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dreadmeat
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:07 pm 
 

ha ha ha fark that, i start panicking when we hit 25C here :ugh:
@mindshadow no worries, i don't take my camera very often [or i'll look like a tourist] :roll:
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Bezerko
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:08 am 
 

Afghanistan gets a lot hotter than 35. We've been about 35-45 for most of the summer and it's been a pretty cool year here. But yeah, for a desert country it's reasonably cool (due to altitude probably). Sucks in the green because it's desert heat plus humidity!

Now the United Arab Emirates... You know it's hot when the thermometers no longer work because they only got up to 50°C... in the shade. Screw that place!

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:08 pm 
 

Bezerko wrote:
Now the United Arab Emirates... You know it's hot when the thermometers no longer work because they only got up to 50°C... in the shade. Screw that place!

Fuuuuuck that. My father turned down a job in Oman not because of the political situation in the middle east, but because of the heat :lol:

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:07 pm 
 

One thing about rural areas, there are some epic views. And when it rains here, it pours.

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666Emperor666
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:06 pm 
 

This first picture is taken from a place called "Vaskikallio". An old local legend tells that there once lived a witch in a cave (unfortunately it has collapsed) which is located under the cliff from where this picture was taken. It is said that some men used to visit the witch and had sex with her. Every time the witch gave birth to a child, she killed the babies and made soap from their fat.
My grandfather has an old logger cabin about five kilo meters away from this cliff. Once a woman gave him a visit and told him that she was a witch and that she was going to summon the spirit of the Vaskikallio's witch under a fullmoon. She was going to use some kind of spell which included burying a bear claw in front of the cliff or something. We never heard from her again.
Very interesting stories in my opinon :D
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This picture was taken near the Vaskikallio from a place called Porolampi. EDIT: You can actually see this pond from the first picture.
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Marag
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:25 pm 
 

Bezerko wrote:
Afghanistan gets a lot hotter than 35. We've been about 35-45 for most of the summer and it's been a pretty cool year here. But yeah, for a desert country it's reasonably cool (due to altitude probably). Sucks in the green because it's desert heat plus humidity!

Now the United Arab Emirates... You know it's hot when the thermometers no longer work because they only got up to 50°C... in the shade. Screw that place!

I don't know how people can live like this. It's pretty much tropical climate here but once it hits 30ºC shit gets intolerable. 40ºC would be the armaggedon.

@666Emperor666: Nice pics and cool story. Reverend Bizarre could write some songs about it

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dreadmeat
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:49 pm 
 

creepy story aye ha ha
we also have pine forests like that with small ponds dotted around them, i'm not sure what they are for, maybe for putting out fires?
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oogboog
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:52 pm 
 

dreadmeat wrote:
creepy story aye ha ha
we also have pine forests like that with small ponds dotted around them, i'm not sure what they are for, maybe for putting out fires?

Do you have lots of rainfall? Sometimes the ground can't absorb that much water so fast, so water can still be visible above ground.

@666Emperor666: Yeah, cool story.

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CrushedRevelation
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:50 am 
 

dreadmeat lives in New Zealand, so asking if they get a lot of rainfall is like asking if the pope is catholic :grin:
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dreadmeat
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:17 am 
 

heh, a popular saying in auckland is: if you don't like the weather in auckland, wait 10 minutes :roll:
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666Emperor666
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:11 am 
 

dreadmeat wrote:
creepy story aye ha ha
we also have pine forests like that with small ponds dotted around them, i'm not sure what they are for, maybe for putting out fires?

Do you mean that you have ponds dug by people in your forests? The pond in my pictures is completely natural. A small stream flows to it. Some scientist found gold from that stream once. I'm not sure what kind of research he was doing in that area. :D

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dreadmeat
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:08 pm 
 

i don't know mate, i'd say a lot of them would be man made, they are joined by firebreaks [which double as roads]
over here the only gold you'd find in a pine forest is a goldcap... :idea:
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:20 pm 
 

dreadmeat wrote:
heh, a popular saying in auckland is: if you don't like the weather in auckland, wait 10 minutes :roll:

Our favourite saying here is "Well, at least it's not Trona."

