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My legs screamed in protest, but the view from the British Lookout silenced them with a gasp. 😮 After a grueling 4-kilometer (2,48-mile) slog from the Francés Lookout, I finally stood at a staggering 1,000 meters (3,281 ft) above sea level.
Below me, the north valley unfurled like a crumpled velvet tapestry. Imposing granite walls rose from the emerald expanse, their sheer scale eliciting a muttered "what the hell?" – a phrase that perfectly captured the humbling beauty before me.
This, my friends, was the crown jewel of the French Valley – Mirador Británico, a hidden gem and undisputed highlight of the W Trek. It's not for the faint of heart; reaching this viewpoint requires a dedicated day of hiking. But for those who persevere, the reward is a jaw-dropping 360-degree panorama.
Pehoe Lake shimmered like a fallen sapphire, dwarfed by the colossal Los Cuernos peaks and the mighty Paine Grande. These granite titans, unseen from other vantage points, thrust skyward like the spires of a forgotten city.
Why black and white? Because it captures the raw, dramatic beauty of this landscape. No color could do justice to the stark contrast between the towering peaks and the dark, mysterious valley below.
So, who's ready for a virtual hike to the British Lookout? Let's share the pain and the glory together!
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PS. Number ONE on Explore on October 19th., 2024.
66740 'Sarah' slogs up Count March Summit working the loaded 6S46 North Blyth Alcan to Fort William Alcan
Colas Rail Freight Class 70 No. 70804 passes under the walls of Chester working 6J37, the Carlisle – Chirk Kronospan logs on 3rd October 2024.
a welcome patch of sunshine dances with 45407 as she slogs up the 1 in 63 Borthwick bank on the relatively new borders line to Tweed bank having completed the morning run of the circular trip.
Christmas holidays have arrived and it's time for us to take a break! This term has been a long hard slog and we are very excited to have some down time. There will be some changes after Christmas as my colleague Fon has left us to move to another school. I have been appointed to her role to manage the technician team which I think will be an interesting new challenge for me. My oldest daughter is preparing for the final six months of school and the university offers are starting to roll in. All in all 2022 is going to be a year of change!
I would like to take the opportunity of thanking everyone for their kind comments and feedback over the course of the year. I really appreciate all the friendship and encouragement I get from everybody.
Finally I would like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and the very best wishes for the New Year. I hope that we can finally make progress against the dreaded Covid virus. So much tragedy and disruption to lives over the last couple of years. It has affected so much and we've all had to adapt to a much poorer quality of life, had emotional and mental health challenges, faced time away from our loved ones and in some cases lived in fear of contracting the illness because of underlying health issues.
We'll be back in the new year!
A herd of wildebeests slogs across the plain from Tanzania's Serengeti into Kenya's Mara Triangle in a pelting storm, on its way to fresh water an grazing to give it the sustenance needed to push their annual migration forward. ©2022 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
The Lindsey to Preston tanks slog up the grade towards Copy Pit. To the right Andrew Shenton and Bruce Galloway can be seen rushing up the main road trying to get ahead of the train - if it wasn't too dark to catch them at their speed.
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I kept slogging through the mud that was once the middle of the Rio Grande yesterday morning. The sun began peeking over the mountain and hitting into the river channel.
I noticed an egret in the distance and couldn't get any closer. The old Kiron lens I was using (and I just now noticed that exif says 21 mm focal length, which is totally wrong) isn't the sharpest and doesn't have modern coatings on lens elements.
What can we do?
Take the image for a slide!
The original is in the first comment box.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
It appears as though someone stopped out on the road and then slogged through the snow to check on an old car in the deteriorating shed. Life habits of our parents often pursue us all our lives. My parents farmed on three locations and sometimes after a long day of work on one of them, my dad would irritate me when we were headed home toward supper and he would say, "let's just stop and take a quick check on the tractor in the other field we left for tomorrow." There weren't as many malevolent country folks back then to worry about but he had a protective sense of ownership and responsibility that he passed on to his children by his example.
After a long slog up to the ledge just above the Old Man of Storr at 1000ft, the sky created some really interesting patterns.
There's only around a dozen of us up here so not too bad and it's nice and dry too. We're off back to the hotel shortly to grab a full Scottish breakfast which for once I will not feel guilty about eating it.
Have a great day everyone.
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With 170 cars of mixed freight on the pull, Union Pacific's daily Roseville, California - North Platte, Nebraska merchandise train claws into the 1.14% Echo Canyon grade on Dec. 18, 2021.
After 20 additional miles of uphill slog, the train will crest the 6,799 ft summit at Wahsatch.
70808 slogs past Salt Lake cottages, with the 0929 Mountsorrel Sidings to Carlisle New Yard - 16/06/2021.
I admit I was very lucky with this shot. If the train had run to time, it would have passed this spot in dull conditions. Fortunately for me, it ran over half an hour late & by that point, the spot was bathed in glorious early evening light.
CLF2, CLF3, 48s34 and CLP9 grind uphill through the curves in the Cullerin range with 3242 loaded grain from The Rock in the NSW Riverina to Allied Pinnacle at Maldon.
This train was rostered to be triple CLs, however, it was noticed that CLF3 wasn’t powering and the 48 may have been attached during the night to provide assistance.
Thursday 19th October 2023
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A unidentified Black 5 slogs up the stiff grade away from Widnes passing the site of the former Appleton station with a long rake of coal empties returning to Sutton Manor Colliery near St Helens.
To the right a thriving rail connected former saw mill that was by then a paint manufacturer and to the left the Commercial Hotel on Page Lane.
Appleton Station closed to passengers in 1950 but was remarkably intact when Eddie took this shot in January 1962.
