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« on: October 18, 2009, 08:07:56 PM » |
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Sam and I packed up and drove up to Banning (a little over an hour and 15 mins from my house). We got there around 6pm, and setup camp. Low temps were forecast to be around 25 degrees, so we came prepared with a huge pile of blankets and sleeping bags.
By midnight, I didn't regret bringing a single one of them, as I was nice and toasty and sleeping. I woke up once during the night to use the bathroom, and remembered why I like getting away from the city....the stars are amazing looking.
We woke up Saturday morning and made some breakfast (my truck said 32F), but it wasn't too bad because there wasn't much for wind. I packed up my new pack with my camera stuff, snacks, drinks, extra socks etc, and we headed out for some hiking about 9:00am. We hiked south to Wolf Creek Falls, and after taking some pics etc, turned around and went back to camp along a different trail. After a quick lunchables lunch (not bad, I remember them being small and sucky), we headed back out along the quarry loop trail, which basically runs right along the Kettle River, and passes by the ruins of old Banning, which was a small town focused on mining sandstone from the local area. By 5pm Sam was out of gas, and my legs were pretty sore too, so we headed back to camp to finish loading up, and then headed home. Very nice state park, I would go there again for sure. My only complaint was the campgrounds were kind of near the highway so you could hear some road traffic. Anyways, here's the pics.
1. on top of the Wolf Cree Falls there were lots of carvings. This one and one from 1917 were the oldest I saw
2. looking up the stream from the falls.
3. this was the head of the 2+ mile stretch of rapids in the AM. I actually took this pic with my Canon pocket cam
4. inside the abandoned powerhouse structure
5. Kettle River rapids
6. more gnarly rapids. Looks like it would certainly be a wild ride in a canoe or kayak
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Pete
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2009, 08:11:57 PM » |
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1. me sitting in a burned out, but live, tree
2. showing off my new pack
3. another shot of the powerhouse. It was kind of creepy looking
4. fall colors
5. fall colors
6. fall colors
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Pete
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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2009, 08:16:37 PM » |
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1. forest colors
2. Sam posing on a boulder near the rapids
3. Sam checking out some badass rapids near a boulder overlook we found.
4. Sam in the burned out tree.
5. hiking
6. this would have been a cool shot of the rapids, minus the tree in the way
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Pete
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« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2009, 08:19:50 PM » |
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1. trail shot
2. another
3. water closeup
4. I like this shot. The colors were sweet looking in the water.
5. Wolf Creek Falls
6. yellow stand
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Heather
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« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2009, 08:24:49 PM » |
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nice pics. looks very cold but nice!
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« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2009, 11:06:22 PM » |
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Redmaple is really cool- the contrast is sharp!
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Pete
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2009, 08:51:57 AM » |
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Redmaple is really cool- the contrast is sharp!
it showed in the file size too. It was over 600kb at 85% quality, so I had to compress it to 70% (and shows it now). The forum is limited to 500kb per attachment. |
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Pete
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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2009, 10:53:04 AM » |
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yea, looking at these on my calibrated EIPS monitor at work, they are heavily compressed. Probably a little over saturated too....guess I should pickup one of these Dell 2209WA LCD's for at home!
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Jeremy
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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2009, 06:43:48 PM » |
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Place looks awesome....and nice senior pictures!
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Curt
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« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2009, 07:13:16 PM » |
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great pics pete, i love this time of year!!
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« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2009, 08:53:51 PM » |
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Still waiting to see my black bear.........
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