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Both CityLynx Gomaco trolleys pull out just before six in the morning. Here's 91 at East/West Blvd. Station. 92 followed about 10 minutes later. Service on CityLynx starts at 6:00 am on weekdays. August 20, 2015. © 2015 Peter Ehrlich

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My No. 1, top of the list drive is through Glenwood Canyon just east of Glenwood Springs, CO. The only problem is they don't have enough pullouts where one can capture the scene. So sometimes a guy just has to hold his camera up to the windshield and snap, hoping for the best.

When I-70 planners talked to the folks in Colorado about cutting the interstate through the canyon they were met with a firm 'NO!'. The locals loved the beautiful canyon and didn't want the road to spoil it.

So the engineers went to the drawing board and figured out a way to do it without negatively impacting the experience.

The eastbound and westbound roads are separated so one does not have to worry about oncoming traffic. And somehow, they made the road blend in with the canyon as it regarded sound and design. When you are down on the river you can't hear the traffic, and you hardly notice the highway.

Visible from Elk Obseervation Pullout - 12/28/18 - after heavy overnight rain

 

Still playing with raising the flash up high with only the speedlight pullout diffuser.

 

This creates a much harsher flash (than the usual softbox) but as the boys eyes are covered by the hat, the models don't mind.

 

Although Toby is a "stiff" model, this pose is one he'll hold without complaint.

 

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This was an awesome day. We left Egilsstadir early for the drive to Myvatn. We passed a number of waterfalls (with no pullouts or names) until we came to Rjukandafoss - a beautiful waterfall with several sections. When hiked as the trail and had some great views. Nice start to the day. Back on the road to cover what is known as the Big Sky Country of Iceland - pretty much a lot of nothing. We were headed for Dettifoss - a major waterfall on my Bucket List. It exceeded expectations. Absolutely stunning visually and auditory - it is massive. I tried some long exposure with a tripod but it felt like the ground was shaking. Heather let me check out another waterfall about a mile away - Selfoss. If Dettifoss wasn't around, this would be a major destination by itself. Very different than Dettifoss but awesome on its own. I stayed for a bit and just ogled everything. Simply wow. I returned to the car and Heather dragged me off to another trail with very cool canyon views. We heard there was a third waterfall very close by so naturally we went. It was amazing. There were about 2-3 other people at Hafragilsfoss. Good God Almighty - this waterfall was spectacular - and the guidebook said this was difficult to reach with a 4x4 and best skipped. I'm glad we ignored this (the road was actually a piece of cake). Side note - the area around here looked like Martian landscape. We were in Heaven! We reluctantly headed to Myvatn - the Icelandic equivalent of Yellowstone. It was nice but we must be jaded since we live so close to Yellowstone. All in all, a very nice day, and I definitely want to go back to Dettifoss and the other falls.

 

I took these photos in mid-September 2021.

The name Soap Lake came from the word Smokiam, an Indian term which translates to “Healing Waters.” The tribes used the lake for healing purposes for themselves and their animals for many years before the area was settled by pioneers.

  

Photo of Soap Lake captured form the pullout alongside State Highway 17, the Coulee Corridor National Scenic Byway, via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens and the bracketing method of photography. Grant County, Washington. Early September 2014.

At a roadside pullout along Montana Highway 17 just outside Babb, Montana, with a view looking to the southwest at an osprey nest on a pole. One of the ospreys had just begun to fly off.

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Lower Barronette isn't a shorter shorter version of Barronette Peak, it's a pullout next to a bridge over Soda Butte Creek at the head of a trail that's idea for cross-country skiing in winter. Look upstream toward Barronette Peak, or look downstream for a view of the meandering creek that's beautiful at all times of the year.

Good luck even finding the pullout, to say nothing about seeing a view.

 

Catalina Highway, Coronado National Forest, Arizona.

Conveniently (miraculously) a small group of bison cows had parked themselves in dense deadfall within a few dozen yards of a pullout on Yellowstone northwest side. One of them was accompanied by a brand-new calf; in the photo of the mother and calf standing together you can just make out a few inches of dried umbilical cord still attached to baby. The mother was horribly thin, as most bison are at the end of a Yellowstone winter, but not eating, which is unusual. Eventually she did lie down to rest next to her tiny new baby.

