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Sadly I had to forgo my plan to visit covered bridges and waterfalls in southern Oregon so we could make an effort to cross 4700 foot high Siskiyou Pass between storms. It had been snowing in the morning with chains required but by the time we got there the sun was shining. We hit some flakes and fog on the other side but nothing serious.
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One from what seems like an age ago up on Winnats Pass at Dawn. My favourite place to be in the Peaks.
I bagged a beauty minutes earlier, of some light rays beaming into the mouth of the Pass. I packed up happy and started back to the car, then I was struck by the way the foreground framed the tree beautifully and got my gear back out.
A beautiful morning of solitude to reset the old noggin.
Happy days.
Yesterday we spent the day enjoying Owl Creek Pass near Ridgway, CO. I was blessed with many awe inspiring scenes. Would you believe I accidentally deleted the entire disk?!!!!!!!!!!! I was sick. I had transferred this one shot to my computer and that was it. How do we do such stupid things! (well, you probably don't! Smile)
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An epic trip - 6-hours, 30-miles from Ouray to Lake City, Colorado - with rough rocky patches, switchbacks, shelf roads, and sweeping vistas all the way, reaching almost 13,000 feet at the summit. A Jeep Badge of Honor trail for good reason.
From TrailsOffroad.com: In the late 1800’s, miners started digging for gold, silver, lead and other ore in the San Juan Mountains. They needed a way to get people and the ore out to the nearby towns. Those roads left by the long-abandoned mines are now some of the most famous off-road trails in the books. Engineer Pass, a 30-mile trail, is one of them and is part of a trail now known as the Alpine Loop.
There are multiple mine ruins to view and explore the grounds of along the way including the Hard Tack Mine and the Michael Breen Mine.
Mile after mile provides new and more amazing views of Colorado and the San Juan mountains. Oh Point and the official summit have breath-taking panoramas of the mountains.
This trail goes well above the timberline at just over 12,900’. With the altitude comes stunning views of the mountains to the north including the Uncompahgre, Coxcomb, Wetterhorn and Wildhorse mountain peaks. The view is so expansive at Oh Point that on a very clear day, you might be able to see all the way to Utah if you turn your eyes to the west.
Sunrise over the village of Castleton in the Derbyshire Peak District. Taken from the limestone buttresses high above Winnats Pass.
Whilst looking for a composition between lockdowns and tiers, I particularly liked the yellow framing at the bottom of this image, the lush green grass of Winnats Pass and the white sheep clinging on to the fairly steep incline, with a hazy view of the Hope Valley beyond.
A westbound intermodal train passes through a series of tunnels at Eagle Pass on Canadian Pacific's Shuswap Sub.
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Looking west from the top of Mule Pass just west of Bisbee, Az. Location shown on map.
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North Beach is part of the expansive beach on the south side of Deception Pass west of the bridge. It’s scenic, accessible, and very popular.
After conquering the summit of Glorieta Pass, the eastbound Southwest Chief cruises downgrade as they roll past the control point at East Glorieta.
In the early 1850s, one Nicholas Pike, director of the Brooklyn Institute, decided to import this bird from England. The first few attempts to establish the bird weren't successful but eventually the house sparrow took hold when the birds were released into Greenwood Cemetery, Central Park and a few other places. The rationale apparently was the control of some bug called a canker worm. The sparrow supposedly would pig out on the critters and reduce the canker worm population. Soon, cities and towns throughout the country were importing house sparrows to "aid people against encroachment of insects."
But others soon noticed that house sparrows don't have much of an appetite for bugs. On top of that, they were driving out native songbirds.The infatuation with the house sparrow turned to hatred, so much so that some states began paying bounties for dead sparrows. However it was too late; house sparrows had spread throughout the continent.
They're now found as far north as Canada's Northwest Territories and as far south as Cape Horn, the remote tip of South America. That extreme range indicates how adaptable house sparrows are. They can be found anywhere there are people, in big cities and small towns, in suburbs and around farms. The only place they're not found: deep, deep woods. In more extreme locales, they require human presence to survive.
I found these two females in my yard in Polk County, Florida.
Like a grave site bouquet, flowers begin to grow between slag ballast and rusty 136-pound rails laid by Rio Grande in 1970’s, as nature slowly reclaims what is hers on top of Colorado’s Tennessee Pass on August 12, 2015. A look into the east portal of the Tennessee Pass tunnel reveals a bright light to the west, which unfortunately, is just the other end of an empty and silent bore. Will a train ever run here again? A cool breeze drifting from the dark bore seems to be saying “it’ll be a cold day in hell…”
To see what it looked like 30 years ago:
www.flickr.com/photos/mikedanneman/31197160295/in/datepos...
