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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Wineslob on October 13, 2010, 01:57:52 PM
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Last month the wife and I went on a school field trip with my daughter's class. Because we have her in a Charter, we are required to put in a certain ammount of "parent time" each year.
Each year the 8th grade class goes on a hike up Brokeoff Mt, in Lassen Nat'l park. Because it's an entire day we wipe out our hours in one trip, so it works out well.
The trail starts out at 6000+ feet and ends at Brokeoff which is 9200 ft in abut 3.2 miles. This is a 2600 ft elevation change that's fairly steep.
Starting out in the parking lot:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/051.jpg)
One of the meadows about a mile up the trail:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/053.jpg)
One of the first views you get of Brokeoff:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/061.jpg)
The trail is still pretty level at this point but starts getting steeper.
Getting closer and steeper:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/069.jpg)
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There are some excellent views of streams and meadows all the way up the trail:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/060.jpg)
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/061-1.jpg)
Ok, getting even closer to the mountain and this is one of the last switchbacks:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/075.jpg)
The last switchback:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/081.jpg)
The goal is in sight!
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/083.jpg)
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Well I hauled my fat old ass up the hill and got a great view, that's Lassen peak :
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/092.jpg)
The kids and teachers got together for a group pic:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/105.jpg)
I'm in this one, on the right in the green shirt kidlet in in red:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/104.jpg)
One of the rather chubby chipmunks living on the peak:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/097.jpg)
Looking over the edge, and yes, it's straight down, several thousand feet:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/107.jpg)
We had a great trip, and for me it was nice to know I can still hike up a trail that feels like it's going to kill me. :-)
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Awesome pics! My brother and SIL do the outings with my niece's school as well. Last year they went to Big Bend. I think that is great.
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Reminds me of some of the hiking we'd done in the Wasatch....
Great pics, WS. Why ain't you sweatin' like a pig? Somebody give you a boost the last mile or so? :lmao:
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Reminds me of some of the hiking we'd done in the Wasatch....
Great pics, WS. Why ain't you sweatin' like a pig? Somebody give you a boost the last mile or so? :lmao:
He paid a couple of the kids to carry him on a litter for the last mile.
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You two can bite me. :-)
Oh I was sweating my butt off, I drank water like it was going out of style.
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Awesome pics! My brother and SIL do the outings with my niece's school as well. Last year they went to Big Bend. I think that is great.
I LOVE Big Bend. 2 motorcycle trips out there so far and a 3rd possibly on the way.
KC
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This is great. I am glad you've gotten to enjoy all this nature before the evil conservatives, who abhor nature, wipe it all out with toxic waste ...... err..... never mind.
KC
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Nice pictures! Glad you got to do that with your kid and the class.
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Great pictures. It looks like a lot of fun.
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Very cool. Cool pics. Looked like a great time. :cheersmate:
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Great pictures. It looks like a lot of fun.
See? Kalifornia ain't all bad. :-)
I thought I'd throw in a couple more. This is looking back down the trail from the top:
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/106-1.jpg)
This a shot looking just to the right of Lassen Peak. You can see the road that goes through the park (hwy 89). In the lower left/center is Sulpher Works, and in the distance (center/top) is the area near Bumpass Hell.
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j346/Donna-BBHC/096-1.jpg)
Thanks for looking guys!
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See? Kalifornia ain't all bad. :-)
I have friends that ranch in the north of CA, so I know in my head there are great areas, but, I have to confess to the ignorant expectation of brown hazy skies and litter when ever I hear California.
Maybe you could keep posting great pictures like these and people like me will eventually "get it!" :-)
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I have friends that ranch in the north of CA, so I know in my head there are great areas, but, I have to confess to the ignorant expectation of brown hazy skies and litter when ever I hear California.
Maybe you could keep posting great pictures like these and people like me will eventually "get it!" :-)
Heh, the main problem with some of the perceptions about Ca. are:
1. Ca. is one long beach with S.F. at one end and L.A. at the other.
2. It's covered in Palm trees.
3. Movie stars are roaming all over the place.
4. Everyone says 'DUUUDE!" and is a surfer.
Everything is quite the opposite, as long as you don't live anywhere near the L.A. basin. L.A. is like it's own microcosm, that has NO basis in reality.
I agree with BEG, it's f*cked.
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Heh, the main problem with some of the perceptions about Ca. are:
1. Ca. is one long beach with S.F. at one end and L.A. at the other.
2. It's covered in Palm trees.
3. Movie stars are roaming all over the place.
4. Everyone says 'DUUUDE!" and is a surfer.
Everything is quite the opposite, as long as you don't live anywhere near the L.A. basin. L.A. is like it's own microcosm, that has NO basis in reality.
I agree with BEG, it's f*cked.
But what about the earthquakes??????????? :ashamed:
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Those are just roller coasters. :tongue:
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Those are just roller coasters. :tongue:
Pass. I'll take a hurricane or a tornado over an earthquake any day.
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Pass. I'll take a hurricane or a tornado over an earthquake any day.
Hell, as a kid living in the San Jose/Cupertino area, they were fun!
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The pictures were great thanks for posting them