Bison calves are called "red dogs," first for their color, which will turn to brown by fall, and second, for the cowboy term "dogie" referring to domestic cattle calves.

- www.kevin-palmer.com - This was one of several foxes I met at a highway pullout near Yellowknife.

Facing southwestward. At the same cliffside pullout from which the Part 11 cuestita photo was taken. See the top of that description for the exact location.

 

This is one of a pair of last photos I took on the Old Ore Road trek. After that I had to attend to getting my tour group up to the main park road before the light completely faded.

 

In a recent post in another series, I mentioned my fascination with backlit photos. Here the backlit object is the Chisos Mountains at sunset.

 

This slide was invested with unearthly emerald-green zones that I have not attempted to alter or remove. It's how the film reacted to the dying light of day's end. And if there is any place on the planet where inexplicable and supernatural things can occur, this is it. In my old age I include such things in my vocabulary.

 

The rugged landscape of the foreground may already be wrapped in twilit gloom, but the meanders of its creek are still visible, as are the steeply northwest-dipping strata of the Upper Cretaceous Aguja and Javelina Formations. Beyond them stretches the low ground of the Tornillo Basin.

 

I have tried my best to identify the high points of the dark mass that sits under the surreal purplish-pink stratocumulus clouds. I think the loftiest bump at center is Toll Mountain, the almost squared-off cliff to its right is Casa Grande, and the prominence farther to the right is Pulliam Peak. At least this seems to be the sequence when I run up the Google Earth track all the way from the pullout to the Chisos Range 15 mi / 24 km distant.

 

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Fifth Sunday AM pullout. May 4, 2014. © 2014 Peter Ehrlich

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There is a pullout at this location and a trailhead (which I did not attempt). I'm glad I stopped because the panoramic view was pretty awesome. This is a six shot pano. Wizard Island is pretty much lost in the glare from the sun. I considered removing the person on the right, but I decided that he adds an element of contemplation or awe to the scene (if he is noticed at all).

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Here's one of my b-w takes on the historic northern Moulton Barn north of Jackson, Wyoming (USA).

 

This is probably one of the top five sites most often photographed in Jackson Hole. The other four would be the southern Moulton Barn, Grand Teton from the Snake River Pullout, beaver dam at Schwabachers Landing and Oxbow Bend.

 

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The red 567 at the pullout in Sioux Lookout

Yellowstone National Park at Wrecker's pullout

A colorful formation in contrast to the gray cliffs that follow the Hole-in-the-Rock Road, Devil’s Garden is a unique, easily-accessible natural play park. After driving 12 miles down the graded road, there is a signed pullout for this spot designated as an “Outstanding Natural Area.”

 

As part of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, this desert destination features hoodoos, natural arches, and various sandstone formations—some are reminiscent, on a smaller scale, to areas such as Goblin Valley.

 

Devil’s Garden is a maze of sandstone formations formed by, and continuously shaped by, erosion. Nature’s hand has been at work since the Jurassic Period more than 166 million years ago. Presently, Devil’s Garden boasts hoodoos, arches, and other rock protrusions from the sandy, desert landscape.

 

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Lover's Leap pullout-- rural graffiti

 

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As we watched this Coyote hunt near one of our favorite pullouts on the south end of Hayden Valley we were puzzled as to what he seemed to be catching and eating. What ever it was, they were to small for us to see from our vantage point. The only thing we could think of as he snapped his jaws from one side of his body to the other was grasshoppers. It seemed like a lot of work for such little reward.

Best viewed 'L'arge.

Again, just driving along a park road on our way to the coast we stumbled upon this, actually popular, pullout.

 

Parked in a pullout along Highway 88, in the glow of the tail lights, we signal the mother ship. Taken with the X-T1 and Rokinon 12mm 2.0

 

On a crystal clear morning. 1070 represents the original 1954 Newark, NJ livery. September 26, 2015. © 2015 Peter Ehrlich

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) have discovered a high-speed jet stream sitting over Jupiter’s equator, above the main cloud decks.

