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Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
These grainy shots are not the best ever Reds shots, however!! They are a tribute to undoubtedly the best Aerobatic Display Team. The Reds performed at Belfast City on 4 October 2008 in a cloudbase around 1500feet in pouring rain. No one expected a display everyone was once again thrilled at the skill on display. Their guiding motto is ‘Eclat’ which means brilliance, and they proved that again.
NN562097, LR57.
HISTORY
Pillar completed 19th May 1952 costing £56.17s.11d. Computed as secondary triangulation station NN61/3 within the Callander secondary block, and levelled to second class precision during 1952. Routine maintenance by the Ordnance Survey was last undertaken in July 1982. This marker was later visited by the OS on 31st July 2001. The OS Archive comments "base eroded".
SITE VISIT
Most unusual weather. In Stirling it was drizzle, and in nearby Callander it was heavily overcast but not raining. The cloudbase was down at 400m, so I was expecting a very miserable drizzly summit. Imagine my surprise when reaching the summit, at the sight of a clear blue sky and hot sunshine. Only the summit was clear, everything below was in dense mist. Looking over the easterly edge I was able to see my own shadow cast in the fog with a full colour halo centred on my head. My permanent halo is normally invisible. Trig pillar S6956 has not fared so well over the last twenty years. A large structurally damaging looking crack has split the pillar apart at FB height. The spider is plugged with a layer of brown plaster. Left and back sighting holes open. The flush bracket faces east, 82° according to my compass. No view due to surrounding cloud, which never lifted.
Photographed: 16th June 2006, GRP.
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Neighbouring Triangulation Pillars
S6760 - Menteith Hill : 4.92 miles to the south.
S6961 - Ben Venue : 5.75 miles to the WSW.
S6950 - Coire Seicheach : 6.82 miles northwest.
S6931 - Coire Garbh : 7.03 miles to the northeast.
S6886 - Uamh Bheag : 8.40 miles to the east.
S6962 - Meall An T-Seallaidh : 8.56 miles to the north.
S6933 - Maol Mor : 11.40 miles to the west.
S6471 - Mor Bheinn : 11.90 miles to the northeast.
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Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Peacetower, Friðarsúlu, Friedenssäule -
"Give peace a chance"
The Imagine Peace Tower (Icelandic: Friðasúlan, 'the peace column') is a memorial to John Lennon from his widow, Yoko Ono, located on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland.
Installed in 2007, it consists of a tall tower of light, projected from a white stone monument that has the words "Imagine Peace" carved into it in 24 languages. These words, and the name of the tower, are a reference to Lennon's campaign for peace, and his 1971 song "Imagine".
Description :
The Tower consists of 15 searchlights with prisms that act as mirrors, reflecting the column of light vertically into the sky from a 10-metre wide wishing well.
It often reaches cloudbase and indeed can be seen penetrating the cloud cover. On a clear night, it appears to reach an altitude of at least 4,000 metres. The power for the lights is provided by Iceland's unique geothermal energy grid. It uses approximately 75 kW of power.
Buried underneath the light tower are over 1 million written wishes that Ono gathered over the years for another project called Wish Trees. Iceland was selected for the project because of its beauty and its eco-friendly use of geothermal energy.
Operation :
The tower is lit every year from 9 October, Lennon's birthday, through 8 December, the date he was shot, from 31 December until 6 January (an Icelandic new year period), and for one week around the spring equinox.
On 9 October 2021, it was lit for the 15th time on John Lennon's birthday.
The monument was lit on 24 February 2022, with Ono saying the off-season lighting was "to show solidarity with Ukraine and emphasize the call for peace."
This was on the ceiling of the MFA today on a sad rainy day... reminded me of most paragliders' goals - getting to cloudbase.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
These grainy shots are not the best ever Reds shots, however!! They are a tribute to undoubtedly the best Aerobatic Display Team. The Reds performed at Belfast City on 4 October 2008 in a cloudbase around 1500feet in pouring rain. No one expected a display everyone was once again thrilled at the skill on display. Their guiding motto is ‘Eclat’ which means brilliance, and they proved that again.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
Departed Samdrup Jongkhar to our next overnight Trashigang.
Spectecular trip with mostly low cloudbase and from time to time clear skies and our first distant sights on eastern Bhutan.
These grainy shots are not the best ever Reds shots, however!! They are a tribute to undoubtedly the best Aerobatic Display Team. The Reds performed at Belfast City on 4 October 2008 in a cloudbase around 1500feet in pouring rain. No one expected a display everyone was once again thrilled at the skill on display. Their guiding motto is ‘Eclat’ which means brilliance, and they proved that again.