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The NEW Post Your Campsite/gear/knife/hiking/anything Outdoorsy Pic Thread!
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Myal - As hot as it is, I'd still like to visit that streambed.
Russell - I'm not sure why so many of the elevation benchmarks do not have the elevation on them. You can look them up on the National Geodetic Survey website to get the current elevation, so write down the benchmark number next time.
The triangulation stations figured heavily in the original surveying and mapmaking, they are the primary points from which the measurements are made. Imagine lugging the heavy old-fashioned survey equipment up some of those peaks. A lot of them only needed horses or mules, but some, like Florence Peak, require significant effort. Think about carrying a heavy theodolite up 400 vertical feet of this:
Now, for the real enthusiast, you can do what I did. I ordered a marker from the same company that supplies the geodetic survey, with custom imprint (family names for me and my wife, our wedding date, and the names of the kids):
Then I got a nice chunk of granodiorite from the place where we camp with my wife's family every year - we've been going there for 22 years, our youngest was one year old when we started, so we have a lot of fond memories of that place. After punching a hole with a hammer drill (granodiorite is tough stuff!)
I cemented our marker in, and placed it by our front door
Now, after a couple years, it looks just like the ones I see on peaks:
Russell - I'm not sure why so many of the elevation benchmarks do not have the elevation on them. You can look them up on the National Geodetic Survey website to get the current elevation, so write down the benchmark number next time.
The triangulation stations figured heavily in the original surveying and mapmaking, they are the primary points from which the measurements are made. Imagine lugging the heavy old-fashioned survey equipment up some of those peaks. A lot of them only needed horses or mules, but some, like Florence Peak, require significant effort. Think about carrying a heavy theodolite up 400 vertical feet of this:
Now, for the real enthusiast, you can do what I did. I ordered a marker from the same company that supplies the geodetic survey, with custom imprint (family names for me and my wife, our wedding date, and the names of the kids):
Then I got a nice chunk of granodiorite from the place where we camp with my wife's family every year - we've been going there for 22 years, our youngest was one year old when we started, so we have a lot of fond memories of that place. After punching a hole with a hammer drill (granodiorite is tough stuff!)
I cemented our marker in, and placed it by our front door
Now, after a couple years, it looks just like the ones I see on peaks:
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BT-II, I don't know much about the bike world; I only putter around on my mtb here and there on occasion, and nothing really challenging. Most often little tour rides with the GF. Sounds like you, Owen, JV3, and a couple others could talk cycling/mtbing for days. Hell, I had to look up MAMIL, haha. Incidentally, tons of those around here too. I've gotten tired of my old MTB performance on the smooth stuff I do most often, so I've been looking into building or modding something road inclined on the cheap. Something like your hybrid build. I'm always intrigued when I see guys bike-packing down the coast highway here.
Anyway, I can appreciate the essence though, sounds like fun and I hope you "win". It's nice having a 18% near you that you can lap for the distance proper. Training as if the whole stretch is 18% really is the way to go about it. What's Beacon? Is that the last stretch of the route? Thanks for sharing a pic of Poofy :thumbup: Hope you report back when you've completed the event.
Myal, nice! Does indeed look dry and hot. Love the horned lizard :thumbup:
John, yeah, I usually snap a shot of em, so maybe one day I'll go through my pics and look up all the ones I've recorded to date. I knew they were the basis of early map making, before satellite systems, just don't know much about how they were actually used in practice - the sequence of events of which they are a part, in making an actual map or doing a survey. I'll research it later for a better understanding. Anyway, yes, I cannot imagine carrying the heavy equipment of some of those peaks, like Florence. I often think about that; all the bitching and moaning I do about cutting weight and traveling light... and the feats a lot of these folks achieved back in the day with exponentially heavier gear...
As for your own marker, that is hardcore and so YOU, haha. I am not surprised in the least
That's awesome :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Future project 
Anyway, I can appreciate the essence though, sounds like fun and I hope you "win". It's nice having a 18% near you that you can lap for the distance proper. Training as if the whole stretch is 18% really is the way to go about it. What's Beacon? Is that the last stretch of the route? Thanks for sharing a pic of Poofy :thumbup: Hope you report back when you've completed the event.
Myal, nice! Does indeed look dry and hot. Love the horned lizard :thumbup:
John, yeah, I usually snap a shot of em, so maybe one day I'll go through my pics and look up all the ones I've recorded to date. I knew they were the basis of early map making, before satellite systems, just don't know much about how they were actually used in practice - the sequence of events of which they are a part, in making an actual map or doing a survey. I'll research it later for a better understanding. Anyway, yes, I cannot imagine carrying the heavy equipment of some of those peaks, like Florence. I often think about that; all the bitching and moaning I do about cutting weight and traveling light... and the feats a lot of these folks achieved back in the day with exponentially heavier gear...
