EPOCH6

Now that I can afford gas I've been exploring the outskirts of my hometown a lot more. My family used to take me camping out there for weeks at a time when I was younger but all of my memories before 10 years old are so hazy. Going out there recently has been mind blowing and completely novel, it's like I'm seeing it all for the first time again. We've spent every weekend camping out here since early April now and don't plan on breaking the streak until summer's over.

Here's a detailed and well labelled map of my hood:



In the early mornings just before sunrise I take off out there alone to look for weird **** off trail and find something almost every time, whether that means an insanely complex 3 story tree house 50 feet up a tree full of books and furniture, a network of caves and creeks, amateur survival shelters, bones hanging from ropes in massive hollowed out stumps burnt from the inside, or dissected animal carcasses... Sometimes it's absolutely terrifying, sometimes it's the most relaxing thing I've ever known.

Pictures of crazy ****:

A view of the valley from a mountain at the beginning of the creek stretching down to the border.



The abandoned quarry where we **** up our vehicles racing and doing miscellaneous dumb ****.



A small swimming pool sized dam at the bottom of a waterfall, 10 minutes up the mountain bordering the quarry.



Deep in the woods, somewhere out there.



And Tree Weaver, the strangest thing I've ever encountered. 20 minutes down the creek towards the border.



Where do you all **** around? Any interesting spots near or in your town? Places that draw unusual amounts of drunken bull****? Post pictures if you can, you all have camera phones, use them.

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I love going fishing down in the Outer Banx some good stuff right. Lot of the little creeks & rivers around here are great for trout, too. But back in Texas there's a place coming in from the gulf and it's a river type thing but there's a sandbar which separates the gulf from the river. That is an EXCELLENT place to go fishing, especially if you get out of your boat right on the sandbar and fish.

Exo

My best friend has a cabin in the Catskills. We are up there multiple times a year.

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Use to hang out up in The White Mountains of New Hampshire a ton years back. That and white water rafting up in northern Maine each spring when they'd have the dam releases.

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Beautiful pics, Epoch. That Tree Weaver hut is very unusual.

Escaping in London is a rather different affair - but the river provides slight relief from the claustrophobia of city living. (Apologies for big, wide-sweep pic: )



Not as rugged or spectacular as the places you guys go, but you can walk for miles along the riverbank footpaths. In fact, I remember one time I got a stone in my shoe, which shows you just how wild the terrain can be.

Joking aside, this range of low hills - charming rather than spectacular- is a train-ride away from the city. After a week in the office it feels like Paradise !

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A couple of blocks away from where I live, the road ends and is blocked off. If you take that beyond the roadblock you come across all kinds of trails and ****. Yesterday I went to this dried up pond to do some smoking and jamming with the mates only to find out that it wasn't dried up anymore. It was really beautiful since it was overcast and the water was undisturbed and reflected it brilliantly.

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DwnWthVwls

I'm gonna have to see if I can get some pics from campus wetlands/swamp where I've been doing research this summer.

This is an awesome thread.

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@EPOCH6

Anyone ever tell you you take great wilderness pictures?

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EPOCH6

Thanks man, pretty alright for Nexus 5 cellphone shots.

Getting hype as **** for this weekend, my pap and I are going to do a lap around Harrison Lake, which is about a ~230 kilometre trip, alternating quad / dirtbike. It's basically the equivalent of circumventing the entire city of Vancouver three times, if Vancouver consisted entirely of mountains and winding off-road trails.

Many more pictures will be taken, it's gonna be some serious Lord of the Rings ****, except Gandalf is riding a furious Polaris Sportsman 500 instead of beautiful white stallion.

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^I so envy you^

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