🪶Forged In Pine🪶

How about we ignore that three month hiatus and enjoy these photos from last summer! I still have quite a bit of summer content to get through but don’t worry, I’ll have a few autumn and winter sets soon.

The birds in these photos are Whisky jacks/Grey Jays/ Canada Jays. They have 0 fear and landed in my hand to eat some trail mix (so mad I don’t have that video!) When we got to the summit of the mountain we actually saw the same group of them harassing some other hikers for holding out their hand but not giving them food. Must be a trail tax.

There was a rainstorm on the first day of my trip, very fortunate to have gotten my tent set up and a tarp over it in time haha. We went to Walmart for some last minute food items and a coffee kettle and when we came out the parking lot was absolutely flooded. The drainage systems couldn’t keep up and I wish I was exaggerating when I said that it was up to the car doors on some smaller cars.

I went on a small walk once we got back from the store to get a few photos for you guys. Sadly none of the photos and videos seem to fit nicely together as a set so I think I will be making separate posts for them. This is one of my favourite photos, feels like something out of a Lo-fi study video.

I’d like to officially announce that this blog will be on hiatus from August 7th-20th

My family is going on a two week long camping trip thingy and I won’t have access to wifi, I should have a lot of content when I come back since this trip is supposed to be packed with hiking

Oh thank you! Ngl it’s only one of my online alias’s because I needed a fake name for a chess website and I panicked and I ended up liking it a lot.

And yeah I dig into them a bit more when I saw that reblog and after very little research,,,, w ha t. Nature is so cool y’all. Also ghost pipe is such a swanky name, sounds like a messed up musical instrument. Tell your father I say thank you for identifying that creepy little thing, it had a bee on it :)

I like how the photos came out, It was at the very end of the trail and I realized I didn’t take a single photo on the hike for the blog and I thought It’d make up for it.

Some photos from the worst hike I’ve been on in awhile, won’t go in detail but most of the paths were overgrown to the point of being unusable so we were pretty much navigating without a map while out of cell range.

We made it out okay but that hike was so hard and painful for no reason (we had to cut though a logging yard lol, looks as hard to walk on as it is.) and also?? You have to walk 5KM on a big ol logging road before you can even get to the mountain. Only notable bird was a juvenile red tailed Hawk being super vocal.

But seriously y’all, trail maintenance is important some areas were barely walkable but quite dangerous.

Is this a mushroom? No.