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Post by gabby on Dec 10, 2022 5:51:40 GMT -8
Based on content and tone of the first post alone, my guess is the Bavarian Alps, near Berchtesgaden.
Damned little brownshirts are popping up on social media everywhere these days!
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Post by absarokanaut on Dec 10, 2022 8:43:22 GMT -8
Travis is correct but Mt. Leidy is said to be in "The Leidy Highlands." The original photo is of the Gros Ventre Range across the Gros Ventre River Valley. Interesting fact: Mt. Leidy is not the highest point in The Leidy Highlands.
So Travis your turn to post a new photo of anywhere you want.
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Post by Travis on Dec 10, 2022 9:06:19 GMT -8
Gosh, I thought the Leidy Highlands were in Scotland. Ooops. I would have been glad to pass this on to someone else, but instead I'll try to make it easy to keep things going. When I took this photo many years ago, I was standing on a peak in the Rocky Mountains. It is surrounded by rock outcrops that many climbers use as practice for longer climbs. In the upper right area of the photo is a squarish-looking outcrop that would appear fairly easy to climb. But upon closer inspection, there are great obstacles not seen in this distant photo. So very few people have succeeded in climbing the outcrop.
That outcrop is however quite famous.
I took this photo in early April when few people reach my location because of snow depth. The complete lack of human tracks on this day indicates I was the first person in over a week to reach it. What mountain am I standing on? And what is the name of the outcrop in the upper right hand area?  |
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Post by Travis on Dec 10, 2022 9:44:19 GMT -8
Here is another view of the same outcrop, above the mountain goat, taken from the same mountain but from a few yards away in late May.  |
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Post by absarokanaut on Dec 10, 2022 10:12:26 GMT -8
Oh boy, a geology lesson most folks have never had!
That outcrop looks crazy! Better not rush up it.
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Post by Travis on Dec 10, 2022 10:46:13 GMT -8
Oh boy, a geology lesson most folks have never had! Yeah, some people don't think of this area as "in" the Rocky Mountains. |
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Dec 10, 2022 12:41:28 GMT -8
Brokeback Mountain!
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Post by driftwoody on Dec 10, 2022 12:43:52 GMT -8
IIRC they tended sheep, not mountain goats. |
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Post by Travis on Dec 10, 2022 13:02:05 GMT -8
Face it, or don't face it, the question has been around since the Great Depression. Some people say the outcrop was defaced. But everyone here has seen it from both sides now.
"The Mountain Speaks."
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Dec 10, 2022 14:10:49 GMT -8
IIRC they tended sheep, not mountain goats. Hmmmm...why do we have mountain goats, but no mountain sheep? |
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Post by Travis on Dec 10, 2022 14:39:09 GMT -8
Okay, final hint before I'm gone for a few hours. Lakota called the range He Sapa and the outcrop Six Grandfathers, or Cougar Mountain in translation. The peak was mentioned in a recent thread on place names and renaming. Here is a view of the other side of the outcrop from the National Park Service in the 1920s. It looks a lot different now.  |
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Post by driftwoody on Dec 10, 2022 15:07:19 GMT -8
It looks a lot different now. I suspect that four great wasichus were hidden within, waiting for the rock to be blasted away from their visages. |
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Post by driftwoody on Dec 10, 2022 15:11:36 GMT -8
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange? Life is full of mysteries. #  |
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Post by balzaccom on Dec 10, 2022 16:52:38 GMT -8
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange? Life is full of m Actually, carrots were not originally orange. They were purple and white, like turnips. But back in the 1700's Dutch botanists created orange carrots as homage to William of Orange. We are now beginning to see "heritage carrots" that are purple and white etc... Don't get me started on turquoise... |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Dec 10, 2022 17:27:39 GMT -8
To contribute to the thread drift: Heirloom Carrot Varieties“The carrot is a vegetable that we have inherited from classical antiquity. The codex of Dioskorides from Constantinople (A.D. 500-511) shows an orange carrot, somewhat branching in the root, with small, dense leaves” It seems to have been lost, as happens to cultivated varieties, and todays orange carrot is a later development out of the long-standing color strains. At one point used to feed cattle to get nicely colored butter! www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/heirloom-carrot-varieties-zewz1303zsch/ |
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