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2.5 hours after dropping the bikes, and some considerable climbing, here we are at 1157 meters (3796 feet) and the summit of our first mountain of the day Beinn Bhrotain. I couldn't resist getting a little extra height by standing on top of the tri point!!
Beinn Bhrotain (pronounced Bane Vrottan meaning Hill of the Hound) stands at 1157 meters (3796 feet) and is the first of our Munros today. Monadh Mor (pronounced Monnagh Mor meaning The Big Hill) is our second and final destination and stands at 1113 meters (3651 feet). A short 5 mile cycle up Glen Dee gets us to the foot of the climb, then it's an 11 mile hike across rough and boggy ground to get there. An epic 8.5 hours, largely un-pathed, time in the hills gets us back to the cars just before full dark falls!
The Rocky and bleak summit of Ben MacDui is our view while sheltering out of the cold wind to have our hard earned sandwiches.
Ben Macdui is the UK's 2nd highest peak (second only to Ben Nevis) and stands at 1309m (4294ft). After descending from this Munro we make a climb to the 2nd Munro of the day, Carn a' Mhaim (pronounced Carn-ah-Vame) at 1037m (3402ft).
Snaking through the multiple curves east of Summit, Montana, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train traverses Marias Pass on September 9, 1999. Up front is an eclectic group of motive power led by BNSF warbonnet GE C44-9W No. 781. Trailing the 781 is a former Santa Fe LRCX C30-7, a Burlington Northern C30-7, a Santa Fe EMD SD45-2B, and finally, another Dash 9 in Heritage II paint.
Amtrak's California Zephyr greets the golden rays of the morning sun at Soldier Summit, Utah on Oct. 17, 2008.
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.
The bright spot is the moon, which doesn't get very big with the fisheye lens.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack train is headed west at Summit, Montana, on December 23, 1998. The train is crossing Marias Pass powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s, with Burlington Northern No. 7889 leading the way.
Was at Palmer Park the other day with Aurora when we ran into this dog named Summit and his owners. Aurora instantly liked him and they ran around together playing for an hour. It was nice to see her so happy and playing like a puppy again. Guess he got worn out too since he decided to lay in the snow for awhile.
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3094 kicks up up a little snow while cresting Soldier Summit on New Year's Eve, 1994.
As we traverse further along the cliffs at the edge of the Cairn Gorm plateau we can clearly the way ahead and the final climb up to the prominent rocky summit of Cairn Gorm itself.
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).
A marvellous early evening view across the Eskdale Valley towards the Sca Fell Range of peaks from the summit of Yew Bank, in the Western Lake District.
The light was wonderful on this cold evening and I had the place completely to myself. Can't think of many better views than this in England!
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.
A westbound BNSF grain train enters double track at Summit after climbing the east slope of Marias Pass.
Summit camp on Ben Tianavaig on Skye. That's the trig point behid the tent. It was a cracking clear night, if a bit chilly!
A trio of EMD 'tunnel motors', including a Southern Pacific SD45T-2, pull a 72-car KCOAF between Colton and Soldier Summit, Utah the afternoon of May 21, 1993. On the rear (out of view) is a pair of St. Louis Southwestern B40-8 helper engines.
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.
“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
Photo taken at Cloud Edge II maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sylt/206/23/59
Summit lake at the end of the mono pass hiking trail at an elevation of more than 10000ft, Yosemite national park.
This last part of the ascent is a real pleasure. The W ridge is very panoramic, not just trivial, but easy to overcome and you're all the time able to check how you are nearing the summit.
Last week, I was on skiing vacation in Saalbach (Salzburg), where I took my newly bought iPhone with me since I didn’t want to carry my whole photo equipment while I’m skiing. Although I quite missed the possibility to zoom, I found myself liking the iPhone’s panorama function very much. This is one of the panoramas I took and which I really like due to the amazing view. I hope you like it too!
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!
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])
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #5639
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #5080
BNSF ES44AC #6245
(DPU) BNSF ES44C4 #6716
Summit, MT
September 2nd, 2021
As I climb higher, the clouds descend and completely shroud the summit of Glas Tulaichean. Normally I would give this up and wait for a better day, but as we're soon moving away this is my last chance to gain the 10% of Munro's bagged.
Glas Tulaichean is my 5th Munro of the season and the 28th in total, bringing me to a Munro completion rate of near enough 10%. The mountain stands at 1051 meters (3448 feet) and is the last one I will do as I have now moved away from Scotland and back to my roots in South Yorkshire as the pull of the Grandchildren was just too strong.
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.
Viewing the Aspens from Conway Summit on a freezing cold, extremely windy early morning near Bridgeport, Eastern Sierras California.
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.
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.