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Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.
...Dale Evans ---1952
"The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.… " ~William O. Douglas
Sunrise, Mt. Rainier
It's been a while Flickr. Life is presenting some new opportunities to me lately, that are keeping me busy but excited. I travel or dream about trails every day though, always finding the direction I need inward by traveling outward.
The trail is like a border between ancient worlds. The earth behind this trail was formed 40 million years ago, in warm world of near-tropical, jungle-like forests.
The colorful red and golds hills represent a world with seasonality, 33 million years ago. Then, deciduous forests covered the land.
The distant ridgelines are topped with layers of flood basalts. These lava layers represent another world in time, 16 million years ago when enormous lava flods covered thousands of square miles of savanna-like ecosystems.
December 28, 2016
Sockeroo:
[sok-uh-roo]
noun
1. a notable success
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This morning after getting a few things done around the house, and then headed out to the woods.
The trails were busier than I like so I ventured off trail and into the woods; luckily I thought ahead and brought my poles with me which made for easier walking and exploring.
Didn't see too much in the way of wild life but I enjoyed being outside for a couple hours. The sun was shining and the wind was mild so being on the trails was much better than hiding inside.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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The trail to the Citadel led to a scramble down to the next level on the canyon wall. The land bridge and the Citadel can be seen in the distance. The ruins are on the other side of the formation.
This was only the first of several scrambles involved in the hike to the Citadel. A misstep could lead to a tumble to an untimely demise on the canyon floor. Luckily, there were no missteps!
It was a cold and windy day at Acadia, but the ice had melted a little on the trails. This shot was taken looking up the coast from near the bottom of Schooner Head trail.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm @ ISO500
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....but all trails through Mother Nature are good trails :)
Shot taken from the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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I caught these 2 ladies running along the trail in Central Park, something about this trial pushed to do a high contrast monochrome look, I guess the trial frightened me in a way
North of Pass Lake in Deception Pass State Park
Trees include Douglas fir, western hemlock, and western red cedar.
Sunlight filters through the tress along a trail at Cypress Creek Natural Area in Jupiter, Florida. See this, and more, on my website at tom-claud.pixels.com.
The Vermont Nature Trail in central Saint Vincent, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, passes through the montane forest of the upper Buccament Watershed.
While hiking a trail in an Anchorage park, we came across this big fella. Sharing the trail with him was a thrill, but getting a decent shot was a challenge. He was on the move and, even at a leisurely pace for him, we had to run at times to stay ahead. So I would run, turn around and take a couple of shots and then run some more. Under those circumstances, I never got the shot I wanted, but did manage to get one that gives a pretty good sense that he was a nice specimen. Just to be clear, he was not chasing us, nor was he the least bit concerned with our presence. He just had somewhere he wanted to be and was purposefully headed there. Oh, and this was the largest critter we saw on the trip. The pika would fit in this guy's ear...
You may note the scarring on the moose's hind leg. Here is some information from an article in "The Home Bug Garden" that explains how this scarring occurred.
"You’d think that Winter Tick would be all the parasite nastiness that any animal should have to endure, but Mother Nature has a summer surprise for moose too - Haematobosca alcis (Snow, 1891), the Moose Fly. Just as the moose is beginning to recover its condition in early summer, these housefly-sized pests start to appear. The flies hang out on the back legs of moose, pierce the skin with their long proboscis, and cause large, open sores from which they feed. If you notice a cloud of flies around the rear of a moose in summer, especially if there are sores on the hind legs, you are likely seeing Moose Flies. The flies lay their eggs in moose dropping, the larval food, so moose give these pests pretty much everything they need. The sores don't heal until frost kills off the adult flies but tend not to fester either. So, it seems likely that the flies introduce a substance that protects the sores from bacteria."
Some fall color along the trail in the Radnor Lake Natural Area. Nashville, Tennessee, USA, October 2015
There i was just taking some long exposures until a bicycle gang with LED lights all over their bikes road through.... :)