Langer Lake, Idaho
Pictures from my recent camping/hiking trip with Gnotic Pasta and two of his sons. We had a great time hiking, chatting, and joking around. I wasn’t sure I could keep up with Dan and Adrian but I survived. The first part of the hike in was a serious elevation change with a backpack. The plan was to hike in, set up base camp, then day hike to the plane crash site. We got close to the plane crash site but figured it was too steep and too much cross-country hiking (i.e., no trail). So we bailed out on trying to find the crash site. We are already talking about where to go for the next trip.
#GooglePlusNatureChallenge Day 5 of 5
Gnotic Pasta invited me to take the #GooglePlusNatureChallenge. You are supposed to post pictures of nature for 5 days. I’d like to invited Steven Spence who has excellent photography.
July 31, 2015
Absolutely beautiful country. 🙂
July 31, 2015
Go ahead Gnotic Pasta. I hope you don’t mind this is a public share.
July 31, 2015
It was very nice Terry McNeil
July 31, 2015
Yoon-Mi Kim, here’s more photos.
July 31, 2015
Wow – that’s pretty far out there. Still not too far from Boise, but I’d never heard of it.
July 31, 2015
it looks like a great trip with gorgeous landscapes and some wildlife encounters too. I’m glad you treated yourself to a beer at the end!
thanks for the invite. I’ll be happy to take part.
July 31, 2015
Sara Anderson, I think it was about a 2 hour drive from Boise.
July 31, 2015
Steven Spence, I’m looking forward to your photos. Gnotic Pasta was able to take a picture of an American bald eagle. It would have been nice to have a nice zoom lens. However, what little weight we did have in our packs was more than enough already.
July 31, 2015
awesome and congratulations to you and Gnotic Pasta for seeing the bald eagle!
July 31, 2015
Gnotic Pasta, if you don’t have Steven Spence circled, he has some excellent pictures of birds (raptors). He’s an all around good person too.
August 1, 2015
Thanks Peter Lindelauf, we did have a great time. We need to save up money to fly to BC. It will probably be some time before I can drive out there as would like.
August 1, 2015
Love the mosses
August 1, 2015
Virginia Benedict, there is a beautiful little creek that was near both of our camp sites, with plenty of moss.
August 1, 2015
Hi looks like you had a great time, good for you guys
August 1, 2015
It really was a nice break, Marta Zamora. There’s no cell signal in the mountains so it was a real break from work too.
August 2, 2015
Gnotic Pasta, I’m blaming you for the new REI Flash sleeping bag I just bought. It’s down on the top and synthetic on the bottom, freaking super lightweight and compressible. A Primus stove was on sale and made my choice of stoves real easy.
http://www.rei.com/product/868341/primus-eta-lite-stove-system
http://www.rei.com/product/862529/rei-flash-sleeping-bag#tab-description
August 2, 2015
If we ever plan to hike where it gets below 30 F, I’ll buy a warm bag liner. That should be OK, with long johns and a fleece top.
I just noticed my Primus stove is missing feet for the fuel canister. I thought they weren’t supposed to be included and didn’t notice they were missing. Then I saw on the box that they were supposed to be included.
Double-wall titanium cup is about $45. That will have to wait.
August 2, 2015
Did you go to the REI garage sale? I will try to go to the one here.
August 3, 2015
Looks so much fun…glad you enjoyed the trip both of you 🙂 Gnotic Pasta and Chad Haney
hate you both though:pAugust 3, 2015
We had a great time Kawthar A. In an ideal world, it would be great to visit you with Dan and his wife. Someday I’ll make it to Damascus.
August 3, 2015
First come all to Damascus, then we’ll talk about heading off to Boise 🙂 Gnotic Pasta and Chad Haney
August 3, 2015
Maybe we can all meet in Turkey first.
August 3, 2015
That sounds great…hopefully, though I doubt it :/
August 3, 2015
We will see about it 🙂 Chad Haney
August 3, 2015
The funny thing that Turkey is the only country in the world that I can enter without visa…I think Iran too (not sure) Gnotic Pasta the other countries don’t give visas to the Syrians (special cases only)
August 3, 2015
Well you are special Kawthar A. So a visa should be no problem.
August 3, 2015
Oh yes..you get the visa in the airport, I think it’s almost the same in many middle eastern countries Gnotic Pasta
Awwww..that’s so sweet, but trust me, getting a visa is a pain these days, I have applied many times to visit UAE, but all my request were declined 🙁 Chad Haney
August 3, 2015
When? Maybe I can switch my Dominican Republic trip to Turkey.
August 3, 2015
Still have one year ahead! 😀 Gnotic Pasta
August 18, 2015
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August 18, 2015
Kawthar A
August 23, 2015
Some great shots there Chad. I couldn’t figure out how to comment on individual photos – is it possible? I’m so out of the loop with G+ now.
I will upgrade to camping at some point – but for now fishing is enough 😀 … I have my very own fishing rod!
August 23, 2015
Yoon-Mi Kim, the blasted new Photos makes it hard to comment on individual photos in a Story.
August 23, 2015
Darn and blast it! 😉
Well, I love the slice of life style you have where you include photos of your shoes too 😀 The forest fires, seeing them in real life is pretty incredible. Hadn’t seen any before I moved here but there’s some almost every summer, due to weather or miscreants acting up.
September 12, 2015
Rajini Rao, here’s the story with the Vienna sausage from Gnotic Pasta’s son Adrian. Too bad the new and improved Photos won’t let you comment on photos within a Story. Great upgrade.
September 12, 2015
I must have missed this! Not a fan of the “Story” format for G+ photos. Too slithery on my Mac. I think it’s good for a cursory look, but not convenient to view individually.
September 12, 2015
The old version was nice or at least better. You can’t comment on individual photos. You can’t ping people on individual photos. It’s just a mess since they removed the integration with G+.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to my next trip to ID. I need to buy a backpack and then I’m set.
September 12, 2015
Gnotic Pasta, taking Adrian and Drew?
September 12, 2015
Sounds good. Have fun Gnotic Pasta
June 29, 2016
Looks like Photos broke the link above.
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipPpK6eqmCiM3cwQphIpekArn97_sEENgnWH4B-g