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View from top of Buidhe Bheinn 885m , a corbett in Lochaber. Took this after climbing to the summit from Kinloch Hourn. This view is looking back toward the west top with the munro Ladhar Bheinn in Knoydart in the background.
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
― Rene Daumal
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This was not he first time when I saw the mountain sheep arriving at a summit of the bavarian alps short before sunrise. They seem to enjoy holding their summit meeting at the evening.
Taken with the Leica Q3 and optimized with a digital gradation filter in Lightroom to adjust contrast and colours, the light was very soft due to a rather cloudy sky in the west.
Summit lake at the end of the mono pass hiking trail at an elevation of more than 10000ft, Yosemite national park.
The highest point on the M25, London's outer ring road, at Reigate Hill. 700' (213 metres) above sea level.
Great Northern's crossing of the Rockies at Marias Pass was an important part of their Hi-Line. And under BNSF, it's still just as busy today.
Here, with some manifest traffic up front, a train of autos for Chicago rolls across the Continental Divide at the aptly named location of Summit.
V TACLPC1 30 (Vehicles- Tacoma, WA to Logistics Park Chicago [Elwood, IL])
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Summit, MT
September 2nd, 2021
Sunrise hits the final slopes of Place Fell. It was a fabulous morning to be high up above Ullswater to witness dawn. John Bleakley and I had set off in the dark with our head torches highlighting our way up the icy, snowy flanks of Place Fell.
It was quite invigorating treading a crunchy path through virgin snow and ice, in sub zero temperatures, to get to the top before the sun rose over the horizon. The conditions were just superb, it was so still! You could hear Owls and the odd bark of a distant dog down in the Valley bottom.
In fact just before we reached this point we startled a Fox, which bolted off across the frozen snow! God knows what it was existing on up here on the tops of this Fell.
I had to stop when I saw this view, as the "S" curve in the landscape looked quite dramatic. A Fell I'd never climbed before, rather favouring the more popular Peaks on the opposite side of Ullswater. But the views here across the valley and indeed all around, certainly will have me returning again soon!
One final shot of the summit cairn at the top of Cairn Gorm. Far below we can see the blue waters of Loch Morlich, while just beyond it, Aviemore can just be made out. But we've hung around enough, it's time to start the descent.
Cairn Gorm, the mountain from which the Cairngorm mountain range gets its name, stands at 1245 meters (4085 feet) and is my 4th Munro of the season, my 27th in total. The hike (no bike this time) sees me covering a circuit of just over 7 miles and making an elevation gain of around 762 meters (2500 feet).
The L TWI661 heads west out of Summit on their way to Aberdeen. I was planning to shoot this train on the grade east of Summit, but due to the overpass in Marvin not being plowed, and other spots being too deep in snow, I went to the overpass here west of Summit. They slowed down a tad passing by due to, according to dispatch, "a systemwide PTC outage," but got to track speed once again not long after that. Unfortunately Devil's Tower did not appear in my photo here on this day.
September 23, 2017 was a stunningly beautiful day in North Conway, New Hampshire. After shooting Conway Scenic, me and a buddy realized we could see the top of Mount Washington crystal clear (which is a super rare occurrence) and broke off our chase for the auto road. After ascending to the summit, we knew we had made the right choice, as you could see distant ranges clear off in the distance, making for perfect conditions to shoot the cog. We made the most of our day, hiking up and down getting a lot of different angles. Seen here, the M5 is almost to the summit as a hiker stops to watch the train roll by, with the distant peaks in the background. It's really rare Mt. Washington experiences such good weather, and I'm super grateful to have cool shots like this to showcase the magic of "the worst weather on earth" when it has a sunny day.
View from the summit of a corbett called Sgurr nan Eugallt (898m) in Knoydart Lochaber. Summit of Ben Nevis is visible on the LHS of horizon.
Last nights sunset was without any decent cloud, so I climbed up Farleton Fell with a view over the Morecambe Bay and Lakeland Fells.
This is the summit of Farleton Fell, with some really nice limestone landscape surrounding it with Hutton Roof and the adjacent Holmepark Fell. You can just see the head of Morecambe Bay in the left background where the River Kent enters the Bay at Arnside. The hills on the horizon are the Southern fells of the Lake District National Park.
Leaving the town of Summit in the distance, BNSF local 661 rolls west on the Appleton Sub heading for Aberdeen, SD on a beautiful mid September afternoon. The power situation did not disappoint either with SD60M 1462 in BN green leading west.
