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[Bill]

The BRP is best in the off season, during the middle of the week. Peak season on weekends you get bike riders followed by Floridiots who won't pass them.

I've done many parts of the App trail, from the Presidential range in NH, sections near Damascus, VA, and most recently Roan mountain. I sold my Osprey pack last year because I only intend to day hike from now on.

I have a Osprey day pack, & a bigger one, but I never use it...

I would really love to do that Presidential range as well... Very fascinating how the windiest place on earth is NH....lol

I hear yea, we avoid going weekend as the trails are full of tourist.. Go during the week we have the entire place to our selves most of the time..

I am going this holiday weekend though as a friend that has been sick, it will be her first time out in months & her first opportunity to lead..

We are going to a place called Machado post piles & it isn't even on the forestry maps so hardly anyone will be there..

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

 

[MAGA MAN]

I have a Osprey day pack, & a bigger one, but I never use it...

I would really love to do that Presidential range as well... Very fascinating how the windiest place on earth is NH....lol

I hear yea, we avoid going weekend as the trails are full of tourist.. Go during the week we have the entire place to our selves most of the time..

I am going this holiday weekend though as a friend that has been sick, it will be her first time out in months & her first opportunity to lead..

We are going to a place called Machado post piles & it isn't even on the forestry maps so hardly anyone will be there..

Looks like rather recent volcanic activity. The Rockies are so much different than the Appalachians, because the Apps are the oldest mountains on earth. Your looking at geology that is 100's of thousands of years old, while I'm looking at millions of years old.

Here's me on the Prez. range, a very long time ago.

 

[Judy Johnstone]

Looks like rather recent volcanic activity. The Rockies are so much different than the Appalachians, because the Apps are the oldest mountains on earth. Your looking at geology that is 100's of thousands of years old, while I'm looking at millions of years old.

Here's me on the Prez. range, a very long time ago.

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Heathen!The Planet is only 7000 years old!Any Real Christian knows that!

 

[MAGA MAN]

Heathen!The Planet is only 7000 years old!Any Real Christian knows that!

LOL. I used to do a lot of soil analysis for building foundations and I did a job for a new home, the owner was a small church preacher. Very nice guy, was very interested in my approach. I told him that when I look at a new excavation, I always look for Saprolite. That is soil that looks exactly like the parent rock that it has weathered from. When you find it, you know that the only way that it got there was that "God put it there millions of years ago", it is therefore "residual", and therefore anything below it will always increase in stability. Thus there is no possibility that man placed it (fill), or nature deposited it by wind or water (alluvial).

His response was similar to yours.

I explained to him that Jesus often spoke in parables to explain complex issues to simple minded men like us. I then asked him, why wouldn't God use parables in the early books to explain how he created the earth, its plants and creatures? His eyes opened wide and he didn't know what to say. I think I may have enlightened him.

 

[Damocles]

I didn’t realize that, that’s crazy, he went way off the deep end.

Yeah, dang... Southern Man and MM had the pedophilia, the Yurt and MM had to do with something else. He even posted images of his house. MM could not control himself.

 

[MAGA MAN]

Yeah, dang... Southern Man and MM had the pedophilia....

Post reported. Enjoy your vacation.

 

[Damocles]

Post reported. Enjoy your vacation.

LOL. I wish.

 

[Bill]

Looks like rather recent volcanic activity. The Rockies are so much different than the Appalachians, because the Apps are the oldest mountains on earth. Your looking at geology that is 100's of thousands of years old, while I'm looking at millions of years old.

Here's me on the Prez. range, a very long time ago.

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This is actually older than the granite above it (Sierra). One of the guys I hike w/ is a geologist & he even gets puzzled up there @ 9,000+ ft..

There is another post pile, called the devils post pile & he says that is actually younger than this one, eventhough this one is higher...

We found a rock, @ least 500lbs balanced on one of the pillars & you can actually rock it w/ a finger & it has been sitting like that for who knows how long..

Yea, the Appalachians are older, more limestone etc........ Most of what he have is various types of granite & volcanic.

Camped & hiked last year up @ Mt Lassen, a volcano in the Cascade range

 

[Bill]

Looks like rather recent volcanic activity. The Rockies are so much different than the Appalachians, because the Apps are the oldest mountains on earth. Your looking at geology that is 100's of thousands of years old, while I'm looking at millions of years old.

Here's me on the Prez. range, a very long time ago.

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LOL, I would have done that back then, not now....... Awesome shot & climb.......

I climbed Whitney but I aint going out on the edge & looking over...

 

[Damocles]

I love the Rocky Mountains... I got spoiled when I drove through the Appalachian Mountains I just thought I was driving through big hills, I'm used to mountains that sometimes reach higher than the clouds and that have a timber line... so high up the trees won't grow anymore...

The highest peak in the Appalachian Mountains is like 6,624 feet... in the Rocky Mountains over 14K feet...

But if I moved out east I would have to live in one of those mountain ranges so I could feel a bit more at home.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Taxation is theft.

A true patriot would buy his own island, build his own house, farm his own land, build his own grid, be his own doctor/dentist/barber/butcher -- and stop living off the taxpayers like a leech.

