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Whitewater rafting on the Illinois River, near Grants Pass, Oregon, through the biggest rapid, the Green Wall, a class V, on a sweep boat no less (making it extra-difficult).

I've floated this stretch of river at least 15 times, its wild, 32 miles and 36 named rapids.

https://youtu.be/x9PBsNuXZ2w

#Raft #Rafting #Whitewater #River #Rivers #IllinoisRiver

Big Quilcene part 8. The winter sun barely clears the ridge top, making all day seem like sunset. Photo 2: This isn't the estuary of the Big Quilcene but it's close; these are the tidal flats of Dosewallips, just a few miles away. They provided an enormous quantity of oysters and clams for Native Americans for millennia, and still do today. It's now a state park. Oysters are in season but clams are not. Too bad I hate oysters.
8/8
#PNW #mosstodon #PNW #hiking #getoutside #River #nativeplants

The low winter sun slants through a grove of small conifer trees and illuminates the gravelly path leading away from the viewer. Sword ferns are backlit by the sun.

A very wide iPhone panorama showing a tidal flat at low tide with sea grass and exposed and small channels full of salt water meandering through it. The edge of a raised wooden platform is visible in the foreground. Beyond is Puget Sound, a large expanse of salt water, and beyond it, the farther shore covered in trees. It's nearly sunset and everything is golden tinged including the sky at the horizon.

cold river

#river #icetodon #winter #snow #forest #quebec #photography

Photograph of a river almost entirely covered by a thick layer of opaque white ice forming stalactites on its edges, and on top of that by a layer of snow, with a fast current and rapids still visible in the center of the riverbed. Dark forest lines both banks and contrasts with the very white, bluish snow. The photo is taken from above, from a bridge over the river.

Photographie d'une rivière presque entièrement recouverte d'une épaisse couche de glace blanche opaque formant des stalactites sur ses côtés, et par-dessus d'une couche neige, avec un débit rapide et des rapides encore visibles au centre du lit de la rivière. La forêt sombre borde les deux rives et contraste avec la neige très blanche et bleutée. La photo est prise de haut, à partir d'un pont au-dessus de la rivière.

Hiking Big Quilcene part 7.
Photo 1: this is our native squirrel, the Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii). The gray squirrels around our #PNW houses are Eastern gray squirrels and only showed up here after white settlement. Douglas squirrels are smaller and have a distinct call. They vary in color, but the ones I see most often are nearly black. Photo 2: Perhaps I spoke too soon about the flood damage.
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#mosstodon #PNW #hiking #getoutside #River #nativeplants #squirrel

A squirrel on a branch in a conifer tree looming down at us. It has very dark gray fur and fairly small ears and so looks different from the typical suburban squirrel in North America. It is holding a fir cone in its mouth.

A small creek with clear water flowing over a stony gravel bed. A bridge that was made of a single large log flattened on top with a chainsaw crosses it. It has a single rustic railing made of smaller branches nailed together. But it has snapped in two and lies angled into the water. Other fallen logs complicate any potential risk way across.

Hiking Big Quilcene part 6. Photo 1: Dramatic winter foliage of Mahonia nervosa (aka Berberis nervosa), one of our three species of Oregon grape. Photos 2-4: More moss. There are so many kinds here and I can't identify them at all. It's #mosstodon heaven.
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#PNW #hiking #getoutside #River #nativeplants #Mosstodon

Overhead view of a plant with long compound leaves arrayed in a precise opposite geometrical pattern on stems that radiate out from its main stem. The leaves are glossy and hard and bright red on its uppermost parts but others farther down by the ground are green. The winter sun illuminates it and makes the colors pop.

Closeup of some large - leaved miss of unknown type. Each leaf looks like a miniature fern frond.

Another close up photo of a different kind of miss, more finely dissected than the previous, and a more amber or olive green

Another closeup of the sawn end of a fallen log with moth growing over the edges from the bark covered sides and starting to encroach on the cut area.

Hiking Big Quilcene part 5. The river here doesn't seem to have been badly affected by the December "atmospheric river" (massive rainstorm), which devastated a lot of river lowlands in the Cascades. One can see evidence of torrents of water coming down the slopes of the valley but the riverbanks are only eroded in a few spots and the shore vegetation is mostly intact. Moss and lichen are on every tree branch here.
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#PNW #hiking #getoutside #River #nativeplants #Mosstodon

Shot of the same river taken from behind a mossy tree. Undergrowth is dense around the river banks. Slanting sunlight illuminates the moss on the vegetation.

Closeup of miss clinging to a drooping branch. The sunlight from the side shines through it making it seem a brilliant yellow green color.

Another closeup of a branch with hair like moss all over it lining as if it's glowing because of the sun shining beyond and the white foamy river flowing beneath.

Sobriety Kyôsaku You can get drunk on all kinds of stuff. rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/sobr... #addiction, #autonomy, #clear-seeing, #drugs, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #mindfulness, #renunciation, #river, #samsara, #sangha, #Zen

Sobriety Kyôsaku

Mirror

A very thin blanket of mist covered the Spaarne river, which itself had all but turned into a large mirror surface. The clouds had taken on the colour of the early morning golden hour, shortly after sunrise.

Soon, a few photography friends and I will be presenting each other our best shots of the past year. And with selecting your best shots, comes the dismissal of the ones you really like, but ultimately don't make the cut. I will be sharing those shots here, in chronological order. This is number 3 of 19.

