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following on from the Pitcairn thread, i was wondering, what is the most remote place you have ever been. I cant really think i have been anywhere that actually counts as remote...

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

vatnajokull glacier I guess.

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i tht this was a thread about ppl saying "have you tried down the back of the sofa?"

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

oddly, my answer would have to be the same as j0e's

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It depends on how you define 'remote', but definitely somewhere in the Outer Hebrides. One candidate is Taransay, the remote uninhabited island that the BBC sent a group of people to live on a few years ago.

Xpost: I've always wanted to go to Iceland, but never have.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably a French campsite out somewhere in the Loire valley... nothing but a miniscule village, a lake, a forest and fields for miles around. Of course, the whole remoteness of the location itself was offset by the hundreds of holiday-makers around, but if I walked out into the middle of the woods you could pretty much guarantee complete and utter solitude. Once I found a cave entrance set in a mound of earth out in the middle of the forest, and a second lake no one else knew about. That was kinda cool.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

some of the places I went in Western Australia I suppose (down south, past Margaret River), although some of Norway seemed pretty damn remote.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My house.

― stevem (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to Iceland once. But that's not very remote. I also went to the Lebanon, which is conceptually remote even if it is actually very accessible (and home to lots of people).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Mandee and I drove through Wyoming earlier this year and that felt pretty remote. It was like an abandoned golf course the size of Wales.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, a few years ago myself and some friends went walking in some valley out in the middle of Wicklow... we just followed the river along through the woods for ages and ended up at this huge waterfall. I'm positive other people had been there before, almost certainly that day, but it still felt as if the place had been untouched for centuries.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Dulwich.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Similar to Mandee and Jerry's - me and Sarah drove across Northern Nevada, including through Battle Mountain, the Armpit of America. But that was on a major freeway, so it was hardly remote really.

Bowen Island, off the British Columbia coast, felt pretty remote due to the amazing, spooky, eternal nature of the temperate rain forest. But I guess like 30 miles from Vancouver doesn't count as remote either.

I've never been anywahere remote, have I.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Crouch End.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Does a place still feel remote if you are in a huge tour party with lots of other people?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably here. The Capri of the North indeed.

― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ANERLEY!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Horsham.

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The stationary cupboard at work is the remotest place in the universe. NASA are sending in a probe next week to try and get some headed notepaper samples.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

seriously i wonder what the remotest part of Greater London is...

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i suppose nowhere can be remote when part of a larger thriving area

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

seriously i wonder what the remotest part of Greater London is...

In my experience, it's the naturist camp site between Swanley and Orpington.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

anerley anerley anerley

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

mark is Anerley fixated.

Is that where Puff the magic dragon lived btw?

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

everything is now clear to me

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Gila Wilderness Area, New Mexico: about a 2 hour drive off the interstate to Silver City, another two hours from there to a dirt road that literally goes nowhere, another couple hours down that dirt road, then a two hour hike into the forest and camped.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Ladakh, a small town in the Himalayas near the India/Nepal border.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Utah

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

depends how defined. most remote by feel/distance from city/population was the floor of Dark Canyon, Utah (a wilderness/primitive area south of Canyonlands NP, on the East side of the river), but the lower canyon where i hiked in wasn't all that far from the dirt roads and i don't think upcanyon where i traveled is either. but the closest town of any significance is moab, and i think that's still at least 2 hours away, partly on dirt. i've hiked further from the road in three different parts of the San Juan mountains (part of the Rockies in the Southwestern part of Colorado) but I was still relatively close to paved-road-served medium-big ski towns.

(Gila isn't that far, miles-wise, from El Paso, no?)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Dark Canyon, Utah (a wilderness/primitive area

to be more pedantic, what is "arguably the wildest canyon in southern Utah" is actually partially in a DOI-managed Wilderness Area, partially in a BLM-managed(?) Primitive Area, and partially in the non-wilderness Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, the future wilderness protection of which part is, I believe, challenged by the recent deal between Interior and the State of Utah (because it strips the NRA portion of its WSA status?).

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The Gila is in the SW portion of the state, probably closer to Phoenix than El Paso but both are pretty damn far.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

another one with desire to visit iceland. almost definately stems from a love of that Bunnymen lp, Pocupine.

joshua tree national park seemed remote, was almost like it was an alien planet, probably because it's been used so many times in various Star Trek series.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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