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Here's to you Harmon👍👍...in honor of my photography buddy who hiked Chimneytop Gap in the Jocassee Gorges with me for over 10 miles across the ridgelines last Saturday morning...Today, as a birthday present to myself, I flagged the old trail to the foot of Pinnacle Falls, a ridgeline hike that launches up and across an old logging road for 1/3 of a mile then drops 621 feet down a switchback trail, (adorned with fallen hemlock trees and washouts) to the foot of this massive waterfall!...How she roars!...and in such a sublime setting! This waterfall has two viewing areas from the original trail and two separate viewing platforms reached from two different trails at different elevations from the other side of the creek... More photos to come!
Hiking in Pinnacles National Park, California. Serene view from Bear Gulch Reservoir. Follow me on Instagram www.instagram.com/normfoxphotography/
The Trona Pinnacles dominate the landscape as southbound Trona loads creep through the desert. This move has engines on each end, not the usual occurrence for this operation. Although they were primarily in place for a switching move along the line, they also provided helper power on the hill coming into Searles - what a great sound!
Trona Railway SD40T-2 2005 continues the southward climb out of the Searles Valley as it passes through the Trona Pinnacles.
Dead of night. Not a soul in sight. Just me… and a few cheeky huntsmans. ️
A rare gap in the clouds over the Pinnacles had me chucking the gear in the car and hitting the bitumen. Rolled in around 10PM, only to find the drive track closed from all the recent rain—so it was boots on, pack light, and hoof it a couple of clicks through the inky dark.
The desert was mine alone—well, me, a few roos, a fox, and the silent company of the spiders. No car beams slicing the night, no hikers’ torches bobbing in the distance. Just the whisper of wind over the limestone spires and the crunch of my boots in the sand.
For 5+ hours, my 50mm lens was my best mate—slow, deliberate, chasing every scrap of detail before first light stole the stars. Only the second time in 18 years I’ve seen the Pinnacles this empty—the last was during the 2020 covid lockdowns. Absolute magic, worth every step.
Nikon D5500 - 50mm f/1.8
Star Adventurer 2i
HoyaUV/IR Cut
More from my trip out west earlier this year.... This image didn't catch my eye in a first or second pass through, but it started to grow on me. It was a grey'ish blue moody sky and desert browns, but with a conversion to B&W, I liked it much better. The Trona Pinnacles are an other-worldly like place, walking among and sleeping at the foot of those spires is a pretty neat experience. If you're in the Death Valley area, it's a nice overnight camping (primitive) excursion. Sorry for the lack of engagement/posting over here...I think it's just become that time of year and hard to stay engaged in anything for too long. I hope everyone has a great Friday and upcoming weekend!
Starting a series on some of the sights enjoyed in The Badlands of South Dakota.
The Pinnacles Overlook offers sweeping views of the jagged natural formations and wildlife in the Badlands. Perfect for a high view spot, the overlook is located at the highest point along the Badlands Loop Road near the Pinnacles Entrance. On clear days the Black Hills can be seen to the NW.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Second trip to the Pinnacles this year, and this is one of two panoramas I captured. I wasn’t expecting the zodiacal light to stand out so clearly with all that galactic glow around it. Initially planned to shoot the sky pano with a shorter focal length for extra resolution, but after a long night (and a 2-hour drive still ahead), I opted for the usual 24mm focal length and still ended up with a 4GB image 😐
Nikon D5500 (Modded), Nikon D5200
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Star Adventurer 2i
Hoya UV/IR Cut
Rising from the bottom of what was once an ancient lakebed, the Trona Pinnacles are one of the most unique geologic landscapes in the California Desert. Over 500 of these tufa spires, composed of calcium carbonate, are spread out over a 14 square mile area across the Searles Dry Lake basin. These formations range in size from small boulders to topping out at over 140 feet tall.
The Pinnacles were formed between 10,000 and 100,000 years ago when Searles Lake formed a link in a chain of interconnected lakes flowing from the Owens Valley to Death Valley. At one point during the Pleistocene, the area was under 640 feet of water. These days, the area has less than 4 inches of annual rainfall.
If you zoom in, you can see Wilbur in the middle right off in the distance.
