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― Jonathan Safran Foer
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Guanella Pass (elevation 11,669 ft or 3,557 m) is a high mountain pass in central Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States.
The pass is located in southwestern Clear Creek County, in the Front Range west of Denver and south of Georgetown. The pass was named in 1953 for Byron Guanella, a road supervisor and commissioner in Clear Creek County for nearly 50 years.
The pass provides a route between Georgetown in the valley of Clear Creek to the north and Grant in the valley of Geneva Creek, a tributary of the North Fork South Platte River, to the south. The pass is traversed by the Guanella Pass Scenic Byway. The road provides a link between Interstate 70 to the north and U.S. Highway 285 to the south.
The entire route from Georgetown to U.S. Highway 285 is paved. The road is no longer maintained in the winter and expect closure after the first heavy snow in the winter. There is a parking area at the closure gate on the Georgetown side of the pass to allow access to the pass by foot or snowmobile during the winter.
At the summit of the pass, hiking trails lead east to Mount Bierstadt (elevation 14,060 ft (4,290 m)) among other places.
The Geneva Basin Ski Area which existed from 1963 to 1984 was located just a few miles south of the pass.
Approaching Thacker Pass from the north. There's a lithium mine proposed nearby... I wonder if it's the bright area on the left side.
Passi echeggiano nella memoria,
lungo il corridoio che mai prendemmo,
verso la porta che mai aprimmo.
(TS Eliot)
With its uphill climb complete, UP MSBPC 28 rounds the curve at Feely just south of Deer Lodge Pass on UP's wildly scenic and chronically undershot Montana Subdivision.
The Montana Sub is, to my knowledge, the only rail line that crosses the Continental Divide twice. The northern of the two passes is Deer Lodge Pass, just out of frame to the right at a modest 5,801 feet. From here, they'll be on the Atlantic/Gulf side of the divide for about 100 miles. They cross back to the Pacific side at Monida, which is a much higher 6,817 feet and also marks the Montana-Idaho state line.
The pass gains some height so is a handy start for climbing Red Screes.. it saves a little bit of huffing and puffing :-)
The Aberglaslyn Pass (Welsh: Bwlch Aberglaslyn) is a narrow gorge of considerable beauty in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, north Wales. The A498 road/A4085 road follows a relatively level route along the Afon Glaslyn through the pass from Beddgelert to Prenteg and then continues at the edge of the Traeth Mawr via Tremadog to Porthmadog.
As recently as the early 19th century, the river Glaslyn was navigable for small boats at high tide as far as Pont Aberglaslyn, which is just one mile south of Beddgelert, where a sixth-century monastery was succeeded in the twelfth by an Augustinian priory. In the Middle Ages Beddgelert was seen as a safe resting place before travelling further. The route from the coast via Beddgelert and overland to Caernarfon or Bangor via Llyn Cwellyn was often considered preferable to the long voyage round the Llŷn Peninsula.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberglaslyn_Pass
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Alaska Railroad's Seward-bound Coastal Classic heads across a bridge at Moose Pass, Alaska on May 16, 2022.
• スズメ
• Gorrión molinero
• Eurasian tree sparrow
Scientific classification:
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Passeridae
Genus:Passer
Species:P. montanus
Subspecies: P. m. saturatus
Sensō-ji Temple, Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Two weeks passed.
Time passes slowly up here in the mountain
We sit beside the bridges and walk beside the fountains
Catch the wild fishes that float though the stream
Time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream.
Once I had a sweetheart, she was fine and good-looking
She sat in the kitchen while her mama was cooking
Stared on out the window to the stars high above
Time passes slowly when you're searching for love.
Ain't no reason to go in a wagon to town
Ain't no reason to go to the fair
Ain't no reason to go up, ain't no reason to go down
Ain't no reason to go anywhere.
Time passes slowly up here in the daylight
We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right
Like the red rose of summer that blooms in the day
Time passes slowly and fades away.