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inhumanist
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:28 pm 
 

The presentation of the census data is comedy gold.
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dreadmeat
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:31 pm 
 

is that because it's in death valley or because there are no chicks there? they have an airport... :scratch:
trona = wtf
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:35 pm 
 

Essentially, it used to be a nice place(it actually escaped the depression), but went downhill after the mine closed. More than half the town is abandoned and there's an overpowering stench of sulfur in the air year round. No airport(I think there may have been one in WWII but it's sense been abandoned), and it's about an hour away from Death Valley.

Plus it gets to 130 in the summer.

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dreadmeat
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:44 pm 
 

130 F = 54.44 C :grr: :tongue: :annoyed: :fuck: :evil: ha ha :beer:
america has ghost towns, i saw a documentary on it a while ago, i think trona may have even been in it
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:46 pm 
 

Bodie and Garlock are two famous ones around here. Places like Rhandsburg/ Johannesburg really try to market themselves as one as well, although there are still multiple families residing there.

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mindshadow
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:29 am 
 

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dreadmeat
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:48 pm 
 

yay, otters! they are funny animals, i've heard they make good pets too.
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oogboog
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:50 pm 
 

Cool photos, where did you take them mindshadow?

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Oxenkiller
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:10 pm 
 

Yeah, we got some pretty trippy abandoned towns here in Idaho: places like Pearl City, Rocky Bar, Yellowjacket, Grasmere, Bayhorse, De Lamar, Cobalt, Forney, Stibnite, Dickey, and Thunder Mountain... combined population of all these towns= zero. Some of these places still make for interesting day trips, although a lot of them have been gradually torn down and the buildings have been leveled or burned down over the years. In a couple cases, like at Silver City here in Idaho and at Cornucopia over in Oregon, people have bought some of the old buildings and have been gradually renovating them into summer cabins, sort of bringing a wierd "Second life" back to these old ghost towns.

I've heard of Trona, but never really explored that part of California much. I've heard of a couple other cool old ghost towns in that part of the state, like Ballarat and Zyzix (I think that's how it's spelled)

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:01 am 
 

iAm wrote:
dreadmeat wrote:
heh, a popular saying in auckland is: if you don't like the weather in auckland, wait 10 minutes :roll:

Our favourite saying here is "Well, at least it's not Trona."


Wikipedia wrote:
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The 2010 United States Census[3] reported that Trona had a population of 18. The population density was 1.9 people per square mile (0.7/km²). The racial makeup of Trona was 18 (100.0%) White, 0 (0.0%) African American, 0 (0.0%) Native American, 0 (0.0%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 0 (0.0%) from other races, and 0 (0.0%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0 persons (0.0%).


Found this quite amusing for some reason :lol:
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:20 am 
 

Oxenkiller wrote:
Yeah, we got some pretty trippy abandoned towns here in Idaho: places like Pearl City, Rocky Bar, Yellowjacket, Grasmere, Bayhorse, De Lamar, Cobalt, Forney, Stibnite, Dickey, and Thunder Mountain... combined population of all these towns= zero. Some of these places still make for interesting day trips, although a lot of them have been gradually torn down and the buildings have been leveled or burned down over the years. In a couple cases, like at Silver City here in Idaho and at Cornucopia over in Oregon, people have bought some of the old buildings and have been gradually renovating them into summer cabins, sort of bringing a wierd "Second life" back to these old ghost towns.

I've heard of Trona, but never really explored that part of California much. I've heard of a couple other cool old ghost towns in that part of the state, like Ballarat and Zyzix (I think that's how it's spelled)

Ballarat is actually quite close to me, I haven't heard of the other though.There's a really neat abandoned military facility from world war ii a couple hours away that was used to trace possible missile attacks on the West Coast- I'll have to look up the name of the place again but an exact replica of it is used in Fallout: New Vegas.

I've been through Boise before. That town weirds me out.

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mindshadow
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:06 am 
 

dreadmeat wrote:
yay, otters! they are funny animals, i've heard they make good pets too.


Yes they are very fun and affectionate towards each other, there are also some giant otters, which make a very strange high pitch noise (haven't got a decent photo of them yet).

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Cool photos, where did you take them mindshadow?


The New Forest Wildlife Park, UK.
We asked why the owls didn't have as much space as the other animals and it's because they're recovering from injuries and if they have big pens they'll fly into the sides of the cage at speed.

