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 HikeJuly 18, 2006 at 8:51 AM When I am moving among the mountains, traveling across great distances, Creation's expansive qualities begin to have an effect on me. It swallows me whole. It engulfs me with untouched grace, and its raw elements are the music in my ears; the wind through the valleys, the water moving downward, and the inhabitants of the sky and land are all I hear.I am small. I am fragile. Yet, I am capable of amazing things, both good and evil. Under the open and ever changing sky, my mind clears and unfolds, and I begin to think about... About? I begin to Think. Think. The mind absorbs and meditates freely, as my feet move in cadence to the steady breathing of my laboring lungs. I crave it. I crave solitude and simplicity and sweat and beauty. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear of hearing.
From Neil Cameron
Excellent pics Emily!Posted on July 18, 2006 at 10:54 AM Neil
From Sydney Menees
Wow, that is gorgeous. I love hiking for those reasons as well.
Posted on July 18, 2006 at 4:40 PM From Terez Mertes
Fab pics!
Posted on July 18, 2006 at 5:17 PM From bill pratt
Where is the fireweed flower in its life cycle right now?
Posted on July 18, 2006 at 10:24 PM From Pauline Lerner
Beautiful photos! Clean air and untrammeled nature! I wish I could be there with you.
Posted on July 18, 2006 at 11:38 PM From Stephen Brivati
Greetings,Posted on July 19, 2006 at 12:01 AM you are capable of evil? Sigh. Another day , another pedestal... Cheers, Buri From Nicholas Tavani
gorgeous photos. nice dropshadow behind them, too.
Posted on July 19, 2006 at 6:11 AM From Emily Grossman
Thanks, guys. It's easy to take pretty pictures where I live.Posted on July 19, 2006 at 7:41 AM Bill, we had such a late spring, the fireweed hasn't begun yet. (Yeah!) Buri, our capabilities astonish me.
From Laurie Niles
Ah it's so beautiful. I had to put it on the front page! :)
Posted on July 19, 2006 at 4:51 PM From Eric Godfrey
Beautiful photos. Where taken?
Posted on July 19, 2006 at 7:46 PM From Jim W. Miller
To me it looks like a giant reclaimed strip mine:) It depends on what you're used to I guess.
Posted on July 19, 2006 at 10:56 PM From Emily Grossman
Actually, Alaska used to be flat until they strip mined, and now we have these beautiful mountains and canyons. Let's bring strip mining to Oklahoma, too!Posted on July 20, 2006 at 7:28 AM Okay really. These photos were taken along the Skyline trail in the Chugach mountains (Kenai Peninsula, AK). The intermittent trail ascends to a horseshoe-shaped ridge and traces nine peaks over twelve miles.
From Jim W. Miller
If you look at a USGS topo map from the 50s, everything is fine, but if you look at one from the 70s you see there's literally not two miles of continuous ridge anywhere in eastern ky that hasn't been removed by strip mining. I remembered going to a place in the mountains with my father near where he grew up that has a certain rock formation. Twenty years later I got directions to it and hiked back up and there's the formation in the middle of what could be a golf course. Posted on July 20, 2006 at 10:57 AM You can see some of the mining from the roads but you don't get the real picture. Once you get up into it though and look where you can't see from roads you can see, and it looks like your pictures. Only grasses and scrub brush, because there's no topsoil. In the 70s there was a huge movement to get them to stop a certain kind of it at least, which was fairly successful. The impetus came mostly from outside, since the average kentuckian in the area was too deprived to have any idea what was happening much less what to do about it (read Night Comes to the Cumberlands). In the latest maps they don't show it. They treat it as if the contours are original. Not a good idea. This entry has been archived and is no longer accepting comments. |
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