Hey all! I'm starting my thread to post photos now. I HIGHLY encourage anyone else to go right ahead and start your own thread as well and post pics! Travel photos, adventure photos, vacation photos, nature photos, etc.. Anything you want as long as they are not obscene (no nudity) and they are your own photos. Create your own thread and post all your photos in that thread. Please use an external host such as imageshack and embed them into your posts. Have fun!
Wraith

Here are photos from a recent climb I did. The mountain is called "Mt Hood" in Oregon, USA. It's 11,240 ft high and my friend and I climbed to the top.

Here it is from the top of another mountain I climbed. (Mt Defiance)
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Here is a pic of my buddy and I at the top, I'm in the red jacket.
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Here's pic to the North of mountains in Washington. Left to right; Mt St Helens, Mt Ranier and Mt Adams.
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Here's a very surreal pic. It's the shadow of the mountain cast down the valley as the sun was rising. This pic is not doctored in any way!
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Here's a South view from the top where you can see Mt Jefferson in the background. Behind that is a trio of mountains called the Three Sisters.
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This is a pic of the final ascent. You can go multiple ways. This route goes thru the Pearly Gates. It has a rather large cravas in front of it. (sulfer vent)
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We climbed this route off to the left which was near verticle at the top. Very scetchy!!
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There is a trail that also circumnavigates Mt Hood called the "Timberline Trail." It's 41 miles long, 12,000 ft elevation gained and lost over the course of the trail, 14 river crossings. It's quite brutal and it's said it takes 4 to 5 days to do the trail. We did it in 16 hours! HA!!!

This is myself standing on the West face on top of Gnarl Ridge.
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This is at the same spot looking South down the valley
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Here I am on the West face
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Just past that are some falls called "Ramona Falls"
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Here's a pic from the top of Castle Crag in Northern California.
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Here's a shot of the top as we were going up.
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Here I am at a recent practice burn. I did have to remove my fire departments name and logo off my pics for personal reasons.
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This is the building now fully involved.
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Just a pic of myself after being inside the fire.
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Here is another mountain I like climbing called "Mt Defiance."
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Just a shot with myself out in front.
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Here's a pic of a natural lake near the top called Warren Lake. It's only means of filling is with rain water. It's home to a very rare breed of salamanders.
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Here's me doing a little free climbing near the top.
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Here's the shot of the gorge I live in.
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Here's a climb called "Augspurger Mountain"
Check out the climate contrast between the lower part and the top. Here's the lower part;
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And here I am at the very top.
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A bird they use to scare the pigieons and rats at work. :)

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This mountain is called Wind Mountain. We have to free climb the face to reach the top. One slip and it's all over!

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Just me doing some more scrambling.
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And the view from the top!
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wow really wonderful pictures.

I believe, that I live in the wrong country :yawinkle:

man u are great ;)

Augspurger Mountain" <=== can i just hire a heli to the top instead of climb ?

good posts wraith :) but I'm afraid to climb that Wind Mountain as it's very dangerous to me ;)

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it's a really nice country. hope someday i will be there.

Cheers.

@ subway; Thank you very much, I like here. You can't really say that about living in the wrong place. Every place is beautiful in their own right! :)

@ stallone1®; Haha, well Augspurger Mtn really isn't that heard of a climb. It was just really crappy when we climbed it!

@ teknik; That's what I live for! I like free climbing, when I'm done, it feels really good. Very exhilarating.

@ TaI; Thanks sir! I live in a state that gets it's fair share of rain. But the trade off is excellent summers and green beauty. I wouldn't trade it for anything!

@ Blue_ray; Fantastic! Make sure to stop by so we can exchange theme secrets! ;)

And a few more random pics;

This is at a farm about 10 miles away from me. They always have a big pumpkin patch there where you can pick your own. It's beautiful in the fall.
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This is a random sunset from right near my home. I live extremely close to a river called the Columbia River.
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This is a beach on the Columbia where lots of people windsurf and kite board. I took this just a couple days ago.
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I also live about 2 hours from the coast, I will be heading there this weekend and will have some more pics. This is the Newport Bay Bridge.
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Yes u r right. Every place can be beautiful, but if i see ur pic´s...u live on an absolutly nice place :yawinkle:

Oh btw...u could send me a few pumpkins, so i could make a lot of pumpkin-bread :lol:

What a place to live in...in the heart of the mountains,and yet just 2 hours from the coast...lucky you.. :)

154987wraithevolution, you are Blessed, are you single?154988

very nice pics:win:

beautiful and breathtaking scenery. love the pix.

Wow that's a great picture you took. Keep it up.

Great pics and wonderful nature... I really enjoy watching them....

hey man,
really great pics!! :good2:
i love all of them!
hiking is such great fun! and the pics r a lovely bonus, arent they!

the sunset is wonderful! u can almost feel the ambience!

great work! would love to see more!

u inspire me to post a few of my own :)
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u inspire me to post a few of my own :)


Please, post your own pics ;)

i donno how i missed to see these beautiful photos....just amzazzzzzzzzzzing mate.....very nice peice of work....very very good photographs...post more buddy!

those are really nice pictures man... hope you can upload some more and inspire more members not to be shy....just post their photos here.:ilove:

Mt Hood is really beautiful place.. i used to live around that area... you can always see the snowy mountain from Portland all the time even in the summer :D