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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1790 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
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Schenk Off Leash Man
Joined: 16 Apr 2012 Posts: 2372 | TRs | Pics Location: Traveling, with the bear, to the other side of the Mountain |
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Wed Oct 25, 2017 3:20 pm
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I am with you.
In the Autumn the smells change dramatically!
Decaying vegetation, the slightly wine-y smell of old huckleberries still on the bush.
Elk and deer rutting, bear stink, the smell of cold rain and winter coming...I smell it all!
Nature exists with a stark indifference to humans' situation.
Nature exists with a stark indifference to humans' situation.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16092 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Do not forget the vanilla odor of sweet after death.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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HermitThrush Member
Joined: 14 Jan 2016 Posts: 384 | TRs | Pics Location: Brainerd Lakes Area, MN |
Minnesota northern forest is by far my favorite wilderness smell, followed closely by high alpine meadows and alpine fir stand smell.
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MtnGoat Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 11992 | TRs | Pics Location: Lyle, WA |
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Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:00 pm
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The sweet loamy fir smell knocks me out every time I return to Pugetopolis for a visit....it kicks in right before the pass and I love it. Makes me realize how used to the ponderosa forest smell I am now.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7709 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
The perfume wafting around the air from various flowers in bloom can be intoxicating. I've noticed some flowers aren't particularly odoriferous if you stick your nose right in the middle of it, but from a short distance away it's very sweet. Lupine is quite lovely.
I also actually like the smell of skunk cabbage in the spring. While it's pungent, it's not an unpleasant odor to me.
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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1790 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
Strangely but sadly, the smell of the first wildfire of the season. It's a aroma I can tolerate for only a short period of time
The smell of fir sap & pine sap. Cottonwood trees in the spring time
The smell of snow
I could go on and on
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
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neek Member
Joined: 12 Sep 2011 Posts: 2337 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:34 pm
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I'm a silence seeker (wish I could live in an anechoic chamber) but only find true silence once every few years, usually in the desert or the dead of winter. Streams and insects and wind in the leaves are nice, but there's something magical about the complete lack of sound. Similar to the photonless experience that is hard to find outside of a cave.
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MtnGoat Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 11992 | TRs | Pics Location: Lyle, WA |
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Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:23 pm
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You'd love our RF isolation chamber at work. Thick door, sealed room, anechoic foam everywhere. Weird talking in there because of the no echoing at all.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Waterman Member
Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 590 | TRs | Pics Location: Big Snow Quadrangle |
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Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:25 pm
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Whenever I came home from Alaska it was a priority to get up to Skykomish to visit friends and to get into the forest.
The smell of decaying leaves,ferns, firs and birdsong.
Looking forward to this is what enabled me to put up with the long grind of work.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1790 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
Waterman wrote: | Whenever I came home from Alaska it was a priority to get up to Skykomish to visit friends and to get into the forest. |
Interesting. What was lacking in Alaska that you found in Skykomish?
Alaska seems like a treasure trove for wilderness aromas. Maybe it's the stereotype I have about Alaska and its wilderness.
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
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huron Member
Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 1037 | TRs | Pics
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Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:47 pm
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Good topic. Need help to ID a smell. At treeline on rocky East side granite class 3 and 4 terrain there are two powerful smells that rub off on my hands. Sage is one. The other is a very powerful pine type smell that is slightly sweet and musty. Not the lower elevation pine smell. Very different. What could it be?
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Waterman Member
Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 590 | TRs | Pics Location: Big Snow Quadrangle |
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Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:32 am
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I worked on boats in a marine environment in western Alaska. Not alot of trees.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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Schenk Off Leash Man
Joined: 16 Apr 2012 Posts: 2372 | TRs | Pics Location: Traveling, with the bear, to the other side of the Mountain |
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Thu Oct 26, 2017 10:29 am
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Bootpathguy wrote: | What was lacking in Alaska that you found in Skykomish? |
I can't speak for Bootpathguy's situation, but Alaska has some pretty desolate spots.
Ever been to Bethel? It is a treeless, windblown, harsh, silt dust covered, cold, and uninviting place...most of the time anyway.
Nature exists with a stark indifference to humans' situation.
Nature exists with a stark indifference to humans' situation.
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lookout bob WTA proponent.....
Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 3044 | TRs | Pics Location: wta work while in between lookouts |
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lookout bob
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Thu Oct 26, 2017 10:33 am
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love the smell of pine,hemlock and especially cedar after a wind. I really love the smell of ceanothus.
"Altitude is its own reward"
John Jerome ( from "On Mountains")
"Altitude is its own reward"
John Jerome ( from "On Mountains")
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