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Yeah, we got some pretty trippy abandoned towns here in Idaho: places like Pearl City, Rocky Bar, Yellowjacket, Grasmere, Bayhorse, De Lamar, Cobalt, Forney, Stibnite, Dickey, and Thunder Mountain... combined population of all these towns= zero. Some of these places still make for interesting day trips, although a lot of them have been gradually torn down and the buildings have been leveled or burned down over the years. In a couple cases, like at Silver City here in Idaho and at Cornucopia over in Oregon, people have bought some of the old buildings and have been gradually renovating them into summer cabins, sort of bringing a wierd "Second life" back to these old ghost towns.



Ghost towns.. they would be awesome photographs :)

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:46 pm 
 

Is that some sort of old telescope?

or something

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inhumanist
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 6:06 pm 
 

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to do something with the wind. Like make weird noises and shit because art.

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forestcorpse
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 6:26 pm 
 

Returned a about a week ago from A 10 days trip to the land of Graveland,veles and other legendary BM bands ( Yes, Poland)

Here are some photos:

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666Emperor666
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 4:29 am 
 

Cool photos forestcorpse! Did you visit Białowieża Forest or Carpathian Mountains? Where are those pictures taken from?

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 4:40 am 
 

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Mount Rose, just South West of Reno Nevada.

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666Emperor666
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:21 pm 
 

I lost my camera today in a forest ! NOT FUCKING HAPPY RIGHT NOW!

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:54 pm 
 

Cool thread, cool landscapes

Giant Otter
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found another stone to play with!
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I love the noise they make
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RHfnZ7-RU

Eagle Owl
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:39 pm 
 

Went to the town of Inari in Lapland for three nights with the extended family, courtesy of the in-laws. We had rooms in a rather cozy hotel next to the Lemmenjoki river, and this was the view 40 meters from the room door:

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On the second day, we took a cruise to the old Sami people's sacred place, Ukonkivi. It's a rock in the middle of Lake Inari, and "Ukonkivi" means "The Rock of Ukko", which refers to the local main god in the pagan beliefs. It was nice. We spent 15 minutes on the top, and the weather turned from very nice and sunny to a mild storm of high winds and hail. That's, like, roughly equivalent to spontaneously bursting in flames in a cathedral, the long-dead gods lack the mana for much more than a few frozen droplets.

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View from one of the hills in the area, roughly 300 meters above the rest of the scenery. All the water in the view is just a tiny fragment of the whole lake:
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:01 pm 
 

Nice pics, Nap, this is quite a gloomy and dreamy place.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:05 pm 
 

I agree. Rather somber for all its wonderful expanse. Maybe it was just the weather ..

I wonder why they bury them on the islands as opposed to burning them there. ? Are Laplanders not a burning people?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:33 pm 
 

666Emperor666 wrote:
Cool photos forestcorpse! Did you visit Białowieża Forest or Carpathian Mountains? Where are those pictures taken from?



No, I was not in any of those places. I was visiting a very good friend in Poland, and we were driving a lot around in the ''Polish Jura'' area, an area with a lot of castles and old ruins and stuff. Very cool!
But we have been talking about going for walks in the Carpathian Mountains, hopefully the next time I go to poland!
All the photos are taken in the ''Jura'' area.

And, lost your camera? :O
How did you manage that!?

Some more:

Hercules' Club in Ojców National Park:
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:17 pm 
 

holy shit forestcorpse, awesome pics. love the first two

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analog_winter
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:27 pm 
 

forestcorpse, those are some great pictures. I hope to go out west into the Appalachian Mountains sometime soon, and if I do I should be able to get some great pictures.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:11 am 
 

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 7:47 am 
 

forestcorpse wrote:
666Emperor666 wrote:
Cool photos forestcorpse! Did you visit Białowieża Forest or Carpathian Mountains? Where are those pictures taken from?



No, I was not in any of those places. I was visiting a very good friend in Poland, and we were driving a lot around in the ''Polish Jura'' area, an area with a lot of castles and old ruins and stuff. Very cool!
But we have been talking about going for walks in the Carpathian Mountains, hopefully the next time I go to poland!
All the photos are taken in the ''Jura'' area.

And, lost your camera? :O
How did you manage that!?

I have no idea. It just fell out of my pocket.
Amazing pictures once again! I feel an urge to go and do some photography myself... if I only could.

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