So MB and I participated in an Outing Club Outing at Chimney Bluffs State Park on the Southern Shore of Lake Ontario, and I figured you guys might like to see some of the photos taken by MB. Basically, Chimney Bluffs is a massive wad of clay that has been eroding so quickly that it forms these reall cool spires of mud and rock. It kind of looks like that place in Lord of the Rings where Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli and riding through to get to the paths of the dead, except where we were was red and brown instead of white.

Climbing up into one of the valleys formed between the spires:


Some examples of the spires that were formed in the clay:



These people never even saw us:


The ever so sexy MB:


Thats me, heading back down to the lake shore:


Up close view of the lake shore:


Cool looking waterfall. It looks like its solid rock, but its actually clay. You could stick your fingers in it and it would deform under your touch:

That's me climbing a fallen tree to get up onto the bluff from the shore:


There were places where the clay supporting the vegetation on the tops of the bluffs had eroded away completely. All that was left was a layer of dirt held together by roots. The trail along the bluffs went right over a few of these spots, so we had to be careful:


This is me again:


That's me waving at MB from afar:


A few shots of the spires from above on the bluffs:



Another shot of MB:


Another shot of myself:

Group Shot:


Group Shadow Shot:




These photos were taken by another guy in our group, Carter.

The ever so sexy DS:


Eating Lunch by the shore:



MB climbing up the fallen tree onto the bluffs:

Woah, awesome shots dude. I wanna see that park now.

omg teh sexay mb

Ma pantses r wet! Someone call teh sexay poleese!

If you look carefully at the photos with the lake in the background, you can see the curvature of the earth.

rawr ;P


nice pictars guys

Nice pictures. I had no clue mb and DS were such sexy beasts.

Good stuff

I wanna join

Uh, our parks in CA are 20 million times better looking than that.

show off

Woah, DSettahr. How did you get MBeggar outside? Did you ban his computer account?

Bwhaha. It's a joke. [/color]

So, do you call each other your sn's in real life? Cause that would be awesome.

Woah.

yuck no. that would really annoy the hell out of me. I have been tempted to say DS once or twice.
thats about it.

Yeah, occaisionally I'll find myself about to say "MB" outloud. But so far, I've managed to catch myself before I actually do it.

Really good shots! And a magnificient place. It was very kind of you to post these pictures.

Purdy pics mb

*strangles to death*

never seen anywhere like that before...doubt there's any place like that in the UK....

Looks like a lot of climbing fun.

Why didn't you try to climb those spines!?

Why did you not try to climb those spires!?
YOUZ HAVE FAILED YOUR DUTY!

Guys, they were made out of clay... they werent solid rock. And they were only about a foot think towards the top... they would've collapsed if we'd tried to climb them. We had to be careful anyways just climbing up the ravines... there were places where the mud was at least knee deep, possibly even waist deep. And you couldnt really tell before hand whether where you were stepping was safe or not, it all looked the same. Also, we didnt want to contribute to the erosion of the clay... from above on the bluffs especially, you could see where people had been climbing all over the area and had caused a lot of damage.

Pshaw! Excuses!

You've obviously never been to scotland

horray for crappy unedited panorama!

Ah, you should have rather given a link to a high-res image.

Nice work otherwise.

yea once I touch it up I will.

it doesn't look that bad

That's a pretty neat-looking place. The spine-spire things remind me of the movie Pitch Black.

EDIT: I've got a pretty nice panorama-making program - if you send me the images I could see what I could do with them.

Boco, there's not many places in Scotland like that, seriously. We've got lots of hills, forests, and clay, but nothing that looks too much like that. I'll go out tomorrow and show you the only clay nearby I know of.

Your thread > Cazor's thread

Haha, those are all photoshop'd. Everyone know's MITs can't go OUTSIDE. Especially in a place so far from a wireless access point, a dialtone, or a thick pipe. I hear they can sense those things with their nose hairs.

JediKirby

This is exactly the kind of propaganda we should rise against.

COME MY FELLOW MASSASSIANS, THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IS NIE!

Everyone knows Vinny is a corrupt op bent on the destruction of the good massassians of... massassi. He's working with "The man" to ruin us all.

JediKirby

Photoshop really works well for me. I just didnt take time to work on it.

That's true. But RITs are more evolved.