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Road Trip: West Coast Tour, Spring Vacation 2012.
For our Spring vacation this year, Scott and I decided to stay in our own backyard, if you will. We decided to drive to a few destinations: Cannon Beach, Eureka, and Portland.
Haystack Rock, as some of you probably already know, is a 235-foot sea stack in Cannon Beach, Oregon. It is sometimes claimed locally to be the third-tallest such "intertidal" (meaning it can be reached by land) structure in the world, but there are no scientific references to support this. A popular tourist destination, the monolithic rock is adjacent to the beach and accessible by foot at low tide. The Haystack Rock tide pools are home to many intertidal animals, including starfish, sea anemone, crabs, chitons, limpets, and sea slugs. The rock is also a nesting site for many sea birds, including terns and puffins. We had a fantastic view directly from our beachfront suite!
Before the climb. It was interesting to hear from another walked that this point of view was the most popular/photographed. But I am yet to find one on flickr, but then I cannot really be bothered looking for longer than 10 minutes.
Armies of 'yeti' marching across the landscape were a common sight in Finland till a few years ago. These two-metre, slender haystacks built around a vertical pole are now a rarity.
Somewhere in Central Finland.
A yearling bull moose visited this haystack, looking for an easy meal.
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Haystacks, or Hay Stacks, is a hill in England's Lake District, situated at the south-eastern end of the Buttermere Valley. Although not of any great elevation (597 m, 1,958 ft), Haystacks has become one of the most popular fells in the area. This fame is partly due to the writings of Alfred Wainwright, who espoused its attractions and chose it as the place where he wanted his ashes scattered.Its summit is interesting and contains a number of attractive rock formations and tarns.
Haystack Rock is a 235-foot (72-meter) sea stack in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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Just my take on the Haystack Rock sunset photograph. The Oregon coast is such a beautiful place, I love taking photos of it.
Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, low tide, seen from south. Note all the people at the foot of the rock, they're checking out the tide pools as well as the birds roosting on the rock. There was a rope stretched around the bottom to persuade people not to (say) start climbing, also the occasional person from Audubon Society or similar keeping watch. According to the lady there when we were there, tufted puffins do nest on the rock (strictly the reason for the visit) but they tend to tuck themselves into their burrows mid-day, and she hadn't seen any since before 11:00 (this was at 11:30). I might have seen a fly-by but tufted puffin viewing fail. However there were a bunch of pelagic cormorants (nesting, I think) and (of course) Western Gulls up there, and other interesting bird fly-bys, and well a beautiful day. Hardly got to notice the tide pools, perhaps a different trip. (I did get some pix of the pelagic cormorants in their nests, but nothing that was artistic. Just enough to be certain they were, in fact, pelagic cormorants, esp since one was fluffing itself/preening and demonstrated the white flank patches. Wasn't quite sure if they were in fact raising chicks, I did see something at the feet of one of them that could have been a chick. Or a snack. It was way up there.)
Haystack Rock, a 235 foot sea stack, reflected in the wet sand.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
amazing! and right in front of it are some fantastic tide pools visible at low tide. Alas, the tide was coming in while I was here. These are still the only tide pools that I've seen a sea slug in! A beautiful and bizarre little creature; like a giant, mint slug with red & white feather on its back!
Haystacks is seen in this summer 2001 image over the shores of Buttermere.
The path that ascends to Scarth Gap is well seen here.
Not a bad spot for lunch, taken from the rock on which I sat and had lunch, just below the summit of Haystacks at about 1pm on July 6th 2018, my favourite mountain, on the last day of a week in the lakes, here's to October 2018.
Looking down Ennerdale from Haystacks Summit.
Haystacks, or Hay Stacks, is a hill in England's Lake District, situated at the south-eastern end of the Buttermere Valley. Although not of any great elevation (597 m, 1,958 ft), Haystacks has become one of the most popular fells in the area.
This fame is partly due to the writings of Alfred Wainwright, who espoused its attractions and chose it as the place where he wanted his ashes scattered. Its summit is interesting and contains a number of attractive rock formations and tarns.
The Western Fells occupy a triangular sector of the Lake District, bordered by the River Cocker to the north east and Wasdale to the south east. Westwards the hills diminish toward the coastal plain of Cumberland. At the central hub of the high country are Great Gable and its satellites, while two principal ridges fan out on either flank of Ennerdale, the western fells in effect being a great horseshoe around this long wild valley. Although lower than its neighbours, Haystacks provides the connection between the Great Gable group and the northern branch of the horseshoe. Immediately to the south east are Brandreth, Green Gable and Great Gable, forming the head of Ennerdale. North west are the well known trio of Buttermere fells, High Crag, High Stile and Red Pike.
The Buttermere- Ennerdale watershed descending from Brandreth is initially indistinct, running north west across a broad plateau. After half a mile it reaches the rocky protuberance of Great Round How (1,817 ft) and then its character changes completely. The watershed narrows to fine ridge, steep enough on the Ennerdale side and rimmed by crags throughout above the head of Buttermere. The beauty of the scene is completed by a succession of rocky tops and nestling tarns, until the high point is reached at the western end. A sharp descent over rock now follows, leading to Scarth Gap (1,460 ft), a walkers' pass between the two valleys. Beyond the ridge rises again to High Crag, a steep climb on scree.
The northern face of Haystacks is topped by crags which giving a soaring curved profile from the settlement of Gatesgarth at their base. On the left in this view is Green Crag, while the highest section, unnamed on Ordnance Survey maps is called Big Stack by Wainwright. Warnscale Beck, one of the feeder streams of Buttermere, runs down beneath Green Crag from its source near Great Round How. There are the remains of extensive quarries on the upper slopes of Warnscale, including Dubs, once served by a tramway from the summit of Honister Pass. Across Warnscale is Fleetwith Pike, a satellite of Grey Knotts.
The summit of Haystacks has a number of tarns. The highest is just below the top, generally referred to as the summit tarn but officially unnamed. Halfway along the ridge is Innominate Tarn, a popular beauty spot with an indented rocky shore and a line of tiny islets. At the eastern end is Blackbeck Tarn, a long slender pool which overflows through a cleft in the crags
The summit sits on a short rocky spine, set at right angles to the ridge. Both ends of the ridge have cairns, that at the northern end being the accepted summit. A lower parallel ridge lies just to the east. The view is excellent, the high points being Gable Crag on Great Gable and the western panorama of Ennerdale Water and High Crag. Crummock Water and Buttermere are also well seen. The foreground picture revolves around Innominate Tarn, lying in full view to the east.