* This is the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway and dates to 1833, the line was singled in 1975 and the last freight traversed the route in 1981. Today the A557 Watkinson Way connecting the M62 to Widnes town centre and Runcorn exists here being constructed in the 1990's.
37516 'Loch Laidon' slowly slogging up the grade with the late running 5Z51 0605 Steamtown Carnforth - Fort William Jn Yard 09/05/15.
BNSF train H-BARTUL9-14L is slogging up hill through Kingman Canyon on a sunny morning back in April of 2018. The trailing CN SD60 was about the last thing we ever thought we'd see in the Arizona desert!
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Seem appropriate to include the Northern Ice cooler in the frame on a cold and windy day with lots of snow blowing in the air. Horribly unpleasant to be outside. The Empire Builder, meanwhile, crosses the Mississippi River here Hastings down almost five hours after a tough slog across North Dakota.
Different to most of my shots as this actually has someone in it as the focus! This was shot at the saddle on the way up to Ben Lomand in Queenstown, the 7-hour walk was a bit of a slog but the views at the top definitely made it worth while!
This is a large panorama mosaic of 55 shots taken with a tele lens (85mm) at f/1.4 then stitched together using MIcrosoft ICE.
The point of this effort is to create a shot that's otherwise impossible to achieve with a conventional single take. The effect created is equivalent to having a wide angle lens of 26mm with a maximum aperture of f/0.44!
I'm not sure if it was worth the effort as I had my Tokina 11-16mm with me and regardless of having a gimmicky depth of field it was a nice shot...
NS train W10 slogs along at about 25mph with a huge train, passing through Cameron Mills, NY on September 24, 2018. The slow speed allowed for many photo opportunities to get the LV heritage unit.
Start Point Lighthouse
It was a nice walk going down but a slog coming back up we got there to find it was closed.
A quick snap and feeling rather frazzled after a long slog up yet another hill from Great Rollright in yet another heatwave.
Hollyhocks are a much loved feature of the town and some others in the area, although I remember an outcry a few years ago when those in Chipping Campden were cut down after some well-heeled visitors complained of getting pollen on their designer clothes.
This is Market Street that runs along the bottom of the town's large sloping marketplace.
The buildings on the left are the backs of 'Middle Row' a group of buildings that probably began to first appear in the middle of the 15th century as market stalls started to become permanent structures, encroaching on the open space.
Having slogged up the grade from platform 7 at Nuneaton 66952 gains the Nuneaton North Chord for the descent to Canal Farm Junction thus negating the need to cross the WCML on the level the consist of 4M81 08:01 Felixstowe North to Trafford Park makes a nice 'S' as it negotiates the twists and turns.
90015 and 90048 slog up Belstead Bank in tandem on the 16th June 2021. The matching pair of orange & black Freightliner livery 90's head the 4S88 Felixstowe North to Coatbridge intermodal working. With the longest day of the year almost upon us, the opportunity to catch this popular working from the road bridge without the shadows encroaching was taken tonight.
This turtle slogs along in the pond, through all kinds of obstacles and gunk!!
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Cette tortue traîne dans l'étang, à travers toutes sortes d'obstacles et de crasse !!
Explore 31 August, 2022
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Slogging up Haifa side streets adjacent to Baha'i Gardens to check out a view from the top we stopped for a rest and asked cat for directions.
Cat ignored our pleas but did a fine pose pointing and directing us to continue uphill.
With the entirety of this loaded grain train now on the grade up to Bozeman Pass, the MRL helper set on the rear is notched out as they begin the long slog up to the summit.
G CULVAW9 05A (Grain- Culbertson, NE to Vancouver, WA)
(DPU) BNSF ET44C4 #3929
(Helper) MRL SD70ACe #4401
(Helper) MRL SDP40-2XR #290
(Helper) MRL SD70ACe #4400
Livingston, MT
May 8th, 2022
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After a fair slog up Mt Robert, you get a pretty sweet view overlooking St Arnaud and Lake Rotoiti! This is a panorama of what Shadow & Shade and I saw, it was a balmy -3º at the carpark so not sure what it was up here, kept the beers cold that's for sure!
Looking forward to getting back to this place and venturing out to Angelus Hut.
2 miles at 1 in 42 are the vital statistics for the notorious Hemmerdon Bank climbing out of Plymouth to the lower slopes of Dartmoor.
Jubilee 45690 Leander approaches the summit with the 1Z16 1738 Par to Slough Royal Duchy tour. She was hauling load 8 and made a fine spectacle for the gathered crowd.
Leander joined the train at Plymouth and will be relieved of duty at Fairwater Yards in Taunton having done the tough job of getting the train over Hemmerdon, Dainton and Whiteball banks.
Check out the video link to see her in action.
It's not a huge grade or very long, but there is a decent little pull upgrade for westbounds out of the Ouachita River valley when leaving the Monroe area. Here at the west end of Fitzmorris siding, the head end of a massive M267 has just made it to the top of the grade.
A garden snail pushes through grass and clovers following heavy afternoon thunderstorms (Mamaroneck, New York)--August 2, 2009
Again not the best of slides showing Class 5, 5305 having just past through the cutting at Midge Hill and approaching Greenfield. This train that had passed through the Hope Valley earlier in the day and was heading back towards Sheffield via the Standedge route.
This was a bitterly cold and murky January day and I must have been pushing the Fuji 100 film to its limit to get this. A changing scene as the Gasometer and the power station in the distance has long since gone. The little bridge over the River is still there but a housing estate has been built on the land to the left of it.
After a recky here a few weeks ago I found that this shot is still on and amazingly the chimney stack is still there though surrounded by trees. The public footpath that was at this end of the cutting has been closed so the shot of trains coming through the cutting are I am afraid no more.
Pentax S1A. Fjui100.