Happy Birthday!

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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by lordgares » May 23rd, 2022, 11:53 am

I suppose this works for this thread in a Mexican restaurant birthday sort of way. One of the oddest things I have found out in the woods. Found on the old Barlow Road.
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Chip Down » May 23rd, 2022, 7:27 pm

urban hikes count too
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Beargrass » June 6th, 2022, 6:15 pm

Graduation season!

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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Don Nelsen » June 23rd, 2022, 7:55 am

It's not a party balloon, but it is a balloon! How it got here, on the ridge west of Duncan Creek and north of Archer Mt. is the mystery.
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by arlohike » June 25th, 2022, 4:51 pm

Still inflated!
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Don Nelsen » June 25th, 2022, 6:40 pm

arlohike wrote:
June 25th, 2022, 4:51 pm
Still inflated!

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You win the balloon-of-the-year award!! :) Good job Arlo.
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Chip Down » June 27th, 2022, 4:45 pm

That toucan balloon is quite a find.
Here's a bit of ribbon I encountered, no corresponding balloon.
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Chip Down » July 5th, 2022, 8:09 pm

not even 6am, and encountered my first balloon, just sitting there in the middle of the road, as if one of you staged it for me
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Don Nelsen » September 2nd, 2022, 8:05 pm

BigBear wrote:
January 8th, 2019, 12:42 pm
...and I fully support the releasing of colorful mylar balloons with images. I have a wish: to find a Minions balloon somewhere int he forest. That would really make my day.

Perhaps I'd be more outraged by the HB balloons if these other items were not present along the trail:
1) pooh bags that never get picked up
2) pooh bags flung into the outstretched branches of trees
3) beer cans...pop cans...water bottles
4) plastic shopping bags
5) tires (unless attached to a car that's been abandoned before 1960)
6) bagged trash from home (typically driven out to the shoulder and thrown over the side)
7) abandoned furniture
8) pretty much anything that is not festive or an antique

So if you see a Minions balloon drifting toward a hiking trail, I'd appreciate an e-letter.

Richard,

Here ya go: found today on a bushwhack hike up a ridge about 2 1/2 miles SW of Mitchell Peak

a little the worse for wear but I do what I can..
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While I was at it, I found three more in separate locations on that ridge:
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Oh, and about 25 cans, bottles and other trash at the end of the logging road where I parked for this hike.
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by retired jerry » September 3rd, 2022, 6:35 am

Near Ramona Falls

What's this?:
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Oh, a happy face mylar ballon:
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