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Screw all this city stuff.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I live here!
http://photos8.flickr.com/10580715_d8aa62ff7a_o.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

This is really close!
http://listsofjohn.com/CO14ERS/Bells.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Hm. Can I visit?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes you can.

― $Vï¿½N! (blueski), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

this isn't mine, but i once took one almost exactly like it

http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/photos/dark_canyon_gorge.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Mecca
ihttp://www.uh.edu/~doan2580/Yosemite%20Valley%20from%20Glacier%20Point.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Sure. I've been hankering for an Aspen FAP.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Where's that from gabbneb?

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

that's D@rk Canyon Gorge in the D@rk Canyon Primitive Area in Southeastern Utah

this is Square Top Mountain from Upper Green Lake in the Wind Rivers in Wyoming...

ihttp://www.willamette.edu/~ttalbott/squaretop.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

That pic is DOPE. I've always wanted to go to the Winds.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I used to work at this place in St John's USVI. If you volunteer for longer than 3 months, they'll fly you in for free!

ihttp://www.islands.org/virgin/viers/viers-sky.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

image links be all busted and shit.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

img src fool!

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

but that's so HARD.

http://www.islands.org/virgin/viers/viers-sky.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.willamette.edu/~ttalbott/squaretop.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.austincountrylimits.com/archives/bc38o.jpg

Driving alongside this thing is fucking TERRIFYING when it's puking snow and midnight.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

This is the Maroon Bells (sp?) is it not?

http://listsofjohn.com/CO14ERS/Bells.jpg

I've been here.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

St. George Island, Florida (75 miles to my southwest)
http://sab.sscc.ru/~nick/world/Florida/images/oct03_27.jpg
http://sab.sscc.ru/~nick/world/Florida/images/oct03_33.jpg

St. Joseph Peninsula/Cape San Blas, Florida (100 miles to my west-southwest)
http://sab.sscc.ru/~nick/world/Florida/images/oct03_18.jpg
http://sab.sscc.ru/~nick/world/Florida/images/oct03_19.jpg

West Arm Creek/Dead Lakes -- outside Wewahitchka, Florida (65 miles to my west-southwest)
http://sab.sscc.ru/~nick/world/Florida/images/nov03_11.jpg

Wakulla Springs/Wakulla River (15 miles to my south)
http://tfn.net/Springs/Wakulla2.JPG
http://members.aol.com/azyah3/route/wakulla2.jpg
http://www.abc-touristik-stadthagen.de/cards/06_wakulla_springs.jpg

― ... And suddenly Ian Riese-Moraine is a naked man saying, 'Volvo! Volvo!' (Easte, Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

http://cslr.colorado.edu/beginweb/2003summer_wkshp/usa_flatirons_boulder_colorado.jpg

How sweet are the Flatirons?

xx-post: Yeah, those are the bells. I can ALMOST see them from my window.

x-post: Florida is secretly the bomb. I went on a canoe trip through the Everglades a few years back...camping on those chickees was SWEET. So were the dolphins.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Ichetucknee Springs/Ichetucknee River (90 miles to my southeast)
http://www.floridasprings.com/Images/ich_river_lg.jpg
http://www.floridasprings.com/Images/ich_lg.jpg

I'm just focused on NORTH Florida, too, giboyeux! South Florida's a whole other world and I haven't been there...although I haven't been to this particular spring I'm posting pictures of right now.

― ... And suddenly Ian Riese-Moraine is a naked man saying, 'Volvo! Volvo!' (Easte, Sunday, 15 May 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Never really been to N.Florida. Just driven through it on the way South. Looks nice, though! I like big fat bodies of water. This is from home home in Minnesota.

http://photos5.flickr.com/10577348_3b7065ac31_o.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

that's Black Canyon of the Gunnison upthread?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I've always wanted to go climbing there, but I get the impression that it's SERIOUS. Plus I've got zero climbing partners right now.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

This doesn't totally fit with the thread, but it's one of my favorite pics of all time... bonfire party w/homies!

http://photos7.flickr.com/10577320_0a859b1b74_o.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

This is one of my favorite pictures I've found from the WI Dells:
http://www.hhbennett.com/images/bennet-island.jpg

― kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 15 May 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

My wife and I scrambled the descent/ascent of Black Canyon south rim in flip flops, it was actually pretty hilarious. What's amazing, besides the painted wall and all that, is that the canyon bottom is about this wide | |

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Lassen Volcanic Natl. Park. We used to go there pretty regularly when we lived in Redding.

Upper King's Creek Meadow:

Lake Manzanita and Lassen Peak:

Bumpass Hell (volcanic vents, smells just peachy):

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

I went here (Ocean City, MD) for a short vacation this week. (Sadly, it was too chilly still to go in the water.)
ihttp://oscland.com/pics/ocean_city/layout/beach2.jpg

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that's the kind of "wild" giboyeux had in mind

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mind.net/dlmark/images/NPglacier1.jpg

glacier park is the most beautiful park in the US.

