The Great Outdoors - Hiking and so on…

[motojobobo]

I’ll thematically follow suit on @endo ’s beautiful sunset pic with these two over the Cafayate valley.

[Denman John]

@SKT This is Buttle Lake in the middle of Vancouver Island. The stumps are in a wetland area and were logged many years ago. I took a few different pictures at this location and it’s the one I liked the most. Beautiful area!

[twin]

@endo Like this photo.

[twin]

@motojobobo My twin is wild about rooks also. I like the pics.

[twin]

@Denman-John Great post

[twin]

@motojobobo What is the location? These rocks look crystalline. Rather than sedimentary. This is twin A responding.

[Fadez]

I am wholeheartedly enjoying all the outdoor pics lately. Thank you everyone!! ️

[motojobobo]

Hey @twin A!
Oops, I was assuming they were sedimentary. Jumped to that conclusion after seeing the layering. Not an expert, mostly just curious.
These rocks are in a quite arid and wide valley, maybe 5 km from the current riverbed. These are the Andes mountains in northern Argentina, about 60 km south of a town called Cafayate. But I’d guess that they’ve rolled quite a ways to get here as most show somewhat rounded shapes.
By crystalline, are you implying these are metamorphic?

[twin]

More outside in the woods.

[twin]

At Indian rock were all the kids from the one room school were taken. Many generations of my family went to the Hauck school in Anise. My pop and his brothers were the last ones to go here for school. They all walked to school back then.

I did this in 1969

[Oaktavia]

@twin I have the same flowering plant in the forest around my house. Is it bloodroot?

[twin]

@Oaktavia Were do you see Bloodroot in the photos?

[twin]

@Oaktavia Bloodroot is smaller close to the ground and done blooming by now.

[Oaktavia]

@twin apparently I do not see it, but I have been reading about it being a plant with a white flower. I have the same types of wildflowers popping up on my property that look like the ones in your photos. I was wondering if they were the bloodroot plant. I suppose I can just look it up on Google. It does look pretty similar to the one in your photo.

[twin]

@Oaktavia I found it on a post made 18 days ago. It is on the first pic Bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis) On the second pic is the Rue Anemone (Anemonella thallictroides)

[Oaktavia]

@twin Oh sorry about that, I think my view of the forum page picked up the last post I was looking at. I thought it was from the same recent post. And cool, I'll have to pull some of those flowers up to check the roots at my place.

[twin]

At the old dam on the Perkiomen Creek.

[twin]

More outside,

[Mizmazzle]

We took our first backpack trip of the season this weekend. I got a new backpack and had my hikers resoled. Couldn’t be happier with both!!

Lost Creek Wilderness

Hiked in in my 822s…@SKT not sure I’ll be able to hold out on that wash haha

I’m not sure what weighed me down the most…all the Iron heart I packed in…all the beer…or all the whiskey???

The new soles are game changers @Denman-John they are way more stable as the tread goes completely across the width of the outsole. Super grippy and just beefcake as hell!

We got crazy weather our last night in. Hail, rain, thunder, lightening and snow through out the night. Forced us to pack up and leave at first light the following morning. It was a fun trip. Sadly Morgan’s new 4 runner took some decent hail damage. Thank god for insurance I guess. Next trip to the high country in 5 days!!

[endo]

Awesome, my kind of life.