Pass Over Me | Kirkjufell, Iceland | I will not let you see My face, because no one can see Me and stay alive, but here is a place beside Me where you can stand on a rock. When the dazzling light of My presence passes by, I will put you in an opening in the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back but not My face. Exodus 33:20-23 #presenceofGod
Cali-bound MEWWC from Houston snakes up the 1% grade of Paisano Pass, the highest point on the SP's Sunset Route between New Orleans and Los Angeles on a beautiful but frigid West Texas morning.
14.11.2015 Favale di Malvaro (Ge)
Il passo della Scoglina è una valico dell'Appennino Ligure posto a 926 m s.l.m., crocevia tra la val d'Aveto, la val Trebbia e la val Fontanabuona.
Mette in comunicazione i comuni di Favale di Malvaro, Montebruno e Rezzoaglio. In prossimità del passo nascono il Malvaro e l'Aveto, un affluente del Trebbia.
Il valico è una meta frequentata da cicloamatori genovesi e liguri ed è noto agli appassionati di mineralogia per la presenza, nelle sue vicinanze, di piccoli giacimenti di pirite.
Il passo è attraversato dalla tappa dell'Alta Via dei Monti Liguri che congiunge Barbagelata alla Cappelletta del monte Ramaceto. (Fonte:Wikipedia)
Babusar Pass is located in the northern side of the Naran Valley, Pakistan. Being the highest location in the entire valley, its elevation above the sea level is 4173 meters which equates to almost 13,691 feet above the sea level. The nearest habitation to the pass is the village of Jalkhad which may serve as a base for the people who want to visit the pass in a single day and then return to their accommodation.
Babusar top is not merely a simple top, rather it is considered to be one of the most amazing spots of the entire Kaghan Valley of Pakistan. While on the top, the visitors are able to see in every direction many a mile. The top has been called as a telescope on a mountain looking on the Kaghan valley below. The name of Babusar top has now become synonymous with the trips taken to see the entire Kaghan Valley and the mountain ranges that encircle the pass. One of the most amazing things about the pass is that it is reachable by road and a new road has been made ready to access the pass even in the winter months. The roads are maintained by the army and, therefore, are in top condition.
Over The Pass, looking up and over towards the Talla Reservoir in this snow winter scene.I just had to stop when i passed these sheep, just love those horns.
29th January 2012
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Fall Passes Away 🍁🍂
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Viewing cloud streaked skies,
Through yellowing, wind bent grass stalks,
Fall passes away;
Earth awaits the cold winter,
When landscapes are frozen white...
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©️R/Merz #TankaPoem
Digital improvisation created from an original iPhone 11 Pro photograph, and edited on an iPad Pro using iColorama, Snapseed, and DistressedFX+ apps— ©R/Merz/ImproVisions All Rights Reserved 😎
I always had the plan to post more shots of the wonderful Iskanderkul in Tajikistan, but it is already three years ago that I finished my trip through central Asia, and how the world has changed since then.
Beside this shot www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/49221949713/in/photol..., that I posted a long time ago, there were many more.
This image was taken when we left early next morning. The scenery was gorgeous thanks to the light and the haze, and the lake got a wonderful turquoise color.
Iskanderkul is situated in the northwest of Tajikistan, in the Fann-mountains. I am not sure if it was named after Alexander the great, the stories are somewhat vague on this matter, but what is sure is that the dacha of the Tajik president is situated at the east end of the lake.
We spent two days at this lake, and although this scenery is fantastic it took me a lot of pictures to capture its grandness. Not only the lake but the surrounding mountains are so stunning you don't know where to look all the time. Enjoy!
20 September 2019 I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
Satta Pass Dusk
This was taken on a clear day right before it snowed on Mt Fuji - probably one of my few shots of Mt Fuji that I took without its iconic snowcap, but you do still get the sunset glow on the peak!
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This is Como Lake from California Pass. You can see the road I drove from Hurricane Pass to California. Hurricane Pass is left center of this photo.
My favorite combination drive is Corkscrew Gulch, Hurricane Pass and California Pass to Animas Forks.
El Diavolezza es una montaña en la zona de Pontresina en Cantón de los Grisones. Tiene una altura de 2.978 metros y está situado al sureste de Munt Pers (3.207 m).
La montaña se puede llegar en teleférico desde Val Bernina, el valle Bernina Pass. En la estación base del teleférico en 2093 m hay una estación de tren ( línea de Bernina del Ferrocarril rético RhB). En la cumbre, hay un restaurante con una terraza panorámica, y desde allí pude observar a los alpinistas haciendo la travesía hasta el Piz Palü.
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The Diavolezza is a mountain in the area of Pontresina in Graubünden. It has a height of 2978 m and is located southeast of Munt Pers (3207 m).The mountain can be reached by cable car from Val Bernina, the Bernina Pass valley. At base station of the cable car on 2093 m there is a train station (in Bernina line of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB)). At the summit, there is a restaurant with a panoramic terrace, from there I could see the climbers doing the journey to Piz Palü.