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

(that pic does no justice)

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.photo.net/philg/digiphotos/200206-south-dakota/badlands-national-park-1.half.jpg

I spent lots of time at Badlands National Park growing up

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

henry's fork

http://www.flyfisherman.com/downloads/hf800X600.jpg

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

tuckerman ravine on Mt. Washington

http://www.tuckerman.org/photos/01-02tuck/images/1-21-02_tucks.jpg

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Ft. Jefferson at the Dry Tortugas

http://www.seaplanesofkeywest.com/images/ftjefferson1Lg.jpg

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

The 12 Apostles, seen from the wonderful winding Great Ocean Rd - about an hours drive west of Melbourne. An absolute dream to drive along this stretch of unspoilt amazing geography:

http://www.holidaysforcouples.com.au/images/p_vic-greatoceanroad02.jpg

http://www.goway.com/selfdrive/self_img/greatocean.jpg

ihttp://reislog.nrx.nl/weblog/images/australie_269.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

cannon beach, oregon

http://www.delsjourney.com/images/news/news_01-06-11/1-0799-Cannon-Beach-&-Ecola-State-Park.jpg

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

It's maybe not as majestic as some of these gorgeous mountain- and seascapes, but this is a really beautiful glacial park:
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/images/veg/Wetlands_I_Plants/N._Kettle_Moraine_VK.low.jpg

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

salt flats. it's fun to drive off the freeway here for a couple of miles and camp...

ihttp://www.tor.cc/photos/travelogue/bonneville-salt-flats_1.jpg

great basin nat'l park + bristlecone pines. really amazing place, very isolated..

http://www.lamarus.cz/mista/great%20basin/gb%20010.jpg

http://www.rmtrr.org/WheelerPeak.JPG

http://www.visitortips.com/images/gallery/destinations/usa/nevada/gbnp/fullsize/gbasin1.jpg

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 16 May 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Those gnarled trees! I love them!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I think those might be my favorite trees I've ever seen.
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― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

With a little patience...

http://www.mountwashington.org/photojournal/2004/hi-res/2004_02_20.jpg

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

they're also the world's oldest trees... 1,500-3,000+ years old, truly awe-inspiring to see them up close.

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_national_park/nv/pin_gb.htm

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― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Oregon looks the SWEETEST. I've never been to the Pacific Northwest, but I definitely think of it as being the greatest place on earth.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 16 May 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

You've got that right

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/Rainier/Images/Rainier84_mount_rainier_and_tacoma_08-20-84_med.jpg

Puget Sound, near Anderson Island

http://www.komotv.com/weather/viewer_pics/images/3105_jan.jpg

Hood Canal

http://www.vici-store.com/profiles/images/pt_hood_canal.jpg

Olympic National Park

http://www.olsztyn.mm.pl/~grzegorzg/gory/Olympic%20Range,%20Olympic%20National%20Park,%20Washington~1.jpg

http://p.webshots.com/ProThumbs/54/41254_poster405.jpg

http://www.photodonation.org/images/gallery/Olympic/olympic%20nf%20quinault%20rainforest%20wilabycreek.jpg

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/glin/SEA-SFO/Olympic/Olympic_National_Park_Postcards/Olympic_Seashore.jpg

on the coast at La Push

http://www.migulski.com/seattle/Seattle-La-Push-Sunset.jpg

Deception Pass

http://www.richmondblogs.com/Deception/Deception%20Pass%20_0.jpg

Whidbey Island

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/art/pacificnw/2004/0613/cover01.jpg

Mt. Baker, from Lopez Island

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/orcas/fridayharbor/BakerFromLopez-m.jpg

the Skagit Valley

http://www.djc.com/stories/images/20040729/PriceTag_Cascades.jpg

Lake Chelan

http://www.acoustics.washington.edu/~gauthier/Photography/PN/13_Stehekin/DSCF1107.JPG

Mt. Shuksan, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~holzmann/images/CascadeMtns/MtShuksan_from_TomyhoiPeak.jpg

Glacier Peak and North Cascades

http://students.washington.edu/phiguera/GPandrangeatsunrise.jpg

Sahale Arm, North Cascades

http://www.dwave.net/~tony/Sahale/big/arm1.JPG

Alpine Lakes Wilderness

http://www.evergreenhiker.net/rach2.jpg

Snoqualmie River

http://www.alanbauer.com/images/Rural/Fall%20view%20up%20Snoqualmie%20River%20from%20Fall%20City%20bridge-Vert.jpg

Nisqually River

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jeffrey/dpics/20030618-washington/09-river.jpg

Lupine and Tatoosh Range, Mt. Rainier National Park

http://www.philarmitage.net/rainier/rainier4.jpg

Spray Park, Mt. Rainier National Park

http://www.photoseek.com/85SPR-01-14-MtRainier-SprayPark.jpg

Grand Park, Mt. Rainier National Park

http://www.alangrinberg.com/rainier/page01/Trail_1380.jpg

Goat Rocks Wilderness and Mt. Adams

http://homepage.mac.com/hshires/pcthike/goatrocks3.JPEG

http://pages.prodigy.net/stevehoglund/new42002/mtadams.jpg

Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

http://www.albertandbrady.com/images/small/img_1385.jpg

Yakima River Valley

http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd1661/yakima-river-valley-42.3.jpg

