"Hello there!, I'll be your tour guide on a boating adventure, a day of exploration, in the summertime.
This is a harbour seal, I think. I refer to them as the Cute seals, the Grey Seal is much larger & also called a horsehead seal, because, THEY UGLY! 😂
You don't have to be in a boat to see these. I can walk to most shorelines and see them.
Asking the group mind in case someone has #opinions.
The drastic weight loss during my extended hospital stay (~100lbs) has changed my body-shape in all ways save skeletal.
1 weird-ass effect is that my feet have shrunk in width & thickness, but not length, which means I’m now swimming in my Docs, but can’t go down a size.
I’m trying to find a solution that won’t make it too hot for summer wear. I’m leaning towards #hiking#socks but am not familiar enough.
Just donated $100 to the amazing Organic Maps project: Trackerless, fully offline, OSM based, open source mapping for Android/iOS. Great UX & routing, super fast & good coverage even of hiking paths, elevation lines & public transport layers...
From their website: "Organic Maps is one of a few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card (by the way, your operator constantly tracks you), and go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge without any byte sent to the network."
This is how you buy some of the best Alpine cheese: there is a small fortune in cheese (and some butter and yoghurt) in this fridge with payment based on just trusting your customers to leave the money in a post box 🤩🧀
Je fuis quelques jours les températures incandescentes de l’Ile-de-France minérale, pour le Parc naturel régional de la #Brenne. Vous connaissiez ? J’avoue que moi non, mais c’est à un jet de pierres de Châteauroux (2h de train Intercités depuis chez moi), et ça promet quelques belles #randos entre les étangs et les petits villages médiévaux, sans parler des spécialités régionales. #rando#randonnée#hike#hiking#voyage#travel#photo#photography
We took a hike in Cliff Cave Park this afternoon. The 1st photo is the lookout point from the parking lot by our car at 10x zoom. The 2nd is basically a reverse shot, a photo of the car from the lookout. If you zoom in you can see my wife's white Chevy Bolt backed into a space at the back of the lot. The last two pictures are just landscape and autumn colors. Great day for a walk straight up hill. 🙂
There's a #missing hiker near #Monrovia California, who was apparently researching old #hiking trails. I think he's in one of these canyons: "Excurions up Monrovia Canyon may be made to (3 mi.) Sawpit Canyon, (6 mi). Deer Park, (14 mi.) Fish Canyon and (17 mi.) Los Lomas" -- now, to find those maps. He was hiking off trail... probably on an old trace. Not a great thing in the Angeles National Forest, which is extremely rough/rugged/dangerous down there.
@jessie is a lover of #languages and helps run #CommonVoice, @mozilla 's open #voice#data set, which now supports over 100 languages. She also teaches #WebDev and loves #hiking. She's awesome you should follow her 🇬🇧
That's all for now, please do share your own lists so we can create deeper connections, and a tightly-connected community here
I'm reminded here of @maryrobinette's short story - "Red Rockets" - "She built something better than fireworks. She built community."
Mt Monroe and Mt Washington in the white mountains. Since it’s Wed, I’ll start with waterfalls. More pics and detail in thread #hiking#WaterfallWednesday
AAA's #Westways magazine recommending #MtBaldy#MountSanGorgonia and #SanJacintoPeak as hiking locations. They include a disclaimer, but nothing about needing serious training/preparation for the elevation, the difficulty of all 3 of these hikes (Vivian Creek?!?!?!). #hiking
The first photo is the view from near my camp on Cloudy Pass. Today has been incredible but tough. Hiked 20 miles with 6400’ elevation gain. This is not like the PCT, it’s rough trails that go straight up for hours. But i’m so happy, I wanted an epic long weekend and Glacier Peak Wilderness is providing that in spades so far.
How do you maintain walking / biking trails in the woods? Recently purchased a home with more than 4 acres of property. The majority of that is fairly dense woods.