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2019-09-04, Day 3
The evening sky reaches a crescendo of color from a vantage in the heart of the trackless Beartooth Plateau, Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Montana.
Finding a site for the tent proved more difficult than either of us had anticipated as there were few flat spaces, and those that we found were mostly studded with uncomfortable-looking rocks. We ultimately pitched camp at Maryott Lake several hundred meters distance downslope from the knoll on which I stood for this photo. We whiled away the early evening eating dinner by the shoreline and watching myriad small trout dimple the water's surface for their supper.
Noting the gathering evening shadows and the increasingly golden hue of the light, my hiking partner suggested we summit the nearby knoll and soak in the day's final rays. My initial response was reticence, due to a painful and sizable heel blister, and a good deal of knee pain that arose as a result of my altered stride. However, my consistent internal rejoinder to such thoughts is, "when are you going to be here again?" With that in mind, pain was ignored and we summited the knoll as light began to frolic amongst the late-day clouds. At this point in the trip we were one and a half full days off-trail into the heart of the wilderness. The silence was all-encompassing.
A late happy new year to all, and a joyous 2020 to come. I have substantially reduced the amount of time I spend on social media of late, but I nonetheless hope to see more beautiful creations from this thoughtful, well-traveled, and creative Flickr friend community!
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
The Himalayan range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over fifty mountains exceeding 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) in elevation, including ten of the fourteen 8000m peaks. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia – Aconcagua, in the Andes – is 6,961 metres (22,838 ft) tall.
The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The Himalayas are distinct from the other great ranges of central Asia, although sometimes the term Himalaya is loosely used to include the Karakoram and some of the other ranges. The Himalayas – inhabited by 52.7 million people – are spread across five countries: India, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range. Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, rise in the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to roughly 600 million people. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of the Indian subcontinent; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan mountain range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Famed director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns. Film critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Sourc: navajonationparks.org/navajo-tribal-parks/monument-valley/
History
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who take you down into the valley in Jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and a film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food, and souvenirs at roadside stands.
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(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Utah) "يوتا" "犹他州" "יוטה" "यूटा" "ユタ州" "유타" "Юта"
(Monument Valley) "وادي النصب التذكاري" "纪念碑谷" "Vallée des monuments" "מוניומנט ואלי" "स्मारक घाटी" "モニュメントバレー" "모뉴먼트 밸리" "Долина Монументов" "Valle de los Monumentos"
Nida Hochebene (1350 Meter) im Ida Gebirge, Kreta.
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Nida Plateau (1350 meters) in the Ida Mountains, Crete
The Grand Canyon is up to its usual trickery of luring me up there for great potential, and then dashing my hopes quickly. Two days in a row up there trying...was mostly a bust other than this storm yesterday.
But the bonus was meeting two amazing photographers...the first was Claire Curran who has been doing landscape photography for over 25 years, has multiple Arizona Highways covers, worked for Sunset magazine and was such a pleasure to talk to for about an hour. And David Blanchard, a veteran chaser I randomly met who knows the likes of Tim Marshall and Gene Moore, was awesome to hang with and pray for moonlit bolts which never happened. Lots of fun stories about tornadoes and also the great advice of never giving up on a storm. Always a silver lining to days that don't work out quite how you had hoped.
This storm was well north of me, and with some extra shear in play, it actually became a right mover for a bit, turned south towards me and I had hoped it would come right out over the Canyon. But it eventually weakened and turned back to the east. It dropped all kinds of bolts on this plateau though, and I captured a few of them, this was the best of the bunch!
I'll never tire of looking at the wonderful narrowneck plateau ridgeline dissecting it's way between the jamison & megalong valley's in the stunning Blue Mountains, Australia. Taken on sunrise with very little cloud cover.
Essai : Résine 29 x 18 cm épaisseur 12 mm
L'étoile , le poulpe, l' hippocampe et l' ancre ont été moulés en résine également pour être inclus dans le plateau.
Giza Plateau, Cairo) Egypt
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#Karakoram #plateaus in the early morning light at 2,700 m elevation between #Khaplu and #Siachin that are fed by the glacial waters of the neighbouring snow-clad peaks. #Baltistan, Northern Pakistan.
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Einen halben Kilometer nördlich der Sandanbeki Cave und Klippen befindet sich dieses fantastische Rock Plateau. Im Gegensatz zu den Klippen bei Sandanbeki wimmelte es hier von Menschen. War nicht einfach, mal Bilder ohne aufzunehmen, oder aber die Menschen im richtigen Moment gut ins Bild zu bekommen.
Die Felsen hier sind anders beschaffen als die von Sandanbeki und bilden eine besondere Landschaft.