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  • Abstract pattern in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-412_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Tides have shaped sea sand into scalloped abstract patterns at Seaside, on the Oregon coast, USA
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  • Abstract flowstone pattern, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, in the Guadalupe Mountains, Chihuahuan Desert, southeast New Mexico, USA. Hike in on your own via the natural entrance or take an elevator from the visitor center. Geology: 4 to 6 million years ago, an acid bath in the water table slowly dissolved the underground rooms of Carlsbad Caverns, which then drained along with the uplift of the Guadalupe Mountains. The Guadalupe Mountains are the uplifted part of the ancient Capitan Reef which thrived along the edge of an inland sea more than 250 million years ago during Permian time. Carlsbad Caverns National Park protects part of the Capitan Reef, one of the best-preserved, exposed Permian-age fossil reefs in the world. The park's magnificent speleothems (cave formations) are due to rain and snowmelt soaking through soil and limestone rock, dripping into a cave, evaporating and depositing dissolved minerals. Drip-by-drip, over the past million years or so, Carlsbad Cavern has slowly been decorating itself. The slowest drips tend to stay on the ceiling (as stalactites, soda straws, draperies, ribbons or curtains). The faster drips are more likely to decorate the floor (with stalagmites, totem poles, flowstone, rim stone dams, lily pads, shelves, and cave pools). Today, due to the dry desert climate, few speleothems inside any Guadalupe Mountains caves are wet enough to actively grow. Most speleothems inside Carlsbad Cavern would have been much more active during the last ice age-up to around 10,000 years ago, but are now mostly inactive.
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  • Abstract white ceiling pattern marbled with yellow in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-439_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Abstract white ceiling pattern marbled with yellow in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-438_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Abstract wall pattern in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-400_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Abstract ceiling pattern in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-378_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Abstract pattern in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-357_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Abstract pattern in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-334_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Tides have shaped sea sand into scalloped abstract patterns at Seaside, on the Oregon coast, USA
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  • An abstract pattern of orange-yellow sandstone decorates Crack Canyon, on federal BLM land in San Rafael Swell, near Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers American public lands.
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  • Abstract: A car hood reflects a lined pattern of a fiberglass roof, in Lima, Peru, South America.
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  • Abstract helictite pattern in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-305_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Abstract helictite pattern in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-417_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Abstract puff-ball pattern in Caverns of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, USA. The world-class Caverns of Sonora have a stunning and sparkling array of speleothems (helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, coral trees, and other calcite crystal formations). National Speleological Society co-founder, Bill Stephenson said, after seeing it for the first time, "The beauty of Caverns of Sonora cannot be exaggerated...not even by a Texan!" Geologically, the cave formed between 1.5 to 5 million years ago within 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) Segovia limestone, of the Edward limestone group. A fault allowed gases to rise up to mix with aquifer water, making acid which dissolved the limestone, leaving the cave. Between 1 and 3 million years ago, the water drained from the cave, after which speleothems begain forming. It is one of the most active caves in the world, with over 95% of its formations still growing. Sonora Caves are on Interstate 10, about half-way between Big Bend National Park and San Antonio, Texas.
    1403TX-383_Caverns-of-Sonora_Texas.jpg
  • Orange and white sandstone erodes into abstract patterns in Zion National Park adjoins Springdale, Utah, USA.
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  • Flowstone forms abstract shapes in Mammoth Cave National Park, which was established in 1941 in Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 and international Biosphere Reserve 1990. With over 390 miles (630 km) of passageways, the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System is the longest known in the world. Mammoth Cave developed in thick Mississippian-aged limestone strata capped by a layer of Big Clifty Sandstone. Descending limestone layers include the Girkin Formation, Saint Genevieve Limestone, and Saint Louis Limestone.
