked out ~30 trail miles, played around waterfalls, in a cave, and got to see a couple of "sinks" where creeks go underground. Lots of fun!
May try to upload a few pics while visiting my parents in a little while.

Russell, please feel free to share "boring" landscapes featuring Alamere and McWay Falls to your heart's content

 

[HikingMano]

NICE! Looking forward to the pics, especially of the cave and sinks :thumbup: I'll keep my fingers crossed for your computer.

And yeah, I'll still take my boring pics and share them There are supposed to be a few hidden waterfalls in my area that I've made my goal to find this year. I hope to start knocking them out soon.

 

[redsquid2]

Russell, please feel free to share "boring" landscapes featuring Alamere and McWay Falls to your heart's content

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

[OwenM]

I have briefly commandeered a computer! Here's some high points.

Peavine Falls, Oak Mountain State Park(where I've been mountain biking). Been promising a friend pics from there:

These are from this week at Savage Gulf:
Savage Falls:

This is a sink where the creek disappears. Duh...I got video, but didn't take a pic of the creek itself.

This is the only decent pic I got of a bat from the cave Schwoon Springs flows out of:

Schwoon Spring:

Fall Creek sink:

Above that is what I've seen referred to as "Sink Falls":

Horsepound Falls:

Suter Falls

A closer view:

 

[HikingMano]

Wow!!! You got some primo stuff there! :thumbup: Spectacular pictures man, you're really working out that Aperture Priority mode. Kudos! The colors turned out nicely too :thumbup:

Did you startle the bats?

 

[OwenM]

Thanks! The bats acted like they didn't notice me(or my flashlight). I'm having to use the full manual controls, and take multiple shots, but I'm pretty happy with some of the results. Sure better than I would have hoped for from a handheld P&S in the past!

 

[Galeocerdoshark]

Owen, awesome waterfalls. Great photography too. Sweet scenery!
HM, man I love me some close ups of rocks. Call it a rock fetish, but in a non-sexual way though. Great pics, I keep scrolling back to 'em.
Here's one, with some pebbles, some sand, some broken shells, and a (alas broken) shark tooth in the middle. Taken yesterday on a quick fossilhunt.

 

[HikingMano]

[...]Sure better than I would have hoped for from a handheld P&S in the past!

No kidding! I'm super envious of the manual controls you have, the Canon P&S I have doesn't allow control of focus, exposure, or aperture.

GS, I wish I had a little of your and Lambertiana's rock knowledge. I'm such a geology neophyte. Unless it's something really basic (uh..intrusive igneous granite...extrusive igneous lava rocks...not the former two...sedimentary sandstone...metamorphic marble...etc ), it's all "rocks" to me, haha.