Nature says "trans rights!"

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> i’d recommend some kind of transportation.

Not a bicycle, though. You will end up having to carry it around or leave it behind.

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I live in the forest in Virginia.

If you go outside at night and shine a bright light, you’ll see hundreds of little green sparkles - the green color you see if you burn copper. I always thought these green sparkles were water droplets, dew, on the leaves on the forest floor.

One night I noticed that a particularly large sparkle seemed to move a little, so I bent down to see it closer.

I discovered that the green sparkles were the eyes of wolf spiders, these large but harmless spiders that are common around here.

I then realized that ALL of those hundreds of green sparkles were spiders’ eyes. Hundreds and hundreds of them.

And then that big one made a run at me.

I got back in the house real quick.

So, yeah: those woods in the picture are probably full of thousands of spiders, you just can’t see them in this photo.

Was gonna say reminded me of the show Dark....except it wasn't raining 😂

moss like that is pretty common in the pacific northwest

Do the Glacier Grey kayaking! Very worth it

The forests in New Zealand are different from anywhere else on earth I have been. They are dominated by ferns in a way really unseen elsewhere due to a prehistoric separation of the landmass that became New Zealand from the rest of the Southern supercontinent Gondwana back in the days of the dinosaurs. Ferns remained more dominant to this day than elsewhere in the world, giving you the feeling of stepping back in time when you roam the forests there. This sense of wonder was only enhanced by the wall of rock and snow that rose out of the valley across from me as I emerged from the forest to the edge of this lake. It was so beautiful I stopped short of my planned campsite to camp nearby so I could enjoy the view here for sunset. It was worth the extra miles the next day.

For more New Zealand check out www.campsphoto.com

Ferns are great. Except when they're covered in ticks.

Nice

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Honestly, one of the most arrestingly beautiful places on the planet. Each valley on the W has a distinctly unique microclimate and the lakes are that beautiful glacial aquamarine.

Europe has very few primeval forest left, a lot of planting by people has been done over the centuries

"When God created the world he had a handful of everything left: mountains, rainforests, deserts, oceans, cactus, lakes, glaciers, volcanoes-and he put it all in his pocket. But there was a hole in this pocket, and as God walked across heaven it all trickled out, and the long trail it made on the earth was Chile."

Doing the W trek here in 9 days 😎

Can't wait!

Huh, neat. Thanks for the explanations!

Not usually. Everything piles up underneath and gets slowly composted into the soil. Those sort of trees don't have very big branches anyway, so there's not much big litter. Just a constant falling of the needles.

And this true for basically all of Europe, with the exception of parts of Scandinavia and Russia. Nearly every forest here was planted by hand and is maintained.

Im from Chile, and never it has crossed my mind the idea of calling this place "TDP", it honestly sounds kind of ridiculous. Is it really that hard to type the whole name? lol

Nice picture tho

Ohhh interesting. Still rather unusual from my perspective. Do they keep the ground clear from fallen leaves and branches?

It's more than likely moss, not grass.

Trypophobia, anyone?

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Any thoughts on the grass? In my part of the US, I've never seen a forest where the ground is covered in grass like that.