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I was driving switchbacks in Colorado and saw this mountain view. We climbed a few thousand feet as we ascended the mountain in our SUV. At this point, we were at about 9,000 or 10,000 feet. As a winter sports enthusiast, I thought snowboarding down those peaks would be a an exhilarating experience!
The train slowly descended down toward the switchback and would end up on the side of the other mountain (view this large).
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After picking up loads for Mitsubishi Chemicals, Reading & Northern PISB heads back to service them. This job is a bit unique in that in order to access the two customers at the end of the branch, they have to traverse a level switchback, which they are seen traversing in this shot. 10-20-21
This is my trophy shot of weekend at Mt. Rainier National Park. I was out on a ledge trying to get the quarter moon when the clouds opened up and you could see the mountain. It was nicely lit by the moon so I let a few go at 30 seconds to keep the stars crisp. Then, without moving the tripod, I took a nice long low ISO shot of the trees below (which weren't lit by the moon so needed a 4 minute exposure. I didn't even see the car lighting up the switchbacks until I was on the plane ride home. My jaw dropped. I blended the two shots in Photoshop right on the plane. This shot alone was worth the trip!
Chief Joseph Highway in Shoshone National Forest climbs out of Sunlight Basin and up switchbacks to Dead Indian Pass. This view is from the overlook at the pass which is north of Cody Wyoming.
C871's pushers roll into the lower portion of Hagans Switchback with this unusual loaded TVA train headed towards Loyall and eventually TVA Bull Run.
Three photos stitched to show the view and highway as we near Dead Indian Summit, east entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
The Burr Trail switchbacks offer a remote and rugged landscape dipped in solitude. This steep dirt road is located in the southern portion of Capitol Reef. The rocks that form the Waterpocket Fold of Capitol Reef are the most steeply tilted here, and rise dramatically from the Strike Valley below. This dirt road is one of the few roads that go through this area, cutting through a canyon in the Navajo sandstone.
Burr Trail is named for John Atlantic Burr, who pioneered a rough trail along this route to move livestock between winter grazing range in the desert to summer range in the mountains. The switchbacks were blasted and bulldozed into the hillside in 1953 to allow truck access during uranium rush years of the Cold War.
After departing Kerry Cliffs, we continued along the Skellig Ring with a climb up a hill and a switchback descent on a road far too narrow at most places for two cars to pass. As we approached St. Finan's Bay, we just had to stop. It is a gorgeous beach, and on this sunny day, we couldn't resist getting out of the car and walking around a bit. Before leaving, we had a quick lunch at a little place called Driftwood Surf Cafe.
Switchbacks while the sun rises for Pete. Can bike life get any better than this?! Who is off to Kendal Mountain Festival Bike Night this year? It’s always good to meet new faces, see you there!
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110 + 109 are 1957-built MoHa Type 2 EMUs. The Hakone Tozan Line is a scenic mountain railway which runs between Hakone-Yumoto and Gora. It includes many tunnels, bridges, and switchbacks.
In Lana'i, on your way to Shipwreck Beach, day or night, every switchback on the road is greeted by a disturbingly beautiful view of Maui and Moloka'i, worth a stop and a musing moment.
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I've been trying to push myself a bit with what my models turn into. Growing up, I never had any Lego trains, so this was quite the investment in new and exciting parts! I ended up going for a German-style locomotive, mainly because that's what the earliest official Lego steam trains were based on, and because I thought the colours and general bulkiness would sit a Decepticon. It's not my most stable robot mode ever, but I'm overall pretty happy with how he came out.
EB Oregon, California & Eastern Railroad Sycan Turn,below West Switchback, 3:40pm 4/18/80, 7602/7607/7604/7910 on 29 cars
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Georgia Northeastern Job 103 departs the lower switchback to bring down the second cut of cars for Imerys. 3-6-23
The northern section of the Cross City Line is a switchback route, with a noticeable climb from both Gravelly Hill and Sutton Coldfield to a summit between Wylde Green and Chester Road stations. Here, Arriva XC Class 43 No. 43207 leads 1V48 0811 Leeds- Plymouth through Wylde Green station on the approach to the summit of a climb of just under two miles from Sutton Coldfield Tunnel, the steepest part being just short of a half-mile stretch at 1-in-125. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Anyone who has tried chasing the aurora is familiar with disappointment. Especially in mid-latitudes, there can be months in a row with little to no activity. And when the sun does get more active, sometimes it feels like everything is working against you. Unpredictability is high. The timing is all wrong when the geomagnetic storm happens during the day, or on the cloudiest night of the week, or when the moon is so bright you can’t see it. But if you keep going out and watching, eventually you’ll catch a view like this. On this night I went up to an overlook in the Bighorn Mountains. For the first couple hours the aurora glowed but lacked any movement. Then at 10PM, a substorm broke out into these colorful pillars moving from right to left. Just half an hour later the moon was up and the show was over. Aurora activity will continue to increase as we head towards solar maximum. So far I’ve seen the northern lights 4 times this year, which is already as many sightings as all of 2020.
This one goes out to all those lucky entrants for the @maratonadolomites. Simply the most gorgeous roads to ride!
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Das hier geht an alle glücklichen Gewinner eines Startplatzes für die Maratona dles Dolomites. Einfach die wunderbarsten Straßen für das Radfahren!