WNYP OL-4 is digging into the grade at Keating Summit with a trio of Big M's in the lead.
The sound was one I won't soon forget.
Big Baldy summit cairn (8750 ft) with Mount Timpanogos summit (11,753 ft) in the distance. The summit shack is just visible as a tiny smudge of pixels.
Battle Creek to Big Baldy summit; Pleasant Grove, Utah; June 2016
The summit Cairn of the Munro Cairn of Claise and the wall which marked the old county boundary.
This bike trip takes me to the summits of two Munro's, Carn an Tuirc & Cairn of Claise. Carn an Tuirc is at a height of 1018 meters (3339 feet), while Cairn of Claise is sightly higher at 1062 meters (3484 feet). It took me four hours to drag myself (and my bike) up there, but because of the bike, it took less than an hour to get back to the car. Total distance covered was 26.5 kilometers (16.5 miles) and starting at 370 meters, I had an altitude gain of over 700 meters (2296+ feet) - that was a big one!!
The 10,221-foot-high summit of the former Rio Grande main line over Tennessee Pass sits quiet and rusty today, with heavy trains no longer grinding through the lofty 2,550-foot tunnel beneath the Continental Divide. Still “railbanked” by Union Pacific more than twenty years since the last passage of a train, the future of the route still hangs in a precarious balance. In this view looking at the west switch of Tennessee Pass siding, I’m not sure which I find more disturbing—the graffiti on buildings at this remote mountain location, or the decapitated signals that will never highball another train.
From the summit of Derry Cairngorm, at the cairn its top, we can see over in the distance the rocky tors that mark the summit of Beinn Mheadhoin, a Munro I did a couple of years ago. The deep Glen Derry is to the right and it's from there I have climbed to gain this altitude. Was it worth it? Damned straight it was!!
Derry Cairngorm is my first Munro I have bagged this season, my 24th in total, and stands at 1155 meters (3789 feet). This trip sees me covering approximately 20 miles by Bike & Hike and gaining 2682 feet in elevation, after setting off from the Linn of Dee outside Braemar.
Like the nearby Ben Lomond, the summit of Mount Barrow consists of several peaks that rise above a large plateau. These plateaus were carved by glacial activity before the end of the last ice age around 14,000 years ago. One of the features of infrared landscapes is that we tend to lose a lot of the depth perspective. But you can still enlarge this and look around at the detail.
The darkness concealed everything but the stars in the sky. Then the moon started to raise and we silently watch as its light danced on the snowy summit of Mount Rainier in the distance.
A couple swans swim around the shore of Pocono Summit Lake while the PO74 picks up grain at LAKE siding.
A southbound Illinois Terminal Belt (ITB) loaded grain train crests a small hill just south of Heyworth, IL on a dreary spring day. "It's all downhill from here boys!"
The ITB was officially approved for start up in October 2019 and runs between Clinton and Heyworth on a leased 11 mile portion of Illinois Central's original Charter Line, the "Mainline of Mid America." Power is MRIX GP10s 8317 and 8344, and MP15AC 1477. The grain will be interchanged with CN at Clinton.
On the left, the pole line marks the former right of way for the Illinois Terminal.
Summit Lake, Alaska, along the Richardson Highway, about 195 miles from Valdez and 167 miles from Fairbanks.
Five elephant-style Delaware & Hudson EMD’s and a contrarian Conrail B23-7 lead a northbound D&H train through Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The front of the train has just crested the heavy grade out of Scranton, and will have an easier time the rest of the way to Binghamton. The bridge in the background is the final one on the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Northeast Extension.
After bad weather, luckily we could enjoy a fantastic day to climb the Elbrus' summit. We woke up at 1:00 am at Barrels Camp. After a quickly breakfast we went with a ratrac to Pastukhov rocks (4600 metres) and following we began to climb up to the summit.
The day began wonderful, the weather was absolutely perfect.
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Summit,Mississippi, USA
Deloitte Summit is a 24-storey office tower in downtown Vancouver made up of several clusters of four-storey steel-framed cubes stacked on top of each other to create a sculptural effect.
Such a beautiful morning on Mt. Evans! We left at 4 a.m. to get up the mountain for a sunrise shot. I had scouted out another site, but the flowers there had wilted, and the mountains to the west were hazy. So it was back to Summit Lake to try there. We weren't disappointed. Calm mornings are not typical, so such a nice reflection was a bonus!