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A series of images from a walk up and over Helvellyn, via Keppel Cove in the English Lake District on a lovely late spring day in 2022.
On 21st August 1993 42220 and 4488 arrive at Summit Tank with their Rail Transport Museum tour train. They will run around their train and return to the South Coast line.
The summit of Glyder Fach is a rocky plinth almost covered with massive rock slabs and boulders. Two chaps had scrambled up there and, if you check their attire, you can work out that it was pleasant enough for shirtsleeves at 3000 feet in mid-winter. No wind to mix the air or to chill the bones.
Reflections in tundra potholes at Summit Lake. 13,842' Mt. Spalding background, right. Alpine Avens in foreground.
This was last September at the summit of Guanella Pass, elevation 11,670ft (3,557m). Located in Clear Creek County, Colorado. We will be kicking off the season with a trip to a gorgeous mountain lake on Mother's Day, if the rain holds off.
I'm calling this Thought I'd Throw Ya Something Different Thursday!
The summit of Ireland's highest mountain at midnight, Saturday 3rd June. No artificial lighting used - the illumination was from the full moon. Details of my hike:
I set out from Cronin's Yard at 8:30 p.m. and walked up the Hag's Glen and ascended to the ridge of the Reeks via the Zig Zag path (easier to negotiate than the more popular Devil's Ladder ascent).
The sun had set as I reached the ridge but I was greeted by a beautiful full moon rising in the east. The night was calm, barely a breath of wind, and there was no need of a jacket as I made my way to Cnoc na Toinne (845m) on my way to Carrauntoohill.
There was then a drop down to the saddle just above the Devil's Ladder and then an ascent to the summit of Carrauntoohill which I reached at 11:30 p.m.
The light of the moon was bright enough for me to make out the path and I didn't need to use my head-torch.
As I neared the summit - I could see the iron cross in the near distance - a dog started barking. It belonged to a man who was in a bivvy bag nearby. There was no one else around.
I stayed on the summit for about an hour taking in the atmosphere - the full moon, the clear sky with the stars and planets, the stillness, the lights of the towns and houses in the distance, the majestic panorama of the Reeks - and then made my way back down. I used my head-torch at this stage so as to avoid any problems on the descent.
Having reached the saddle above the Devil's Ladder I had to ascend Cnoc na Toinne to get to the ridge and then I descended to the Hag's Glen via the Zig Zag path.
On my way back the Glen a group of hikers on the way up looked like dancing fireflies as their head-torches were the only things of theirs visible until they came near. They were on their way to the summit to greet sunrise which was at 5:20 a.m. I hope they got there in time.
As I neared Cronin's Yard - it was now 4:15 a.m. - the dawn chorus was beginning. Among several other birds two cuckoos were loudly greeting the glimmer of pre-dawn light on the north-eastern horizon.
The last time I did a night climb of Carrauntoohill was about 30 years ago and the conditions then were practically identical. It was a great privilege to be able to do it again.
When your scanner dies and all you have to rely on is a 3 hour old facebook post things can go in weird directions. While driving north to intercept a SB manifest, i looked through the trees and saw horses and cars in the trees. A quick turn around and the chase was on. We got ahead just in time to get a shot at Summit which is one of the sidings still controlled by classic N&W CPLs along the NS H-Line. CPL signals first popped up along this line almost 100 years ago, some still remain from these installs further south, but its mostly bits and pieces. Though slowly but surely NS is chopping these old beasts down, seeing them still serve their function is very neat as few Position lights, colored or not, survive today.
The GTW/BLE pair from Friday team up on R924, the Argo Job, as they take a cut of mixed freight west through Summit on the short trip down the Alton towards Argo.
Mount Kinabalu - LINCOLNOSE2®2009
Note: The Kinabalu Park is famous the world over for the highest mountain in South-East Asia - Mount Kinabalu, a vast jagged granite massif rising to 4,095.2m (13,432.26 ft ) above sea level.
The view from the summit looking back down Schiehallion - a beautiful interplay of soft light and mist and hard rock.
See the Colorful Scene on Black
A view of the observation platform at Hawksbill Summit in Shenandoah National Park.
This is a single exposure shot. To some it may look too saturated or perhaps even a little HDR-ish, but this is all mother nature and the colorful morning at work. I tried to process it pretty true to the scene.
The two comment shots are previous posts from the observation platform.
Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!
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On 30th July 2016 and during its two-day visit to the line, Patrick Keef’s peripatetic William Bagnall 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Woto' (Works No.2133 built in 1924) prepares to move off from the county boundary halt on the windswept moors at Hillend Summit, the current operating limit of the Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway. Just visible to the right of the electricity line pole is the Lowther Hill National Air Traffic Services radar station, on the second highest peak in the Scottish Southern Uplands, at 2,378 feet. The Leadhills and Wanlockhead 2ft gauge railway has been built on the original track bed of the Caledonian Railway and runs between the former standard gauge station site at Leadhills and the line's present summit at Gleggonnar Halt. The line is run entirely by volunteers, and they are striving to extend the line across the county boundary into Wanlockhead. The original Caledonian Railway was built to transport lead and other minerals from the mines in Wanlockhead and Leadhills, known as 'God's Treasure House in Scotland' because of the vast number of mineral deposits found there. Mining continued in the area until 1938 when the closure of the mines signalled the end of the railway, which connected with the West Coast Main Line at Elvanfoot, just over seven miles distant from Leadhills. The Caledonian Railway branch was opened in two sections: from Elvanfoot to Leadhills in October 1901, and then on to Wanlockhead in October 1902. In 1910 there were three timetabled trains in each direction on weekdays; the service in the 1930s was four round trips daily worked by a Sentinel steam railcar, with just two freight workings weekly. During it brief life as a standard gauge line, just 37 years, the railway had the distinction of being the highest summit level in Great Britain worked by standard gauge adhesion, but only just! That is 1,498ft compared with the 1,484ft of the Highland Railway's summit at Druimachdair. The railway is normally entirely diesel-worked, but for one weekend only steam traction returned to Leadhills over the weekend of 30th/31st July 2016, steam events being held here infrequently. The Bagnall was delivered new to British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd at Belvedere, Kent, in 1924. Built to the unusual gauge of 3ft 6 (and1/4in)", replacing an older 1900-built Bagnall which was scrapped. It was soon followed by identical brother 'Sir Tom', which now resides at the Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum in Cumbria. Its name is made up of the initials of the original two Callender brothers, William Octavious and Thomas Octavious.
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BNSF 6820 and 7046 are on the rear of a manifest at the summit of Marias Pass as the Empire Builder passes by on track 2.
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This was the reward for climbing up to the Glyder Fach, Castell-Y-Gwynt and the Bristly Ridge just in time for sunrise. We ascended through complete darkness and then thick hill-fog to arrive at the summit just as twilight was starting to materialise through the darkness of the night's climb.
We made our way across to some of the ridges and down, before making our way back across and down the way we came but this time in daylight which looked worse than the climb.
You certainly wouldn't climb up it in daylight as it was an extereme tortuous one. Started at 2am and got there for around 5:30am. The climb down was just as rough.
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A beautiful sunrise in the lake district, at the summit of Catbells. Perhaps a more unusual perspective than the usual wide vista..
66104 approaches the southern portal of Summit Tunnel with the 10:41 Knowsley Freight Terminal to Wilton refuse train on June 20th 2019