Speed hiking round in fall colours.
#Hiking #Mountains
Speed hiking round in fall colours.
#Hiking #Mountains
1/7 🌿 Where are greatest number of #PlantSpecies in #Mountains? 🏔️
Our recent study in #Forests explored elevational patterns of plant #SpeciesRichness in Western Himalayas.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3390/f16101591
#Biodiversity #Biogeography #Ecology #ElevationalGradients #Himalayas #ProtectedAreas
1/7 🌿 Where are greatest number of #PlantSpecies in #Mountains? 🏔️
Our recent study in #Forests explored elevational patterns of plant #SpeciesRichness in Western Himalayas.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3390/f16101591
#Biodiversity #Biogeography #Ecology #ElevationalGradients #Himalayas #ProtectedAreas
The school for astronauts hidden inside a Swiss mountain
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251023-the-school-for-astronauts-hidden-inside-a-swiss-mountain
Last weekend, a friend needed one more flight hour for renewing his PPL license, and took me along in a Cessna 152. We flew from #LSPV via Mythen, Klausenpass to the Ringelspitz, and back over Walensee. Beautiful!
Part 1/3: Launch over Nuolen, Mythen, Riemenstaldental, Clariden.
#Aviation #Alps #Wangen #Mythen #Clariden #Switzerland #Mountains #Landscape
Last weekend, a friend needed one more flight hour for renewing his PPL license, and took me along in a Cessna 152. We flew from #LSPV via Mythen, Klausenpass to the Ringelspitz, and back over Walensee. Beautiful!
Part 1/3: Launch over Nuolen, Mythen, Riemenstaldental, Clariden.
#Aviation #Alps #Wangen #Mythen #Clariden #Switzerland #Mountains #Landscape
Autumn is such a sacred and fleeting time of year. It's spooky, it's the start of cozy season, and it's gone before you know it. 11x14 on gesso board, completed in 2024.
#autumn #LandscapePainting #OilPainting #painting #mountains #LeafPeeping #FallColors #MastoArt
Autumn is such a sacred and fleeting time of year. It's spooky, it's the start of cozy season, and it's gone before you know it. 11x14 on gesso board, completed in 2024.
#autumn #LandscapePainting #OilPainting #painting #mountains #LeafPeeping #FallColors #MastoArt
The show tonight at 5pm. Hunter and Denali filling the horizon. Not a bad way to end the day. #Alaska #Anchorage #BearValley #ViewFromTheDeck #Denali #DenaliNPS #Mountains.
The show tonight at 5pm. Hunter and Denali filling the horizon. Not a bad way to end the day. #Alaska #Anchorage #BearValley #ViewFromTheDeck #Denali #DenaliNPS #Mountains.
Nice round on the bike. Weather was much better than predicted (no rain). Asssaver saved my ass however on wet parts in the shades.
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
—Lao Tzu
#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Mountains #October
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
—Lao Tzu
#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Mountains #October
This is the #SnowdonMountainRailway (SMR), a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion #mountain railway, that has been taking passengers from Llanberis to the summit since 1896 (!).
Here are some other facts you might enjoy:
- It's the only public rack-and-pinion #railway in the #UK.
- The average speed of the train is 5 mph (8 km/h).
- The total track length is 4.7 miles (7.5 km).
- It carries around 140,000 passengers each year.
- A round-trip to the summit takes approx. 2.5 hours, including a 30-minute stop at the summit visitor centre.
- From the #summit station, it's only 68 ft (21 m) to the summit cairn (though it's quite steep).
- Trains are scheduled at 30-minute intervals, subject to passenger demand.
- The SMR currently operates 3 coal-fired steam locomotives and 4 diesel locomotives. Last week, only diesel locomotives were in service, as the heritage steam locomotives typically run from June to September.
- On its official opening day in April 1896, one of the locomotives derailed and fell down the mountain, resulting in one fatality. Following this incident, the maximum allowed train weight was reduced, and a gripper system was installed on the rack railway. It's been full steam ahead ever since.
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(Sorry for the rabbit hole. I'm not usually into trains, but even I found it quite interesting)
#Wolken #clouds #Berggipfel #Gipfel #mountainTop #wandern #hiking #hike #Berge #mountains #mountainscape #MountainMonday #SMR #narrowGauge #narrowGaugeRailway #Zahnradbahn #rackAndPinion #trainTracks #railways #railwayTrack #railwayTracks #railroad #Schienen #Gleise #train #trains #Zug #Bahn #HeritageGreatBritain #FootpathFriday #Snowdonia #Wales