This years summer vacation
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@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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wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 02:44 last edited by
Yosemite falls
El Capitan
Gives new meaning to Alex Honold’s free solo climb
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wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 02:45 last edited by
Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID
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Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID
wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 04:02 last edited by RenaudaTo 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.
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wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 03:20 last edited by
Today was sequoia national forest day.
I bet u didn’t know that sequoia has 5 vowels
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wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 04:07 last edited by
Beautiful.
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wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 07:40 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 18 Jul 2024, 23:38 last edited by
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
Thats monument valley, recognize the scene from Forest Gump?
Glen canyon dam
And downstream from the dam, the Colorado eventually feeding into the Grand Canyon
Tomorrow into the Rockies and Colorado.
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wrote on 18 Jul 2024, 23:49 last edited by
Better dam pictures. Damn it’s nice.
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wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:01 last edited by
Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
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Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:05 last edited by@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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wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:07 last edited by
I love travel photos. Thanks for continuing with this.
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wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:14 last edited by
Yes indeed. Aren’t the redwoods in Sequoia and Kings Canyon spectacular?
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wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:16 last edited by
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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@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..
wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 01:17 last edited by@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?
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wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 06:31 last edited by blondie
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. -
wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 08:14 last edited by
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.
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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.wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 16:41 last edited by RenaudaI 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.
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wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 18:11 last edited by Doctor Phibes
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.
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wrote on 19 Jul 2024, 19:54 last edited by Mik
I haven’t noticed any further deterioration, Phibes. Wasn’t a lot of room for it anyway