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Every few years when I visit relatives in Oregon, I go bicycling and hiking across the big foothills surrounding Mount Hood (inside the National Forest.)
The last time I went, I would take a low dose of shrooms (not enough for a proper trip, but definitely enough to feel it) and bring a small pipe with some weed for a couple of these outdoor-adventures, smoking it in the middle of the trip.
I already knew the forests up there were pretty, but on psychedelics (even just a little dose), the scenery is just so gorgeous that it fucking blew me away. Half the stuff I looked at out there seemed like it was worthy of being made into a painting.
Most trees are huge and widely spaced apart, and extremely thick mosses, ferns and vines cover pretty much everything. There are enormous Douglas Fir trees growing on what looks like 60-degree inclines (holding the fern-covered hillsides together with their roots, I guess). There are sun-shafts beaming through the tree branches, illuminating ancient blockfields that you can trace quite a ways up the slope. The forest has picturesque, ancient-looking ravines and cliff faces with enormous fallen trees strewn about in various stages of decay - many with huge, flaring root-systems exposed at their trunks. There are random small waterfalls along the forest-service roads (which are hilly and paved smooth-as-butter for cycling). Also, the creeks and rivers are very pretty to wade around in and explore.
Weed is fun in a similar way when you're innawoods, but psychedelics IMO add so much to the outdoor experience. I can't believe all those other times I'd visited up there and never actually looked around long enough to see how beautiful it is - I would just sit in the cabin and do the same boring shit I would do at home, never going out there except with others as a group activity. After this, I now have a genuine appreciation for the outdoors that I didn't really have before.
The only problem is I get all arachnaphobic while I'm on it.
