Tag: “Mountain”

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  1. Bluefield, West Virginia

    Nature's Air-Conditioned City

    (Provided by Wikipedia)

    The history of Bluefield begins in the 1780s, when two families settled in a rugged and remote part of what is now southern West Virginia, and built a small village with a mill, a church, a one-room schoolhouse, and a fort for defending the small settlement against invasions by the much larger Shawnee Indian tribe on the banks of the Bluestone River. The Davidson and Bailey family had to sell a portion of their land when in 1882, Captain John Fields, of the Norfolk and Western Railroad pioneered the area and began building a new railroad through the hills of Bluefield (named after the chicory flowers in the area that painted the landscape a purplish blue hue during the summer) and nearby Harman, Virginia.

    Underneath the feet of the Davidsons and Baileys lie the largest and richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world - the soft burning coal which was ripe for fueling the industrial machines of the developing world.

  2. Remnants of war

    Bullet holes inside the Imperial fortress on Srdj mountain, above the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia.

    This old fortress used to be a tourist attraction before the civil war, but in 1991 it was the front line that saw bitter fighting and guarded Dubrovnik from the North.

  3. On the Edge Once More...

    There are many vistas to admire along the many path on the ground of the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York located in the Catskill Mountains. This lone tree "on the edge" seemed to have become one with the fence along the path.

  4. Night View in Mohonk

    This was one of the views from my room when I stayed at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York.

  5. Breath Deep

    A view of the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York overlooking Lake Mohonk.

  6. Terrace in front of Thyangboche Monastery

    Looking up the Khumbu Balley with AMa Dablam on the right, andthe Lhotse wall blocking most of Everest. Thyangboche Monastery Khumbu Himalaya, Nepal, Asia

  7. We're supposed to be on a trail?

    After spending most of a week in our tents watching rainstorms pass thru we decided to bail out of the Southern Picketts in the North Cascades NP. Our choices were slim - a long 2 day traverse involving several rock faces, or the quick route - a descent of 4,000' thru Devil's Club,downed timber and other underbrush.

  8. The Castle of Portovenere

    Portovenere (sometimes, in English, Porto Venere) is a small town located on the Ligurian coast of Italy in the province of La Spezia. It comprises the three villages of Fezzano, Le Grazie and Portovenere, and the three islands of Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto.

  9. A mountaineer navigates the rocks just west of the Muir Snow

    South face. Mt.

  10. Saw-Mill Creek

    A short hike along the creek below a small walk-in campground called Saw-Mill near the north-eastern border of Yosemite National Park.