 

Researchers spotted several wind shears, or areas where wind speeds change with height or distance, which enabled them to track the jet. This image highlights several of the features around Jupiter’s equatorial zone that are very clearly disturbed by the motion of the jet stream during a rotation of the planet. The right white boxes contain images taken ten hours apart of Jupiter’s equatorial zone. The coloured cut-outs show the movement of several features caused by the jet.

 

The discovery of this jet is providing insight into how the layers of Jupiter’s famously turbulent atmosphere interact with each other, and how Webb is uniquely capable of tracking those features. Researchers are looking forward to additional observations of Jupiter with Webb to determine if the jet’s speed and altitude change over time.

 

[Image description: The infographic shows Webb’s image of Jupiter at the left. On the right side there are eight separate images. Two of these images are horizontal and span the entire right half of the infographic. They are zoomed-in pullouts from a section of Jupiter’s equator – outlined in a white box on the image of the planet on the left. Both of these images are white and grey with horizontal wispy clouds. There are six smaller boxes in between the two horizontal images. The first column of the boxes is outlined in orange, the second column purple and the third yellow. Each of the smaller images correspond to orange, purple, and yellow boxes placed along the horizontal images.]

 

Credits: wNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Hueso (University of the Basque Country), I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley), T. Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), L. Fletcher (University of Leicester), M. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), J. DePasquale (STScI)

A scenic pullout along a road in Yellowstone National Park.

Another shot from yesterday showing the juvenile YCNH with a small crab, taken at the Scarborough Marsh pullout on Rt. 77 on the Scarborough/Cape Elizabeth line in Maine

While at a roadside pullout along the Banff-Windermere Highway with a view looking to the west in Banff National Park. This was at the Castle Mountain Overlook along the shores of the Bow River. With this image, I moved around and lined myself up until I could capture one and have the small patch of dandelions fill the image.

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Current research at Great Sand Dunes shows that most elk stay year round in the open grasslands surrounding the dunes on three sides. Originally a species of prairies and grasslands, elk have been pushed into the mountains in many areas by development and hunting pressures. Elk are more often seen in quieter months, fall through spring, especially near dawn or dusk. Watch for them from pullouts along the park entrance road or County Lane 6. Never approach wild animals; instead, view them from a distance with a telephoto lens or binoculars.

Pullout car, with the hopeful "E-Embarcadero/Fort Mason" roll sign on its trailing end. HDR image. 5./2/14. © 2014 Peter Ehrlich

So-called "Wrecker's pullout" is a tiny spur off the main road from Tower Junction to Northeast Entrance in Yellowstone. It is the trail head for a very nice walk along the top of the cliffs over the Yellowstone River to the confluence with the Lamar River (a favorite of fishermen) and beyond. I've seen many kinds of wildlife there, but this day, this lone bull bison and I were the only large beings there. He slowly moved toward me, with his head down in the snow munching what little forage he could glean. It was a most peaceful and enjoyable wildlife-watching session for me. Of course, he didn't say whether he enjoyed watching me, sitting on a big boulder watching him, one way or the other.

 

This guy actually looks very good for mid-winter. He's been finding the chow alright.

Image taken from the pullout by Jack Fish Lake, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Facing north-northeastward. Taken at a cliffside pullout. We'd just transited the Roy's Peak area and the McKinney Hills laccolith. This spot was 0.2 road mi / 0.3 km up from the McKinney Spring site, 7.2 road mi / 11.6 km beyond the Alto Relex locale where I took the Part 9 and Part 10 photos, and 19.6 road mi / 31.5 km from the start of Old Ore Road at its junction at Park Road 12. And we were about 7.1 road mi / 11.4 km south of that track's terminus at the Dagger Flat Auto Trail.

 

There I go again. In coining the word cuestita I'm shamelessly inventing more wholly unauthorized geologic terminology. But it makes sense. if a cuesta is a ridge of tilting strata with one steep side and one more gently sloped, then certainly a mini-ridge of that description must be a cuestita. A diminutive landform deserves a diminutive suffix.

 

I've done this before. When I first beheld the miniature drumlins near Liberty Grove in Wisconsin's Door Peninsula, I christened them drumlini (singular, drumlino). Classy, eh?

