CAMP TIL YOU CANT (aka your favorite camp/cabin vacation spots?)
edith head
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Hello,
Camping and cabin season has started, and since we have Strutters from all over, I'd really like to learn about some nice outdoorsy destinations (lakes, hikes, forests etc) you guys love.
My favorite places in California are
1. Sequoia National Park
2. Big Sur
3. Lake Siskyou
in a few days, i'll be visiting Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and would love any recommendations for hikes and whatnot if anyone is familiar with the area.
Camping and cabin season has started, and since we have Strutters from all over, I'd really like to learn about some nice outdoorsy destinations (lakes, hikes, forests etc) you guys love.
My favorite places in California are
1. Sequoia National Park
2. Big Sur
3. Lake Siskyou
in a few days, i'll be visiting Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and would love any recommendations for hikes and whatnot if anyone is familiar with the area.
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I'm doing Steep Ravine in a couple weeks. It's mindblowing how close it is to SF and yet how sick of a spot.
Some great spots that are also close to SF are Butano State Park, Point Reyes Nat'l Seashore, Samuel P. Taylor, Half Moon Bay State Beach...
Further north up the coast are some great spots: Humboldt Lagoons, Patrick's Point, Redwood Nat'l Park, Six Rivers, Jedediah Smith.
And then there's Yosemite, quite possibly the most beautiful place on the planet. Just did a week out there last month. Glacier Point and Tioga Pass roads were not yet open, but the Valley was nearly empty (which is rare).
And that's just CA....
1. Point Reyes.
2. Big Basin.
3. Standish-Hickey.
Texas-wise:
1. Padre Island.
2. Pedernales Falls.
3. Enchanted Rock.
Apostle Islands - Bayfield WI (South shore of Lake Superior)
I have lived in Oakland since 1998. I went to Yosemite for the very first time last month.
That is some shameful shit. But better late than never.
Do Nymph, Dream, Emerald Lake.... It's the most incredible hike I've ever been on. Go early for photo ops.
No foraging for wood allowed on site, so walk to the near-by beach and just collect some driftwood.
Emigrant Wilderness just north of Yosemite. I go backpacking there every summer since 2005. It's off 108. Enter through Kennedy Meadows. Fishing there is so easy it's ridiculous. You can practically grab them out of the water in the right spots.
Near S??o Paulo there's Praia da Fazenda, a little nature preserve with a nice campsite, something pretty rare in Brazil. You can hike out to other nicer beaches nearby:
and there's this canyon near where I live now that I've been meaning to visit, next to a town called Cambar?? do Sul. Most of the locals here don't know about it, despite the fact that you kind of drive past it on the way to the worst beach in the universe where everyone spends their summer.
I've been going more east the past couple of summers. More pine trees and hotter. But the whole range is rad.
The coast is cool too. And sleeping in my tent in the San Juans, with mellow bike ride days?--unfuckwittable.
Nice. I'm going to camp at Butano SP late summer/early fall for the first time.
Some really good suggestions here.
My want list is as follows
Antelope Canyon in AZ
Zion National Park in Utah
Devil's Tower in Wyoming
Denali in Alaska
One time while camping in Santa Cruz, my girl and I had a birds-eye view of this dude at another site trying to stoke his campfire by pouring gas onto it. The flame shot from the campfire right up into the gas can. He dropped it in a quick second, then tried to put the can-fire out by kicking it, which only spread the fire all over his campsite. After jumping around for a minute or so in a wild panic, dude eventually caught his snap and grabbed some blankets to suffocate the various fires he had created. We nearly had to be hospitalized from laughter.