Olympia National Park is a nice place to visit.

Bryce Canyon National Park is most interesting.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 21, 2025, 07:48:13 PMYes it rains a lot there, especially this time of year.

Better rain than forest fires, snowstorms, earthquakes or tornadoes. The British Mantra.

The west coast of the USA is due for a huge earthquake.

The Southeast USA is getting an unusual amount of snow. 

The US always has something unusual going on. Snow, fire, presidents, tornadic activity. Y'all are so big you have basically a microcosm of the whole world.

I saw some of the wildfire stuff. It looked like armageddon. And the snowstorm stuff, too. It's so weird how you can have like both extremes in one country.

We have a lot of territory. 

It is amazing that we bought Alaska for about two cents an acre.
That is a big state.  What a bargain.

I will return there. 

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 21, 2025, 07:51:09 PMOlympia National Park is a nice place to visit.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 21, 2025, 07:52:31 PMBryce Canyon National Park is most interesting.

Still trying to work out where you live Chrissy, LOL. Those don't give me any clues, they're relatively far away from each other.


I'm starting to wonder if you're an omnipotent being, sent to earth for some kind of purpose. Like in the show Lucifer.

Quote from: Sephirah on January 21, 2025, 08:15:37 PMStill trying to work out where you live Chrissy, LOL. Those don't give me any clues, they're relatively far away from each other.


I'm starting to wonder if you're an omnipotent being, sent to earth for some kind of purpose. Like in the show Lucifer.

Only the Lord is omnipotent.  I am unfamiliar with that show.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 21, 2025, 08:18:26 PMOnly the Lord is omnipotent.  I am unfamiliar with that show.

Haha, you'd be perfect for it. Check it out if you can. Is the best TV show ever made. I won't pry any more. I'm just a curious cow is all. I'm a northern lass in the UK. Probably tells you a lot about me.

I would like to visit Davos.  Plus travel to the Matterhorn.

I will save for traveling.  There's a whole world to see.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 21, 2025, 08:22:55 PMI would like to visit Davos.  Plus travel to the Matterhorn.

I will save for traveling.  There's a whole world to see.

Be careful around the European mountains, Chrissy. They are massively unpredictable and claim a lot of lives. More people have died trying to climb the Eiger than on Everest. It's not as noteworthy, but the weather is also far more chaotic. The Matterhorn is another such place.

Switzerland is a massively beautiful place, though. I've been to Davos during my time in the Navy. The whole country seems very... outside the world. Very picturesque.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 21, 2025, 08:03:10 PMThe west coast of the USA is due for a huge earthquake.

They have been saying that for over 50 years.

As a kid in the desert near Barstow, my brother and I calculated where the new coastline would be if California fractured along the San Andreas fault and slid off into the ocean as predicted. We estimated that our desert ranch would become beachfront property.

My brother spent a week building a fishing pier on the back of our land. He planned to get rich by charging a fee to go fishing off his pier. (He was about 9 years old). I was just starting high school.

Later, we learned what a tsunami is and that if these events happened, we would be underwater not living on the beach. 

My brother is still waiting to go fishing on his pier.

Mount Washington New Hampshire USA is far more dangerous than Eiger!
only 6288ft or 1917meters but the weather is very unpredictable.

I've driven up to the summit of Mount Washington and Pike's Peak.
It can be very hard on cars because engines and brakes are air cooled.
If you aren't traveling fast enough there isn't enough airflow to keep things cool, so I used to go up and down very fast.

Quote from: Maid Marion on January 21, 2025, 08:40:35 PMMount Washington New Hampshire USA is far more dangerous than Eiger!
only 6288ft or 1917meters but the weather is very unpredictable.

I've seen footage of the winds on Mt Rainier in Washington. They're insane! You folks have the monopoly of probably all the wild weather in the world. It's kind of unfair.

Quote from: Lori Dee on January 21, 2025, 08:40:23 PMThey have been saying that for over 50 years.

As a kid in the desert near Barstow, my brother and I calculated where the new coastline would be if California fractured along the San Andreas fault and slid off into the ocean as predicted. We estimated that our desert ranch would become beachfront property.

My brother spent a week building a fishing pier on the back of our land. He planned to get rich by charging a fee to go fishing off his pier. (He was about 9 years old). I was just starting high school.

Later, we learned what a tsunami is and that if these events happened, we would be underwater not living on the beach. 

My brother is still waiting to go fishing on his pier.

Yeah but to be fair, Geological time is like... 1000 years is the blink of an eye. There are lots of places that are overdue for world ending events. Yellowstone, the San Andreas, all these things are known to happen. They're going to happen again. Probably not in our lifetime but when they do... they're going to be world changing.

I think it's more likely we're going to suffer more from climate change than geological superevent cycles. Because we've done more to push that than the earth does naturally. Just look at the wildfires and snowstorms recently. Parts of the world are hotter and dryer, parts are wetter and colder. The whole world is far more unpredictable than it was even 30 years ago.

One has to be careful of avalanches.  Also pits around trees, as trees have radiant heat and snow melts quicker under trees.  This can cause problems when skiing.  Try to ski with someone else for safety.

You do not have to be on a slope to see this, but in a snow covered field you can see that snow melted faster under trees.

Quote from: Sephirah on January 21, 2025, 08:43:21 PMI've seen footage of the winds on Mt Rainier in Washington. They're insane! You folks have the monopoly of probably all the wild weather in the world. It's kind of unfair.

August is a good time to visit Mt. Rainier to avoid as much snow as possible and to hike.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 21, 2025, 08:52:25 PMAugust is a good time to visit Mt. Ranier to avoid as much snow as possible and to hike.

And to not Mary Poppins off into the neighbouring state?

Try Rainier cherries.  Very good!