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    Douglas Hus
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    @hustler

    Locale: Ontario, Canada

    Tell us about the history of your avatar.

    Mine is from my canoe trip around Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. (North part of Georgian Bay)

    It is a beaver dam lift over.

    See "trip report for more pictures"

    It is a 15' cedar strip "Osprey" solo canoe.

    (there is a spectacular 100 km trail around it as well)

    Doug

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    #1385292
    Doug Johnson
    BPL Member

    @djohnson

    Locale: Pacific Northwest

    Great story Doug- and a beautiful canoe!

    Mine was taken with a timer during a solo trip in my favorite spot- the La Bohn Lakes on a shelf of Mount Hinman in the Washington Cascades. I just LOVE this spot.

    This trip was a super-quick one (baby at home) but I had the time to go wandering and climbing above the trees and really soak it in. It's like Fairy Land up there.

    EDIT- picture changed now- see later post. :-)

    #1385293
    Richard Nelridge
    Spectator

    @naturephoto1

    Locale: Eastern Pennsylvania

    I am a professional photographer and my Avatar is a photo taken in 1993 between about 1:00 and 3:00 AM after Moonset. The image records 2 eruptions of Old Faithful Geyser and the stars as the earth rotated in 2 hours. The image was taken on a 4" X 5" Linhof Super Technika IV Camera and a Rodenstock f6.8 90mm Grandagon N MC lens on Ektachrome Plus 100 Professional transparency (slide) film. The aperture was about f8 and the exposure was underexposed by about 2 stops and push processed 1 stop. The image could not be taken at the proper f stop due to the lens speed. Additionally the star trails would have looked like they were taken in daylight due to the artificial lights that are around Old Faithful some of which run up into the trees.

    Rich

    #1385294
    Steve .
    Member

    @pappekak

    Locale: Tralfamadore

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    #1385296
    Benjamin Smith
    BPL Member

    @bugbomb

    Locale: South Texas

    Sunset near Thompson Peak in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains. We were trying to get to Sawtooth lake before it got too dark, and as we hustled up the trail to the lake, we turned around to look back at the peaks. Caught this view just as we passed the last minor lake before reaching Sawtooth Lake.

    #1385300
    Scott Peterson
    Member

    @scottalanp

    Locale: Northern California

    There are some great images above and elsewhere within this site! It has inspired me to look out for a couple of good ones myself while I am out this season. Too often I capture a picture that does not work in a small format…and I only have candid shots of myself along with other people.

    So…my current shot is of the end of a logging road fairly deep in the Trinity Alps. The chartered helicopter flight dropped us and our gear about 200 yards from the China Gulch trail head. Flying from Redding CA up and into the Alps is a 30 minute flight I will never forget! It saved us loads of driving time too! The avatar is mainly for my benefit…so I can remember the good times when I am hunkered down at a desk during the week.

    #1385304
    Sarah Kirkconnell
    BPL Member

    @sarbar

    Locale: Homesteading On An Island In The PNW

    My current avatar was taken of me standing on the beach at Ruby Beach this past fall. Olympic National park. My husband took the shot of me, it was raining and we had gale winds. Great memory ;-)

    #1385307
    Chad Mason
    Spectator

    @porch13

    Locale: Arizona

    Mine is a shot of me standing in front of Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon.

    #1385312
    Sam Haraldson
    BPL Member

    @sharalds

    Locale: Gallatin Range

    Porcupine Mountains State Park
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula
    February 2007

    #1385314
    Christopher Plesko
    Member

    @pivvay

    Locale: Rocky Mountains

    It's me and my wife at this past year's 24 hours of rain, I mean Moab. I was racing the solo men's class.

    #1385316
    Mark
    BPL Member

    @mlarson

    Locale: SoCal

    Taken on a warm day in January 06 on a rock outcrop on the top of Sawnee Mountain, the hub of a local park. Used the timer on my trusty old Fuji Finepix A330. It's not really a spectacular shot, but here's the full EXIF data for the photo nerds, anyway :)

    #1385317
    Adam Rothermich
    BPL Member

    @aroth87

    Locale: Missouri Ozarks

    Mine is from a trip I did on the Ozark Trail a week or two ago. I ended up getting rained out but got a couple of neat pictures beforehand. Its just an OT trail marker, nothing to too fancy.

