View Full Version : Where is your favorite place to peep????
Yes it's that wonderful time of year....AUTUMN!!!! That glorious time when tempratures drop....well, used to, and we all ache to visit that one breath-taking, leaf-peeper view!
Mine used to be the southern poconos in PA.....Glen Onoko Fall outside of Jim Thorpe to be specific. NOw....Grayson Highland and right here in Damascus.
Mind boggling! I can only imagine how bright the colors would be without the drought!
Jack Tarlin
10-18-2007, 17:55
Our back yard by the brook here in Hanover is looking pretty fine these days.
Ohhhhh.....I think I may need to visit :-)
The fall colors are quite nice in the mountains of Maine, lots of foliage in the Bigelows, tis the season.
Kirby
Lone Wolf
10-18-2007, 19:31
my favorite place to peep? wonder's window
Cookerhiker
10-18-2007, 19:42
Don't have a favorite place. I've been to and hiked in fall colors over the years in the AT corridor from New Hampshire to North Carolina and everything in-between. They're all beautiful at their respective times. My current home in Western MD is spectacular right now. Heck, Rock Creek Park in Washington DC is beautiful when the leaves turn.
Having said all that, I've found that this year, the drought has taken its toll.
Right here (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=19297&c=563%5D%5Bimg%5Dhttp://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/7/9/1/4/100_1585_), of course:)
Appalachian Tater
10-18-2007, 20:56
Sorry, misread the title and didn't read the prior posts like I usually do.
Dang, I thought this thread was going to be about voyeurism!
"How do ya bring'm in, my boy? Headlines! Headlines! Grab'm by the eyes!"
warraghiyagey
10-19-2007, 00:51
Right here (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=19297&c=563%5D%5Bimg%5Dhttp://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/7/9/1/4/100_1585_), of course:)
Oh Woodsy, would you stop. We all know that's not a real place. It's obvious you just photoshopped a picture of Staten Island.
And thanks Wolf for stealing the thunder. My answer was going to be Pammycakes' (Anderson) window. Dang it, dang it, dang it.
warraghiyagey
10-19-2007, 00:53
I just pee anywhere as long as it's not on a rock or log where it looks like somebody might sit for a break.
Or if you're wearing shorts, splash up on your shins and ankles.
Phoenix Rising
10-19-2007, 01:25
I am so jealous of all of you! Phoenix really isn’t much of a place to see the leaves changing… and that is the one thing that makes me homesick for New England and the AT… but then again it was a beautiful sunny 86 degree today, with no humidity and no bugs…perfect AZ hiking weather!
There is no humidity here either. It rained for ten minitues today, and we almost had a parade!
warraghiyagey
10-19-2007, 03:50
I am so jealous of all of you! Phoenix really isn’t much of a place to see the leaves changing… and that is the one thing that makes me homesick for New England and the AT… but then again it was a beautiful sunny 86 degree today, with no humidity and no bugs…perfect AZ hiking weather!
Jealous of us? Well, as they say, the grass is always warm and sunny on the other side of the country - or something like that.:)
camojack
10-19-2007, 07:09
Right here (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=19297&c=563%5D%5Bimg%5Dhttp://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/7/9/1/4/100_1585_), of course:)
Y'know, it looked just like that from a rock along the Hunt Trail about 2 years ago, on my way to HERE (http://gallery.backcountry.net/Camo_Jack_hikes_again/aah)...
shelterbuilder
10-19-2007, 07:27
My favorite place would have to be around where I grew up near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Get off of the AT at Rt. 309 and head north 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Pick up any of the back roads to Tunkhannock and head west on Rt. 6 into the "Endless Mountains". The predominant trees will be maples - instead of the oaks, birches, and beeches along the AT down here - and the colors will be more stunning around every bend in the road.
Go this weekend or next - it should be peaking.:D
saimyoji
10-19-2007, 07:39
Y'know, it looked just like that from a rock along the Hunt Trail about 2 years ago, on my way to HERE (http://gallery.backcountry.net/Camo_Jack_hikes_again/aah)...
Hmmm..photographic evidence of you breaking the law....:-? :D
warraghiyagey;429262]Oh Woodsy, would you stop. We all know that's not a real place.
This (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=19300&c=528%5D)isn't a real place either. It's just a dreamworld and i'm wearing tinted glasses :)
Gray Blazer
10-19-2007, 07:55
Come to FL. Our colors peaked last March and are still bright green!
camojack
10-19-2007, 08:00
Hmmm..photographic evidence of you breaking the law....:-? :D
Ummm...Photoshop? Heh. OK, you got me; guilty as charged... :o
Beautiful colors Woodsy.
