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Someone took this picture of me at my friend's bachelor party. Perfect profile picture for everything!
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as a person who also cannot articulate their eyebrows in a way that does not express concern or sadness, greetings brother
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Picnic Princess posted:Very unconventional since I have a 40L and usually split gear with the husband. Here I have our ridgerests strapped to the sides of my pack while dealing with a flooded trail. He was carrying the tent. Also strapped to the outside is a camera tripod. Is that water as cold as I think it is? Because that looks like glacial meltwater 
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Death by Cranes posted:Someone took this picture of me at my friend's bachelor party. Perfect profile picture for everything! *In best Steve Stifler voice* "What's up gently caress FACE?!"
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peter gabriel posted:I need to go to these places, they are just perfect to me. Thanks for posting your pics. That is super awesome, you won't regret a moment. Maybe we'll run into each other, I'm out there a lot! Jastiger posted:Wow! Absolutely beautiful! The mountains and vistas are pretty as well. They are nuts. I want to go really badly too. The geology nerd in me wants to go visit the 3 billion year old Canadian Shield rock. Max Manus posted:Is that water as cold as I think it is? Because that looks like glacial meltwater Yes, and yes! But it feels amazing on a hot day. I tend to dunk my hair in it to keep cool too. Works wonders. Plus it 's so refreshing and crisp to drink.
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Picnic Princess posted:They are nuts. I want to go really badly too. The geology nerd in me wants to go visit the 3 billion year old Canadian Shield rock. Don't actually do this 
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Picnic Princess posted:That is super awesome, you won't regret a moment. Maybe we'll run into each other, I'm out there a lot! As someone who has lived "in the city" their whole life, its crazy to me that standing water just chillin out is SAFE TO DRINK. (It is safe, right?)
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 Cut my nose while ice skating in January. I had to fill an accident report out for it...
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Jastiger posted:(It is safe, right?) no not unless you treat it anyway. presumably she's filtering and/or boiling it before she's drinking. LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 03:47 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Unless you have a filter... No, you know what, be safe, boil any loving water, in the field.
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Picnic Princess posted:Okay, I will! Stunning stuff. Thanks!
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Jastiger posted:As someone who has lived "in the city" their whole life, its crazy to me that standing water just chillin out is SAFE TO DRINK. (It is safe, right?) I treat it all, except for a couple rare occasions where I've literally drank from a glacier, and it wasn't standing, flowing over ice and bedrock. It's like eating snow. There's no life up there that can transmit parasites. But I have severely lectured people drinking from streams below tree line, they're just asking to be sick. We have a lot of megafauna here that like to poo poo in or near rivers and lake shores. Especially horses. A number of popular trails are open to horse outfitters to take clients on day trips.
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I live in the mountains of British Columbia and we've always been told the mineral content of the water can give you the runs if it doesn't give you beaver fever or something nastier. Gotta boil it. This is our tap water source though, unchlorinated:
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Reverse Centaur posted:I live in the mountains of British Columbia and we've always been told the mineral content of the water can give you the runs if it doesn't give you beaver fever or something nastier. Gotta boil it. This is our tap water source though, unchlorinated: Ok I had to look that up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis I thought I had beaver fever once but I just took a cold shower to get rid of it.
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Picnic Princess posted:Okay, I will! These landscapes are stunning and the pics great! If we're now doing "goons in the mountains" I might contribute to the thread with my pixelated friends Wintergoon  Summergoon  let's take some altitude 
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Gold Coastin' with my buddy (me on the right) so no mountains ...but dat oceanview doe 
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Continuing with the Goons in Mountains theme, these were taken around ~8,000 feet: This whole training exercise was a joint thing with an ANA signals intelligence group (it's a public thing, but i blacked out patches and faces just to be sure). We decided to do some war zone tourism and climbed up to an old, broken-down fort for maximum signal coverage of the city below. The locals say the structure itself was built by Iskandar (Alexander the Great), but I'm pretty sure it was just a hill fort built and abandoned by some warlord years ago to control the neighboring crossroads.    and here's just me 1 year and 30lbs post mountain climbing adventures. 
