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Favorite Geological Feature You've Visited

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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,930 Swaye's Wigwam

    Just in WA
    Dry Falls and the Coulee is pretty cool
    Liberty Bell / Washington Pass, and Mt. Baring are cool.
    Rainier obvi
    St. Helens


    Seneca Rocks, WV



    Flat Irons in Boulder, CO
    Roan Cliffs / Grand Valley, CO
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOb-fXUestM

    Bucket List
    Denali
    Patagonia
    Himalayas

    Almost mentioned Dry Falls, highly underrated.

    Liberty Bell is cool.

    I really want to go to Mount Shuksan, never been on that side of Baker.
    I recommend Dry Falls at dusk. That whole stretch from Ephrata to Grand Coulee is cool. Why more people (myself included) don't weekend at Banks Lake is beyond me.



    Mt. Shuksan / Artist point is great! You can get a south view of Shuksan and eastern view from Baker Lake. When I was in Colorado a little diner had a big mural of Shuksan on the wall. I don't think they realized it was in Washington. I also personally enjoy Whitehorse Mountain outside of Darrington. Virtually rises like 6500 feet from the valley floor.

    Shuksan from Baker Lake:



    White Horse:



    Mt. Baring:



  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072

    BearsWiin said:

    This thread sure turned to shit

    Cuz Oly Beer?
    Oly Beer was the frosting on the crap cake. Hey, let's quit talking about cool places in the whole world and just talk about local shit
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,870 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    This thread sure turned to shit

    Cuz Oly Beer?
    Oly Beer was the frosting on the crap cake. Hey, let's quit talking about cool places in the whole world and just talk about local shit
    It was nothing special to begin with

  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,260 Founders Club

    Just in WA
    Dry Falls and the Coulee is pretty cool
    Liberty Bell / Washington Pass, and Mt. Baring are cool.
    Rainier obvi
    St. Helens


    Seneca Rocks, WV



    Flat Irons in Boulder, CO
    Roan Cliffs / Grand Valley, CO
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOb-fXUestM

    Bucket List
    Denali
    Patagonia
    Himalayas

    Almost mentioned Dry Falls, highly underrated.

    Liberty Bell is cool.

    I really want to go to Mount Shuksan, never been on that side of Baker.
    I recommend Dry Falls at dusk. That whole stretch from Ephrata to Grand Coulee is cool. Why more people (myself included) don't weekend at Banks Lake is beyond me.



    Mt. Shuksan / Artist point is great! You can get a south view of Shuksan and eastern view from Baker Lake. When I was in Colorado a little diner had a big mural of Shuksan on the wall. I don't think they realized it was in Washington. I also personally enjoy Whitehorse Mountain outside of Darrington. Virtually rises like 6500 feet from the valley floor.

    Shuksan from Baker Lake:



    White Horse:



    Mt. Baring:



    Dry Falls is super cool. Caught some big trout outta there in my float tube.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,260 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    This thread sure turned to shit

    Cuz Oly Beer?
    Oly Beer was the frosting on the crap cake. Hey, let's quit talking about cool places in the whole world and just talk about local shit
    I’ve got some good ones in mind. Just need to get the pics uploaded.
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    It's almost like none of you hicks has been further than a few hundred furlongs from the farmstead where you were whelped
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,260 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    It's almost like none of you hicks has been further than a few hundred furlongs from the farmstead where you were whelped

    We can’t all be kultured Modesto hicks.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,870 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    It's almost like none of you hicks has been further than a few hundred furlongs from the farmstead where you were whelped

    Just go ahead and share your home movies of your vacations

    People love it. Really they do
  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,270
    whlinder said:

    Crater Lake & St. Helens.

    I need to add the Olympic Rainforest and Wieliczka Salt Mine.
  • Edwin_Bambino
    Edwin_Bambino Member Posts: 2,944
    Canyon in Yellowstone. Worked in the park two summers in college, favorite place in the world.
  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    A Huskie once told me that Mt. Shuksan was famous for being the most photographed or image reproduced mountain of all time.

    CSB?
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,260 Founders Club
    Continuing on the more land down under amazing spots...

    12 Apostles (shout out to @dnc ) down the coast from Melbourne are stunning...


    The Blue Mts outside Sydney are a trip too...



  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    Tough call. Either the time I met Christy Canyon at a magazine signing at an Adult Bookstore in the early 90s'...



    Or this cactus...



  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186

    A Huskie once told me that Mt. Shuksan was famous for being the most photographed or image reproduced mountain of all time.

    CSB?

    Never heard that story but feel like it has to be true. That shit is on TV, calendars, print ads etc all the time. I doubt it's the most frequently photographed since it's obscure and out of the way but I don't doubt it's most widespread reproduction.
  • Edwin_Bambino
    Edwin_Bambino Member Posts: 2,944
    edited January 2019

    Canyon in Yellowstone. Worked in the park two summers in college, favorite place in the world.

