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Posted: 5/13/2023 6:11:21 PM EDT
Starting to build endurance for a philmont trip next year with the 13 year old.
Been doing shorter hikes every weekend we can get out This morning we went out to coopers furnace in GA. Cool spot that was destroyed by Sherman. There’s a shitload of Sherman’s legacy and destruction in the area. We have already done kennesaw mountain a few times. Pine log mountain and some others. Next weekend is a 10 mile stretch of the AT in Nc with his scout group. Attached File Attached File Who got outside today? What did ya do |
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Savage gulf a few weeks ago in TN
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hiked the burro loop in golden gate canyon park. elevation started around 7800’ and peaked at about 8700’. roundabouts 6 miles, took about 2.5 hours. didn’t take any pictures but it was amazing views.
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I did a 700 ft elevation 3 mile loop with a 40 lb 3yo in the pack
Attached File Eta just subscribed this. Need a hiking thread this summer for motivatuon |
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The mountains are calling, and I must go. -John Muir
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Originally Posted By tveddy: I did a 700 ft elevation 3 mile loop with a 40 lb 3yo in the pack https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/272736/20230513_104916_jpg-2817314.JPG Eta just subscribed this. Need a hiking thread this summer for motivatuon View Quote Hoping to get a bunch of pics from around the country and motivation as well. Nice having the Appalachian trailhead about 30 miles from the house |
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When training for a big hike I always do the Coosa Backcountry Trail at Vogel State Park.
That is a man breaker trail. If you can do that trail in 95 degree heat, you can hike anything in the US. |
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Up to Nc this weekend with the scout crew. 6.55 in, shitload of elevation climb. Back out in the morning
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Took my group out for a morning loop hike consisting of a few miles on our local long distance trail, the Finger Lakes Trail, combined with a seasonal road and a stretch of public road. Could have used more seasonal roads or FLT miles but we were on a time limit
I spent most of last week sick in bed so hikes on Friday and Saturday along with today's hike were still wiping me out fairly quickly |
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Originally Posted By tc556guy: Took my group out for a morning loop hike consisting of a few miles on our local long distance trail, the Finger Lakes Trail, combined with a seasonal road and a stretch of public road. Could have used more seasonal roads or FLT miles but we were on a time limit I spent most of last week sick in bed so hikes on Friday and Saturday along with today's hike were still wiping me out fairly quickly View Quote It’s quite the muscle group workout when hiking/backpacking. Calves going up then Hammies going down. I’m recovering better from this one than our savage gulf run last month |
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Me and Mrs spmx7777 hiked a few short trails at Joshua Tree NP.
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The worst thing about living in the declining era of a great civilization is knowing that you are. - Robert Heinlein
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Nice. Keep ‘em coming.
10.2miles today with the kid. No real views and a lot of horse shit. Probably because we were on a horse trail but I digress Attached File He stopped for water on a horseshoe and didn’t even notice. Attached File |
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That topo map looks a little steep
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A couple days ago we did the 49 Palms Oasis Trail at Joshua Tree NP. Easy trail to follow, no shade on the trail except at the end, go very early to avoid the heat, take plenty of water, hiking poles are helpful, lots of steps carved into the hillsides.
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The worst thing about living in the declining era of a great civilization is knowing that you are. - Robert Heinlein
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Took grandson for walk behind the house half mile maybe in woods. Hes 3 and kept stopping to grab rocks to throw in creek when we got to it. There was no water in creek......he was bummed.
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Did this 3 weeks ago.
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Horrible air quality due to the Canadian forest fires. Most of my hikers stayed indoors and complied with air quality hazard warnings the local health department was putting out
Five of us decided to defy the warnings and hit a local loop trail for a couple of hours. The orange sun, the twilight levels of illumination, the massive wall of grey haze that shut down any long views, the omnipresent campfire smell, it all contributed to a very eerie feeling. We're supposed to get some precipitation the next three days so hopefully that will flush some of the crud out of the air. |
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Attached File Hiked 6 miles. Gained 1000 ft of elevation topping out at 10919ft carrying my 45lb 3 yo in the pack. This was a tough one |
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The mountains are calling, and I must go. -John Muir
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Hiked Owl’s Head Mountain, in the Pemigewasset Wilderness (NH) yesterday. 20 miles, 3k elevation gain. Pretty long approach (nice woods walk with several stream crossings) and a steep climb to a wooded view less summit.
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"anarcho-tyranny"—They refuse to control real criminals so They control the innocent.