The desert wind is blowing very hard and can almost deafen out the sound of a Trona eastbound as they come up to the pinnacles. After this the train would descend into the valley where their destination lies at the end of the line.
Running four up front and two in the middle, a heavy train is fighting up and away from The Pinnacles as they claw for Searles Jct.
One of the pinnacles catching first light with some vineyards and orchards below.
Peshastin Pinnacles State Park features sandstone slabs and spires in a desert environment with views of the surrounding orchards, Enchantment Range, and Wenatchee Valley. Park activities include rock climbing, hiking, birdwatching, and wildlife viewing.
Largely used as a climbing park, Peshastin Pinnacles also makes an ideal stop on Highway 2 to stretch your legs, or as a destination during a visit to Leavenworth, Wenatchee, Cashmere or Chelan.
Enjoy your Sunday!
In the almost surreal atmosphere of the day fading away, two of the Aiguilles d'Arves (Aiguille Centrale 3.513 m and Aiguille Méridionale 3.514 m) still capture the very last rays of the setting sun.
A sublime and majestic spectacle... purely Gothic.
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Mount Machhapuchhre is one of the most renowned mountains in Nepal Himalayan range with fish-tailed pinnacle.Climbing on the mountain has been restricted, and Machhapuchhre mountain is known not only in Nepal but all over the world for its magnificence and visual feast. Machhapuchhre’ means fishtail and comes from two Nepali words Machha (Fish) + Puchhre (Tail). Shot from Pokhara, Nepal.
Bartolome Island, Galapagos
see more photos from this trip to Galapagos, Ecuador and Peru in my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/25171569@N02/albums/72157720135887081
Jenny Pansing photos
...Truly a majestic, towering pinnacle of a waterfall...One of South Carolina's finest, located in the ridgelines below Sassafras Mountain, South Carolina's highest mountain in the Blue Ridge. This photo was made from a platform literally hanging off the side of the ridge line in sight of the waterfall. Take note of the three trees at the foot of the falls. My friend Harmon and I were standing right there in that brown patch of stone shooting upwards into the main cascade from the other side of the creek. As you can see, the ridgelines in here are steep, and my buddy and I hiked down that ridgeline you see directly across from this view (about a 421 foot drop)....It's like this throughout the Jocassee Gorges...More photos will be forthcoming from yet another viewing platform located below...
Been awhile since I posted a black and white shot. I like to mix it up from time to time.
A view from near the top of Mt. Rainier's Pinnacle Trail.
I posted this image earlier in technicolor but thought it worked well in monochrome as well. Coior version in comments.
Hope your week is off to a wonderful start.
I'm thinking bird on the top of the tower is probably a Clark's nutcracker. Here is the full size image.
The Pinnacles are limestone formations contained within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia
Il Deserto dei Pinnacoli si trova ai margini del Nambung National Park, vicino alla cittadina di Cervantes nell' Australia Occidentale.
I pinnacoli sono formazioni calcaree la cui origine risale all’accumulo di conchiglie di molluschi marini che si sono frantumate e trasformate in sabbia calcarea.. Lo scioglimento del calcare e il suo accumulo in dune dovuto all'azione delle piogge e del vento ha contribuito a creare questo ambiente unico, quasi alieno.
The Pinnacles is contained within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The Pinnacles are limestone formations. The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells which were broken-down into lime-rich sand. Wind formed high sand dune and rain scaused the lime to seep to the bottom of the dunes, where it stuck together and formed limestone.
De Pinnacles zijn twee krijtrotsformaties, waaronder een rotsstapel en een stomp, gelegen nabij Handfast Point, op het Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, in het zuiden van Engeland. De Pinnacles liggen direct ten oosten van Studland, ongeveer 200 meter ten zuiden van Old Harry Rocks en circa 4 kilometer ten noordoosten van Swanage. De krijtrotsen van de Ballard Downs zijn eigendom van de National Trust. De rotsen zijn te zien vanaf het Dorset-gedeelte van het South West Coastal Path.
The Pinnacles are two chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located near Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. The Pinnacles lie directly east of Studland, approximately 200 metres south of Old Harry Rocks and about 4 kilometres northeast of Swanage. The chalk headlands of the Ballard Downs are owned by the National Trust. The rocks can be viewed from the Dorset section of the South West Coastal Path.