    I worked in the park the summer a Japanese tourist put their kid on the back of an elk and took a photo not realizing that they were wild animals. Saw multiple people try to pet bison, which kill people like every other year. Wild times. Also accidentally bear maced myself when back packing once. That sucked.
  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186

    Canyon in Yellowstone. Worked in the park two summers in college, favorite place in the world.

    I worked in the park the summer a Japanese tourist put their kid on the back of an elk and took a photo not realizing that they were wild animals. Saw multiple people try to pet bison, which kill people like every other year. Wild times. Also accidentally beat maced myself when back packing once. That sucked.
    Not sure exactly what this means but I assume it involves self victory coitus.
  • Edwin_Bambino
    Edwin_Bambino Member Posts: 2,944

    Canyon in Yellowstone. Worked in the park two summers in college, favorite place in the world.

    I worked in the park the summer a Japanese tourist put their kid on the back of an elk and took a photo not realizing that they were wild animals. Saw multiple people try to pet bison, which kill people like every other year. Wild times. Also accidentally beat maced myself when back packing once. That sucked.
    Not sure exactly what this means but I assume it involves self victory coitus.
    Bear Mace, my bad. Your version sounds better though.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,260 Founders Club
    This thread is shit w/o @Mad_Son
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,459 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    It's almost like none of you hicks has been further than a few hundred furlongs from the farmstead where you were whelped

    Just go ahead and share your home movies of your vacations

    People love it. Really they do
    I value my family's privacy, so I don't do that

    I just drag my kids to bars
    Having met your youngest, can confirm.

    He was a good sport about having to meet all us Deplorables.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,260 Founders Club
    Mad_Son said:

    This thread is shit w/o @Mad_Son

    Prepare to be underwhelmed. I have been a lot of beautiful places including most of those listed here already but...

    One place I really liked was the Alpine Fault. This fault is a transform boundary between the Pacific plate and the Indo-Austrlian plate so you can easily stand on two continents at once.

    This isn't anyone I know but this picture looks like the same/similar location as my favorite time climbing on the Alpine Fault.

    image

    I also don't know if this counts as visiting a geologic feature but when I used to work in oil it was a blast going offshore and checking out the cuttings circulating up the hole to see how mypredictions of 20k+ feet beneath the surface compared to reality.

    image

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    To throw you a bone though, somewhere cool I went this past October was the Cliffs of Moher

    image
    Plate tectonics superiority guy!!
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,063
    pawz said:

    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    It's almost like none of you hicks has been further than a few hundred furlongs from the farmstead where you were whelped

    Just go ahead and share your home movies of your vacations

    People love it. Really they do
    I value my family's privacy, so I don't do that

    I just drag my kids to bars
    Having met your youngest, can confirm.

    He was a good sport about having to meet all us Deplorables.
    How does little @BearsWiin look in his MAGA hat?

  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    edited January 2019
    pawz said:

    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    It's almost like none of you hicks has been further than a few hundred furlongs from the farmstead where you were whelped

    Just go ahead and share your home movies of your vacations

    People love it. Really they do
    I value my family's privacy, so I don't do that

    I just drag my kids to bars
    Having met your youngest, can confirm.

    He was a good sport about having to meet all us Deplorables.
    Middle, not youngest

    Youngest would make it through about ten minutes of HCH banter, stand up, declare "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE" and walk out

  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,063
    BearsWiin said:

    pawz said:

    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    It's almost like none of you hicks has been further than a few hundred furlongs from the farmstead where you were whelped

    Just go ahead and share your home movies of your vacations

    People love it. Really they do
    I value my family's privacy, so I don't do that

    I just drag my kids to bars
    Having met your youngest, can confirm.

    He was a good sport about having to meet all us Deplorables.
    Middle, not youngest

    Youngest would make it through about ten minutes of HCH banter, stand up, declare "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE" and walk out

    No warning, just gone?
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    This thread has now mostly made me feel bad about myself
  • Laocoön
    Laocoön Member Posts: 529
    Nā Pali Coast and Waimea Canyon on Kauai. The hikes on the Awa'awapuhi and Nu'alolo Trails are amazing with incredible views of the Nā Pali Coast.

    Trolltunga in Hordaland of Norway. @NorwegianHusky have you even been?
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    BearsWiin said:




    The view from Glacier Point is pretty breathtaking





    Taking the Jungfraujoch train up into the mountain is pretty cool too





    And hiking up to the Schwarzsee at the base of the Matterhorn

    Jungfraujoch train is THIS economy...Look at Mr money bags over here.

  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    It's almost like none of you hicks has been further than a few hundred furlongs from the farmstead where you were whelped

    Just go ahead and share your home movies of your vacations

    People love it. Really they do
    I value my family's privacy, so I don't do that

    I just drag my kids to bars

    #metoo
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    BearsWiin said:




    The view from Glacier Point is pretty breathtaking





    Taking the Jungfraujoch train up into the mountain is pretty cool too





    And hiking up to the Schwarzsee at the base of the Matterhorn

    Zermatt is awesome. Did a similar hike to yours back in HS in the mid 90s.
    Was that the trip with the Balla twins? Did you join them in apologizing to everyone in Europe on behalf of all Americans?