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Originally Posted By spuddicus: Nice. Keep ‘em coming. 10.2miles today with the kid. No real views and a lot of horse shit. Probably because we were on a horse trail but I digress https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/150826/IMG_4698_png-2830929.JPG He stopped for water on a horseshoe and didn’t even notice. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/150826/IMG_4697_jpeg-2830930.JPG View Quote Interesting. I didn't know Garland Mtn. had trails. |
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Hiked Peaked Mountain today, eastern central Adirondacks. Less than 10 miles, 1400 feet of ele. gain.
Nice brook, pond and beaver activity to see before it gets steep to the summit. Pretty views into the Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area. Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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"anarcho-tyranny"—They refuse to control real criminals so They control the innocent.
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Sixteen hikers and one dog on a loop route through Shindagin Hollow State Forest using various bike and snowmobile trails and the Finger Lakes Trail
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Another seven miles, nothing hard but it was 95F and typical SC humidity. I knocked out my 100oz Camelbak and had iced water waiting on me in the truck. I've hiked out west, in Mexico and Central America, the Middle East and around Asia during the summer too, just gotta know what you're doing and know yourself.
I've been increasing my trail running, trying to get back into it and I'm running the last mile to mile and a half which I'm kind of proud of given I'm kinda busted up at this point in my life. Dropping a motorcycle on your knee will do that. I carry a daypack with basically the same stuff I've always carried, which is enough to stay out overnight in an emergency and the other doodads my young cousins think are excessive. It's rare to see others carrying much more than a bottle of water in their hand. I've thought about getting one of the weighted exercise bars just to carry since I obviously can't carry a rifle (ex. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XH756YS?tag=arfcom00-20). I figure it'd be better than nothing although I usually like to use one or two trekking poles. I've got a ten pound Indian mace but I really don't want to carry that thing. While I prefer having the trails mostly to myself, I find it sad how few people you see on the trails these days, especially younger people. My cousin's kids are usually with us and they're easily the youngest outside of the playground part of the state parks. It's really odd to me too that most of the people I see on mountain bikes are in their mid forties or older. I honestly think the youngest I've seen on mountain bikes were probably in their thirties, only a couple of them and of those some had electric assist of some sort. I didn't seen the Scout camping area used but once this summer and that group was sitting around apparently for some sort of summer camp; I haven't seen anyone camping in the Scout area and not that many campers in the campground either (and all of those were RVs or tow behinds, not actual camping, i.e. tents). Same with the other parks I've been to. On the down side, the blueberry bushes are all about finished for the season and I only found a couple of blackberry bushes this year but the persimmons have fruit on them. I've done some other foraging, but we all know how dangerous that is. |
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94F, another six miles, running the last mile and a half then came home and edged, weed eated, mowed and blew off the front and back yards. Time to shower, slap on a Tigaer Balm patch and go eat some grilled chicken breast and kimchi.
Granted they moved in early this year, but I've never, ever seen my neighbor's 16yo boy do a lick of yard work; my neighbor says he likes to do it himself but I've never seen the kid even pick up a pine cone. He pulled up while I was mowing and quickly went inside. I grew up thinking that one of the reasons my parent's had kids was so that they didn't have to do yard work anymore. I was a yard mowing machine in the neighborhood too since it was one of the ways I made money for the weekends. |
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Small group of eight on the local Bob Cameron Loop with a section of the Finger Lakes Trail at the end.