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  • Abstract concrete: broken cement and rebar skeleton of former industry decays in Anacortes, on Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, Washington, USA. From 1892-1930s, the site hosted sawmills and a box factory, followed by the Anacortes Veneer mill in 1939, becoming Custom Plywood from 1962-1990s, until destroyed by fire. A few years after this 2005 photo was taken, a clean-up from 2011-2013 ecologically restored the site back to coastal marsh. Changing economic cycles have brought the area back to nature.
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  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed in a tunnel of the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht along the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water through galleries and rocky tunnels over 1000 meters into the ravine, under 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus.
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  • Explore the beautiful slot of Ding Canyon on BLM land in the San Rafael Swell, near Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA. As part of the Colorado Plateau, the San Rafael Swell is a giant dome-shaped anticline of sandstone, shale, and limestone (160-175 million years old) that was pushed up during the Paleocene Laramide Orogeny 60-40 million years ago. Since then, infrequent but powerful flash floods have eroded the sedimentary rocks into valleys, canyons, gorges, mesas, and buttes. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers American public lands.
    1503SW-0780_Ding-Canyon.jpg
  • Explore the beautiful slot of Ding Canyon on BLM land in the San Rafael Swell, near Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA. As part of the Colorado Plateau, the San Rafael Swell is a giant dome-shaped anticline of sandstone, shale, and limestone (160-175 million years old) that was pushed up during the Paleocene Laramide Orogeny 60-40 million years ago. Since then, infrequent but powerful flash floods have eroded the sedimentary rocks into valleys, canyons, gorges, mesas, and buttes. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers American public lands.
    1503SW-0777_Ding-Canyon.jpg
  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed along the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht in the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water and through galleries and rocky tunnels over a kilometer into the cool ravine, beneath 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus.
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  • Scottish Parliament Building was opened 2004 in the Holyrood area of the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom, Europe. The abstract modernist structure was designed by Catalan architect Enric Miralles (1955–2000). Scottish Parliament had previously dropped out of existence from 1707 through 1999. The original Parliament of Scotland was the national legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland, existing from the early 1200s until the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. Scottish Parliament disappeared with the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain at Westminster in London. Following a Scottish referendum in 1997, the current Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, which sets out its powers as a devolved legislature, which first met in 1999. The Scottish Parliament has the power to legislate in all areas that are not explicitly reserved to Westminster.
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  • Scottish Parliament Building was opened 2004 in the Holyrood area of the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom, Europe. The abstract modernist structure was designed by Catalan architect Enric Miralles (1955–2000). Scottish Parliament had previously dropped out of existence from 1707 through 1999. The original Parliament of Scotland was the national legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland, existing from the early 1200s until the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. Scottish Parliament disappeared with the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain at Westminster in London. Following a Scottish referendum in 1997, the current Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, which sets out its powers as a devolved legislature, which first met in 1999. The Scottish Parliament has the power to legislate in all areas that are not explicitly reserved to Westminster.
    17SC1-4445_Scotland.jpg
  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed along the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht in the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water and through galleries and rocky tunnels over a kilometer into the cool ravine, beneath 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus.
    16SWIC-606.jpg
  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed along the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht in the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water and through galleries and rocky tunnels over a kilometer into the cool ravine, beneath 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus.
    16SWIC-594.jpg
  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed along the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht in the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water and through galleries and rocky tunnels over a kilometer into the cool ravine, beneath 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus.
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  • A white dike intrudes into blue-gray rock forming an abstract tree shape with yellow lichen suggesting leaves. My favorite hike in the Bishop Creek watershed goes from South Lake to Long Lake and Saddlerock Lake, looping back via a steeper, poorly marked route to Ruwau Lake, Chocolate Lakes, and Bull Lake, in John Muir Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, Sierra Nevada, California, USA. The rewarding semi-loop is 9 miles with 2220 feet cumulative gain. An easier walk is 7.2 miles round trip with 1500 feet gain to Saddlerock Lake, out and back via beautiful Long Lake.
