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Chico
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Joined: 30 Nov 2012
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Love the smell of bacon frying in a skillet over an open campfire or even a stove.
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MesiJezi
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Joined: 17 May 2016
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Location: Seattle
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I always wondered what that slightly spicy scent was! It's hard to top on a warm, dry summer day in the trees. For some reason it makes me want to lay on the ground and lake a nap. It sure makes the forest feel warm and inviting.
One of my other favorite scents is the sage on a warm summer day in Eastern WA. Also there are days in the spring when the smell of flowers on the trees in north Seattle is just insanely good. |
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silence
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jimmymac
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Joined: 14 Nov 2003
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Location: Lake Wittenmyer, WA
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I enjoy the sounds that only bubble to the surface when there is silence. The sounds of silence, as it were.
Carne Basin on a sunny weekday in October. No breeze, no bugs, no voices, no aircraft.
Complete silence, or so it would seem. Then, from the opposite side of the basin, the distinct sound of trickling makes itself known. In between my breathing, this "creek" dribbling at less than 5 GPM has become the prominent sound in the basin. But only by default. It's signature could be easily overshadowed by a single horse fly.
That's what I like most about silence. Its intimacy spotlights sounds that otherwise never make the stage.
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Kascadia
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Joined: 03 Feb 2014
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Faint metallic smell of ice axe against very cold, dry snow. There is a particular sound that goes with this also - wilderness visitors.
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Bootpathguy
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Joined: 18 Jun 2015
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Location: United States
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| jimmymac wrote: |
No breeze, no bugs, no voices, no aircraft.
Complete silence, or so it would seem. Then, from the opposite side of the basin, the distinct sound of trickling makes itself known. In between my breathing, this "creek" dribbling at less than 5 GPM has become the prominent sound in the basin. But only by default. Its signature could be easily overshadowed by a single horse fly.
That's what I like most about silence. Its intimacy spotlights sounds that otherwise never make the stage. |
Bingo! Spot on!
Thats been many of my backcountry experiences
That was expressed so eloquently
Reading that gives me goosebumps
Thanks for that
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Bootpathguy
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"Being Hear"
Great short documentary
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Downhill
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Joined: 30 Jul 2018
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Location: Leavenworth
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I think I'm in the same camp as Bootpathguy, preferring the smells on the eastern slopes of the cascades. Similarly, I find that I'm much more attuned to these smells (sounds, sights, etc.) when I'm alone. I like the differing smells with changes in altitude, exposure/aspect, season, time of day and weather.
The oddest sensory experience I had in the mountains occurred many years ago while climbing the direct NW face route on Half Dome. At the end of the 4th day of climbing, we were just 1 pitch below the summit. Other than my partner and the climbing, I hadn't had any human interaction since leaving the Mist Trail 5 days earlier. My senses had been tuned only to the sights, smells, and sounds of the face and the climb.
As we began climbing this last pitch, I smelled cigarette smoke and perfume. My mind couldn't process the incongruence of these two "civilized" smells, 4 days and 2000 feet up a climb. I looked around and saw above me, a young couple who had undoubtedly hiked up the cable route on the other side, and were now sitting on the diving board/visor that overhangs the face. I had been feeling very cut off from the rest of the world for nearly a week but these smells jolted me back to the reality that civilization was close and my remoteness had only been my state of mind. |
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Schenk
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Joined: 16 Apr 2012
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Location: Traveling, with the bear, to the other side of the Mountain
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Places in the Bighorns last week were spicy and smelled a bit like cloves at times. I assume it was one of the final flowering plants of Summer up there.
Other places smelled like hot turpentine in the trees...like the place was ready to explode with a spark.
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Bootpathguy
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At this point of my adventure
and the remaining distance to my final destination.
The air is saturated with the aroma of blueberries.
Awesome!!!
Wish I'd had frying pan, pancake mix and maple syrup
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philfort
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Location: seattle
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| Sculpin wrote: |
| On warm summer days (especially in June when the new growth is on), the pine parklands in the foothills on the east side of the Cascades are fragrant with Ceanothus velutinus. It smells like a mixture of cinnamon and tobacco to me. |
Hmm, there's some plant I recall seeing/smelling everywhere in the Pasayten that smelled like Christmas (cinnamon, cloves, allspice, etc...). We rubbed it on our pillows at night. But it didn't look like ceanothus velutinus. The leaves were in clumps arranged in a somewhat semi-circular pattern.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the putrid stench of decay you can frequently smell in avalanche meadows. Or is this only about good aromas? |
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lookout bob
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Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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Location: wta work while in between lookouts
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skunk cabbage... 
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BigBrunyon
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Joined: 19 Mar 2015
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Location: the fitness gyms!!
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I was up there, big raging fire. Some them logs kept smelling like mexican food! Whats the deal with that!
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fyodorova
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| lookout bob wrote: |
| skunk cabbage... |
This really is one of my favorite smells. Growing up in Southeast Alaska, the smell of skunk cabbage in the spring was a sign that summer vacation was coming soon. |
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wolffie
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Joined: 14 Jul 2008
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Location: Seattle
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Nothing like the aroma of a wet corgi as he gradually warms me up in my wet sleeping bag. The familiar snurzzling in my ear, mixed with the incessant tinnitus that I never notice, as he quickly warms me up and I stop shivering. It's almost worth the dogbreath.
I know he is snidely thinking, "And you think I smell bad....?!" but he's too polite to say anything. |
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