-Bob Dylan
Getting near the north end of the south bridge as it nears Pass Island. Strawberry Island in the center. Ben Ure Island now in view on the right beyond the tip of Whidbey Island.
Ben Ure Island has quite a disreputable and sad history, which I will share tomorrow with the better view from the north channel between Fidalgo and Pass Islands.
Enjoy a wonderful Wednesday!
Looking east from the south bridge on a stormy day with Strawberry Island in the distance.
"Deception Pass is a dramatic seascape where the tidal flow and whirlpools beneath the twin bridges connecting Fidalgo Island to Whidbey Island move quickly. During ebb and flood tide current speed reaches about 8 knots (9.2 mph), flowing in opposite directions between ebb and flood. This swift current can lead to standing waves, large whirlpools, and roiling eddies. This swift current phenomenon can be viewed from the twin bridges' pedestrian walkways or from the trail leading below the larger south bridge from the parking lot on the Whidbey Island side. Boats can be seen waiting on either side of the pass for the current to stop or change direction before going through. Thrill-seeking kayakers go there during large tide changes to surf the standing waves and brave the class 2 and 3 rapid conditions." Wikipedia
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Another Year On.
Another year has passed so I thought today would be the perfect day to revisit this shot.
It took me a while to find the original tree shot and even longer to overlay it with a headshot of the wee man I took today.
Same again next year and many more years to come :)
I've often wondered if God's other creatures found the sunset as mesmerising as we do? Proof positive!
Un paesaggio surreale ai confini con il cielo.
Questo passo, tra la Valle Argentina e la Valle Arroscia, 1452 m, in provincia di Imperia, ha questo nome perchè la sua forma evoca quella di una mezzaluna, posta tra due monti .
'Io chiudo gli occhi per poter vedere ....'
Il 7 giugno 1848 nasceva a Parigi Paul Gauguin
I close my eyes to see...
A surreal landscape on the edge of the sky
The Rikoti Pass (Georgian: რიკოთის უღელტეხილი) (el. 996 metres or 3,268 feet) is a mountain pass in the southern portion of the Likhi Range, a spur of the Greater Caucasus which divides Georgia into its western and eastern parts. The Tbilisi-Kutaisi highway connecting the two major cities of Georgia runs through the pass in a rock-cut tunnel of 1,722 m (5,650 ft) in length which was constructed in 1982.
The Septimer Pass was one of the preferred routes (along with the Great St. Bernard and the Brenner Pass) for armies and emperors to cross the Alps. Don't let yourself be fooled by the little path, in 15 BC the Roman emperor Augustus sent a whole army north along this route.
Deception Pass is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington. It connects Skagit Bay, part of Puget Sound, with the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
A view of the larger of the two bridges that connect Washington's Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island and the mainland.
"The bridge, one of the scenic wonders of the Pacific Northwest, is actually two spans, one over Canoe Pass to the north, and another over Deception Pass to the south. Pass Island lies between the two bridges. Construction began in August 1934, and the completed bridge was dedicated at noon on July 31, 1935." Wikipedia
I'll continue posting a few more shots of the bridge and pass over the next few days.
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In a wicked display of smoke and sound, MRL #4400 emerges out of the west portal of Bozeman Tunnel after successfully scaling the pass. The current tunnel was completed by the Northern Pacific in 1945, replacing the original 1884 bore.
Species: Passer domesticus.
The House sparrow is an endearing, friendly little garden bird whose almost consistent year-round presence is always welcome. However, despite its notoriety as being one of the most sociable and gregarious birds in existence, it’s an understatement to say the sparrow has had a very tough time throughout history. Info: GardenBirds.
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The male is above, with prey in its talons (images 1 & 2).
The male and female approach, and around image 3
the food is passed in mid-air to the female.
By image 4 & 5 the female has the food.
This took place at quite a distance so the images are heavily cropped and lack fine detail.
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