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    Default The 10 Worst Adventure Photo Clichés

    1-Nalgene swigging
    2-Sunsets
    3-Boulder hopping
    4-Stream crossing
    5-Boot soles
    6-Coiled rope throwing
    7-Blurry stars
    8-Yoga
    9-Wading, pack aloft
    10-Rainbows

    Think are worse ones? Add your own!!

    Or post your own list.............

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    Translation aisle 7 please.......
    Fear ridges that are depicted as flat lines on a profile map.

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    translation?

    no it makes perfectly good sense to me.

    He (or she---didn;t really look) wants to know your opinion on additional ubiquitous photos...we all have them. I've actually collected all but one of of the ten listed--I don't do yoga. The list is basically the equivalent of the red shirt dudes on old star trek...they always died...it was cliche.

    Since then I have learned several things: like how to take night sky photos and that unless you are using some fairly high end stuff rainbows look very insignificant and washed out when you try to take a pic of them.
    Take almost nothing I say seriously--if it seems to make no sense what so ever it's probably meant as a joke....but do treat your water!

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    I would drop either the coiled rope throwing or yoga and add the "standing on a mountaintop looking out over the land" (like your avatar)

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    Tent in alpine meadow
    people sipping hot chocolate
    weathered snag
    head peeping out of sleeping bag
    smiling face in rain gear with water dripping down
    person crossing stream on a log with helping hand from friend
    smiling faces around the fire
    person flopped on the ground with pack exhausted
    group shot before/after trip

    I've taken them all, repeatedly
    "It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." ---Dr. Seuss

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    Backpacker Hugging/Kissing/Loving/Kneeling at Katahdin Sign
    Backpacker Smiling at Springer Plaque
    "I have a bear now" pic
    up over the hills, theres nothing to fear
    theres a pub across the way with whisky and beer
    its a lengthy journey on the way up to the top
    but it ain't so bad if you have a great big bottle o'scotch

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    A backpacker standing on top of a mountain with a blue sky background and a green mountain behind him.
    Love people and use things; never the reverse.

    Mt. Katahdin would be a lot quicker to climb if its darn access trail didn't start all the way down in Georgia.

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    shelter
    privy
    blister
    lone wolf
    Fear ridges that are depicted as flat lines on a profile map.

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    I love looking at all those "cliche" shots.
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    A number of my "cliché photos" have appeared in ATC calendars, various books, and catalogs; and have paid for a thru hike. I plan on continuing to take them.

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    What else is there to take a picture of?
    Follow slogoen on Instagram.

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    Hiker posing by Trailhead/road crossing sign. USGS Peak markers.

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    fat, bloated, drunken, has-been thru-hikers!
    "You do more hiking with your head than your feet!" Emma "Grandma" Gatewood...HYOY!!!
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    These are not "my" photo cliche's. It's a list put together that I found as a blurb in an outdoor magazine. Obviously it was put together by someone whom doesn't get out often enough and only sees pictures in book and magazines.

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    Hikers posting on websites.
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    My 2008 Trail Journal of the BMT/AT

    BMT Thru-Hikers' Guide
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    NO SNIVELING

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    Quote Originally Posted by beakerman View Post
    rainbows look very insignificant and washed out when you try to take a pic of them.


    I thought my rainbow came out pretty good.
    Some knew me as Piper, others as just Diane.
    I hiked the PCT: Mexico to Mt. Shasta, 2008. Santa Barbara to Canada, 2009.

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    Black frostbitten noses, cheeks, fingers and toes., ugh !
    WALK ON

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    woodsy-"Black frostbitten noses, cheeks, fingers and toes., ugh ! "
    Not black yet, but.....

    http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/...imageuser=1531

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    Quote Originally Posted by Totem View Post
    Backpacker Hugging/Kissing/Loving/Kneeling at Katahdin Sign
    Backpacker Smiling at Springer Plaque
    Not cliched for the person who spent several months on this wilderness pilgrimage. Maybe for people who track their hikes down to the percentage, though.
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