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Saturday: 23 hikers, 1 dog. Buttermilk Falls State Park
https://parks.ny.gov/documents/parks/ButtermilkFallsTrailMap.pdf Generally a decent hike loop in the summer. They've been slow to repair trail damage this year Sunday: 17 hikers, 1 dog. Logan Hill Nature Preserve https://www.fllt.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Preserve-Brochure-Logan-3.pdf We usually save this place for one summer hike every August. Nice mix of open fields, ponds, ravines, wooded trails. Not much elevation change after the initial approach trail coming out of the adjacent village. |
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Originally Posted By kevhogAZ: Wife and I decided to try hiking. Bought some packs and all kinds of other cool stuff we thought we'd need, and set out for some eastern AZ adventures!! We've hiked before, but nothing over 3 miles, and nothing hard at all. Just the tourist stuff that everybody does. Day 1. We hiked an easier trail, ~5 miles out and back, along a small stream the whole way. It was the wife's birthday, and she insisted we hike where there was water. I think I nailed it!! Oh yeah, if you think AZ is nothing but dirt and cactus, prepare to be blown away!! Our goal was the small dam in the pics. We hiked a bit past it, but the trail turned in to nothing but rocks and boulders, so we turned around and headed back. https://i.imgur.com/Gf7P43f.jpg https://i.imgur.com/8awMFPc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jPeVX0y.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qocVCGS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kjKallp.jpg No idea why there's a tank trap in the middle of the stream!! Is this a future dam?? https://i.imgur.com/aYhEknW.jpg Day 2. Decided we'd try something a little harder. Mt. Baldy has an east and west trail that go to the summit. We took the east side. Our goal was to make it to the top, and check out a plane crash. We didn't get there, due to the rain storm that came in and the thought of getting struck by lightning didn't seem appealing at all!! So, we hiked up about 4.5 miles and then turned around and headed back down. https://i.imgur.com/qrdTJiq.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0YeNG9G.jpg https://i.imgur.com/56ExdTN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/wLC4UpH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6ga7fZp.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kO0Vv53.jpg Not bad for our first foray in to the hiking world!! We're already planning on going back and making it to the plane crash next summer before the monsoons hit. View Quote If you hadn't pointed out that it was Arizona I would have never guessed it. Interesting landscape. |
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Originally Posted By Loonytik: If you hadn't pointed out that it was Arizona I would have never guessed it. Interesting landscape. View Quote 21% or so of the state is covered by Ponderosa pine forests- from west of Flagstaff down east southeast through the center East of the state and into New Mexico. The higher elevations in the eastern part where kevhog hiked are by far the wettest and coolest. |
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Originally Posted By lew: 21% or so of the state is covered by Ponderosa pine forests- from west of Flagstaff down east southeast through the center East of the state and into New Mexico. The higher elevations in the eastern part where kevhog hiked are by far the wettest and coolest. View Quote All of this is true. It rains pretty much every day in the White Mountains where I was at, for most of the summer. We definitely have a few different options when it comes to forests out here. |
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I'm not bald, I'm follically challenged!!
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Originally Posted By kevhogAZ: All of this is true. It rains pretty much every day in the White Mountains where I was at, for most of the summer. We definitely have a few different options when it comes to forests out here. View Quote I drove through Arizona once and all I saw were rocks and dirt. To be fair, I was only on the interstate but I do remember the exit signs saying "Exit 5, No Services." I assume those were for ranchers to get to the other side of their 100,000 acre ranches. |
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Robinson Hollow State Forest
https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/robinsonhollowsf.pdf Bit of a gloomy day under the canopy, and rain didn't help. Lots of contrasting color on the forest floor thanks to an explosion of various fungi along the trail. A good percentage of this forest gets overlooked due to it falling outside the corridor of the Finger Lakes Trail. |
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Loop hike, CCC Rim and Gorge Trails Robert Treman State Park
Perfect hiking weather https://parks.ny.gov/documents/parks/RobertHTremanTrailMap.pdf |
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Cayuga Trail, south side, in a loop
26 hikers, 3 dogs https://ithacatrails.org/site/Cayuga%20Trail Warm sunny weather. Nice day to be out. |
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I’m visiting NH. Saturday I hiked Mt. Starr King and Waumbek. Saturday I hiked Moriah and the Carters and stayed at Carter Notch Hut. Monday I hiked the Wildcats and didn’t die descending from Wildcat D. It’s steep.
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"anarcho-tyranny"—They refuse to control real criminals so They control the innocent.
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Good work ADK. Looks like you're in Gods country
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Green and yellow blazed multi-use trails on Hammond Hill State Forest. Lots of single and group day hikers, dog walkers , equestrians and mountain bikers sharing the trail system today
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Bristlecone pine loop
3.7 miles and almost 800 ft of elevation gain. Carried 45 lb toddler in the pack Attached File |
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The mountains are calling, and I must go. -John Muir
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Bock Harvey Preserve and Rieman Woods Preserve in Enfield NY, along with part of the Finger Lakes Trail that passes through the area
https://www.fllt.org/preserves/bock-harvey-forest-preserve/ https://ithacatrails.org/site/Riemen%20Woods%20Nature%20Preserve |
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Sunday hike on the Finger Lakes Trail through Danby State Forest
https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/64131.html https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/danbysf.pdf |
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Black Diamond Trail, a local converted rail trail
https://parks.ny.gov/documents/parks/BlackDiamondBlackDiamondTrailMap.pdf |
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I hiked three different ADK trails today. Echo cliff near Piseco, Crane Mountain and Buck Mountain, which has a new trail cut to the firetower at the summit. Gorgeous weather!
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Saturday:
James Kennedy State Forest: https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/8192.html Sunday: Bahar Preserve Carpenter Falls https://www.fllt.org/preserves/bahar-preserve-carpenters-falls/ |
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