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« on: September 16, 2007, 03:49:37 PM » |
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I don't know how "cultural" this is, but I just got back from backpacking the eastern half of Mt. Rainier's Wonderland Trail. My buddy and I had done the western half 8 years ago and finally coordinated our schedules to do the other half.
We took 7 days, 6 nights. Hiked about 40 miles. I haven't totalled the elevation gains and losses but they were prodigeous--there is no such thing as flat on Mt. Rainier!
We saw some of the most awesome country imaginable. We were constantly amazed at how few people were out there taking advantage of this spectacular national park during the best hiking time of the year, when the bugs are almost non-existant.
Anyone have other great hikes or national parks they enjoy?
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2007, 10:25:59 PM » |
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Yellowstone was great (the 2 days I spent there). I hope to go back someday with the family.
Yosemite is nice as well, spent many summers camping there as a kid.
I've never been an avid hiker, but I do enjoy short walks on hiking trails from time to time.
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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2007, 07:28:25 AM » |
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I am hiking a good bit lately, right now northern Arizona around Flagstaff where I am working. So far just day hikes, have not been on camping hikes in many years. I have been on some beautiful hikes in the San Francisco peaks, am planning this week to summit Humphry's peak this week, about 12,000 feet, it is no Rainier, but is the highest point in AZ.
Lately have also done some cool short hikes in Chovy's neck of the woods, an area called Half-moon bay, and Los Gatos Creek, an cool in town hike/jog area in Campbell.
I am also planning to do some hiking this winter in the Superstion Mountains just east of Phoenix. Great desert hiking in November-April time frame. You can also hike them other times of the year, if you don't object to spontaneously bursting into flames.
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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2007, 08:10:04 PM » |
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Half Moon Bay? I used to live in Montara, just north of there, many, many moons ago. I got a chance to hike in Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks. That was some spectacular country. Many of the trails would start at 6,000 feet!
Our national parks are real treasures.
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« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2007, 03:43:00 PM » |
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I'm jealous of you guys. I need to find a hiking buddy.
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« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2007, 04:56:23 PM » |
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We'd have to swear to not discuss politics  Actually, my hiking friend--also the best man at my wedding--tends to view politics through conservative eyes, and we generally leave politics out of our conversations. |
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« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2007, 07:47:08 PM » |
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Wouldn't want to talk about politics... I'd be to busy admiring nature and thinking about what useful things I could make out of my surroundings.
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« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2007, 12:46:10 AM » |
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I'm jealous of you guys. I need to find a hiking buddy.
Totino, aren't you attending college now? I would think you could find a hiking partner around campus, or check with the student union to see if there is a hiking club? Or, if nothing else, do what I do, all my hikes over the past several weeks in northern Arizona have been solo. You just need to be careful which hikes you choose. Keep to shorter, well used and defined trails. |
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« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2007, 06:41:45 AM » |
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Yeah, I joined our outdoors club  . We're going to be doing roughly half of the Adirondack peaks this year and half next year. |
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2007, 05:05:56 AM » |
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We'd have to swear to not discuss politics Actually, my hiking friend--also the best man at my wedding--tends to view politics through conservative eyes, and we generally leave politics out of our conversations. How boring. But then, I tend to embrace argueing about things that most people shy away from. Rteligion and Politics |
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« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2007, 01:38:01 PM » |
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We'd have to swear to not discuss politics Actually, my hiking friend--also the best man at my wedding--tends to view politics through conservative eyes, and we generally leave politics out of our conversations. How boring. But then, I tend to embrace argueing about things that most people shy away from. Rteligion and Politics You're more open-minded than a lot of people I talk with. I agree with you that the two most interesting topics of conversation are religion and politics, and I find an awful lot of "polite" conversation b-o-r-i-n-g. Although it's always gratifying to meet people who share your own opinions, it's a real treat to find people with whom you can disagree and still converse civily. I don't know many... |
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« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2007, 11:05:26 PM » |
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Thanks for the thread JPN. I didn't even know about MT Rainer until I read your thread. Talk about ignorant of US geography. I googled it ands read up about it. It looks spectacular, especially with the city in the foreground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_RainierIMO hiking or exploring the outdoors does a lot of good for your disposition. I am not sure why. You just get a completely different perspective of issues, situations the world. |
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« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2007, 06:19:16 PM » |
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It's definately the closest I ever get to a religious experience. Awesome, in-your-face nature like that is so timeless, so awesome, so utterly unmoved by our presence. It was there millions of years before us, it will be there millions of years after us, and it couldn't care less. It just...is. Okay, enough of that...  |
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« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2007, 09:16:37 PM » |
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What you said made me think of a passage from the book I am reading... So I'll share: I sat on a rock and studied the route I had climbed four months ealier. It felt good to see the peak, and to think that I'd stood on its summit. The mountain, though, still seems exactly the same as before-it's as if the climb has changed only me, and not it. As if only I'd been affected. I wonder whether, looking down, it remembers me struggling, gasping for oxygen up those last few hundred feet to the top. Looking at it from this angle, part of me wonders how the hell I ever got up. Bear Grylls - The Kid Who Climbed Everest |
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