random pics that YOU have taken.......

[CurtEgerer]

[CurtEgerer]

Up close and personal with a 9-10 foot gator yesterday. Popped his head up 10 feet in front of my kayak out in the middle of a lake. Apparently, I scared him more than he scared me. He dove and surfaced about a 100 yds away ....






Not exactly like I wasn't prepared (also a handgun in the PFD):

[rcooled]

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Back up to the mountains for mental and physical therapy, buddy SteveO came this time.

The Cascades are aptly named particularly this time of year the days after some good rain





Park service boat house, I’ve never seen it grounded completely before.
Lake level is very low partly to facilitate some work being done at the Seattle City Light ramp and main boat house










Zero gator sightings, zero bears, one deer plenty of birds, Canadian Geese, Swans, Mallards, Crows and the like

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Skip, your photos are always a welcome respite from so much pervasive ugliness in the world.

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Thanks Billiam,
My goal is to spread and share the beauty I come across, I've never seen our country as divided and at odds with each other as it is and I see that as ridiculously destructive.
We could be soo much better off if we could focus on the things we agree on and work together towards creating a "more perfect Union"

Old dude rant over. For now

[CurtEgerer]

These 2 were just now digitized from 1981 prints:

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Somewhere on Lake Superior ...

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Love that last shot Curt!

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]

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April 2018
Carried my yak down to a very low Ross lake reservoir with another North Cascades enthusiast named Karl Kaiyala. The trail is just over a mile, several hundred feet of elevation loss and pretty narrow, so much so that we took turns spotting each other.
We took 2 trips each- one with a pack, 2nd with a yak.
Banging my plywood yak off of trees or rocks is no bueno!

Spent the night several miles up lake, the muddy lake bottom was problematic at best.
No other crazy humans sighted during that adventure except in the parking lot and at the bottom of the haul road.

Karl is an amazing dude, several years older than I and qualified as a woodlands firefighter. He carried his yak AND his pack back up hill to the trail connection, had to be an 80 lb load at least.
Not me, I made two trips to that point.

Here's his write up:

https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8026929

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Long Beach, Wa coast June 2021

[J-Mac]

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That’s a Guinness glass, but alas no Guinness.