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Post by rozenn on Aug 16, 2019 12:16:01 GMT -5
I've been staying in my home village for a whole week and I haven't posted any picture like those yet, unbelievable.... It rained quite a lot today, now it turned windy and the sky is progressively clearing from clouds. Believe it or not, I was there again the day before you took these pics. Talked about the "convenient" 3,000 m+ elevation gain of the Rocciamelone hike from Susa to a Parisian friend that really wanted to climb it. Photo from a hamlet called Tour, about mid-slope from Foresto.  Didn't take many photos, here are those I took 3 years ago: www.city-data.com/forum/44783432-post368.htmlHiking in the Pyrenees, looks flatter:  Dat sky!  Local fauna  It reminded me of this meme: Heading there  Dafuq? They get their trucks up here (no road around).  From the summit  Much sexy fiancees for Welshman down there  Tried walking sticks for the first time. Dunno what to think of them; they'd probably have helped on Rocciamelone.  Ugly skiing infrastructure and snow in the background (zoomed in, it's 100 km+ away)  Looking south at a Spanish sierra  Buttsliding down the slope   |
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Post by urania93 on Aug 16, 2019 14:27:31 GMT -5
rozenn has already climbed the mountain I see from my bedroom window twice and I have never even tried to do it, I probably should be ashamed of myself... but then I remember how lazy I am  Today we did another of our super-lazy walks, so that the all of us have zero stamina for walking uphill we decided to ask for a ride up to 1100 m of altitude or so and then walk down to the village again from there. It was a couple of hours of downhill walk following the old stone path used by our elders to reach the mountain frazioni during the summer. Definitively a feasible trip also for very no-sport people as I am, passing in some nice forest and with some panoramic spots. The best panorama probably was at the very beginning:   (very bad exposition, but with my cellphone I can't do much about this...) The first part was quite steep:   The old, partly stone paved path (in some parts it is directly engraved into the rock). Up to my grandparents generation there was a great community effort of the whole village to keep these paths open and easy to use, together with the system of water canals for field irrigation.     The path is steeper than how it looks in picture and the stones are quite smooth, so it is overall quite slippery to walk there, but my grandparents used to walk easily there wearing wooden clogs. Stories from their youth sounds like another epoch in so many ways...  ^ some fauna, there is a quite large green lizard in the middle of the picture. Those are quite shy reptiles, it's very hard to get closer than this.  Some water falling down. That area was covered by an avalanche a couple of winters ago, but the woods don't seem to be too affected by it.  ^ a chapel. The sign says: "Zapelâ Tithâb ô". Very Italian spelling, isn't it? A completely abandoned frazione. Once I was told that in this kind of places, hidden in the woods just above the village, it is quite easy to find old weapons hidden by partisans in the last years of WWII.   Some panoramic spots just above the village:   In the very last part the mountain path becomes a very recognisable countryside path and the woods progressively become fields  Extra: a couple of pictures takes a couple of days ago during a simple walk in the village   
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Post by nei on Aug 16, 2019 23:37:28 GMT -5
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Post by Nidaros on Aug 18, 2019 8:01:49 GMT -5
At altitude in the far north, inside the Arctic Circle
Typical creek in the north boreal/sparse taiga zone (250 m ASL)
Above the treeline on the Alpine tundra (>500 m ASL), near a small tundra lake
Further into the mountains, with snow still drifts still around in mid-July (650 m ASL) But still flowers up here, especially in south-facing slopes (650 m ASL)
Not exactly fertile though >700 m ASL, (mid-tundra); bare rock and snow patches and melting ponds, very small plants
That snow drift was large; it will not survive summer, and will be gone before July end
Still some ice on that lake below the mountains with a near free fall ~ 500 m from summit
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Post by nei on Aug 20, 2019 22:05:38 GMT -5
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Post by nei on Aug 21, 2019 8:22:31 GMT -5
At altitude in the far north, inside the Arctic Circle nice photos, gloominess fits the landscape. Like the wildflowers. Out of curiosity, what were the temperatures when you visited? Guessing July daytime temperatures average 10-14°C in the tundra? |
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Post by nei on Aug 21, 2019 8:39:22 GMT -5
Dafuq? They get their trucks up here (no road around). annoying to see vehicles where you expect a natural setting nice peaks, looks a bit barren with just grass and rocks I only use walking sticks in the winter, helps for balance on soft snow surface especially on steep slopes. background ridge looks like the California Sierra ugh; hate scree (slopes with small rock / pebbles) |
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Post by Nidaros on Aug 21, 2019 14:35:07 GMT -5
At altitude in the far north, inside the Arctic Circle nice photos, gloominess fits the landscape. Like the wildflowers. Out of curiosity, what were the temperatures when you visited? Guessing July daytime temperatures average 10-14°C in the tundra? Yeah, was mostly cloudy that day. In the alpine tundra like here, the altitude in large part controls daytime highs in summer, as does of course the latitude also.
So at at 700 m ASL, the range for daytime high in that area inside the Arctic Circle goes from like 5°C - 25°C, with most days having higs from 9°C - 15°C in mid-summer.
