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Post by AJ1013 on Nov 23, 2018 22:45:41 GMT -5
tommyFL I have been to Sabino. I went hiking in Madera canyon today. Can’t comment on NM mountains but from your pics you certainly haven’t seen the best southern AZ has to offer.
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Post by AJ1013 on Nov 23, 2018 22:56:46 GMT -5
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Post by tommyFL on Nov 23, 2018 23:01:55 GMT -5
tommyFL I have been to Sabino. I went hiking in Madera canyon today. Can’t comment on NM mountains but from you pics you certainly haven’t seen the best southern AZ has to offer. I'm sure there are plenty of great mountains around here. But the lack of 10,000+ ft peaks (excepting Mt Graham) makes alpine forest a lot spottier than in NM. Mt Lemmon has some but of course not the same extent as the Magdalena Mountains near Socorro. |
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Post by AJ1013 on Nov 23, 2018 23:03:01 GMT -5
tommyFL I have been to Sabino. I went hiking in Madera canyon today. Can’t comment on NM mountains but from you pics you certainly haven’t seen the best southern AZ has to offer. I'm sure there are plenty of great mountains around here. But the lack of 10,000+ ft peaks (excepting Mt Graham) makes alpine forest a lot spottier than in NM. Mt Lemmon has some but of course not the same extent as the Magdalena Mountains near Socorro. The ski area of Mt Lemmon has the best alpine forest in southern arizona. Did you go there? Tons of towering douglas fir and quaking aspen. Couple months ago  |
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Post by tommyFL on Nov 23, 2018 23:11:07 GMT -5
I'm sure there are plenty of great mountains around here. But the lack of 10,000+ ft peaks (excepting Mt Graham) makes alpine forest a lot spottier than in NM. Mt Lemmon has some but of course not the same extent as the Magdalena Mountains near Socorro. The ski area of Mt Lemmon has the best alpine forest in southern arizona. Did you go there? Tons of towering douglas fir and quaking aspen. Yes, I went up there. It's an alright forest, but I feel like most of the alpine tree species there don't reach the same size as ones at higher elevations. |
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Post by AJ1013 on Nov 23, 2018 23:14:32 GMT -5
The ski area of Mt Lemmon has the best alpine forest in southern arizona. Did you go there? Tons of towering douglas fir and quaking aspen. Yes, I went up there. It's an alright forest, but I feel like most of the alpine tree species there don't reach the same size as ones at higher elevations. I can understand where you’re coming from although in certain pockets, like the ski area and a few others, they’re pretty imposing. The main reason they’re not more widespread is the 2003 fire which buned down a huge portion of Lemmon’s alpine forest. |
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Post by Cadeau on Nov 24, 2018 0:57:31 GMT -5
Seoul saw first snow day this morning(24th) and total accumulation was 8.8 cm, the highest amount first snow day of the season since 1981 when the observation began to recording detail about the first snow-related measurement.       |
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Post by urania93 on Nov 24, 2018 6:38:54 GMT -5
Last Tuesday we woke up with 5 cm of snow on the ground, but when I left it was still to dark for taking pictures and it melted in no time  . Anyway, even today the view is not that bad, with that snow limit at about 1000 m:   It looks like a lot of snow fell yesterday and during the last night in the high part of the valley, where the ski plants are. These are not my pictures, I took them from the local online newspaper [1]. This was Bardonecchia (altitude of about 1300 m) this morning:  While this is Sestriere (2000 m):  |
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Post by nei on Nov 24, 2018 12:04:39 GMT -5
I'll try not to post too many photos today as the scenery can get a bit repetitive... Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (botanical garden/zoo) Surprisingly, one of the only animals that wasn't asleep was this iguana.  nice desert scenery; I'm not a huge desert fan but like it. love the canyon. Car closure must be make it not too noisy even with the crowds; I remember a huge difference in Yosemite Valley in the sections closed to cars. Path looks much nicer, IMO, I'd go on that. Paved road looks like a nice bike ride if it's not too full of walkers. |
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Post by Crunch41 on Nov 24, 2018 16:18:34 GMT -5
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Post by Lommaren on Nov 24, 2018 17:07:25 GMT -5
Did anyone say "better than nothing"?   |
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Post by ral31 on Nov 24, 2018 19:31:30 GMT -5
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Post by tommyFL on Nov 24, 2018 21:14:55 GMT -5
One more stop before heading back to Socorro: Chiricahua National Monument Lots of rock formations    Trail followed canyon bottom for a while. Lots of oak.  In the "Heart of Rocks"  Balanced rock  View of more distant mountains  Climbing out of canyon back to parking lot  Saw two of these coati on the drive out. Saw this species once before in Mexico in 2015, closely related to raccoons.  |
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Post by Steelernation on Nov 24, 2018 21:22:03 GMT -5
Nice photos tommyFL. I was in Chiricahua back in 2015, did a nice hike there. Rock formations were very cool and there were a ton of lizards. Keep the photos coming, very nice. |
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Post by Donar on Nov 25, 2018 10:37:03 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on Nov 25, 2018 15:24:56 GMT -5
Went to Stockholm but we weren't able to walk around so I could only take pictures through the car window, and between our place and the metro station on on the last day. There was snow there unlike in Umeå. Especially on the southern side.   Obviously almost completely bare, but there are some shrubs and trees with leaves still.  Pretty decent weather. Close to 0'C, sunny, and no wind. Beautiful and reasonably comfortable.  As I said, less snow on the northern side  |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Nov 26, 2018 11:28:05 GMT -5
Much brighter there than Uméâ.
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Post by Babu on Nov 26, 2018 12:34:04 GMT -5
Much brighter there than Uméâ. Yes. It was still relatively bright at 16.30. Insane. But all my recent images taken in Umeå have been past or near sunrise and sunset so there aren't exactly any fair comparisons to see. |
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Post by rozenn on Nov 26, 2018 16:42:29 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on Nov 27, 2018 1:39:24 GMT -5
Still a few yellow trees left. What are these called?  That's a ginkgo biloba. Neither a conifer tree nor a broadleaf tree. It's its very own classification of tree, and the sole species in that classification. |
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