    Adam

    #1385322
    Mark Mendell
    BPL Member

    @mmendell

    Locale: Midwest

    Hey everyone. Learning lots.

    Mine is from the summer of '06 in the Buffalo Peaks WA of Colorado.

    #1385324
    Brian Markey
    BPL Member

    @bmlaw

    Locale: Northeast

    It is with my sons on top of Mount Major in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Below us is Lake Winnipesaukee.

    #1385326
    Shawn Basil
    Member

    @bearpaw

    Locale: Southeast

    My current avatar is from the Durango Trailhead at the end of my Colorado Trail thru-hike in July 06.

    #1385327
    David Stenberg
    BPL Member

    @dstenberg1

    Locale: South

    My avatar is from an overnight trip on the AT overlooking Connecticut.

    #1385330
    Elliott Wolin
    BPL Member

    @ewolin

    Locale: Hampton Roads, Virginia

    A shot of me and my wife (Betsy) along Mt Rainier's White River after completing a 14-day hike of the Wonderland Trail around the mountain in Aug 2006.

    It was our first long hike (over 3 nights), our first attempt at UL, and the first time our whole family took a long hike together (including Michael age 22, Rachel age 20, and Brian age 17).

    Luckily we did it last summer…the trail is a disaster after the monsoon this fall. Latest estimates are $100M damage.

    See the forum on trail reports for many more pictures.

    #1385336
    jim bailey
    BPL Member

    @florigen

    Locale: South East

    A fine looking bunch of folks in this community! Mine was taken by my cousin in March 05 near the summit of mt Lafayette in NH where we testing the limits of a Hex 3 on the summit that night, crazy winds and temps with wind chill around -35 below zero.

    #1385337
    Sam Haraldson
    BPL Member

    @sharalds

    Locale: Gallatin Range

    Doug,

    Thanks for starting this thread. I've been wondering about many of these pictures for quite some time now.

    – sam_h

    #1385338
    Robert McGaughey
    Member

    @havoc

    Locale: North Texas

    Capitol Peak reflecting in the still waters of Capitol Lake just below it on a 14er trip last summer. A truly spectacular peak. Best thing about this pic, I'm not in it! lol

    #1385340
    Christopher Chupka
    Member

    @fattexan

    Locale: NTX

    Self Portrait on Crestone Needle with Crestone Peak in the background. The next day on Crestone Peak the weather was so socked visibilty was no more than 10 feet. Mini hail and sleet was plinking off my helmet.

    But this day on the Needle was beautiful. One of the most fun scrambles I have ever done besides Wetterhon, which was my first.

    #1385342
    Ryan Jordan
    Admin

    @ryan

    Locale: Central Rockies

    What a fun thread! Thanks for starting it Doug.

    That's me in a cave formed from an old keyhole pourover, Stevens Gulch in the Escalante National Monument, Utah, March 2006. Using a tripod (this was dusk) and an Optio WPi camera.

    My hiking partner, an East Indian named Aroh, and I had walked down from our camp just up the gulch to fetch water, since the creek was dry above this spot. We camped underneath an arch at the canyon's edge, one of the coolest places I've ever spent the night in wilderness. Owls howling, lizards all over the place, cacti, poison oak, absolute raw bliss. Stephens is less than sanitized, I highly recommend it for canyon goers.

    #1385348
    Phil Barton
    BPL Member

    @flyfast

    Locale: Oklahoma

    New pic is our crew at the Boundary Waters in July 2007. We had a great time. It ain't backpacking but it is sure fun. On this trip we saw a wolf, had a beaver that visited our camp, encountered numerous bald eagles, and caught our weight in fish. Ahhh.

    #1385351
    Nathan V
    BPL Member

    @junk

    Locale: The Great Lake State

    Mine is a Lake Michigan sunset I took last october, near the sleeping bear dunes.

    My new one is me in Virginia on the AT.

    #1385352
    Roger B
    BPL Member

    @rogerb

    Locale: Denmark

    Grenå Strand Denmark

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