Mountain biking the Teocalli Ridge Trail southeast of Crested Butte, Colorado. This 10 mile loop has a stout climb on doubletrack and singletrack through meadows and pine forests below the namesake peak. The final climb along the ridgeline is followed by a fast steep descent.

For more information, please visit: www.trailsource.com/scripts/four.asp?ID=5923&TYPE=BIKE

a eastbound up stack pokes along the doubletrack at yermo, ca. awaiting the arrival of 2 then its haul ass to vegas.

When in Rome...

26007 heads out of Loughborough hauling a service on the Great central railway to Leicester north.

Arnside Station, Cumbria, England, 2014. LP142628

Aerobic Corridor, Morin Heights, QC, Canada

Alta Via del Sale. In torrential downpour. For the whole day from 9 am to nightfall.

It was Alps Divide Day two for me. This weather was forecasted, but the extend and intensity was extraordinary. And it’s not me saying this. This came from quite a lot of very experienced people. Even people living in the UK and in Scotland and who have participated in events like Silkroad Mountain Race. E.g. both @Jennytough and @nielcopeland said this rain had broken the scale.

And wow - I literally rode through rivers running across the trails. At times just one side, at times on both sides. And it was chunky. As usual, the photos don’t do the real roughness of the surface justice. It was no mellow riding. It wouldn’t have even on good gravel surface as I did 3.400 meters of climbing on that day. But indeed it was a constant search for rideable lines over the chunky trails. Right through the middle of the streams running down the trails or next to it.

As long as I was moving and moving upwards the temperature weren’t that much of a problem. But for the descending parts the wet body had few reserves. Still not at the halfway mark, after quite a bit of a descending part and still 20 km from the next rifugio (i.e. more than 2 hours away) I was shivering so hard once stopped. Luckily I found a small opportunity to pull out my puffy jacket under a bit of shelter and put in on under my rain jacket. It took a while to stop shivering after staring to move again, but I finally could comfortably „swim“ all the rest of the Via Sale. It took me until well after dusk, when the rain finally subsided a little above Tende but gave way to dense and wet fog.

This was quite the experience.

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#AlpsDivide

#whatevertheweather

#bikepacking

#weitradeln

#ViaSale

#Rain

I rode up to Cathedral Park in St Johns for this week's coffee outside. From there I headed south to the Portland Farmers Market to get my breakfast burrito from Enchanted Sun.

As always I took a mildly circuitous route through alleys — some paved and some unpaved doubletrack. I rode some singletrack, sort of, through former industrial areas and even passed through a Superfund site.

I have this ride up on Ride with GPS: ridewithgps.com/trips/94537423

Dalmally Station, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, 2016

LP171125

Dalmally Station, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, 2016

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Alta Via del Sale. In torrential downpour. For the whole day from 9 am to nightfall.

It was Alps Divide Day two for me. This weather was forecasted, but the extend and intensity was extraordinary. And it’s not me saying this. This came from quite a lot of very experienced people. Even people living in the UK and in Scotland and who have participated in events like Silkroad Mountain Race. E.g. both @Jennytough and @nielcopeland said this rain had broken the scale.

And wow - I literally rode through rivers running across the trails. At times just one side, at times on both sides. And it was chunky. As usual, the photos don’t do the real roughness of the surface justice. It was no mellow riding. It wouldn’t have even on good gravel surface as I did 3.400 meters of climbing on that day. But indeed it was a constant search for rideable lines over the chunky trails. Right through the middle of the streams running down the trails or next to it.

As long as I was moving and moving upwards the temperature weren’t that much of a problem. But for the descending parts the wet body had few reserves. Still not at the halfway mark, after quite a bit of a descending part and still 20 km from the next rifugio (i.e. more than 2 hours away) I was shivering so hard once stopped. Luckily I found a small opportunity to pull out my puffy jacket under a bit of shelter and put in on under my rain jacket. It took a while to stop shivering after staring to move again, but I finally could comfortably „swim“ all the rest of the Via Sale. It took me until well after dusk, when the rain finally subsided a little above Tende but gave way to dense and wet fog.

