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Vacation: norcal edition

Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 04:44:22 No.545052 View View Reply Original Report

hi /out/!

tl;dr share your favorite vacation stories

I typically lurk /b/ but I'm visiting you here at /out/ for advice

I'm brainstorming outdoor vacation ideas. Can you suggest something moderately chill but fun too - for who like to drink, get high, and have an all around good time.

In fact, here's a better way to do this - share your epic vacations stories! All anonz welcome :)

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 04:54:21 No.545058 Report

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OP here

my favorite vacation is WITHOUT A DOUBT spring break carnival cruise to mexico

learned how to pick up women on that cruise. girls that I had thought were WAY out of my league were suddenly right in front of me. what a game changer! I seriously became a man on that cruise - thanks Carnival! what a life

oh here's a song for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L97xzFRKIik

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 04:58:42 No.545064 Report

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another good one was EDC a few weeks back

I've been spending the better part of 4 years trying to parse electronic music subgenres in some sensible way where I can speak intelligently about what I'm listening to

no success yet

but at EDC i simultaneously achieved a) the discover of deep house and b) that I FUCKING LOVE dancing to deep house. like shit I just start dancing and it feels so good and I don't want to stop...and it doesn't! the songs go for hours! none of this 3 minute lady gaga nonsense

ive rambled a bit, but that's fine. so many gorgeous women at EDC fo real

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 05:00:58 No.545068 Report

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>>545064
california has such a great culture ;_;

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 06:15:22 No.545097 Report

Quoted By: >>547503

>>545068
yeah! moved here in 2011, get better every year :)

check out this pic I snapped in fairbanks, AK!

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 07:57:50 No.545122 Report

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quality thread

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:12:41 No.545393 Report

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I'm from Mass but two weeks ago I was in Washington state and it was pretty fucking awesome.

I hiked about six miles down from Three Mile Beach on the Olympic Peninsula to Strawberry Point and it was off the chain. I saw maybe three people in 48 hours. I just hung out out there smoking weed, watching bald eagles and seals play, reading and making huge fires with the infinite driftwood.

Someone had rigged up a pretty nifty hammock out of some floatsam.

I'll post a few pics of this and other places I went on this trip.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:14:31 No.545395 Report

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>>545393
Here's another from Strawberry Point. My guess is that on weekends and during the peak season it is substantially busier down there, but I highly recommend it to anyone.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:16:34 No.545397 Report

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>>545395
I also went into Mt. Margaret Backcountry Area which is in the Mt St Helens National Monument. You are basically on the North of the so-called "Blast Zone." It's a primordial old growth forest that turned into a desert.

That's the crater of St. Helen's in the background.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:22:08 No.545398 Report

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>>545397
Planned three days up here, but unfortunately all water sources were dry due to the drought. Had to come in a day early. Luckily I had a heads-up and packed two gallons in. Otherwise the whole trip would have been a bust. It was 95 degrees with zero tree coverage.

At the end, I risked a $500 fine to bushwack down to St. Helen's Lake (pictured with Mt Rainier in the distance, the crater partially exposed to the right, and Mt Hood at 150 miles south just barely visible to the left of crest of the hill obscuring the volcano) but the deadfall down there was legit up to my chest. I probably could have made it but didn't want to risk breaking a leg or something because I was solo.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:28:06 No.545403 Report

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>>545398
Here's the Mt. Whitier summit - also in the Mt. Margaret Backcountry.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:28:46 No.545404 Report

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>>545395
Thats a fucking good quality camera

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:29:06 No.545405 Report

Quoted By: >>545411 >>545413

>>545403
Here's my last one, not quite as interesting, but still really nice. This was only a half mile or so off a logging road in the Mt Baker Wilderness. That's the North Fork Nooksack River with Mt. Baker peeking it's head out in the background.

Washington, I love you.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:30:07 No.545406 Report

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>>545404
Galaxy S6 in automatic mode!

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:39:54 No.545411 Report

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>>545405
Actually, this was taken from my car on the way out, but this is what Mt. Baker looks like from closer up. I have spent a month and a half backpacking all over Colorado - Rockies, San Juans, San Luis, Sand Dunes, Mesa, Front Range, La Plata - and to be honest, consider that state just ever-so-barely superior to Washington.

But this motherfucker was the most beautiful mountain I've ever seen. 9,000 feet of vertical prominence. Glaciers the size of Boston hanging off it in the middle of a drought in June.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:41:29 No.545413 Report

Quoted By: >>545421

>>545405
Jealous :(

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:42:29 No.545414 Report

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>>545406
>>545411
The pics are really cool, i enjoy them. Quality content anon

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 19:52:20 No.545421 Report

Quoted By: >>545430

>>545413
I'm lucky enough to have some disposable income, but the only thing that this trip required splurging on was a rental car. But the only thing that enabled was going all over Washington. If you were content with just seeing one of these places - and I PROMISE you you could spend two weeks exploring each of these individually without getting bored - you could fly into Seattle or Portland, take the bus to the closest town then hitchhike to trailheads:

Olympic Peninsula = Forks, WA
St Helens = Castle Rock, WA
Mt. Baker Wilderness = Bellingham

Once you've got the plane and bus tickets, you're spending probably less a day then you do in civilization. Without a rental car, I spent $300 on airfare from Boston to Portland. Enough legal weed and whiskey for two weeks was $100. Food was about $150 - the same things I carry when I'm on the Appalachian Trail back home.

Hardest part is finding someone willing to do that kind of shit with you, which is just fine by me. I have a live-in girlfriend and work in a pretty busy, social environment so alone time is actually preferred.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 20:01:37 No.545430 Report

Quoted By: >>545434

>>545421
Yeah but i am from europe and tickets to america are really really expensive. But until i will have made enough money to buy tickets i am just fine with dreaming about it with pics like yours. I saved them . Thanks anyway for the info

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 20:04:29 No.545434 Report

Quoted By: >>545439

>>545430
Good luck! And find something near you! I have never been somewhere that didn't have something fun to do outdoors.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 20:09:38 No.545439 Report

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>>545434
True but we don't have this fucking huge beautiful senery anywhere near,but i enjoy the forest nearby my house nevertheless. Europe is a lot more densily populated

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 17:59:16 No.547256 Report

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Just got back from WA (I'm from Boston). There is a bunch of ideas I posted in this thread if you see it before it 404s.
>>545052
>>>545052

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 18:29:55 No.547268 Report

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>>545052
Fellow NorCal native here. If you haven't, check out Pinnacles National Park in Paicines. I was hiking there last summer. The trail consists of walk-through caves, a nice little lake, and steep climbs. We hiked 14 miles. You may even get the chance to see California Condors.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 18:33:26 No.547270 Report

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>>547268

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 18:34:26 No.547271 Report

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>>547270

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 19:55:00 No.547317 Report

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If you're in NorCal, I highly recommend going to Bass Lake and Yosemite. Lots of beautiful things to see, fun things to do (fish, hike, jet ski, etc.). It's one my favorite place to go.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2015 00:58:53 No.547486 Report

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Anyone one been to sugar loaf Ridge near Napa?

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2015 01:26:24 No.547503 Report

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>>545097
>Better every year
Shit, I was born here and it gets worse every year!

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