Hiking Mt Douglas

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I just finished a 2.623km hiking activity that lasted about 0hh:48mm:49ss !

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Hiking Mt Doug with my buddy Shaun. Nice cool day today, so the dogs loved getting out for some fresh fresh air without getting too much of a pant on. This was actually my first time getting out for a hike at Mt Douglas. Nice short hike, and we dodged the incoming rainstorm just in town on our trip down.

Really love all the cool hikes and short jaunts in town. Mt Doug feels like it's located in the middle of the city. Really cool views from the top. Had a great time playing around with the drone.

Hoping to toss together a quick edit of some of the footage synced up with some music. I always start thinking to myself that this footage requires classical music to make it feel as beautiful as the landscape was -- but we'll see what I end up putting together. Been trying to learn a bit of "camera tracking / solving" in Blender recently, so maybe I can toss in a CG meteor or a stripper or something to spice up some of the footage... What do we think might make this scene really "pop"??

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Oh beautiful! I love hiking in mountainous and rocky terrain. :) Looks like it has a pretty steep grade as well, must have been fun!

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It was super fun! I'm always caught off guard by how steep all the hiking trails are around here. I grew up in the mountains, but the grade was actually pretty mild -- at least at the base. Here though, it feels like it just hits a 30~50% from start to finish.

I love hiking in mountainous and rocky terrain. :)

Lookin' forward to seeing some cool hiking stuff from you then ;) -- What part of the world do you live in?

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How crazy was the rain? It absolutely bucketed down for a good while and has now just completely stopped. Mt Doug seems like a bit of a dude! Good times!

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It was raining super hard this morning. But it eased off around 11:30 or so, and welcomed us and the pups into the outdoors.

Mt Doug was a very welcoming host. It was actually kinda rad -- my first time out there. You start the (admittedly short) hike going through the base where it's overrun w HUGE almost-oldgrowth Douglas Fir trees. And then you start getting into groves of Gary Oak trees, and then some of the amazing yet somewhat daunting Arbutus trees. Then it started to get a bit dry and almost desert-like (though, lush, green ferns were always within eyesight).

Never really seen so many 'biomes' all in such a small area. It was super cool.

Good times indeed!

Been a while since I've seen some cool PNW hikes, or stories of "almost making it to the summit of something" coming outta you. What's crackalackin' these days? Hope the new job is treating you well!

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Your hike looks amazing. Have you ever hiked the white mountains
before ?

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I have not! Where abouts are those?

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They are in New Hampshire. Was one of my first hard hikes. Has great places to stay there is a hut system. The way it works is you book a certain night and you show up and they serve dinner that night and breakfast the next morning. They all have beautiful views. Sorry for the late response.

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Sounds pretty cool. I've always wanted to check out some of those alpine huts -- having a catered one sounds even slicker.

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