All we have are rocks and sand, you suck ;)
Beautiful colors Woodsy.
you suck ;)
Hehe,:sun
We peoples aren't the only ones enjoying Autumn colors, check out this old girl (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=19288&) on a foliage tour(If you haven't already)
Right outside my house. I live in the valley along the Taconic Crest, just one ridge west of the AT/LT in Vermont. Last night I was standing in my yard, looking at the ridges thinking, "it just doesn't get better than this".
http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/1/1/6/6/8/FromFrontYard-1.jpg
Kerosene
10-19-2007, 10:04
The view in mid-October of Pinnacle Ridge (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=458) from The Priest was one of the prettiest peeps I've had!
saimyoji
10-19-2007, 11:23
PA isn't so bad. (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=13469&c=member&imageuser=3920)
PA ROCKS!!!! If I didn't move to Damascus, I would have gon to the Palmerton area......Pinnicle, Bake Oven Knob, Dans Pulpit......I love them all!
I may be the first to admit it but hiking when the colors are peaking leaves me in a soothing euphoric/nirvana state of mind. I thought i was having flashbacks from the flower power days a couple times recently, ya know what i mean, the visual sensory receptors kicking in and all.:-?:sun:D
PA ROCKS!!!! If I didn't move to Damascus, I would have gon to the Palmerton area......Pinnicle, Bake Oven Knob, Dans Pulpit......I love them all!
You're not missing much. It's raining and the leaves aren't doing much either. Hasn't been cold enough to develop good reds although the black gum in my yard is showing some.
warraghiyagey
10-19-2007, 14:47
I may be the first to admit it but hiking when the colors are peaking leaves me in a soothing euphoric/nirvana state of mind. I thought i was having flashbacks from the flower power days a couple times recently, ya know what i mean, the visual sensory receptors kicking in and all.:-?:sun:D
Hmm. . . I was wondering why there were no mushrooms in your pictures. Sweet photos Woodsy.:)
saimyoji
10-19-2007, 14:51
You're not missing much. It's raining and the leaves aren't doing much either. Hasn't been cold enough to develop good reds although the black gum in my yard is showing some.
Speak for yourself. My "neck 'o the woods" is beautiful. Eye of the beholder. :cool:
although the black gum in my yard is showing some.
Is that texas tea you're talkin bout?
Well, it's good to hear that it's raining in PA for a change. Watch out folks.....I'm begining to think that droughts follow me. But even in the rain, there is a beauty that is specific to PA. It may be more dramatic here due to the elevation......put there is a peace to autumn in the Poconos
Man, now I'm homesick.....will someone pleace go hike Glen Onoko and send me pics????
Speak for yourself. My "neck 'o the woods" is beautiful. Eye of the beholder. :cool:
I was. My eyes have seen some fine leaves, just nothing to write about this year.
Ok, then, already. Recommend me some color. I'm not seeing anything to get excited about here.
Uncle Silly
10-19-2007, 16:18
Is that texas tea you're talkin bout?
The line in the song is "black gold, texas tea" .. not "black gum". Minus 200 points. Good try though.
(Beverly Hillbillies reference, if anyone's confused...)
Is that texas tea you're talkin bout?
woodsy, click Nyssa sylvatica Marshall (http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/natives/trees/Nyssasylvs1704.jpg) for fall tupelo foliage served Texas-style.;)
Hmm. . . I was wondering why there were no mushrooms in your pictures. Sweet photos Woodsy.:)
No shrooms needed, nature provides all;) Honest Wargy, i did not bait that Moose to stand fast in front of Lil Bigelow like that.
The line in the song is "black gold, texas tea" .. not "black gum". Minus 200 points. Good try though.
(Beverly Hillbillies reference, if anyone's confused...)Oh. OK:D
woodsy, click Nyssa sylvatica Marshall (http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/natives/trees/Nyssasylvs1704.jpg) for fall tupelo foliage served Texas-style.;)
So thats what it looks like:cool:
my favorite place to peep? wonder's window
Wolf, don't forget to bring the ladder. Her window is on the second floor.
I am so jealous of all of you! Phoenix really isn’t much of a place to see the leaves changing… and that is the one thing that makes me homesick for New England and the AT… but then again it was a beautiful sunny 86 degree today, with no humidity and no bugs…perfect AZ hiking weather!
Nearly 60 years ago I spent three late summer and fall months at an Army testing station in the desert 30 miles north of Yuma.
I was a bit home sick for Maine, but I did learn to enjoy the desert -- especially the several times a week I would walk several miles to a fishing camp on the Colorado River to buy an ice cold real beer.
One day while walking back through the roadless desert I was given a Jeep ride by a hydroelectric dam engineer. We got to to chatting about the difference between autumn in Arizona and the east. He asked where I was from and after a minute or two I learned he had grown up 40 years earlier than me, but just two houses down the road from where I grew up in Maine -- and had once dated my mother!
Weary
warraghiyagey
10-20-2007, 03:29
No shrooms needed, nature provides all;) Honest Wargy, i did not bait that Moose to stand fast in front of Lil Bigelow like that.
So you gave the moose the mushrooms?:D
woodsy, click Nyssa sylvatica Marshall (http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/natives/trees/Nyssasylvs1704.jpg) for fall tupelo foliage served Texas-style.;)
Notice the Copyright? "Texas Agricultural Experiment Station" What does that refer to?
my favorite place to peep? I have a "small" list. Both are not near the AT. The Lake Placid and Saranac Area of the Adirondaks. I have never been on the AT when the leaves changed colors. Where would be the best place??