This was quite the experience.

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#AlpsDivide

#whatevertheweather

#bikepacking

#weitradeln

#ViaSale

#Rain

Near Historical Markers

ScotRail class 380 standing at Largs Station, Ayrshire, Scotland, 2014. LP143182

it turns into a fast, bumpy doubletrack for the last kilometer or so.

After passing the lodge, it's back to the woods via the gently uphill doubletrack Summit Trail.

Casa Loma

I evidently don't get down here often enough as I managed to backlight an eastbound train. When standing in the shadow of the bluff it slipped my mind that I came here in the past for afternoon westbounds since the tracks bend southwest.

With the IC&E busy switching at Marquette we crossed over to Wisconsin for a few BNSFs around Lynxville. October 9, 2011.

Rail track with many trees at countryside in Hokkaido, Japan.

ScotRail class 380 standing at Largs Station, Ayrshire, Scotland, 2014. LP143185

Footbridge, Newhaven Harbour Station, East Sussex, 2014. LP142509

Ayr Station, South Ayrshire, Scotland, 2015

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Rail track with many trees at countryside in Hokkaido, Japan.

This photograph captures a rare and precise moment: the passing of two Amtrak California Zephyr trains. Taken from the perspective of an Eastbound Zephyr (headed toward Chicago), looking past the top of a modern GE P42 locomotive, it captures the complete Westbound consist (headed toward Emeryville) as it approaches a curve at Nielsburg, California.

The image is notable for its sharp focus on the passing train, led by Amtrak P42DC locomotive No.54 , while providing a sense of motion through the blurred foreground perspective. The Westbound train is navigating a curved section of double track, surrounded by dense evergreen and deciduous trees typical of the Sierra Nevada foothills. The consists include a mix of Superliner coach and sleeping cars, showing the full length of the long-distance train. The scene is well-lit by late afternoon sun, which catches the metallic sheen of both locomotives and cars.

The entire image is framed by a stylized white and red double-rule border, giving it a classic, collected feel.

History & Context

This photograph was taken on December 26, 2010, near Nielsburg, California.

The location, Nielsburg, is a strategic passing point in the dramatic and historic terrain of the Sierra Nevada mountains, a few miles east of Auburn and west of Colfax, California. This area is famously part of the original First Transcontinental Railroad route, completed in 1869. The steep grades and winding tracks here are essential for the passage of the Zephyr through the rugged Sierra Nevada, and this stretch is owned and maintained by the Union Pacific Railroad.

The 'California Zephyr' is one of Amtrak's most scenic routes, operating between Chicago, Illinois, and Emeryville, California (serving the San Francisco Bay Area). It traverses the spectacular Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and vast stretches of prairie and desert. A passing meet between the eastbound and westbound Zephyrs (often referred to as trains 5 and 6) is a scheduled event but rarely happens in such a picturesque, photogenic setting with both consists fully visible. This date (Dec 26) is also noteworthy for potentially featuring extra cars and demand due to post-holiday travel.

CrossCountry class 220 Voyager travelling north on the East Coast Main Line near Burnmouth, Borders, Scotland, 2015

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Tractor stien til golfbana/Tractor trail to the golf course

In Jamestown, New York, on June 5th, 2021, the valley of the Chadakoin River as viewed from the south side of West 3rd Street.

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Northern Rail class 153 departing Arnside Station, Cumbria, England, 2014. LP142619

Above Tehachapi Loop, Ca.

TransPennine class 185 traveling on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) near Overton, North Yorkshire, England, 2016

LP160630

Olympus XA2

Fuji Provia exp 1990s

Developed by Underdog Lab Oakland

Bike ride in Black Diamond Mines Regional Park, formerly a very busy coal mine and town, now ghost town with interpretive center and just plain nice place to hang around and stare up at the big California sky and down at frogs, snakes, grasses, and broken trails