After shoving onto the lower switchback, the conductor of Georgia Northeastern Job 103 double checks the switch points before bringing down the second cut of cars for Imerys. 3-6-23
The conductor of W001 gets off the motor to throw the switch, allowing the train to enter the lower switchback at Hagen.
After waking up at 2am to begin our ascent up the infamous 99 switchbacks, the sun finally started to appear behind the horizon as we reached Trail Crest. A few hours later we were on top of the highest peak in the contiguous USA!
If you drive from Flagstaff down to Sedona, the first 12 miles or so the road is perfectly straight and flat. Then you suddenly hit the switchbacks. The road zigzaggs like crazy for a few miles as you drop down into Oak Creek Canyon. I won't drive them in the motorhome. Whichever side of the switchbacks I park the motorhome on is the side it stays on.
This is a nighttime photo I did last week from the top, looking down into Oak Creek Canyon. Shot by moonlight.
This was a world class hike. Definitely my favorite so far!
This was just the beginning. It got a lot harder after the halfway point.
Zion National Park, Utah
“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” - Joe Abercrombie
EB Oregon, California & Eastern Railroad Sycan Turn West Switchback on Bly Mountain, , 3:40pm 4/18/80, 7602/7607/7604/7910 on 29 cars
Last Friday, I headed up to Yosemite with 12 good photography friends, most of which I had met on flickr. Our chief objective for the weekend was to photograph the Horsetail Falls , and even though they were not running quite as strong this year, most of us were satisfied with the shots we got on Friday night. On Saturday, we broke into groups, but only two of our group were up for a 3 mile hike up the four mile trail. (The last section was closed for the winter.) The hike turned out to be a bit tougher than I had imagined as there were multiple switchbacks and a 3000 foot elevation gain had we gone all the way to Glacier Point. Our goal was to make it to Union Point, but after we had been on the trail for over two miles, things began to get a bit dodgy as we found multiple spots where the snow had avalanched over the trail. Todd Hurley and I managed the first three death-defying scrambles across the treacherous snow covered slopes, but we finally chickened out on the fourth, which was a bit steeper than the other three and featured a 20-30 foot plunge onto the sharp rocks below. Tom Bricker , being the mountain goat that he is, lept lightly across the snow while Todd and I blanched and thought about our kids back home. We did, however, encourage Tom to go on ahead and bring back some shots of Half Dome on the other side of the ridge from where we were.
It was getting a bit late by the time that Tom returned, and we started to head down. Just on a whim, Tom decided to climb some more rocks off of the trail and found that he had a panoramic view of the Yosemite Falls over to Half Dome. At the same moment, the sun came out from behind the clouds and lit up the entire valley with golden light. They could probably hear our yells in Fresno as we had suddenly hit the Yosemite Photographer's jackpot. We spent the next 45 minutes frantically scrambling up the trail and back down to the rocks on the opposite end as we tried to get as many frames in as possible of the Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan, Sentinel Rock, The Yosemite Falls, North Dome, Washington Column and Half Dome before the sun finally died away into slow burning embers. In this shot, Tom is checking the levels on his Nikon D600 while Todd is setting up another shot with his Nikon D800 on the tripod behind him.
It was at this point that we looked at our watches and realized that we would spend the next 2 hours or so walking back down the trail....over the snow....in the dark. I was already pretty wiped out after the hike and all the running up and down while we were shooting, so keeping my legs moving aaalllll the way back down the three miles to the valley floor was one of the hardest things I've done in quite some time. But we all had headlamps, and we soldiered on into the night. By the time we staggered back to the truck (Todd and I staggered while Tom was still keen on more night photography), we each grabbed a bottle of water and drank a toast to one of the best nights of photography we had ever experienced.
This was the third year in a row that I have headed up to Yosemite in February to shoot Horsetail, but this was the first time I had gone with such a large group of friends and it was a blast. I hope we get a chance to do something similar next year. In the mean time, keep an eye out for a plethora of Yosemite photographs as Ryan Pastorino , Corey Dorsey , Todd Hurley , Tom Bricker, Gregg Cooper , Patti Richmond , Don Sullivan , and Jeff Krause will all be posting some amazing shots over the next few weeks!
Shafer trail "road" from "Island in the Sky" to just outside Moab is positively the most scary road I've ever been on! It was a real adventure with many challenges. I'm glad we explored this road but am unlikely to test my courage here again! San Juan and Grand County, Utah.
Looking back over the switchbacks of the Transfăgărășan near the top. I was racing the setting sun. Keen on at least ride the last curves in the early evening sunlight again.
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Der Blick zurück über die Haarnadelkurven der Transfăgărășan nahe der Passhöhe. Ich lieferte mir ein "Rennen" mit der untergehenden Sonne, denn ich wollte wenigstens die obersten Kurven wieder in der späten Abendsonne fahren.
countess running as gwr 823 negotiates the dip at the foot of golfa bank and climbs towards sylfaen halt
There's only about one place where you could put a road through the Waterpocket Fold and that's where it is; the road climbing up from there is another of those southwestern road-engineering feats.
I've tried a few times now to get a reasonable facsimile of what I see when we're there, this one is as "just OK" as the rest. Next time I'll have to try a different point of view.
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Summer 2014 1st leg: "Many Rivers"
June 8: Bullfrog to Boulder Mountain, with a walk on the Waterpocket Fold.