This is not actually my pic, but I have traveled paths like this. This particular one was provided by my favorite desktop wallpaper place called Your Daily Escape at www.away.com. A travel site, they have fabulous pics from all around the world, but mainly from wonderful North America.
Trail in the Sierra Nevadas
Here’s what Your Daily Escape has to say about it:
An Empty Fall Trail
Granite cliffs, three-story trees, and 14,000-foot mountains might make hikers feel Lilliputian in the Sierra Nevada landscape. But that is exactly the point. Escape city life on the 211 challenging miles of the John Muir Trail, named for the founder of the Sierra Club, to see three national parks, two wilderness areas, and countless rugged vistas. In early September, the summer crowds and mosquitoes have dispersed, but the days are still warm.
Certainly part of North American grandeur and eminently worthy as an entrant in the weekly photo challenge of “Path.”
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That is a pretty cool pic, looks like a place I’d like to hike!
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It does, doesn’t it? I have hiked in parts of the Canadian Rockies that looked a little like this and that was gorgeous too.
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Gorgeous pic . . . that path beckons! 😀
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I love the pictures that Your Daily Escape provides. They have 2-3 new ones per week. As for this particular pic, my eyes bugged out, because I felt it was the personification of my kind of path.
Thanks for the ping-back 🙂
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This really is a great photo – the kind that makes me say – “Where is this, I want my next vacation there!”
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That’s exactly it, HG! If you’d really like to go there, it’s in the Sierra Nevadas. Your Daily Escape is a travel site and can probably provide you with information. They’re at http://www.escape.com.
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Beautiful picture, Sandra. Thank you for sharing.
Walking down trails like this, or just imagining myself there from a picture, helps transport me back to the 1800s. I wish we could walk down one of these trails together.
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Me too, Haley. I did notice the historical look of this particular pic. And guess who I thought of? 🙂
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It certainly calls for exploration. Beautiful!
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It really does. Don’t you wonder what’s at the end of the path? Thanks for dropping by.
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Nice choice! I love the angle of the photograph. It makes me feel like I am there.
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Gee, Deb, I just realized I didn’t reply to your comment. I like to reply to everyone cuz I appreciate the time they take to stop by. Yeah, I like the angle as well. It’s a great shot of perspective…it kind of pulls you forward, doesn’t it?
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No problem! And yes it does pull you forward. I really like it.
By the way, I posted pics of the kids for you last week. The photo challenge was “faces” so I thought it would be a good opportunity to show you recent photos of the older ones, that you asked about. I’m not sure if you saw it or not, but I thought I’d let you know. The “difficult” subjects did let me take a few. 🙂
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Eeep, I didn’t see them, but I am really distracted with work these days. I’ll take a look. I did see your pic today of Sam. What a sweetie-pie he is!
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Oh that’s ok. I just thought I’d mention it since you asked about them. Here’s a direct link to the post (that way you don’t have to look for it if you want to see it) http://dorkydeb.com/2011/09/20/weekly-photo-challenge-faces-of-my-family/
And thanks, you are right, Sam is a sweetie-pie. I don’t know how anyone was ever abusive to him, although it is clear that someone was. But he’s happy now, and slowly he’s figuring out that food will come everyday and no one here is going to hurt him.
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I love a picture of a trail, I love to hike and always want to take a new path.
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This pic was in response to the weekly WordPress themed photograph challenge. The original picture challenge was “path” but I thought trail was close enough. If you are a path/trail fan, check out some other bloggers who follow the weekly challenge. They will have a pic of trails or paths up. A lot of the bloggers on my blog roll list had one.
Thanks for dropping by. I love seeing new people come to my site and share their thoughts and/or feelings.
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Beautiful shot! the one hike i really enjoyed and loved was in San Francisco…its in the meir woods national park. It was a beautiful hike. Did you go on this one?
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No, the only times I have been in SF were when I was just passing through. However, I have walked quite a bit through the mountain trails down Freedom way, south of San Jose. Gorgeous…nature at her best.
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Great picture, Sandra! One of my favorite hiking spots is in the Sierra Foothills, just north of Nevada City: the South Yuba River Independence Trail. This picture reminds me of that area, bringing back great memories. Thanks so much for sharing! Cheers! BCC
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Thanks, Marsha. I’m glad that it brings back happy memories to you. I have seen pictures that do that for me…remind me so much of happy spot or happy time in my life and give me comfort and peace. Thanks too for dropping by.
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