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Million Dollar Highway has many switchbacks on it. There is supposed to be over a 150 turns on the Million Dollar Highway. I have never counted them, I am very busy concentrating on the road. No matter, there are a lot of hairpin turns, and ledges with no barriers, and narrow spots. Hope all of you have the opportunity to see it someday.
thanks for looking.
once you leave this mountain, you can't switch back
you can't walk this trail without leaving tracks
there are potholes and cracks in the aging asphalt
(and other drug references that tug at your wallet)
with each bump against your broken mask, they ask:
"who are you to run away?
...who are you to stay?"
when the light gets low, it bends your sorrows
a lesson to spend before you borrow
in the sweet buy and buy of tomorrow
once you leave this mountain, you can't switch back
put a tack in the map to mark where you've been
(a reminder that you can't go there again)
I've heard all the reasons why you love to live alone
but I've been to the bottom where the bottomless are grown
where there is no signal for the prison of your phone
and you slip through blindly by the prism of a moan
where nobody calls it small talk
when you speak about the weather
and you've got the faith of flightless bird
like a gun plugged with a feather
it might not work, in fact, you're sure it can't
that's what you say as they rave and rant
and panting at the end of a self-imposed sentence
they tell you there is no pleasure like penance
you've been coming down slow
lest they hear you breathing
you're leaving the sky
for the ceiling...
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CSX Train U090-26 on the CV and is about to run the Hagan's Switchback, one of the last mainline switchbacks in the country.
The lens exaggerates the switchback nature of the Bittern Line just south of Salhouse. Here a Class 153 railcar has just left Salhouse station for Norwich on a Sheringham to Norwich working.
Das Besteigen des Lasörling erfordert das steigen über viele Felsbrocken - eine Übung für Geduld für jeden Schritt
A view of parts of them, anyway. It's pretty clear that good footing and balance here took precedence over composition and light.
I did see a few vehicles slowly negotiating this road, but traffic was obviously pretty light. This viewpoint was gained after walking out from an overlook to see the road from the side of the canyon, rather than peering directly into it from the parking area.
This is, of course, an iconic trail in the Moab area. The time I drove it (about thirty years ago), I felt more comfortable driving up these switchbacks than down, so we drove from Moab to the end of the Potash Road and picked this road up where the pavement ended. The route gives some nice views of the Colorado River, and is certainly thrilling once the climb begins. If you've driven the Moki Dugway near Mexican Hat, think that X five to get an idea about the Shafer Road experience.
18M passes through Switchback, despite having 8 units up front, only the front 3 are online. The 3 online units have their hands full, in full notch 8 and barely above walking speed, as the 7100 foot long train is a few miles away from the crest of the Elkhorn Grade.
The bus road on Mountain Tianmen has some of the hairiest switchbacks i have ever seen. This is one of them.
On the way up the Beartooth Pass. Two switchbacks can be seen below, with another two levels above --- Beartooth Highway, Montana (Sep 2011).
One of the many switchbacks on Grandfather Mountain. Thought the fresh yellow paint played well with the fog.
It is coming! Fall is just around the bend. I noticed some trees starting to change today. It won't be long. Hopefully we will have a good color season.
One more look at the Shafer Trail, from the canyon rim.
The Shafer Trail began life as a cattle trail, constructed by John Shafer in 1917. In the late 1940s and early 1950s uranium miners looked for ways to remove ore from what is now the White Rim area, they turned old cattle routes into truck routes. Shafer Trail, also known as San Juan County Route 142, was completed in October 1952.
Fresh new roads for this link over the Atlas mountains, the major route from the Sahara desert (i.e. Timbuctoo) and Marrakesh.
Much like the salt flats of Bolivia, at ~2000 metres there are very little trees and the soil gives way to interesting shades and colours. The scale boggles.
ISO100 f4.2 1/250 44mm x6 LR
Looking towards Everest from a high pass on the road to Base Camp. There are nearly 60 switchbacks on the descent in the foreground.
Take the ride up Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks and you come across this incredibile switchback. Enjoy this stitched panorama!
Purple Mountain Trail @1/3 way back down from the summit. The rain started just as I was headed back down.
LOR trains cross, ducking under a BR freight.
Taken through the window of the northbound train, a few weeks before closure. A wet and gloomy Saturday afternoon.