 

No photo-posting project involving my Big Bend slides has given me greater pleasure than this image. While I distinctly remember taking this shot twenty-three years ago, I was not sure until just yesterday why or where I took it. But after a number of tries I located this wee landform, humble as it is, on Google Earth. Zooming down to road level, I was able to duplicate the view here down to the same ridge and gully patterns, with the exact same profile of the Sierra del Carmen in the background. On top of that, when I rotated in place around to the southwest, I precisely reproduced the Chisos Mountains vista the next photo in this series will show. Pretty darned nifty, if I say so myself.

 

No doubt I'd wanted to stop here because the cuestita, actually a detached section of a longer ridge just to its south, exposes some interesting things in the Late Cretaceous Aguja Formation that is also present in the rest of the foreground and middle ground. Basically a shaly unit deposited in a number of lowland environments—stream valleys, deltas, coastal wetlands, and so forth—it also contains some sandstone and lignite, the lowest grade of coal.

 

According to the current USGS bedrock map of the park (Turner et al., 2011), the Aguja dips 45 degrees westward in this locale, and indeed that's very plausible if you look at the slant of the cuestita's uppermost strata and its backslope. And come to think of it, is that a bed of lignite sticking out at the crest? If so, some of it has broken off and rolled downhill.

 

In this telephoto image the cuestita seems to be right next to the road, but in fact it's over 200 yd / 183 m, or two football fields, from it. Had I been by myself, I would have hiked over and seen if the dark stuff was in fact lignite. But I had a tour group with me, the sun was setting, and we needed to finish our Old Ore trek while there was still some ambient light to navigate by.

 

But if my surmise is correct and there is some Cretaceous carbonaceous stuff visible there, this must be the Aguja's "lower shale member." The map cited above describes it as

 

light-gray to dark-gray, laminated, silty, carbonaceous shale, and some brown and gray sandstone and siltstone; contains some coal and lignite, and reddish-brown concretions and oysters.

 

At this point everyone in the tour group was hungry, and I'm sure we would have enjoyed the oysters, had they been fresh.

 

To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Integrative Natural History of Old Ore Road album.

The formation on the left is Zion's Great White Throne. At 6744', it towers over Zion Canyon, and is perhaps the most easily identifiable landmark in Zion National Park.

 

Not from this angle, however. This is a view from the Kayenta Trail, which I don't believe I had previously hiked. The far more common view is from a pullout off the tram road a mile or so north of here, where you can get a straight-on view of the Great White Throne's face. Didn't stop there on this trip, however.

Last night... The storm was coming and we were enjoying the clouds forming over the red rock canyons when suddenly a frontal gust hit us and threw the canopy over the top of the van and then down into a limp mangled mess... " we laid it to rest" and began our journey to the north rim of the Grand Canyon the next day.

 

The route to the north rim was either lined with trees and meadowlands( grazing lands for buffalo and cows) or a burnt forested area. The canyon.. Magnificent as usual. Extremely crowded this time of year and no parking was available in any of the provided areas! But...we finally found a " pullout" and parked. Both of us are still nursing our weary bones, however, meandering in the area makes one forget for a bit! We glimpsed upon the landscape in awe , pausing while the silence enveloped us with a promise to return.

Forest Canyon is one of the scenic pullouts on the amazing Trail Ridge Road that goes up and over the mountain pass connecting the east and west sides of Rocky Mountain National Park, reaching an elevation in excess of 12,100 feet above sea level. No guardrails on this drive, so don't get too distracted by the scenery.....

It became very clear that standing in an open wet marsh with a tripod was not in my best interest. It was time to pack up and move to a safer location. I drove about a half mile down the road and found a pullout that gave me an open view of the Sparks Lake Basin.

 

Knowing the storm was barreling in on me, I stayed in my vehicle with the anticipation that something amazing was about to happen.

 

Do you know how hard it is to set up a tripod inside a car? The seat was moved, the seat back dropped down, one tripod leg went through the steering wheel, the other two legs straddled the drivers seat and I sat in the passengers.

 

Every thing was set, all I had to do was roll down the window and wait. The smell of rain entered the car. A constant rumble echoed across the Basin and in the blink of an eye, everything changed. A flash rang out so bright that it lit up the sky as if it were day.

 

Streaks of lightning raced across the basin in all directions. You could feel the static in the air. The lightning and thunder were one of the same. I snapped the shutter.

