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Snaking through the multiple curves east of Summit, Montana, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train traverses Marias Pass on September 9, 1999. Up front is an eclectic group of motive power led by BNSF warbonnet GE C44-9W No. 781. Trailing the 781 is a former Santa Fe LRCX C30-7, a Burlington Northern C30-7, a Santa Fe EMD SD45-2B, and finally, another Dash 9 in Heritage II paint.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack train is headed west at Summit, Montana, on December 23, 1998. The train is crossing Marias Pass powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s, with Burlington Northern No. 7889 leading the way.
The forecast was for a very active aurora tonight, so I went to Cleary Summit (a pass in the White Mountains northeast of Fairbanks.
While the forecast wasn't especially accurate, this is a good place to get a view with the higher altitude and a good view to the northeast.
The bright spot is the moon, which doesn't get very big with the fisheye lens.
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3094 kicks up up a little snow while cresting Soldier Summit on New Year's Eve, 1994.
A friendly crew smokes it up for the last effort to get a short sand train for Emporium over Keating Summit. Lucky for us, the morning fog burned off a little below the summit. June 7, 2019 was a great day on the WNYP. 3 trains which we managed to shoot in about 30 different locations thanks to good intel from the birdie network. All day I kept wondering why I never shot Conrail here.
View from top of Buidhe Bheinn 885m , a corbett in Lochaber. Took this after climbing to the summit from Kinloch Hourn. This view is looking back toward the west top with the munro Ladhar Bheinn in Knoydart in the background.
Was at Palmer Park the other day with Aurora when we ran into this dog named Summit and his owners. Aurora instantly liked him and they ran around together playing for an hour. It was nice to see her so happy and playing like a puppy again. Guess he got worn out too since he decided to lay in the snow for awhile.
As we traverse further along the cliffs at the edge of the Cairn Gorm plateau we can clearly the way ahead and the final climb up to the prominent rocky summit of Cairn Gorm itself.
Cairn Gorm, the mountain from which the Cairngorm mountain range gets its name, stands at 1245 meters (4085 feet) and is my 4th Munro of the season, my 27th in total. The hike (no bike this time) sees me covering a circuit of just over 7 miles and making an elevation gain of around 762 meters (2500 feet).
BNSF's 6897 and 4549 head for the summit of Mullan Pass with an eastbound oil train.
Monday 10th April 2023
This was not he first time when I saw the mountain sheep arriving at a summit of the bavarian alps short before sunrise. They seem to enjoy holding their summit meeting at the evening.
Taken with the Leica Q3 and optimized with a digital gradation filter in Lightroom to adjust contrast and colours, the light was very soft due to a rather cloudy sky in the west.
A westbound BNSF grain train enters double track at Summit after climbing the east slope of Marias Pass.
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
― Rene Daumal
Photo taken at Cloud Edge II maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sylt/206/23/59
Hiked in the dark to Summit Lake to get this shot. Taken during a songbird recording day with Parks Canada
The highest point on the M25, London's outer ring road, at Reigate Hill. 700' (213 metres) above sea level.
This last part of the ascent is a real pleasure. The W ridge is very panoramic, not just trivial, but easy to overcome and you're all the time able to check how you are nearing the summit.
Sunrise hits the final slopes of Place Fell. It was a fabulous morning to be high up above Ullswater to witness dawn. John Bleakley and I had set off in the dark with our head torches highlighting our way up the icy, snowy flanks of Place Fell.
It was quite invigorating treading a crunchy path through virgin snow and ice, in sub zero temperatures, to get to the top before the sun rose over the horizon. The conditions were just superb, it was so still! You could hear Owls and the odd bark of a distant dog down in the Valley bottom.
In fact just before we reached this point we startled a Fox, which bolted off across the frozen snow! God knows what it was existing on up here on the tops of this Fell.
I had to stop when I saw this view, as the "S" curve in the landscape looked quite dramatic. A Fell I'd never climbed before, rather favouring the more popular Peaks on the opposite side of Ullswater. But the views here across the valley and indeed all around, certainly will have me returning again soon!
As I climb higher, the clouds descend and completely shroud the summit of Glas Tulaichean. Normally I would give this up and wait for a better day, but as we're soon moving away this is my last chance to gain the 10% of Munro's bagged.
