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See my test using photos taken just now from my iPhone. Test (simplelivingforum.net)Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
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Originally Posted by catherine
I LOVE hiking. We were camping at Algonquin Park Provincial park last year and had a chance to hike the best trails I ever hiked. Couple of scenic lookouts were just breathtaking. Hardwood lookout trail, Hemlock bluff and I forgot the name of the other trail that took me straight up for nearly 2.5 km. Hardest trail to hike, I had to make several stopovers, but the view compensated for the hard work.
FishFinder, thanks for the bump on this thread. I'd wanted to add to it but with being busy getting back to work after vacation I'd completely forgot. Last week while we were in palm springs I went on a couple of hikes. One was nice enough, and I got a nice panorama photo of the whole city with the cancer windmills off in the distance. (admittedly the city doesn't have much of a skyline since I don't think there are many (any?) buildings that are more than 2 stories tall).* The second hike, though, came recommended by some volunteers doing maintenance on the first trail. They promised me that it was worth the $12 entrance fee to get on the Indian reservation. And they were right. A lot of the trails in the area are dry river beds. This was was alongside a wet river! So it had all sorts of trees and other vegetation all over the place.
*the forum software doesn't seem to like the panorama photo but since it was the least impressive I'll let that go. The other three from the next day's hike are the cool stuff...
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Very nice, jp!!
Last weekend I went back to a couple of trails that I hadn't been to since last summer. The panorama picture probably won't do the view justice. From that spot I could see Mount Diablo, the highest point in the east bay, downtown San Francisco, downtown Oakland, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, and the Richmond Bridge. (the trail is called 3 Bridges...)
The other trail doesn't have quite as impressive views but I was impressed with how tall the grass was. At some places it was taller than 5' 8". Last time I was there it was summer and everything was dried out and short.
The last picture is not from a hike. It's an open space about a half mile from our house owned by the county. They have apparently hired a bunch of natural lawn mowers this year to lower the fire risk, which seemed very cool. I will definitely let you all know if they bring the mowers over to deal with the open space hill behind our house after they are finished there.
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Love the goats! Thanks for sharing.
One of the great things about living where we do is that we can drive 45 minutes from here and be in a markedly different climate. It's 92 at our house right now and expected to be in the upper 90's/100's from tomorrow through thursday. But I was able to drive 45 minutes SW to go hiking this afternoon on a trail where the temperature was only 75 and plan to do the same thing tomorrow and monday.
And as a bonus I got views of the ocean, a forest recovering from a wildfire, and some sort of survey badge from 1930 in the ground at the peak of the mountain I was on. The second photo is of the fire damage just beyond the sign in the first photo. Before the fire the trees on the left would have carried through that whole area.
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Well this is interesting. That little badge introduced me to the history of a long-standing federal agency that I didn’t know anything about before. Apparently they are the people that make the gps on my phone functional so I don’t have to carry printed trail maps (or hope that their is adequate signage as was the case today)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._N...ey?wprov=sfti1
Great scenery JP, and what an excellent way to escape the heat.