Frolicking Dinosaurs
10-20-2007, 09:56
Early in season - The Blue ridge parkway (http://www.nps.gov/blri/)
Mid-season - The Cherohala Skyway (http://www.cherohala.com/index.html)
Late Season - Cloudland Canyon State Park (GA) (http://ngeorgia.com/parks/cloudland.html)
We live in one of the most beautiful sections here in western NC. We literally have Pisgah Nat. Forest in our backyard. I LOVE IT! Fall is absolutely breath taking here. I do have to say that one of the most beautiful sites we have ever had in the fall was on the Tanawha trail off of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The trail starts at the campground at Julian Price memorial park and it runs about 13.5 miles, and even through the Grandfather Mountain district. It is like something from a picture book. You go through rolling cow pastures and around grandfather mountain. It is beautiful. When you're done you can go down to Boone for eats:)!
Phoenix Rising
10-21-2007, 01:17
One day while walking back through the roadless desert I was given a Jeep ride by a hydroelectric dam engineer. We got to to chatting about the difference between autumn in Arizona and the east. He asked where I was from and after a minute or two I learned he had grown up 40 years earlier than me, but just two houses down the road from where I grew up in Maine -- and had once dated my mother!
Well, just goes to show none of us are from here!
Bare Bear
10-21-2007, 23:16
Thnaks Gray Blazer, now we will gewt another million tourists! Actually I am headed north tomorrow for Murphy for a couple days then Atlanta for the NASCAR RACE next weekend.
warraghiyagey
10-21-2007, 23:25
Thnaks Gray Blazer, now we will gewt another million tourists! Actually I am headed north tomorrow for Murphy for a couple days then Atlanta for the NASCAR RACE next weekend.
Sorry, race is cancelled due to water shortage.
Does it get any better than... any place in New England?? Here's (http://www.terrapinphoto.com/essex_foliage.jpg) a shot from Essex, MA, near where I used to live a few years back. Here's (http://www.terrapinphoto.com/vermont_foliage.jpg) one from closer to the AT -- near Stratton Mtn in VT.
warraghiyagey
10-22-2007, 01:02
my favorite place to peep? I have a "small" list. Both are not near the AT. The Lake Placid and Saranac Area of the Adirondaks. I have never been on the AT when the leaves changed colors. Where would be the best place??
No doubt. Give me an entire autumn in a tent in Limekiln and I'll be a happy camper. Hahaha, I crack myself up. But seriously, I've been fortunate to witness a lot of natural beauty. But there's just something aout the Adirondacks. Like Monson, Maine, it feels like home. And it's beautiful.
Phoenix Rising
10-22-2007, 03:13
Does it get any better than... any place in New England?? Here's (http://www.terrapinphoto.com/essex_foliage.jpg) a shot from Essex, MA, near where I used to live a few years back. Here's (http://www.terrapinphoto.com/vermont_foliage.jpg) one from closer to the AT -- near Stratton Mtn in VT.
Terrapin... you're killing me! I grew up hanging out in Essex, back side of Cranes and all! I hate missing the fall! Maybe next year I will need to make a trip home...
Phoenix Rising
the goat
10-22-2007, 09:30
went up to mary's rock in snp over the weekend. leaves were changing at the top of the ridge lines, but the valleys are still green. it was a beautiful day to hike.
Neurosis
10-22-2007, 09:41
I just spent the last two weekends hiking in the White Mountains, simply gorgeous. The first weekend the trees and views of the valleys were like Rainbows and the second weekend all the leaves had fallen but made the trails look as if you were walking on fire. Plus the Mizpah Croo delighted me with free pancakes and dinner! Perfect weekend?
Sorry, race is cancelled due to water shortage.
Not a chance! That race pumps about 25 million bucks into the local economy.
warraghiyagey
10-22-2007, 17:11
Not a chance! That race pumps about 25 million bucks into the local economy.
Psych!!! Made you look!!:)
I just did the Lehigh Gorge to Jim Thorpe this weekend.....perfect!!! The whole hike is from whitehaven to Glen Onokoand is 21 miles on a 3% road grade. If you are in the area DO IT!! Lots of bikes on the trail not much walkers but there is a passenger trail from Jim Thorpe that runs along the same route if ya dont wanna shuttle a car and from the trail the view is the same, beautiful.
ooops....i ment a passanger train not trail.
I hope that you had some time to visit around the town of Jim Thorpe (formally Mauch Chunk) and see some of the history. A facinating place...(plug from former tour guide) One you probably didn't hear.....did you know that the Asa Packer mansion on the hill behind the diner was the basis for Disneys Haunted Mansion and that the film was shot there?
greg burke
12-15-2007, 13:12
Colorado Trail just south of Baily in October
I always loved hiking in the Whites durring fall, the views are always so nice.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jzakhar/WM/photo#5122777715307637426
http://picasaweb.google.com/jzakhar/WM/photo#5122777938645937202
http://picasaweb.google.com/jzakhar/WM/photo#5122777736782473938