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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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NixChix thank you for reacting to me getting a TB emerald You're welcome. BTW, is this how we can display our trek badges earned (see signature below)? I am looking forward to the Crunchers4Life badge. I have done much of the work myself, but in all honesty 36ish OldChap has given me an Xtreme push along the way. Cheers   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Now that's nice, NixChix. Sometime I show off with a line like this:
          And some have flashed their Rosie. You have no Rosie yet, NixChix, but it won't be long - because it's a pleasure to have you along |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Little Mermaid,
Félicitations pour ton badge émeraude TB (elles sont telles rares ces WU). ---------- Congratulations for your emerald badge TB (they are such rare these WU).  NixChix, Voila les badges du Base Camp, enfin, ceux que j'ai en sauvegarde. ---------- Here are the badges of the Base Camp, finally, the ones that I have in safeguard. Peut-être que c'est celui là que tu cherches ? ---------- Maybe that's the one you're looking for?   |
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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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NixChix, Yes, the one that Little Mermaid was just teasing us with in her previous post. I am excited that we will begin the Crunchers 4 Life trek next week. The badge reminds me of my recent trek up to Angel's Landing in Zion National Park in Utah, USA a few months ago with my son. Some spots of that trail were a climb like that depicted on the badge. One step forward is a drop of several thousand feet in the photo below that is atop a rock "fin". The other direction was a drop of only several hundred feet. Voila les badges du Base Camp, enfin, ceux que j'ai en sauvegarde. ---------- Here are the badges of the Base Camp, finally, the ones that I have in safeguard. Peut-être que c'est celui là que tu cherches ? ---------- Maybe that's the one you're looking for?   Cheers [edit "exited" -> "excited"] [Edit 1 times, last edit by NixChix at Jul 29, 2018 6:46:43 AM] |
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Nice picture NixChix!
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
NixChix - I agree with BladeD (for once) - what a wonderful picture!
Do you mean to say you can hike vertically there without the extra gear of a mountain climber? Just hiking shoes?  And a son to give you a hand I can never grow tired of those red rocks. On my very first tour to the USA with a mainly Swedish group of people in 1984 one of the many great stations were Zion. The views made me mute … That’s something very few things can do! Besides, the color scheme in my home – a pink (one shade of the red rocks) and a bluish green (like sage brush) are chosen because of Grand Canyon, which we also visited – and has been revisited several times. stefada, are you about to establish a black market for our badges   Good Morning Base Campers! What Base Camp does right now We are on our top40.nl 2.0 trek which takes place here: top40.nl Everybody is invited at any time during the entire month of July which means you still have two days to get yourself on the list so you can earn this badge  - a thing which these wise Base Campers acpartsman davwhite5xq7 Eric_Kaiser little mermaid NixChix tanner2 TLD Yodap@BC have taken care of a long time ago Upcoming On Wednesday August 1 we’ll begin our five-day trek at team Crunchers4Life The badge depicts NixChix hiking in Zion National Park with his son  I shall probably get around to joining there today - sorry, Captain adriverhoef – maybe not may still linger and make a WCG-wide public announcement. The more the merrier, right?  |
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2171 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I shall probably get around to joining there today Not now that top40.nl is on the brink of moving up in the challenges and we're so near, needing every little bit?- sorry, Captain adriverhoef –  |
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Former Member
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Sure, Adri
I don't wanna leave you now Please find the song - writing from Saphir12-Nathalie  |
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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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NixChix - I agree with BladeD (for once) - what a wonderful picture! No vertical climbs. The trek is like climbing a giant stairway; though some steps are quite high. The chains seen in the photo are in place nearly the entire length of the upper trail and are needed to either keep from falling off a narrow shelf or to pull oneself up. Sometimes my son helped with the pulling.Do you mean to say you can hike vertically there without the extra gear of a mountain climber? Just hiking shoes? And a son to give you a hand I can never grow tired of those red rocks. On my very first tour to the USA with a mainly Swedish group of people in 1984 one of the many great stations were Zion. The views made me mute … That’s something very few things can do! Besides, the color scheme in my home – a pink (one shade of the red rocks) and a bluish green (like sage brush) are chosen because of Grand Canyon, which we also visited – and has been revisited several times. http://thekiwihaslanded.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Day-2-069.jpg https://www.hikespeak.com/img/Utah/Zion/Angel...gels_Landing_IMG_3041.jpg The lower trail from the trailhead on the road far below is paved all the way up to the canyon rim (where the trail joins the rim trail), but is quite steep in some places. It is at the junction where one finally sees the climb to the summit and where many turn back. A Google search of Angels Landing Trail shows many of the incredible sections of the "trail". I have been to the Grand Canyon too and hiked a bit down into the canyon with my son, nephew and brother. Both are beautiful places. Upcoming On Wednesday August 1 we’ll begin our five-day trek at team Crunchers4Life The badge depicts NixChix hiking in Zion National Park with his son Cheers |
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Former Member
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NixChix, you can tell me from now till Christmas Eve that this is not dangerous.
As we say in Denmark: 'Not ten wild horses would make me do that!' You were not with us on our Andrax trek, because then you would know I suffer from fear of heights  and demanded to sit in the middle whenever we went up, up, up -  and that was often!There is no way to sit in the middle on that trail, so I regard you as a very, very brave man, NixChix. I think I could brave the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon - how come they all have 'angel' in them   - do they come and catch you? tanner2 good thing you're giving Johnny Cool solo lessons about Base Camp; could we think of others in need of a pick-me-up visit?  - some look happy , though  |
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