As for your own marker, that is hardcore and so YOU, haha. I am not surprised in the least
That's awesome :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Future project Has anyone but me noticed that when a member of a hunting pay, particularly a close relative, is shot, he's never wounded, but it's always "Right between the eyes. "
"Oh, Lord, I loved that boy like a brother. I did. But I thought he was a buck and took the shot! "
"Oh, Lord, I loved that boy like a brother. I did. But I thought he was a buck and took the shot! "
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After two weeks with just dayhikes(at least I got 4 OT shifts), I headed north after work Tuesday morning for a couple nights in the woods to catch up on my sleep, and do the Fiery Gizzard trail that I had to abandon last month.
2 half days and one full, 2 nights, 26.6 miles and 25 hours of sleep:triumphant:
Soon after starting in.
Black Canyon.
Sycamore Falls.
Dog Hole Mine. I followed the Dog Hole trail up onto the plateau to save time vs. a long climb on the Fiery Gizzard trail, since I started around lunchtime, and it was 10.3 miles to my campsite at Small Wilds. That meant I got to do that big climb as a downhill on the way out, which was A-ok with me.
Yellow Pine Falls on the Dog Hole trail.
Just above the bridge at Anderson Creek Ford.
Small fall just upstream of an old moonshine still's remains.
Bottom of a gorge the trail drops into and climbs out of along the way.
From Small Wilds at sunset.
Just beyond Small Wilds Wednesday morning.
Foster Falls.
Foster Falls.
Foster Falls.
Careful, the wilderness is full of hazards!
You never know what might jump out and get you.
There's that gorge again...
Anderson Falls.
Natural bridge just below Raven Point campground.
And a few more on the way out.
2 half days and one full, 2 nights, 26.6 miles and 25 hours of sleep:triumphant:
Soon after starting in.
Black Canyon.
Sycamore Falls.
Dog Hole Mine. I followed the Dog Hole trail up onto the plateau to save time vs. a long climb on the Fiery Gizzard trail, since I started around lunchtime, and it was 10.3 miles to my campsite at Small Wilds. That meant I got to do that big climb as a downhill on the way out, which was A-ok with me.
Yellow Pine Falls on the Dog Hole trail.
Just above the bridge at Anderson Creek Ford.
Small fall just upstream of an old moonshine still's remains.
Bottom of a gorge the trail drops into and climbs out of along the way.
From Small Wilds at sunset.
Just beyond Small Wilds Wednesday morning.
Foster Falls.
Foster Falls.
Foster Falls.
Careful, the wilderness is full of hazards!
You never know what might jump out and get you.
There's that gorge again...
Anderson Falls.
Natural bridge just below Raven Point campground.
And a few more on the way out.
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I'm resisting a terrible joke about birthing.
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Looks like it was a good outing Owen! I love how you go out to catch up on sleep Great pics as usual man (and great weather!), thanks for sharing, birthing shots and all...
No outdoor time for me for at least a couple more weeks, moving for new job and getting settled = no time
Great pics as usual man (and great weather!), thanks for sharing, birthing shots and all...No outdoor time for me for at least a couple more weeks, moving for new job and getting settled = no time
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Be lucky with the job then, innit.
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Thanks bud :thumbup:
Sweet, love the return of the pastoral scenes from your end of the pond. Those pigs look content.
Sweet, love the return of the pastoral scenes from your end of the pond. Those pigs look content.
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Wow, I always thought trundle beds were a modern invention.
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That one is very old. That's a 15th century building with that room in particular being the solar. If you envisage a bedsit in a barn with a pot to piss in and a window to chuck it out of you're not far wide of the mark. At this point all cooking is still done outside and the bulk of the people will be huddled together in one main room downstairs. A single fire for their warmth on a dirt floor and no chimney are key features. Outside of London having a solar like that meant you were doing well above average.
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I'll quit with this one 'cos I'm well into the weeds off-topic. This would be downstairs of the solar. The floor has been fortified.
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Thanks BTII, always love learning something new :thumbup:
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BT, can't see your pics(rarely can). One of the last 7 showed when viewing the thread on my phone, but none on my computer.
Was headed back to Virgin Falls in TN, hoping to play in some caves this time, but rain turning to teens later killed that. The roads leading to the TH from both directions are bad about icing up.
Means I have time for a date, but I don't normally do that on my "hiking days"
Was headed back to Virgin Falls in TN, hoping to play in some caves this time, but rain turning to teens later killed that. The roads leading to the TH from both directions are bad about icing up.
Means I have time for a date, but I don't normally do that on my "hiking days"