Showcase your province's varied landscapes - Page 49

SignalHillHiker · #**961** Posted **Apr 4, 2015, 12:23 AM**

We hiked to the Spout. In winter... ack. It's about 26 km in summer, but in winter it's less because you can just cut through the uplands (peat bogs, marshes, etc.). It should only be about 14 km but we went horribly, horribly wrong. It took us almost 5 hours to get the Spout, and just over 2 hours to get back out on the actual trail.

The Spout by Rabbittownie, on Flickr

The Spout by Rabbittownie, on Flickr

And we had a little boil up...

Simba's Dad came to yell at the spout.

The Spout by Rabbittownie, on Flickr

A few other scenes along the way there/back:

The Spout by Rabbittownie, on Flickr

The Spout by Rabbittownie, on Flickr

LIFE!

The Spout by Rabbittownie, on Flickr

SignalHillHiker · #**962** Posted **Apr 4, 2015, 12:48 AM**

And a couple of pictures from our hike there last summer just to compare.

uzi · #**963** Posted **Apr 4, 2015, 3:22 AM**

took this a week ago but i was so excited cause i was seeing them for the first time and unfortunately due to my excitement i forgot to focus.

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Trans Canada · #**964** Posted **Apr 4, 2015, 4:05 AM**

^ awesome, well done

TorontoDrew · #**965** Posted **Apr 4, 2015, 5:26 PM**

With cottage season just gearing up I thought I'd share this video of one of the GTA's top cottage spots Muskoka.

Video Link

SignalHillHiker · #**966** Posted **Apr 4, 2015, 5:30 PM**

Great video. His accent is SO strong, wow.

Monolith · #**967** Posted **Apr 9, 2015, 3:41 AM**

Agassiz Tulip Festival 2015 by Prism.Productions, on Flickr Taken on April 4, 2015

Vancouver by julian.mcgreevy, on Flickr Taken on April 5, 2015

Tripple Peak-8375.jpg by Yan Lyesin, on Flickr Taken on July 18, 2009

_DSC2120_DxO.jpg by Firat Ataman, on Flickr Taken on February 13, 2015

sunset by JonathanIchikawa, on Flickr Taken on April 5, 2015

Sunset over ocean with mountains from Neck Point in Nanaimo by Lorne Collicutt, on Flickr Taken on January 7, 2010

Laceoflight · #**968** Posted **Apr 9, 2015, 2:56 PM**

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uzi · #**969** Posted **Apr 16, 2015, 7:25 AM**

an hour ago.

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Dwils01 · #**970** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 1:28 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by uzi

an hour ago.

How is it that dark if these pictures were taken a hour ago? That would be 5:30pm.

kwoldtimer · #**971** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 1:51 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Great video. His accent is SO strong, wow.

Narrator Californian, singer South African?

Daveography · #**972** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 4:15 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dwils01

How is it that dark if these pictures were taken a hour ago? That would be 5:30pm.

Quote:

Posted Yesterday, 1:25 AM

And that would be in MDT, which is what my settings are set to. uzi is in PDT, putting the approximate time taken at 11:25 PM his local time.

TorontoDrew · #**973** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 5:20 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Narrator Californian, singer South African?

He does have a very stereotypical Canadian Accent you generally only get in small rural communities. Also all of Minnesota.

https://vimeo.com/110294344" target="_blank">Video Link

TorontoDrew · #**974** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 5:21 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Narrator Californian, singer South African?

He does have a very stereotypical Canadian Accent you generally only get in small rural communities. Also all of Minnesota.

Video Link

eemy · #**975** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 5:44 PM**

That's really cool footage. I know some quadcopters allow you to program a flight plan that is automatically executed. That really has to be integrated with the gimbal on the camera so that you can have the long, steady panning shots that he was shooting for in this video, but that he ultimately missed due to the jerky nature of the camera control.

Dwils01 · #**976** Posted **Apr 18, 2015, 2:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Daveography

And that would be in MDT, which is what my settings are set to. uzi is in PDT, putting the approximate time taken at 11:25 PM his local time.

Thanks, my time wasn't set properly for some reason and it showed the post at 8:25pm. I changed my time to eastern standard time and now it works.

uzi · #**977** Posted **Apr 18, 2015, 2:17 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dwils01

How is it that dark if these pictures were taken a hour ago? That would be 5:30pm.

the pics were taken around 10:30 and posted them around 11:45pm

uzi · #**978** Posted **Apr 18, 2015, 2:20 AM**

from yesterday. what a beautiful night.

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Aurora over Vernon.
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SignalHillHiker · #**979** Posted **Apr 18, 2015, 10:48 AM**

Gorgeous, Uzi. It's so hard to think of coastal B.C. as being north enough for northern lights on a regular basis.

someone123 · #**980** Posted **Apr 18, 2015, 4:50 PM**

I think those are from Vernon, which is in the interior, but they are not much farther north than Vancouver or Victoria; about 50 degrees instead of around 49.

Going from Halifax to Vancouver the difference in latitude is really noticeable in mid-summer or mid-winter. Vancouver to Edmonton is again a big difference. Windsor to Edmonton is over 11 degrees' difference in latitude. If you went south from Windsor instead, you'd hit 31 degrees, which is the latitude of parts of Mexico or Egypt.

The latitude affects the length of the day but also the solar azimuth, how high the sun gets up into the sky. On the winter solstice, the sun in Windsor gets 24 degrees above the horizon whereas in Edmonton it only gets up to 13 degrees, so shadows are longer and there's less heating (the arctic circle is the point at which the difference in latitude corresponds to the axial tilt and the sun can stay below the horizon for an entire day). People tend not to take this into account when they compare how sunny different places are. The solar azimuth is why the sun "feels" so hot in places like the Caribbean compared to Canada.

Ontario and NS as well have very cold climates relative to their latitude so there's often a huge disconnect between the strength of the sun and how warm it is outside. If you get decent solar heating the temperature shoots up, and by February or March the sun can feel quite hot. I bet Scandinavia does not experience this as much.