Pictures of the great outdoors thread.

[buckwacker]

A few last pics from the Smokeys this week. The mama and cubs were out in the parking lot again this morning sniffing around vehicles for food as everyone was packing to leave. It's almost like she knows when that happens. I watched her climb on some guys tonneau cover and I tried to run her off to keep her from tearing it up. She was persistent and ended up ripping the cover loose off the back of the bed and came out with what looked like a bag of trash. I guess he had that coming.

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

Stange looking/marked kittens in my yard a few weeks ago. Had an rather pungent smell...

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

A couple more spotted dog pics. She had to be on a leash for a while after surgery.

 

[indyblue]

A nice Wawasee sunset

 

[spencer rifle]

SWMBO and our youngest on the St Joe River near Spencerville

 

[DCR]

Glacier

 

[ditcherman]

Glacier
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Gorgeous.
Is it crowded now?
Do you have a pass for going to the sun road?
It was still closed when we were there, and I feel like we missed out on some epicness.

 

[El Conquistador]

Been out visiting our son in Salt Lake City for a few days beautiful scenery.

 

[El Conquistador]

This is a crater up in the mountains that you can float or SCUBA dive in. Mineral water that’s 65 feet deep. Water stays 94 degrees year round

 

[El Conquistador]

Outside this crater is a resort hotel with a nice pool. They are now putting in luxury spas that will use water out of the crater that goes to a water fall below that will go to a pool of mineral water. My son did all of the design work for this project.

 

[DCR]

Gorgeous.
Is it crowded now?
Do you have a pass for going to the sun road?
It was still closed when we were there, and I feel like we missed out on some epicness.

We were in East Glacier. We heard West Glacier was very crowded. The Sun Road seemed very crowded, so much so that people wanted to park, but couldn't. I forget the name of one place where cars circled the parking lot creating gridlock because they couldn't find a free space. We booked a package with Amtrak which included a bus tour of the Sun Road. We got to see a lot of the eastern half of the park and some of the central, never got over to see anything on the west side.

edit: Anyone wanting to go should do it now. They said the last glacier will be gone by 2030. I saw a map which showed the number of glaciers over the years and it's startling how few there are left.

 

[ditcherman]

We were in East Glacier. We heard West Glacier was very crowded. The Sun Road seemed very crowded, so much so that people wanted to park, but couldn't. I forget the name of one place where cars circled the parking lot creating gridlock because they couldn't find a free space. We booked a package with Amtrak which included a bus tour of the Sun Road. We got to see a lot of the eastern half of the park and some of the central, never got over to see anything on the west side.

edit: Anyone wanting to go should do it now. They said the last glacier will be gone by 2030. I saw a map which showed the number of glaciers over the years and it's startling how few there are left.

That parking thing is the norm for this time of year. A little better in early June when we went but still cars constantly looking for spaces at every turnoff.

The package idea is a good one.
We met quite a few people who explored both sides and everyone said the East was preferred. Not that the west isn’t awesome too, but you at least have three entrances to pick from on the east side.

 

[Dirty Steve]

Just returned from our annual snorkeling trip to Coco Plum Island, Belize. Cannot wait to return again in 2025.

Dirty Steve

 

[Ballstater98]

The 2 adults and 6 babies are back.

 

[Ballstater98]

The mornning dew found this web.

 

[Bugzilla]

This amazing looking squirrel was at the bird feeder this morning!

 

[den57]

 

[DCR]

That parking thing is the norm for this time of year. A little better in early June when we went but still cars constantly looking for spaces at every turnoff.

The package idea is a good one.
We met quite a few people who explored both sides and everyone said the East was preferred. Not that the west isn’t awesome too, but you at least have three entrances to pick from on the east side.

Oh yeah, we returned to a week of Covid.

 

[spencer rifle]

Just finished a week at Yosemite, including 5 days backpacking with the youngest and a group from church.

 

[BigRed]

Just finished a week at Yosemite, including 5 days backpacking with the youngest and a group from church.
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Wow