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Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 1:17 pm
by skydawg
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Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 2:35 pm
by Liquidnails
Judging by the trees I'd guess that it's somewhere with a long cold winter and a short cool summer, likely a subalpine area with lots of precipitation. The trail leads me to believe that it is a common area to hike, or was perhaps subject to livestock grazing at one time. That doesn't really narrow it down a whole lot. Somewhere east of Vernon, but West of Arrow Lake, South of Revelstoke but North of Christian Valley. So in other words, I have no idea.

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 3:15 pm
by grammafreddy
Those are Western Larch trees, aren't they? If so, they don't grow just anywhere ... like - do they grow in the Okanagan? The hills around Kelowna don't seem to turn gold in the fall from them - but they do up around Beaverdell and Idabel.

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 4:08 pm
by Glacier
The're lots of larch around Vernon, but those look like they could also be spruce. I will go with Monashee Provincial park.

The darker the green, the more abundant the larch is.
The darker the green, the more abundant the larch is.

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 4:12 pm
by SmokeOnTheWater
My first thought was somewhere in the Rockies.

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 8:19 pm
by Woodenhead
Reminds me a lot of an old cabin I used to occasionally canoe/portage to way out in the boonies in northern Ontario.

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 9:59 pm
by Liquidnails
Larch is more commonly found lower in elevation toward valley bottoms, but I've certainly seen it higher up fading into subalpine fir and spruce.

One of my favorite places is just a few km east of Winfield. It's like a little oasis where the forest turns from lodgepole pine and fir and dry itchy grass to cedar and skunk cabbage and devils club and it's always a cool sanctuary on those unbearable hot summer days.

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 10:40 pm
by skydawg
Trees in the photo are a mix of spruce and balsam, mostly balsam

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 30th, 2012, 11:42 pm
by Liquidnails
More commonly known as fir trees west of the rockies.

Can you give us a hint skydawg?

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Dec 31st, 2012, 8:22 am
by skydawg
Its about a 22km hike in. Return

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Jan 2nd, 2013, 10:29 am
by Queen K
That narrows it down.

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Jan 2nd, 2013, 3:02 pm
by SmokeOnTheWater
Queen K wrote:That narrows it down.

:coffeecanuck:

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Jan 2nd, 2013, 9:43 pm
by skydawg
Oh queenie come on now. I dont want to just give it away.

There is a beer with same name.

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Jan 2nd, 2013, 11:04 pm
by Queen K
Moosehead Lake?

Re: Forum Photo Contest!

Posted: Jan 3rd, 2013, 12:13 am
by skydawg
Looking for the name of the area. Im not even sure if the lake has a name.