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  • Scottish Parliament Building was opened 2004 in the Holyrood area of the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom, Europe. The abstract modernist structure was designed by Catalan architect Enric Miralles (1955–2000). Scottish Parliament had previously dropped out of existence from 1707 through 1999. The original Parliament of Scotland was the national legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland, existing from the early 1200s until the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. Scottish Parliament disappeared with the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain at Westminster in London. Following a Scottish referendum in 1997, the current Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, which sets out its powers as a devolved legislature, which first met in 1999. The Scottish Parliament has the power to legislate in all areas that are not explicitly reserved to Westminster.
    17SC1-4443_Scotland.jpg
  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed along the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht in the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water and through galleries and rocky tunnels over a kilometer into the cool ravine, beneath 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus.
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  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed along the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht in the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water and through galleries and rocky tunnels over a kilometer into the cool ravine, beneath 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus.
    16SWIC-595.jpg
  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed along the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht in the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water and through galleries and rocky tunnels over a kilometer into the cool ravine, beneath 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus.
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  • Glass reflecting an abstract pattern of cumulus clouds obscures rows of bottles seen behind. These prominent windows front the finest home in Bodie, owned by James Stuart Cain from the 1890s - 1940s. Bodie is now California's official state gold rush ghost town. Jessie McGath originally built this house for his new wife in 1879, and JS Cain bought it in the 1890s. Cain moved to Bodie when he was 25 and built an empire starting with putting lumber barges on Mono Lake and transporting timber to support mine shafts, stoke boilers for machinery, build & heat buildings, and cook food. Cain eventually took control of the Stamp Mill though court action and went on to be the principal property owner and one of the richest men in town. Bodie State Historic Park lies in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, near Bridgeport, California, USA. After W. S. Bodey's original gold discovery in 1859, profitable gold ore discoveries in 1876 and 1878 transformed "Bodie" from an isolated mining camp to a Wild West boomtown. By 1879, Bodie had a population of 5000-7000 people with 2000 buildings. At its peak, 65 saloons lined Main Street, which was a mile long. Bodie declined rapidly 1912-1917 and the last mine closed in 1942. Bodie became a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. This image was stitched from two photos to increase pixel count and potential print size.
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  • A white salt crust forms an abstract pattern over orange-red sandstone in Crack Canyon, in San Rafael Swell, near Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA.
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  • A colorful abstract pattern of 250 million-year-old Grindelwald limestone is exposed along the boardwalk within Gletscherschlucht in the White Lütschine river gorge, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier last extended through Gletscherschlucht gorge in 1855 and has receded very rapidly, melting back more than 3.75 kilometers as of 2014. Consistent with a pattern global warming, the glacier may entirely disappear by 2100. From Gletscherschlucht hotel restaurant, a wooden walkway leads over raging water and through galleries and rocky tunnels over a kilometer into the cool ravine, beneath 100-meter-high cliffs. You can walk to Gletscherschlucht in 35 minutes from the center of Grindelwald or take the bus. (This image has been rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise for artistic effect.)
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
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  • Exterior facade, glass window patttern. Seattle Public Library, designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, finished in 2004. Address: 1000 Fourth Ave, Seattle, Washington 98164, USA.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
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  • Hail on the ground in the Cadini di Misurina near Rifugio Savio, in the Sesto Dolomites, Belluno province, Italy, Europe. Loop hike the Cadini di Misurina via Rifugio Savio (5-mile circuit with 1850 feet gain) from Chalet Lago d’Antorno Trailhead.