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Reverse Centaur posted:I live in the mountains of British Columbia and we've always been told the mineral content of the water can give you the runs if it doesn't give you beaver fever or something nastier. Gotta boil it. This is our tap water source though, unchlorinated: Interesting, I've never heard any concern over mineral content out here. Just that if you're below tree-line, assume it's full of poo poo and disease. Ironically I just got over what was probably giardia from a trip to Mexico last month.
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Picnic Princess posted:Okay, I will! Not sure if it is, those rule, congrats on getting out there.
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Rick posted:Not sure if it is, those rule, congrats on getting out there. Okay, have a couple more. Yes, I have bad knees, and yes, my mountain wardrobe is limited.   The second one has the coolest lake situation. World famous Lake Louise is at the bottom of the valley, then Mirror Lake, then Lake Agnes. You can visit them all in an hour. And you should! Everyone get out there!
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BC is so loving awesome. Kettle Valley Area  Big:http://i.imgur.com/D3Z4b7d.jpg Taken on that property: 
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Picnic Princess posted:
Man I've been to Yellowstone and I feel like this rivals that in "amazing stuff you can see from one view." Gonna have to add this to the list.
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Rick posted:Man I've been to Yellowstone and I feel like this rivals that in "amazing stuff you can see from one view." Gonna have to add this to the list. If you liked Yellowstone, make sure you hit Glacier. I did both and Glacier is head and shoulders above Yellowstone in the "Beautiful vista" department, and that is saying something since Yellowstone is pretty solid. Picnic Princess posted:Okay, have a couple more. These are amazing.
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Well this is what I am douing today http://www.thomsonworldwide.com/destinations/Canada/Lake-Louise
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FreshFeesh posted:Random shot from last October You have a very punchable face. Can't tell if its the hair or something about the structure, but
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peter gabriel posted:Well this is what I am douing today  Although, the first picture on that page isn't Lake Louise, it's Moraine Lake. But they're a 10 minute drive apart. Make sure you go to Moraine Lake. Here's a pic I took last year, it's kind of smoky from a forest fire, but it adds to the mystery.  Panorama of Moraine Lake, smoky July. by Geographic Ecotourist, on FlickrSulfurMonoxideCute has a new favorite as of 18:59 on Mar 7, 2015 |
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Picnic Princess posted:
The whole area ticks all my boxes, my boxes are all ticked. Some people like beaches and deserts, I want to holiday in an air freshener label
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Not pristine mountains or a beautiful vista, but I am having a good hair day and drinking from my favorite coffee mug.
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mikerock posted:BC is so loving awesome. S'up, fellow Mosin owner. 
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Picnic Princess posted:
Welp there goes my Goon crush, all credibility lost.
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Picnic Princess posted:By the end of the summer, I'll have some new stories to make up for it. I hope so. I noticed that you had some amenities like knee pads, cell phones, and tents, but I was gonna let that slide. But DRIVING? Why, I never. Nah, tbh I'm jealous. I really want to go back and hike up in that area. I have a buddy from near Banff and he had nothing but great things to say of the hiking. Just gotta get in shape and not have a 2 year old and we can go fight bears in those awesome mountains. For contributions on this topic:  Roman Nose Lake in North Idaho.  Mount Schweitzer  Me and the little one at Mammoth Springs in Yellowstone! Ok thats enough for now, though I have some GREAT ones from Glacier!
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Knee pads? Man I wish. Those are knee braces. I have hosed up joints and limp off every mountain.
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Picnic Princess posted:Knee pads? Man I wish. Those are knee braces. I have hosed up joints and limp off every mountain. I think we are going to be booking a holiday to that hotel on Lake Louise! I've been asked do you ever see the Northern Lights up there and is there plenty to do around the area? We are thinking of having a week there then getting on a train to Seattle for a grunge pilgrimage, does that sound possible?
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