Summer Photo Thread 2014 (towns, San Francisco, stations, snowy)

[chicagogeorge]

Wife and kids and friends went to the beach today

[Joe90]

Originally Posted by chicagogeorge

wife and kids and friends went to the beach today

Interesting to be by a lake instead of the sea.. Same colour sand as the stuff around here.

[Hiromant]

[nei]

via the Mt. Washington Observatory. Bike race at the summit:



Ever wonder what it's like racing a bike up 4600 vertical feet of mountain road? We enjoyed watching the top finishers for the Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb this morning who did just that! This is a picture of the first place finisher, making it to the summit in under an hour!

[Jakobsli]

That's an impressive climb! Don't want his legs tomorrow though

Today also was the third leg of Arctic Race of Norway, probably the worlds northernmost. Finished at a plateau 400 m asl at 70 N today:
Stage 3 - Alta > Kvænangsfjellet - Arctic Race of Norway 2014
Tomorrow finish (and start) will be in Tromsø, final leg.

[Rozenn]

Those guys are masochists.

Originally Posted by Jakobsli

Nice pics! Seems you also entered the alpine tundra.

Some of those images looks very much like Norwegian alpine mountain landscapes! especially these two images:
https://imageshack.us/download/538/RRte44.jpg
https://imageshack.us/download/901/UXTwBJ.jpg

Yep, your photos looked familiar. I bet the climates are pretty similar. Though the sun must feel stronger here at 42°N. The snow patch was around the altitude of the summit of the Galdhøpiggen. Then again I saw snow at 1,800 m / 6,000' today, surrounded by trees. Strange as the treeline on north-facing slopes is aound 2,400 m. Looked like the remnants of an avalanche.



Btw, can't see most photos with the slow internet. I understand Joe's pain.

[Hiromant]

Man, I love August and September. These gorgeous clouds keep rolling by, I must stop every few hundred meters to snap pictures. The return of cold weather sure is easy on the eyes.







As for daylight hours, it's still not very dark at 10 PM.

[chicagogeorge]

Busy day... Morning bike ride at the Prairie preserve by my house



Then into the city by the beach for lunch

[Wildcat15]

Originally Posted by chicagogeorge

Then into the city by the beach for lunch

Really wanted to see that airshow but it was just too far. Amazing lineup.

[nei]

Delayed photos, from over three weeks ago. Taken in and around Ithaca, NY. House peeking behind the trees:



Nearby gorge:





Gorge residents:



Another gorge, with big waterfall:





something about the light shows it was a hazy humid day:



well landscaped local sidewalk:



Pixel, local bar:



On rural roads outside of the city. Neat sunset:



Two more views of the sunset:

Spoiler

Humidity cleared out. Some rural views:





Another gorge:







not humid looking:



trail:





Buttermilk Falls, evening:







Can I go up this? Let's see...

Spoiler

step carefully



leveling out;



not going up that! Nice view to end:

backtracked to the real trail











performance on the town park:



same falls as shown at the beginning



and the overlook:



new drawings in the shed:



Tauganock Falls, tallest single drop falls in NY State:







riverbed was half dry. The wet part very slippery:



bottom of this was fun to stand in