Here is a mountain station at 740 m ASl in the region if not exactly the same place from July 12. - Aug 10. 2019, warmest time of year on average. Not that many station on the alpine tundra up there to choose from at ogimet
Btw, the Ashokan reservoir image surprised my, looked almost like a mountain lake here in Mid-Norway in that image.
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Post by rozenn on Aug 25, 2019 9:02:16 GMT -5
Dafuq? They get their trucks up here (no road around). annoying to see vehicles where you expect a natural setting nice peaks, looks a bit barren with just grass and rocks It wasn't a private vehicle, but rescuers or something. Not sure why they didn't use a helicopter tho. Here's a less barren hike. Quite long (44 km and 1,300 m elevation gain). We got there by train.  Some village   Roadside "sculpture"    Steep mountains; the valley floor is quite low  Done with the paved road!   Avalanche corridors    Now rapidly gaining elevation  Getting more barren and cloudier  Stopped at this lake  We turned around at that point. We wanted to cross to the other side of the moutains, through this barren plateau (pic I took from another hike), but signs said it was a 9-hour hike to the trailhead on the other side, then it was another 2 hours to the train station and it was already 3 pm; not really a 1-day hike:  What looks like avalanche damage  And what looks like literally shitty land art  Back in the forest    That peak looks majestic for local standards, like something out of the central Pyrenees or the Alps.   Didn't get to see any chamois, wolf, bear or endemic desman, but I least I captured a slug.  Mailbox for donkeys  Back to the trailhead  |
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Post by Nidaros on Aug 25, 2019 13:24:46 GMT -5
Artinnature
That time of year
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Post by urania93 on Aug 25, 2019 14:12:43 GMT -5
Today I had an uncommon fortunate conjunction of good weather, not be working in the weekend and so on, so I said to myself: "this is a perfect day for some kind of trip from Grenoble! But where can I go?" Basically, I looked at the train timetables of the region and picked the nicest place I could find which I could reach from here in an acceptable time and without changes. Among the alternatives, Annecy immediately stood out, so this morning I just took an early train and went in there. It's actually a very nice place, with a cool pre-Alpine lake and all the mountains around, and a nice historical center too. Maybe there were a little too many people around, but considering that the weather was perfect, it's summer and it's the weekend, I was expecting even worse. Part I: the historical center           Part II: the lake                   Extra: I spotted one of these birds fishing (I guess?) next to the harbour, I tried to take a video of it because it was quite funny to see (It looks like this because I had to zoom in quite a lot to make this video) |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 25, 2019 15:59:15 GMT -5
August 14th at 7.51am  Cool clouds on August 23 at 7.49am  |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 25, 2019 17:28:12 GMT -5
Early colours this year (even earlier than last year which was early as well).  |
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Post by urania93 on Aug 27, 2019 15:11:42 GMT -5
Couple of pictures from tonight unexpected storm:   Most thunders were actually on the other side of the mountain, so I could only see the flash reflected by the clouds from here. |
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Post by Babu on Aug 27, 2019 15:59:54 GMT -5
Couple of pictures from tonight unexpected storm: Most thunders were actually on the other side of the mountain, so I could only see the flash reflected by the clouds from here. Judging by the 16:9 aspect ratio I assume you recorded the storm and those are frames from the video? Smart. Lightning is hard to capture otherwise |
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Post by urania93 on Aug 28, 2019 0:34:36 GMT -5
Couple of pictures from tonight unexpected storm: Most thunders were actually on the other side of the mountain, so I could only see the flash reflected by the clouds from here. Judging by the 16:9 aspect ratio I assume you recorded the storm and those are frames from the video? Smart. Lightning is hard to capture otherwise Yes, that's right. There were like 3 lightnings in 3 min, so the video would have been too boring to show. |
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Post by rozenn on Aug 29, 2019 16:55:25 GMT -5
Fine summer's day today, 25/18°C and mostly sunny. Getting warmer again tomorrow.  My kinda grass 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿   |
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Post by Donar on Aug 30, 2019 2:55:47 GMT -5
Trip to Southern France: at first a few days in the Alps then hiking in the Cevennes.
Lac d' Annecy in the French Alps.
We hiked to La Tournette (2351 m) from about 1150 m, unfortunately the clouds reached the top before us, so no pictures from there...
On the way down, just below the iron curtain
Next stop was Le Puy en Velay. Very nice town.
Further south we reached our destination: the Cevennes, a southern part of the Massif Central and one of the most sparsely populated regions of France. Hiking Mont Lozere:
View from the top:
Then hiking along Gorges du Tarn, starting in Florac. Interesting change of vegetation there over a rather short distance: near Florac sweet chestnuts prevailed and the forest had a mediterranean vibe, but further along the river beeches became more common and it felt quite oceanic. I didn't take many pics to save battery...
Many pittoresque villages along the river:
The way back to Florac we hiked on the high plateau above the gorge called Grands Causses. Felt very deserted there...
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Abandoned houses were quite common:
We camped in the wilderness... my phone couldn't capture the nice sunset and night sky there.. |
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Post by Moron on Aug 30, 2019 7:32:04 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on Aug 30, 2019 9:13:27 GMT -5
Your internet must truly be utterly useless Moron |
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