 

[MAGA MAN]

This is actually older than the granite above it (Sierra). One of the guys I hike w/ is a geologist & he even gets puzzled up there @ 9,000+ ft..

There is another post pile, called the devils post pile & he says that is actually younger than this one, eventhough this one is higher...

We found a rock, @ least 500lbs balanced on one of the pillars & you can actually rock it w/ a finger & it has been sitting like that for who knows how long..

Yea, the Appalachians are older, more limestone etc........ Most of what he have is various types of granite & volcanic.

Camped & hiked last year up @ Mt Lassen, a volcano in the Cascade range

There may be a lot of limestone in the Northern Apps- I used to live in central New York and the stuff was all over there. Here in the High Country the mountains appear to be mostly metamorphic from a parent sedimentary; oceanic plates thrust high due to tectonics. There are substantial basalt inclusions from non-eruptive volcanic activity.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

I love the Rocky Mountains... I got spoiled when I drove through the Appalachian Mountains I just thought I was driving through big hills, I'm used to mountains that sometimes reach higher than the clouds and that have a timber line... so high up the trees won't grow anymore...

The highest peak in the Appalachian Mountains is like 6,624 feet... in the Rocky Mountains over 14K feet...
But if I moved out east I would have to live in one of those mountain ranges so I could feel a bit more at home.

I hear you. We think of mountains as the ones we've seen in the Rockies and in Colorado. My VT daughters are excited about their Green Mtns. (elev. ~4000') We're excited about our Hurons, where the highest elevation we've gone up to is 1400 ft. We're weiners compared to you guys. But still -- 1400' sure beats the flat plains of Illinois where Mr. Owl is from, and the same for me living most of my life near St. Louis.

 

[MAGA MAN]

I love the Rocky Mountains... I got spoiled when I drove through the Appalachian Mountains I just thought I was driving through big hills, I'm used to mountains that sometimes reach higher than the clouds and that have a timber line... so high up the trees won't grow anymore...

The highest peak in the Appalachian Mountains is like 6,624 feet... in the Rocky Mountains over 14K feet...

But if I moved out east I would have to live in one of those mountain ranges so I could feel a bit more at home.

The northern Appalachians have natural tree lines where it is too inhospitable for trees, but the Southern Appalachians do not. Here we have "balds"; areas were 19th century logging was done, and will take several hundred years if not more to naturally repopulate, unlike in the lower elevations that can repopulate naturally in very short periods.

 

[MAGA MAN]

A true patriot would buy his own island, build his own house, farm his own land, build his own grid, be his own doctor/dentist/barber/butcher -- and stop living off the taxpayers like a leech.

I have never taken so much as one dime from any FedCo program. The only state/ local program that I have partaken is is public schools, of which I am a proud supporter, and encourage a voucher system for it to remain competitive. I have paid far more in taxes then the tuition that I have received for myself and my children.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

I have never taken so much as one dime from any FedCo program. The only state/ local program that I have partaken is is public schools, of which I am a proud supporter, and encourage a voucher system for it to remain competitive. I have paid far more in taxes then the tuition that I have received for myself and my children.

Hooray for you! Now get off our socialist roads and go build your own. Don't bother calling 911 for a cop or firefighter. Stay away from all public libraries. Build your own well, dig your own septic, grow/raise your own food -- don't eat any of the stuff WE'VE paid for and had inspected. And while you're at it, get the fuck off our Internet.

 

[Bill]

I love the Rocky Mountains... I got spoiled when I drove through the Appalachian Mountains I just thought I was driving through big hills, I'm used to mountains that sometimes reach higher than the clouds and that have a timber line... so high up the trees won't grow anymore...

The highest peak in the Appalachian Mountains is like 6,624 feet... in the Rocky Mountains over 14K feet...

But if I moved out east I would have to live in one of those mountain ranges so I could feel a bit more at home.

Here in the Central Sierra the tree line is between 9-10,000 ft but over on the Appalachia oddly the snow line is only about 4,000-4,500 ft...

 

[Bill]

There may be a lot of limestone in the Northern Apps- I used to live in central New York and the stuff was all over there. Here in the High Country the mountains appear to be mostly metamorphic from a parent sedimentary; oceanic plates thrust high due to tectonics. There are substantial basalt inclusions from non-eruptive volcanic activity.

Interesting...

 

[Bill]

I hear you. We think of mountains as the ones we've seen in the Rockies and in Colorado. My VT daughters are excited about their Green Mtns. (elev. ~4000') We're excited about our Hurons, where the highest elevation we've gone up to is 1400 ft. We're weiners compared to you guys. But still -- 1400' sure beats the flat plains of Illinois where Mr. Owl is from, and the same for me living most of my life near St. Louis.

It is relative as well...... Not all 1,400 ft are created equal..

My favorite is prob summer 9-10,000, around 6-8,000 winter, depending on snow depth, wind etc....

Until I went up in the winter w/ -4 with winds gusting up 25 +/- I didn't take windchill very seriously..

When my hands got wet & instantly started to freeze I realized I could die real fast out there..

I was naive enough to give that crazy women another shot @ killing me a couple weeks later