Glas Tulaichean is my 5th Munro of the season and the 28th in total, bringing me to a Munro completion rate of near enough 10%. The mountain stands at 1051 meters (3448 feet) and is the last one I will do as I have now moved away from Scotland and back to my roots in South Yorkshire as the pull of the Grandchildren was just too strong.
One final shot of the summit cairn at the top of Cairn Gorm. Far below we can see the blue waters of Loch Morlich, while just beyond it, Aviemore can just be made out. But we've hung around enough, it's time to start the descent.
Cairn Gorm, the mountain from which the Cairngorm mountain range gets its name, stands at 1245 meters (4085 feet) and is my 4th Munro of the season, my 27th in total. The hike (no bike this time) sees me covering a circuit of just over 7 miles and making an elevation gain of around 762 meters (2500 feet).
The L TWI661 heads west out of Summit on their way to Aberdeen. I was planning to shoot this train on the grade east of Summit, but due to the overpass in Marvin not being plowed, and other spots being too deep in snow, I went to the overpass here west of Summit. They slowed down a tad passing by due to, according to dispatch, "a systemwide PTC outage," but got to track speed once again not long after that. Unfortunately Devil's Tower did not appear in my photo here on this day.
Viewing the Aspens from Conway Summit on a freezing cold, extremely windy early morning near Bridgeport, Eastern Sierras California.
WNYP OL-4 is digging into the grade at Keating Summit with a trio of Big M's in the lead.
The sound was one I won't soon forget.
Last nights sunset was without any decent cloud, so I climbed up Farleton Fell with a view over the Morecambe Bay and Lakeland Fells.
This is the summit of Farleton Fell, with some really nice limestone landscape surrounding it with Hutton Roof and the adjacent Holmepark Fell. You can just see the head of Morecambe Bay in the left background where the River Kent enters the Bay at Arnside. The hills on the horizon are the Southern fells of the Lake District National Park.
At last I gain the summit plateau of Ben Avon and the rocky tor marking its peak is within sight. I'll have to climb on top to claim the Munro bag but fortunately my legs still seem up the task.
Climbing Ben Avon (pronounced Ben A'an) which stands at 1171 meters (3842 feet), and Beinn a'Bhuird (pronounced Ben a-voashed) standing at 1197 meters (3927 feet), sees me covering a distance of just over 24 miles. They are my 2nd & 3rd Munro's of the season, and bring me to a total of 26 now.
Big Baldy summit cairn (8750 ft) with Mount Timpanogos summit (11,753 ft) in the distance. The summit shack is just visible as a tiny smudge of pixels.
Battle Creek to Big Baldy summit; Pleasant Grove, Utah; June 2016
The 10,221-foot-high summit of the former Rio Grande main line over Tennessee Pass sits quiet and rusty today, with heavy trains no longer grinding through the lofty 2,550-foot tunnel beneath the Continental Divide. Still “railbanked” by Union Pacific more than twenty years since the last passage of a train, the future of the route still hangs in a precarious balance. In this view looking at the west switch of Tennessee Pass siding, I’m not sure which I find more disturbing—the graffiti on buildings at this remote mountain location, or the decapitated signals that will never highball another train.
1E13 Inverness to Doncaster (normally London Kings Cross but due to engineering works only as far as Donny) Class 800 bi-mode Azuma in LNER livery heads south on the HML seen here having just crested the summit at Drumochter on a glorious summers morning (pole shot).
The summit Cairn of the Munro Cairn of Claise and the wall which marked the old county boundary.
This bike trip takes me to the summits of two Munro's, Carn an Tuirc & Cairn of Claise. Carn an Tuirc is at a height of 1018 meters (3339 feet), while Cairn of Claise is sightly higher at 1062 meters (3484 feet). It took me four hours to drag myself (and my bike) up there, but because of the bike, it took less than an hour to get back to the car. Total distance covered was 26.5 kilometers (16.5 miles) and starting at 370 meters, I had an altitude gain of over 700 meters (2296+ feet) - that was a big one!!
From the summit of Derry Cairngorm, at the cairn its top, we can see over in the distance the rocky tors that mark the summit of Beinn Mheadhoin, a Munro I did a couple of years ago. The deep Glen Derry is to the right and it's from there I have climbed to gain this altitude. Was it worth it? Damned straight it was!!
Derry Cairngorm is my first Munro I have bagged this season, my 24th in total, and stands at 1155 meters (3789 feet). This trip sees me covering approximately 20 miles by Bike & Hike and gaining 2682 feet in elevation, after setting off from the Linn of Dee outside Braemar.