Columbia River Gorge

http://www.lewisandclarkpictures.com/albums/Photographs-of-the-Lewis-and-Clark-Trail-Washington/Columbia_River_Gorge.jpg

Columbia River

http://englishriverwebsite.com/LewisClarkColumbiaRiver/Images/mount_st_helens_mayger_fish_station_2005.jpg

http://englishriverwebsite.com/LewisClarkColumbiaRiver/Images/puget_island_coffeepot_island_barge_2004.jpg

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/3000%20to%2010000/C6CT3660.jpg

or do you know somewhere better?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

where is the love for arizona?

http://www.securecms.com/iscas2002/gallery%5CYavapai-Tree-clouds-5x7.jpg

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

pima canyon trail:

http://www.virtualtucsonmagazine.com/main/weekly/sunpimcan.jpg

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

the tucson mountains in monsoon season:

http://monsoon.geog.arizona.edu/~jmcphee/mandy-tucson.JPG

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

sunrise over the santa catalinas during a 2002 fire:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/slideshow/bullock_fire/sunrise.jpg

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=4344963&context=set-109446&size=o
looking across the west river into nh, from brattleboro, vt

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=4404479&context=set-110927&size=o
näsijärvi, tampere, finland

http://photos5.flickr.com/4724397_d5a0bb0239.jpg

http://photos5.flickr.com/4724412_68aaae6cde.jpg
sierra nevada, between reno and sacramento

http://photos5.flickr.com/4724916_2d0f8d1ab9.jpg
utah. from the air, salt lake city-oakland flight

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

that didnt work out quite as well as i'd hoped

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

i want to go to the northeast corner of california. what is the park that is near redding, i nearly went up that way once

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

OMFG gabbneb. I NEED to move to the NW.

Although, the desert is also my fave. Southwest v. Northwest: FITE!!!

Man, I shoulda gotten some pics from Redstone CO yesterday. Beautiful bouldering in an amazing valley...

― giboyeux (skowly), Saturday, 21 May 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

It is one of the great tensions in life.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

British Columbia:
Mountains near Whistler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wck/14996426/

Huge cliff that sits over Squamish (much more impressive looking in real life)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wck/14996680/

Stanley park
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wck/14996971/

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 22 May 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

awesome series of the great NW gabbneb. There are lots of, er, Weiners in that part of the world; my dad's side of the family were among the original settlers of the Yakima valley. So many beautiful places, so little time. And while I've spent a lot of time in the SW (except for New Mexico) I can't bring myself to say it's as beautiful as the NW overall.

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

i've lived in the NW. you'll get no argument from me that it's one of the most gorgeous places on earth.

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 May 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Exciting history, Don.

I think, gareth, that you would like to go to the black rock desert of nevada.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 22 May 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

gareth would like tucson, very much

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 May 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

I especially like the first photo of Arizona. My sister says the view of the sky is amazing.

I like the photos of Sahale Arm, North Cascades; Glacier Peak and North Cascades; and Olympic National Park.

― youn, Sunday, 22 May 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

also if we're pimping Arizona we probably shouldn't forget Sedona

http://www.vrivacations.com/resorts/ssr/ssr-7L.jpg

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

or Mesa Verde, because it's in the SW, too.

ihttp://www.carto.net/andre.mw/photos/1996/07/02_usa/1996071317_co_cliff_palace_mesa_verde.jpg

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

I want to go to Telluride pretty badly.

ihttp://www.flyaboveall.com/tel118.jpg

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Mono Lake, California

http://www.usatourist.com/slideshows/california/images/Mono%20Lake.jpg
http://simongurney.co.uk/america/california/mono_lake.jpg
http://www.paulfgill.com/images/Mono%20Lake%20Dusk%20300x451.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

The red rocks around sedona (and even moreso in Oak Creek Canyon to the north) are very nice (tho not particularly outstanding), but their wildness is compromised by Sedona and its dud jeep-tour and crystal-worship culture.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

otm

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I'd also add to that the cliched art culture, overpriced real estate, and invasionary spas. I'd rather go to the Badlands myself (or a bunch of places in Utah), but Sedona isn't ruined yet. The baby boomers might be able to accomplish that in the next couple of decades though.

― don weiner, Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

there are places near sedona which aren't all jeep-touristy, new-agey, though. but if you really wanna get that type of landscape without the imprint of yuppy culture, go up north to s. utah.

― ()ops (()()ps), Sunday, 22 May 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Paria Canyon, Southern Utah

http://www.bay13.de/pics/desktop/morepictures/Colorado_Plateau_Paria_Canyon_Utah.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

whoah! Did you take that yourself?

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

It's my new desktop picture, at least for the rest of today.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

REVIVE, PLZ.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Arizona