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Dion · 08-10-2009, 08:04 PM

The family once owned a cabin on Mahood Lake in Wells Gray provincial park in BC. I really miss that place. It was as remote as one could get and the fishing was awesome.

Ford Prefect · 08-10-2009, 08:12 PM

Great bump.

Pretty much anyplace in the Porcupine Hills/Livingstone Range area is heaven in my books.

Mayer · 08-10-2009, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by doozwimp

Both shots are absolutely gorgeous! I'd love to be there right now. My favorite spot, probably because of childhood memories is my families cabin in Shuswap on Salmon Arm. Doing nothing never felt so good...

Me too.

My family had a cabin on Mara Lake in an awesome private bay. No place in the world comes close for me.

4X4 · 08-10-2009, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Mayer

Me too.

My family had a cabin on Mara Lake in an awesome private bay. No place in the world comes close for me.

Turtle Bay perchance?

Displaced Flames fan · 08-10-2009, 08:37 PM

OK, this may not be my favorite place in the world, but I wish I was there right now and I'm hoping to be there very, very soon.

FurnaceFace · 08-10-2009, 09:31 PM

This is seriously hard, there are so many favourite moments that make up favourite places:

Seeing Ularu and The Olgas in Australia
Jyvaskyla Finland where I lived for a summer
Every moment spent in Paris
Walking the D Day beaches
Vimy Ridge
Maya Bay in Thailand
Hunting for original sections of the Berlin Wall
Aurlandsfjord in Norway
Tokyo
Game 6 of the 2004 cup (pre goal) Game 6 of the Detroit series in 04 (post goal)
Hanging out in the cool evening at Ipanema Beach in Rio
Diving in Roatan
Swimming with Whale Sharks in La Paz
Watching a cheetah family take down and eat a reedbuck in the Serengeti
Seeing St. Petersburgh
The warmth of Newfoundland
The amazing scenery an hours drive away in the mountains
and countless other places and moments

If I have to pick one place, it is this island

In this fare (grass hut)

With this view

Moorea is a tough place to beat.

BlackEleven · 08-10-2009, 09:54 PM

Pretty hard to pick one place. My family owned cabin (in Norway) is pretty high up the list. It's up in the mountains isolated from pretty well anything. No powerlines or anything (although recently installed a solar panel on the roof though to provide enough electricity to run some lights at night).

Ruttiger · 08-10-2009, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackEleven

Pretty hard to pick one place. My family owned cabin (in Norway) is pretty high up the list. It's up in the mountains isolated from pretty well anything. No powerlines or anything (although recently installed a solar panel on the roof though to provide enough electricity to run some lights at night).

Wow - that's gorgeous!

octothorp · 08-10-2009, 10:08 PM

That's amazing, BlackEleven. I found the fjords absolutely amazing when I was there; that someone would take this little patch of green between the water and this towering wall of rock and build an idyllic little life with a cabin and and pasture and herd of goats was just amazing to me.

jayswin · 08-10-2009, 10:08 PM

Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Displaced Flames fan · 08-10-2009, 10:33 PM

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I think the norway place wins.

It doesn't even look real. Unbelievable.

Bibtin Tex · 08-11-2009, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by flaming_potato

This next picture is where my friends and I have written and recorded a lot of music and jammed long into the night. Nothing flashy, but a very inspirational place for me and a lot of good times were spent in this room. PS-that's not me with the Salming Toronto jersey on!

Man I would Love to be in any of these 3 places right now, but instead I'm stuck in Winnipeg away from my friends and the ocean for the next year!

That room is sick man! I'm jealous that you got all that.

I'd rather be back in Europe, Calgary gets a little boring in the summer, especially in the suburbs.

JohnnyB · 08-11-2009, 03:09 AM

For me, it's got to be on the back of my motorbike in the mountains in BC. Especially the feeling coming down out of the cool mountain air into the dry summer Okanagan heat, and then just ripping it along the side of the lake.

Just thinking of it makes me happy and homesick.

Ruttiger · 08-11-2009, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

Great bump.

Pretty much anyplace in the Porcupine Hills/Livingstone Range area is heaven in my books.

That's a great drive, heading south along Highway 22, past Longview and south to Crowsnest Pass.

BlackEleven · 08-11-2009, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by octothorp

That's amazing, BlackEleven. I found the fjords absolutely amazing when I was there; that someone would take this little patch of green between the water and this towering wall of rock and build an idyllic little life with a cabin and and pasture and herd of goats was just amazing to me.

Yeah, its a pretty special place to me. My family used to go there all the time when I was a kid. At that time though, there was no electricity, plumbing, running water or access by road. About as remote and isolated as you can get. We had to park at the bottom of the mountain and hike up (about an hour) with all our supplies. For food, fished the river and water we used came from the river too. Really great memories. It does have a private road now (paid for by my family), a toilet, a solar panel and running water. Although it does lose a bit of charm that way, its great since my aging grandparents wouldn't be able to enjoy it without those things.

Now that I live in Canada, we hardly ever get a chance to go anymore, which is a real shame. I was back visiting my family last month so I got a chance to spend some time up and take some pics. It was amazing.

That pic seemed to be a hit, so here's a couple more.

I'm standing just on top of this waterfall to take the first pic. It's about 50m high.

This is from the patio of the cabin (at 11:30 at night in June):

From the back of the cabin

This is taken from a ferry through the fjord on the way back to the city (Stavanger):

burn_baby_burn · 08-11-2009, 08:27 AM

Ruttiger · 08-11-2009, 08:52 AM

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Southern Alberta somewhere?

VladtheImpaler · 08-11-2009, 08:59 AM

All this granola needs a dose of reality:

troutman · 08-11-2009, 09:01 AM

FTW,

Sec 213, Row 13

Cowperson · 08-11-2009, 09:09 AM

I loved running through Rome in the early morning . . . . . . here's a description I wrote when I got back . . . . .

Probably my favourite moments of our Italian holiday were getting up around 5:45 to 6:15 in the morning in Rome and hitting the streets for a run, past an empty St. Peter's Square, up Janiculum Hill to see the sun rising over the Colosseum and Palantine, then down into the narrow cobblestone streets of Trastevere before plunging down to the Tiber at Ponte Sisto and running along the river for miles off the map, then returning and climbing out of the river at Castel Sant Angelo and heading back to the hotel.

It's a kind of Rome even the natives probably rarely see. . . . . . an empty Rome with little or no traffic, an occasional couple entwined on Janiculum Hill, a band of gypsies snoring underneath one of the bridges near Castel Sant Angelo as a matron rythemically and habitually swept the dust around them . . . . . an ancient drinking fountain to sip in along the way . . . . .

I like running in foreign cities before anyone is awake. Central Park in New York, Milan, Florence, London, the beaches in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Monterrey to Pacific Grove and back, Amsterdam, Las Vegas, Maui . . . . probably other places I can't remember.

However, sorry, my favourite place is still home in the country . . . . hanging out with Abby a few weeks ago as a summer storm passed by . . .

. . . . . . and on crystal clear winter mornings . . . . .

Cowperson