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Summit panorama (be sure to view full size, it seems Tapatalk is now doing some weird gallery thing where it doesn't get any bigger until you click it a second time, which is annoying) huron10.jpg Awesome view in all directions, I can see why people recommend this peak! We saw about 20 people total ...

Huron Peak, Sawatch Range - 14,003 (14ers.com) or 14,012 (Wikipedia) Again with different numbers on the peak heights, you'd think with the Colorado obsession with 14ers they would have settled on an elevation, but even the definition of a 14er itself is somewhat fuzzy due to varying requirements o...

Rocky Mountain National Park - Lots o Lakes Loop p.2 More lakes rmnp08.jpg At one point some elk blocked the trail, then just hung out along it so we could enjoy them. rmnp09.jpg rmnp10.jpg rmnp11.jpg Alberta Falls rmnp12.jpg So that was our day in Rocky Mountain NP. 9.2 easy but very scenic miles....

Rocky Mountain National Park - Lots o Lakes Loop My wife was in Colorado to work, but did manage to get one day for fun, so she picked Rocky Mountain NP. Here is a GPS track of where we went for context, basically lots of lakes wedged into cool valleys, starting from the Bear Lake Trailhead. rmnp01...

My wife was in Colorado last week for work, so I tagged along to go play outside! I also invited my dad to join me since he recently had to cancel a week long backpacking trip in Canada due to illness. Due to a combination of hiking with others and playing it safe with the elevation (I haven't been ...

I'm just kind of curious because while I've found the camps and hoses, I've never seen the actual terracing/growing locations. I assume it all looked pretty old?

Also I now have "human bone decomposition" in my search history...

I haven't made it out to Monongahela and have only been to Washington & Jefferson once, so I can't speak too much on that. Most of my experience so far has been in Shenandoah, which is pretty nice, but would be a detour for you. I would suggest looking at this map and playing with the filters a ...

"FIRING O" was found a long way from "RDER". I felt very pleased with myself I'm releasing celebratory balloons in your direction as we speak, I expect you'll find them digging around for your next plane crash. ? https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/emojione/2.2.7/assets/svg/1...

That would be cool, do you have specific dates in mind? My schedule is a little up in the air because I'm starting a new job next week, but I'd be happy to fit something in if possible. I'll even provide the seaweed croissants.

Yeah, I spent my whole week backpacking in Alaska last summer sleeping on a dead pad so I know how you feel! I find inflatables more comfortable, but you can't argue with the simplicity of a foam pad...

Wow, awesome work! When you told me you were thinking about looking for a plane around Alder Gulch I thought "oh, that sounds nice" and didn't actually consider what that would require! Nice work adding more data to the record of plane debris in the area, are you aware of any places that c...

Nice report and photos, looks like a good day.

Sounds like you had a fun adventure in my current part of the country, nice report! You are certainly right about the lack of views in the region. I really like how green everything is this time of year but the lack of exposed peaks and high points means limited opportunities for views and a lot of ...

Great report and photos, looks like a lovely trip!

Great news! I've seen some of the updates and wasn't expecting a good outcome, but this is why you keep looking and don't give up. Like those idiots in Cucamonga Canyon or that lady that went missing in Hawaii for a week recently, with some water access and decent weather conditions people can last ...

Sean wrote: I could listen to burro noises all day.

Have I got the thing for you!

"no drums past 10pm". ? Hey, guess what you need? Another bike Pretty sure the day Dima gives in and gets a second bike is one of the signs the end of the world is near. I've seen the feral burros a couple times, always kind of fun. There was a program to eliminate the population a while ...

Surprised Tapatalk hasn't started a new page for this thread given how many pictures I've jammed in it... Massanutten north end loop with Strickler and Duncan Knobs (George Washington National Forest) The original plan was to do the Gap to Gap route on the Virginia Happy Trails Running Club site, wh...

Wow, that is quite a day! Great report and photos. That sounds like a much more interesting and difficult route than the standard one that I've done (S22 and just follow the ridge to Villager and Rabbit). Good work having redundant lighting, like you said you would have been in trouble without it! I...

Nice pictures, especially the bobcat! Good luck on the Fools Traverse, looking forward to a report!

Yeah, I'm still getting used to being around so much water after spending the last seven years in SoCal hiking bone dry areas! Nice to get out there before it warms up and the humidity gets crazy too, conditions were great.

Nice!

Any plans to ID some of the parts or did anything look recognizable enough to confirm? You guys were able to ID some parts from a previous wreck, but I imagine there is more documentation available for the passenger jet and F4 than for something this old.

Upper Whiteoak Falls




Native wildlife of Sperryville

Spent a nice weekend (April 27th/28th) car camping in Shenandoah National Park and did a few of the popular hikes. Tons of info on these, so I'll just post a few pictures and very short report unless anyone has a question. We arrived at Big Meadows around 11am on Saturday and apparently got one of t...

It would be great to read it once it's online.

Yeah, if you read reports on lost hikers on peaks taking a "shortcut" down is often the cause of a lot of problems like getting cliffed out. I think many of us have made that mistake to some degree at some point, I know I have. Years back I did San Ysidro East in Anza Borrego by following ...

DeSplinter is grateful for the rescuers, but said he thinks they could have made it out safely on their own within a day or two. ?? I've got stuff to do, but now I'm all worked up about this guy and article... David R - I think they got a little lower than Upper Cucamonga Falls and perhaps stopped ...

Got a link to that article?

Sounds like they are lucky that getting wet and sacrificing clothing didn't kill them via hypothermia.

As Sean said, descending an unknown canyon is generally a bad idea.

I didn't get any detail on his plan, I was a bit surprised to hear that from him and don't think it's a common. According to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, these are the more common flip flop routes on the AT, neither is consistent with going south in SNP at that time of year... http://www.appal...

Yep, here is my exploration of that canyon for those that haven't seen it: upper-cucamonga-canyon-exploration-trip ... t7692.html They are lucky they stopped when they did, if they had kept going down they might not have survived. Good news and good work by all the rescuers. Hopefully we'll get more...