📷 iPhone 16 Pro
⚙️ 48mm · f/1.8 · ISO 64 · 1/330s
📆 2025-03-13 · 07:16

#city #cityview #urban #urbanlandscape #water #waterscape #river #reflection #highrise #earlymorning #sky #clouds #goldenhour #phone #phoneshot #iphone #iphoneography #iphone16pro #netherlands #nederland #haarlem #mariastichting

Sobriety Kyôsaku

You can get drunk on all kinds of stuff.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/sobriety-kyosaku.html

#addiction, #autonomy, #clear-seeing, #drugs, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #mindfulness, #renunciation, #river, #samsara, #sangha, #Zen

Sobriety Kyôsaku

You can get drunk on all kinds of stuff.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/sobriety-kyosaku.html

#addiction, #autonomy, #clear-seeing, #drugs, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #mindfulness, #renunciation, #river, #samsara, #sangha, #Zen

Hiking Big Quilcene part 4. Salal (Gaultheria shallon) is looking very happy in January. The damp fog overnight has left a glossy wet sheen on the leaves and you can see why it's prized by florists for foliage in flower arrangements.
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#PNW #hiking #getoutside #River #nativeplants

A salal bush with oblong pointed and leathery leaves, near a stream bank. The leaves are wet and glossy.

Closer view of Salal foliage. The stems are reddish and zigzag between the alternating leaves which are very shiny

Hiking Big Quilcene part 3. This is the perfect habitat for rhododendrons and this trail has a lot of big ones. This is our native Rhododendron macrophyllum (one of two species in Washington) and it happens to be our state flower. It won't bloom till May or June. And yes, that's a carpet of moss beneath it. In the winter, moss really comes into its own as other plants go dormant.
#PNW #hiking #getoutside #River #Mosstodon

A rhododendron shrub, or small tree, with long bare woody stems each of which is topped with a radially arranged group of 5-6 leaves. They are oblong, entire, and slightly glossy with distinctive veins. The tree is surrounded by a carpet of moss with some sword ferns visible on the edges of the frame.

The Big Quilcene River flows out of the Olympic mountain range Eastward into Puget Sound, near the town of Quilcene. It's on the drier side of the Olympic Peninsula, but it's still basically temperate rain forest (note the moss and lichen in the tree branches). Photo 2: it's a fairly popular location and there's a few group campsites on the river. If this one had an actual bark shanty it's long gone. But there's a few huge cedars anyway.
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#PNW #hiking #getoutside #River

A fast flowing river with rocky banks. The rocks are covered with moss. Conifer trees and ferns line the banks of the river. The tree branches also have moss and lichen on them. A small bit of sunlight peeps through and some blue sky is apparent.

An open area of ground with a massive cedar tree in the foreground. Its drooping branches he's are draped in moss. A large rustic wood sign attached to its trunk says "Bark Shanty". Woods behind and another massive fallen log.

Welcome to my first hiking thread of 2026. Despite the warm and sunny weather, the mountains are still snowed in so a couple days ago I hiked up the Big Quilcene River valley on the Olympic Peninsula. A short thread.
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#PNW #hiking #getoutside #River

A small, fast flowing river seen from its bank. It flows through a rocky bed with mossy logs crisscrossing it. Conifers are visible in both sides. Mossy rocks in foreground. A bit of sunlight peeps through the overhead tree canopy.

Swarovski Crystal Tower • Via Romea #11 • @1MEMO 20260122

Swarovski Crystal Tower, January 2026, on the right bank of the river Inn at the Market Place of Innsbruck in Tyrol (Austria) on the route of the Via Tirolensis, the route of two ancient pilgrim routes, both the Camino de Santiago and the Via Romea Germanica.

Via Tirolensis

The Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage route, goes from Stade near Hamburg in Germany to Rome, Italy. The Tyrolean section (Via Tirolensis) in Austria and Italy of the Via Romea, goes from Mittenwald (German/Austrian border) via Innsbruck to Brenner - Brenner on the Austrian/Italian border), and continues in South-Tyrol to Bolzano, Italy.

Via Romea Maps

Via Romea in Austria, URL
https://camino-europe.eu/en/eu/oesterreich-en-US/neue-weiterleitungsseite/via-romea-iv

Via Romea in Italy, URL
https://app.forwalk.org/4/9/en/29/?u=m&h=2#11.355401/46.499113/17/0

Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jakobsweg): The route of the St James Way along the Inn in Innsbruck is part of the main (east to west) route in the Camino de Santiago network in Austria : the 'Jakobsweg Tirol'.

URL https://www.weitwanderwege.com/jakobsweg/

#viaromea #Inn #crystal #tower #river #Swarovski #Innsbruck #Via #Romea #Tirolensis #pilgrim #route #path #Tyrol #Jakobsweg #Camino #Santiago #Germanica #Alps #mountain

youtube https://youtu.be/I0zzmhIIO-s
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Bald Cypress on the Wakulla #River #trees #swampforest October 2011

Ante la cascada del Barranco de los Eriales.
#paisaje #landscape #río #river #cascada #waterfall #SierraDeGuadarrama #MirafloresDeLaSierra #Madrid

#evening #abend #walk #spaziergang #abendlicht #abendhimmel #wasser #water #fluss #river #air #luft #freshair #frischluft #vibes #goodvibes #mood #stimmung #leipzig #lipsk #lipsia #StadtUnterDenLinden #Sachsen #Saxonia #Saxony

Ducks on the Lake

A 3D scene for today. A calm lake. The water's surface. And ducks are swimming. There are several of them. They're swimming. And resting. Swimming peacefully. On the lake. The lake is large. The water is calm. And the sky is just like the water. A world of water. That's exactly it. This is the luminal space for ducks. Who love to simply swim peacefully on the lake.

#ducks #lake #luminalspace #calmwater #countryside #ducksworld #quiet #river #swim #goodanimals

#river

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