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This years summer vacation

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  • G George K
    16 Jul 2024, 00:26

    @bachophile said in This years summer vacation:

    bombard you with endless pictures

    Please do!

    We love them!

    My travels across the great plains are restricted to two trips with my parents when I was in my late teens - yeah, figure it out.

    However, I was awed by the gorgeous barrenness of the plains of North Dakota and Eastern Montana when we rode the Empire Builder. There is so much "there" not there. I kept thinking about the reaction of Lewis and Clark when they saw these endless vistas of...nothing.

    Scary, empty, awesome, and in their own way, beautiful.

    More pics, please?

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    taiwan_girl
    wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 02:27 last edited by
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    @George-K said in This years summer vacation:

    Please do!

    We love them!

    +1

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      bachophile
      wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 02:44 last edited by
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      Yosemite falls

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      El Capitan

      Gives new meaning to Alex Honold’s free solo climb

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        bachophile
        wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 02:45 last edited by
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        Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID

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          16 Jul 2024, 02:45

          Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID

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          Renauda
          wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 04:02 last edited by Renauda
          #25

          @bachophile

          To me it looks like a gopher snake. Non venomous. Fairly common here in southern Alberta around Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. Often mistaken for a rattler.

          Elbows up!

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            bachophile
            wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 03:20 last edited by
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            Today was sequoia national forest day.

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            I bet u didn’t know that sequoia has 5 vowels

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              LuFins Dad
              wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 04:07 last edited by
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              Beautiful.

              The Brad

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                jon-nyc
                wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 07:40 last edited by
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                Nice. I considered making my way there in August, it would even give me an excuse to get some meth in Bakersfield, but decided against it. We will see some Redwoods somewhere.

                Only non-witches get due process.

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                  bachophile
                  wrote on 18 Jul 2024, 23:38 last edited by
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                  Coming to you from Mexican Hat Utah

                  This is the view from the motel room overlooking the San Juan River just outside of monument valley

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                  Thats monument valley, recognize the scene from Forest Gump?

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                  Glen canyon dam

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                  And downstream from the dam, the Colorado eventually feeding into the Grand Canyon

                  Tomorrow into the Rockies and Colorado.

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                    bachophile
                    wrote on 18 Jul 2024, 23:49 last edited by
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                    Better dam pictures. Damn it’s nice.

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                      Jolly
                      wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:01 last edited by
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                      Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!

                      And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                      • J Jolly
                        19 Jul 2024, 01:01

                        Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!

                        And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.

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                        LuFins Dad
                        wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:05 last edited by
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                        @Jolly said in This years summer vacation:

                        Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!

                        And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.

                        Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..

                        The Brad

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                          George K
                          wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:07 last edited by
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                          I love travel photos. Thanks for continuing with this.

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            Mik
                            wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:14 last edited by
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                            Yes indeed. Aren’t the redwoods in Sequoia and Kings Canyon spectacular?

                            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                              Copper
                              wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:16 last edited by
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                              Yes, nice pictures. You could see most of that on Google Earth, but it's not the same as knowing the photographer.

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                                19 Jul 2024, 01:05

                                @Jolly said in This years summer vacation:

                                Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!

                                And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.

                                Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..

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                                Jolly
                                wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:17 last edited by
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                                @LuFins-Dad said in This years summer vacation:

                                @Jolly said in This years summer vacation:

                                Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!

                                And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.

                                Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..

                                Isn't that a dozen rattles on the tail?

                                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                  blondie
                                  wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 06:31 last edited by blondie
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                                  Really nice pics. Please post more!
                                  Oh, and definitely a rattlesnake. It has a rattle. And that’s the 1st defining feature with your pic. Gopher snakes (aka bull snakes) don’t have rattles on their tails. Their tails taper to a point. I’m more familiar with prairie rattlers. They aren’t as pretty as the ones down south.

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                                    Horace
                                    wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 08:14 last edited by
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                                    Beautiful pics! I hope you enjoy yourself. I remember those sequoias from our camping trip around there a few years ago. Don’t hike to exhaustion like we did.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                    • B blondie
                                      19 Jul 2024, 06:31

                                      Really nice pics. Please post more!
                                      Oh, and definitely a rattlesnake. It has a rattle. And that’s the 1st defining feature with your pic. Gopher snakes (aka bull snakes) don’t have rattles on their tails. Their tails taper to a point. I’m more familiar with prairie rattlers. They aren’t as pretty as the ones down south.

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                                      Renauda
                                      wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 16:41 last edited by Renauda
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                                      @blondie & @bachophile

                                      I have sent a copy of the snake photos to someone in Calgary who ought to be able to identify that snake with high certainty. Hopefully he is not out in the wilds right now and can get back to me soon.

                                      Elbows up!

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                                        Doctor Phibes
                                        wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 18:11 last edited by Doctor Phibes
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                                        Great photos, Mr. B.

                                        There's nothing like the US for just jaw-dropping canyons and what-not. We went to the Grand Canyon and Sedona a couple of years ago, and I was really just struck dumb by the experience. I'm hoping it's reversible.

                                        I was only joking

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                                          Mik
                                          wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 19:54 last edited by Mik
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                                          I haven’t noticed any further deterioration, Phibes. Wasn’t a lot of room for it anyway

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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