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(Explore #297 December 07, 2008)
After a long walk up to the trestle, it took a couple of minutes for the train to reach the bridge. You could hear the train grinding up the hill quite well, but it took it a bit to show its face. Soon enough, I sent the drone up to the bridge while hoping to get a one of a kind shot. I'm not disappointed, although the power could've been blue!
I'm usually pretty on it with these things up, but as soon as I started the walk-in from Barber Booth at 16:30, I realised I'd completely messed up my timings 😆 Sunset was due at 17:49, and my intended destination was Swine's Back on Kinder. Hmmmm, yes. Anyway, I had my headtorch so decided I'd use it as practice to see how quickly I could cover the 2.5 miles get up there. Channelling my inner whippet I somehow arrived just before the sun dropped beneath this huge bank of cloud and lit up the landscape.
I'd walked under Swine's Back many a time, but never over the top so had no idea what to expect, and hadn't had much luck finding images looking towards Mount Famine and South Head from there. Turns out it's alright (IMHO)!
Handheld shot taken with a Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens...
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We made it to the top! It was cold and VERY windy so we took shelter behind a rock for some welcome lunch :)
Framed by the ever present wooden snow fences lining the right-of-way to offer some protection from wind driven snow, an eastbound Union Pacific freight climbs to the summit of Sherman Hill at Sherman, Wyoming, on September 24, 2003.
Some 777 steps leads one to the Taung Kalat Buddhist monastery and temple complex located on a volcanic plug on Mount Popa in Myanmar (Wikipedia)
This is Muckle Flugga Lighthouse the most northernly Lighthouse in the British Isles at Hermaness in Unst, Shetland Isles. Once manned it now lights up on its own. Best viewed large!!
well I think it looks like I am, but in reality I am standing on the pedestrian part looking over the city
Here the Broads Fork Twin Peaks can be seen directly above the summit of Mount Olympus. This view is taken from Ensign Peak, directly North of Salt Lake City but only a short distance into the hills.
Battling atop the narrow walkways connecting parts of the floating city adds new levels of danger to the already life or death match between the cybernetic machine with a mind of it's own, known as Qalon, and the ever resourceful engineering and weapons genius Armorsmith.
Another original pose set by me, too.
Taken in Insilico
San Francisco's Cliff House' modern wing sits perched atop rocks overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Lands End.
Looking northwest into the Yosemite Valley from the top of Sentinel Dome, on the trail near the end of Glacier Point Road. Photographed 10-11-2018 and processed 09-10-19.
A cairn sits at the highest point on the island of Iona, Scotland. From this point you can see the entire island.
This barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) pauses from flight, perched atop an aged concrete fence post. Its sleek shape is accentuated by rich blue-black iridescent plumage with a distinctive russet face and throat. Alert and cautious, the bird's slightly ruffled breast feathers and keen eye capture its innate awareness even at rest.
Bunde, Lower Saxony, Germany
Atop Palatine Hill sits the Palace of Domitian, also referred to as the Flavian Palace. The remains of the Tribune of the Stadium are to the left, while what looks like a stadium, which was actually a garden is in the center of this image. Referred to as the Hippodrome, in truth, it is not large enough for chariots, and was most likely a garden filled with sculptures.
The National Wallace Monument sits proudly atop Abbey Craig and is one of Scotland’s most distinctive landmarks The stunning 220ft tower honours the famous Scottish warrior – Sir William Wallace, who although outnumbered by an English army, he defeated them at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297.
Crummock Water from the summit of Low Fell, at an altitude of 1388 feet (423m).
Lake District National Park.
Cumbria, England.
"Southeast the view is of classical beauty, an inspired and inspiring vision of loveliness that has escaped the publicity of picture postcards and poets' sonnets, a scene of lakes and mountains arranged to perfection".
~A. Wainwright.
Book Seven: The Western Fells~