Members philbo Posted September 29, 2007 Members Share Posted September 29, 2007 I just spent the last week up in the mountains (SW of Colorado Springs). The town of Cripple Creek was about 8 miles away. Anyway, I couldn't get over the amazing energy I had while there - I could feel it coming through the rock and up through my legs! It was weird and awesome, like negative ions were going on a rampage. And it was completely gone when I was in Colorado Springs; I only felt it while I was up in the mountains. I did a huge amount of hiking after barely eating anything all day, then stayed up talking half the night, then waking up at dawn, rarin' to go... It was a good week.... Anybody else ever feel that energy-from-a- place thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted September 29, 2007 Members Share Posted September 29, 2007 The air is thinner at high altitudes, your blood is pumping harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted September 29, 2007 Members Share Posted September 29, 2007 Most definitely. You know the ancients felt it, too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted September 29, 2007 Members Share Posted September 29, 2007 Brother...that energy is what keeps me in Alaska..I can't even deal with the lower 48 anymore..i'm ruined!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted September 29, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 29, 2007 Man, I'm seriously considering moving... I came back through South Dakota, and felt it there, too, in the Black Hills National Forest (about 40 miles west of Sturgis) where I went hiking yesterday for a few hours before heading for home. The mojo in Iowa just does not compare!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted September 29, 2007 Moderators Share Posted September 29, 2007 I spend two weeks backpacking in Glacier Park (rockies) every year, usually hike between 100-150 miles. Within a few days, all the cares of modern life melt away and give way to the simplicity of just putting one foot in front of the other again and again, while nature's beauty unfolds around me in 360 degree panorama. Gradually, the strength of the rock under you feet enters your legs and heart and you begin to feel healthy and alive again as a human being is meant to be. After a long backpack like that, when you return to "civilization" the transition seems insane. I've heard long hike backpackers who choose to transition by pitching their tent in the backyard and sleeping there for a few days before going back into the house. Never been on a long backpack where I didn't lose at least 10 lbs and feel that my legs were carved of wood when I returned. My heart and my wind are always much improved also. But these things are not one tenth of what the spirit receives from such I journey. Backpacking changes your entire value system. An $800 digital camera is tempting to toss away because it weighs a pound or two. A worthless ($) Bic disposable razor weighs nothing and contributes much, you can even take out the blade and shave wood with it for lighting a fire. A dry match is priceless, as is a cheap nylon windbreaker and a good pair of wool socks (wool stays warm even when wet). When I finish up at the university where I'm at and retire fully, I will move somewhere out west where I can be near the mountains I love. Someday, on some hike, I will fall, or be mauled by a grizzly, or die in some other way in those mountains and I will have lived as a man is supposed to live. WifeOnTop Moraine HiddenLake A.Falls FireSky GoatSmile Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 Brother...that energy is what keeps me in Alaska..I can't even deal with the lower 48 anymore..i'm ruined!! I'm about due for a visit back up there. I miss the mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 It has been said that "the gravity is different" in San Francisco than in the rest of the country.... hence why it is so amenable to the Haight-Ashbury set... I lived there for 7 years, and I think it's true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 Not bad. Looks just like my place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rabid Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 For me it is open spaces. I grew up in the hills and my home was at the base of three ajoining hills. The sun roase at 11 AM and set at 3 PM. As a child we would go to the lake pretty often and I would just sit on the bank and look over the flat expance of water. Most recently I drove from SE Kentucky through Missouri and Kansas until I hit Denver. From there I went north to Chyanne and then back east through Nebraska and Iowa. When I got back to work people kept asking me what I did on vacation. They did not seem to understand when I would reply "I just drove around and looked at open spaces." For real energy, someday I would love to go to Kansas for a week of tornado chasing. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 I can get the same buzz from walking on a deserted beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shniggens Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 The mountains are the main reason I have never left Colorado. I probably won't ever leave, either. I do like the beach, though. I was in Myrtle Beach last week, and enjoyed a nice walk under a full moon along the lapping waves. Something I rarely get to do. I think you feel more energy from certain places that are new to you, and somewhat unfamiliar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted September 30, 2007 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2007 Not bad. Looks just like my place. *considers moving to Rockford IL* Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Raymar Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 I like the mountains but don't feel any energy from them. I've stood on top of Mt. Baldy looking at the 360 degree view, it was nice but no energy rush. I've flown in a jet over Big Bear, no energy change either. Mountains definitely smell different though with all the trees, and there's less noise. I remember staying at a casino on the 15 near the Nevada/Calif. border and in the morning I went for a walk out in the desert about a mile or so just to drink in the open undeveloped land(and work off breakfast) and I soon became aware of the crunching of the ground under my feet with every step. Eventually I made it back to the road and remember the silence of my steps when I stepped on it, its smoothness, anesthetized by civilization all the way though the parking lot and finally totally insulated from nature inside of the casino with the air conditioning, and my ears assaulted by slot machine noises. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 The mountaintops are the refuge of the gods. That's how I feel when I spend any time near the peak or crest of a large mountain or range... I mean, it's really a real feeling... not just some poetic metaphor. I've spent many days and nights on the western slopes leading up to Mt. San Jacinto, one of the highest peaks in SoCal (at 10,834 feet above sea level and about 8500 feet above the desert floor on the east, an amazing drop) and when I'm up there, the sense, for me, is unshakable that there is a real presence there, bigger, older, stranger, more elemental than man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 I'm happy with either mountains or ocean. Anything else doesn't work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 I'm happy with either mountains or ocean. Anything else doesn't work for me. Remind me to tell y'all about my first... uh... experiences with suddenly expanded consciousness... someday. Suffice it to say the ocean was huge... and very much seemed to be something more -- something much, much more than just a big puddle splashing under the gravitational pull of a nearby rock in space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 30, 2007 Members Share Posted September 30, 2007 Glacier Park looks amazing!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted September 30, 2007 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2007 Glacier Park looks amazing!! My pictures don't do it justice, it's awesome in person. Terry D. P.S. Note that the second pic is actually Grand Prismatic Springs in Yellowstone, a few hours drive down the road from Glacier. I came upon that while looking through my recent Glacier trip pics, and that was a driving trip so we stopped in Yellowstone. I include it to point out how many beautiful things there are in the National Parks that people never see, even if they drive through. Note the tiny people in the picture; that's the way most people see GPS, just get out of the car and walk around that boardwalk for a few minutes. If you do, that, you have no idea what it really looks like. You have to take a hour to climb the mountain behind it (note burned treetops in foreground) and see the "aerial" view. P.P.S. First photo is during a forest fire event in Glacier. If you can stand to breathe the smoky air, and slip by a few checkpoints, some of the most amazing photos can be had during a large fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted October 1, 2007 Author Members Share Posted October 1, 2007 here are a few photos I shot on my trip; it's too bad a photo can only capture about 2% of the incredibleness of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shniggens Posted October 1, 2007 Members Share Posted October 1, 2007 BTW, this is the best way to stand on top of a mountain. (These from my ski trip in SW Colorado last year.) And this is the best way to get to the top of a mountain - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted October 1, 2007 Author Members Share Posted October 1, 2007 Meh... I've never been into the yuppie skiing thing... it seems to me like a typical American passtime: find the most creative way to waste fossil fuels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rabid Posted October 1, 2007 Members Share Posted October 1, 2007 Meh... I've never been into the yuppie skiing thing... it seems to me like a typical American passtime: find the most creative way to waste fossil fuels. Much more European than American. We cannot take credit for everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shniggens Posted October 2, 2007 Members Share Posted October 2, 2007 Meh... I've never been into the yuppie skiing thing... it seems to me like a typical American passtime: find the most creative way to waste fossil fuels. I don't know if you noticed from those pics, but we hiked up. (Excpet for the snowcat day, that was a different trip) There is no other feeling in the world like floating through deep powder on your own two feet. But stick to your casinos in Cripple Creek. That's good for the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted October 2, 2007 Members Share Posted October 2, 2007 You know why they call it "Mt. Dew"? Marketing wouldn't let them use "goat piss". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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