 

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View from the Ni'ihau Lookout pullout on Waimea Canyon Road. Six shot panorama

Peter Witt 2766 is part of a 3-car charter. At Russell Carhouse before pullout. August 7, 2005. © 2019 Peter Ehrlich

This was an awesome day. We left Egilsstadir early for the drive to Myvatn. We passed a number of waterfalls (with no pullouts or names) until we came to Rjukandafoss - a beautiful waterfall with several sections. When hiked as the trail and had some great views. Nice start to the day. Back on the road to cover what is known as the Big Sky Country of Iceland - pretty much a lot of nothing. We were headed for Dettifoss - a major waterfall on my Bucket List. It exceeded expectations. Absolutely stunning visually and auditory - it is massive. I tried some long exposure with a tripod but it felt like the ground was shaking. Heather let me check out another waterfall about a mile away - Selfoss. If Dettifoss wasn't around, this would be a major destination by itself. Very different than Dettifoss but awesome on its own. I stayed for a bit and just ogled everything. Simply wow. I returned to the car and Heather dragged me off to another trail with very cool canyon views. We heard there was a third waterfall very close by so naturally we went. It was amazing. There were about 2-3 other people at Hafragilsfoss. Good God Almighty - this waterfall was spectacular - and the guidebook said this was difficult to reach with a 4x4 and best skipped. I'm glad we ignored this (the road was actually a piece of cake). Side note - the area around here looked like Martian landscape. We were in Heaven! We reluctantly headed to Myvatn - the Icelandic equivalent of Yellowstone. It was nice but we must be jaded since we live so close to Yellowstone. All in all, a very nice day, and I definitely want to go back to Dettifoss and the other falls.

 

I took these photos in mid-September 2021.

Just across the border at the west yard pullout a eastbound from the Clinch Valley storms the grade with a nice SD 40-2 leader.

Discovermoab.com: Canyonlands, Utah’s largest national park, offers an astonishing array of natural wonders. For an easy and rewarding experience, head to the Island in the Sky District, a mere 32 miles (51.5 km) from Moab. Along the paved scenic drive you’ll find numerous pullouts that grant magnificent views of the park and surrounding public lands. Adventurers can also venture into the backcountry using hiking trails and four-wheel-drive roads for day trips or overnight stays.

 

Lonelyplanet: At a push, Canyonlands’ Island in the Sky district can be seen in half a day, but it’s worth dedicating far more time to this awesome park. If you have only a day to spare, you could whizz through Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park from Moab, spending half a day at each.

If you want to visit the other districts of Canyonlands National Park, you’ll need more time. From Island in the Sky, it's a two-hour drive south to the Needles through Moab – and that’s just enough time to arrive, not to explore. The Maze district is the most remote and requires a 4WD vehicle and self-sufficiency. Many travelers stay in this area for a minimum of three days. Rafting on the rivers is also a multiday adventure, best arranged with adventure tour operators in Moab.

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A view of Mt. Baker from a pullout on the road to Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, WA

 

Folks, I have been to Hurricane Ridge a few dozen times. Whether for sledding, snowshoeing, star-gazing, picnics, or hikes, my family has ventured to this area many times. I have NEVER been able to see Mt. Baker from there before. There are usually clouds or a haze that don't really allow you a view of the mountain. Sure I could see Canada from across the water, but that was about it. My parents and I were truly amazed and floored with this day's view. I could also see mountain ranges in Canada! It was really spectacular. The picture doesn't really do it justice, but it was so cool to be able to see the white peak shining away on the horizon. Amazing how even if you've been somewhere multiple times that you can still experience/witness something new.

It was still early enough in the afternoon after I finished the Delicate Arch hike to see some more of Arches... or, more accurately, to return to some favorite spots.

 

I took this photo of Balanced Rock not from the parking area just off the park road, but from the picnic area that's perhaps a quarter mile down the dirt road opposite the pullout. I used a bit of zoom to pull the La Sal Mountains closer into the photo, and unknowingly also got a portion of an arch in the Windows section as well. I THINK that's Double Arch, from the "back".

Cattails in Theodore Roosevelt National Park's North Unit (McKenzie County, North Dakota) have several months of snowy cold while awaiting the next growing season (11-12-2014).

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