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Cairn on the summit of Mt Marcy, highest peak in the New York Adirondacks (elev 5344')
Cairns are used to mark a trail above treeline to assist hikers in the event of bad weather, as was the case March 5th of last year as we pushed for the summit in icy whiteout conditions. The windswept rime ice made for some very beautiful photograghy as long as you could securely set your crampons with a good bite in the ice and keep the camera batteries from freezing!
Standing tall and epic against the blue sky; one of many ragged peaks of the Tantalus mountain range near Squamish, British Columbia. Here seen from the side of the Sea to Sky, Highway 99.
The Adirondack High Peaks region from the summit of Big Crow Mountain, located in Keene, New York. Elevation: 2815 ft / 858 m.
For the life of me I could not twist the lid open to sign the register and I thought it was just me. But when I got home and went through some old trip reports, it looked to have been an issue for everyone. :)
editando fotos antiguas
editing old photos
1997 bajando de la cumbre del Montblanc
1997 go down from Montblanc summit
On approach to runway 07 at Brize Norton after a parachute dropping sortie at Weston-on-the-Green. April 7th 2025
An unabating jetstream pours over the summit, scouring the alpine peaks. The elements ride the mountain ridges; winds dipping into the valleys to roam amongst the treetops.
The plaque at the summit indicates the directions of five points from Snaefell as well as their distances:
31 miles (50 km) to the Mull of Galloway (Scotland)
51 miles (82 km) to Scafell (England)
66 miles (106 km) to the Mountains of Mourne (Northern Ireland)
85 miles (137 km) to Liverpool (England)
97 miles (156 km) to Dublin (Republic of Ireland)
Wales isnt mentioned, but can be seen from Man.
The forecast was for a very active aurora tonight, so I went to Cleary Summit (a pass in the White Mountains northeast of Fairbanks.
While the forecast wasn't especially accurate, this is a good place to get a view with the higher altitude and a good view to the northeast.
Taken at the summit of Elmore Mountain in Morrisville, Vermont. I saw this view just as we started to head back down the trail and had to get a couple of shots of it. 1450 ft. elevation.
Here's the entire set from my Elmore Mountain Hike.
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Utilized by the U.S. Government and private business, observatories at the summit of Haleakala Volcano, Maui
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Day 3 Urban Transformation Summit 2022 in The Madison, Detroit, Mi on October 12
Strategy Session: Charting a Path to Sustainable Urban Mobility
Participants: Shin-per Tsay, Director, Policy for Cities and Transportation, Uber Technologies; Chris Thomas, Co-Founder and President, Detroit Mobility Lab; Felipe Ramirez, Director of Urban Mobility, World Resources Institute; Jeroen Kok, Lead, Global Payment and Mobility, Rebel Group; Joshua Martiesian, Head, Urban Mobility, North America, Visa; Julie Johnson, Head, Marketing Development and Groth Strategy, North America, Volta Trucks; Trevor Pawl, Chief Mobility Officer, State of Michigan
A glimpse of Pacific's summit after a long, arduous climb up the talus slope to the east.
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A BNSF ballast makes a jog over the continental divide just after sunset on a mid May night. Summit, Montana | May, 2024
By the end of the 13th century a few large crosses had been erected in passes and on hills. Examples from this period include the Confin Cross in St. Valentin on the Mals Heath, which also acted as a boundary marker, or crosses on the Arlberg, the Gardena Pass or Birnlücke. An early example of large crosses, visible from the valley floor, being set up on mountain tops, occurred during the first successful climb of Mont Aiguille in 1492, when three crosses were put up at the corner of the summit plateau. In the 16th century crosses were erected with increasingly frequency on mountain peaks, especially for the purpose of marking alpine pasture and municipal boundaries. In the 17th century, especially during the Thirty Years' War, these religious symbols gained importance. The crosses of this period were mostly of simple, wooden crosses hewn from branches found near the site or house crucifixes. During this time crosses were often made with two cross beams in the form of so-called patriarchal crosses (or Scheyern crosses). These "weather crosses" were intended to supersede the old pagan superstitions associated with thunder, storm and hail. Further layers of Christian imagery for the Romantic generation made summit crosses a motif favoured by Caspar David Friedrich more than one mystic landscape.
In the 19th century the summits of many mountains were adorned usually with simple, wooden crosses during the course of mountaineering expeditions or survey work, both of which were on the increase. Large summit crosses in the modern sense designed specifically for mountain tops by expert craftsmen were not really introduced until the end of the 19th century. One known exception is the Kleinglockner and Grossglockner, which were given large summit crosses in 1799 and 1800 as part of their first ascent. These crosses, in addition to their religious function were also used, for example, as lightning conductors and fitted with meteorological instruments such as barometers. During the 19th century there were several attempts to erect secular symbols such as pyramids, obelisks or flags instead of crosses, usually dedicated to secular rulers. One example was the construction of the so-called Emperor Obelisk on the Ortler in 1888. The 20th century introduced modern materials and technology: A summit cross erected in 1977 on Carrauntoohil, the highest summit in Ireland, originally featured a windmill that powered light bulbs on the cross.
That summit crosses express can be exemplified by the crosses erected and re-erected on the comparatively insignificant Butte de Warlencourt, a pre-Christian tumulus on the Somme, only some 20m above the surrounding terrain but a scene of intense fighting during World War I, when it was the objective of costly and fruitless British attacks during the battle of the Somme: "this pagan memorial was Christianized by bombardment and large numbers of dead," claimed by a British cross (1917), then a German one (1918), which was removed during the interwar period and replaced by soldiers of the Wehrmacht, in "a symbolic conflict of ownership fought with cruciform images."
The erection of summit crosses experienced a boom in the early 20th century. Even after the Second World War, many new crosses were erected. Communities often organized this sometimes very expensive and logistically difficult task on very high mountain peaks in the memory of the fallen, and war veterans in particular were often involved in their installation. A famous example from this period is the cross at the Zuckerhütl, whose construction was filmed in 1947, a year later. Today summit crosses are often put up by the local tourist association or the branch of the Alpine Club.
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To resume, Summit Crosses were mounted for the purpose of land boundaries. Today, many other reasons exist. Although, I would still love to know further back in time than to what Wikipedia has to offer. From its origin, to why the first person decided to mount a cross on a summit.