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  • Polygonal lichen pattern on rock, Gschlöß Valley, Innergschloss, Hohe Tauern NP, Austria, Eastern Alps, Europe. Hike the beautiful Gschlöß Valley (Gschlößtal) to see the rapidly-melting Schlaten Glacier (Schlatenkees) in the Venediger Group, along the rewarding Gletscherweg Innergschloss loop trail in Hohe Tauern ("High Mountain Pass") National Park, state of Salzburg, Austria, Eastern Alps, Europe. Beautifully striated rock patterns are exposed along Schlatenbach stream. Directions: from Mittersill, drive 30 minutes south. Take the long tunnel (€13 toll each way) on FelbertauernStrasse mountain road B108, exit sharply right, then park in the pay lot at Matreier Tauernhaus. The Gletscherweg Innergschloss circuit is 6 miles with 2400 feet gain if using the taxi round trip from Matreier Tauernhaus to Innergschlöß, or else 12 miles & 3600 feet gain from Matreier Tauernhaus parking lot. In July 2023, the Innergschlöß taxis were €6 per person, every 20 minutes from 8:20am–5pm, either by fast van or slow tractor-pulled trailer, to reach Alpengasthof Venedigerhaus in Innergschlöß. At the loop's high point, optionally add Neue Prager Hut 3.2 mi with 1850 ft gain (making 9.2 mi round trip with 3850 ft gain, with taxi). If you have an extra day, hike from Innergschlöß along the Ochsnerwaldweg trail, on the mid level north side of Gschloss Valley (4 mi with 1100 ft gain round trip).
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  • Sedimentary rock pattern in Whispering Cave along Hemlock Bridge Trail, in Hocking Hills State Park, near Logan, Ohio, USA. The park contains numerous gorges, waterfalls, overhangs, and cliffs worn out of the picturesque Black Hand Sandstone, colored from orange to tan. The Black Hand Sandstone Member of the Cuyahoga Formation was deposited early in the Mississippian Period (359-318 million years ago). It underlies the Hocking Hills like a sandwich, with a hard top and bottom and a soft middle layer. Its geologic formation involved the ancient Appalachian Mountains to the east feeding rivers which deposited sand and gravel, which later become a coarse, sometimes conglomeratic quartz sandstone.
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  • Painting of Alkayhko, the fire woman, at Nanguluwurr Aboriginal rock art site, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. Alkayhko is one of the First People or Nayuhyungki who created the world. She planted the yellow banksias in the woodlands and used their smouldering flowers to carry fire between camps. Notice her four arms and banksias attached to her head.
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  • Zebra Stone is a fascinating, private science museum in Northern Territory, Australia. Zebra stone is a unique, very fine-grained siltstone / claystone, formed from 0.6 to 1 billion years old — first discovered in 1924 by T. Blatchford, near the old Argyle Downs homestead, Western Australia. The rock is mostly extremely fine-grained quartz and sericite, with minor alunite, kaolinite clay and its polymorph dickite. It shows regularly spaced, ferruginous (rusty iron) brown bands on a white to pale brown clay rich matrix. Address: 895 Litchfield Park Rd, Rum Jungle, NT, Australia, 0822.
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  • Copper pattern in a rock. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952. It's just west of Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • Rock pattern. Sperry Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Leaves are silhouetted against the blue-green lake of Obersee, in Berchtesgaden National Park, Germany, Europe. Popular boat tours ply the fjord-like Königssee (King’s Lake), starting from Schönau am Königssee, near Berchtesgaden. To avoid crowds, take the first boat in the morning. At the last stop, Salet, easy walking 1–5 miles round trip lets you experience the beautiful lake of Obersee. Berchtesgaden National Park is honored by UNESCO as Berchtesgadener Land Biosphere Reserve.
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  • Leaves are silhouetted against the blue-green lake of Obersee, in Berchtesgaden National Park, Germany, Europe. Popular boat tours ply the fjord-like Königssee (King’s Lake), starting from Schönau am Königssee, near Berchtesgaden. To avoid crowds, take the first boat in the morning. At the last stop, Salet, easy walking 1–5 miles round trip lets you experience the beautiful lake of Obersee. Berchtesgaden National Park is honored by UNESCO as Berchtesgadener Land Biosphere Reserve.
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  • Riding the Rifugio Lagazuoi Funivia (cable car) reaches a scenic panorama of the Dolomites, improved by walking to Piccolo Lagazuoi (0.8 miles round trip with 400 feet gain). Rifugio Lagazuoi perches above Falzarego Pass, halfway between Cortina d'Ampezzo and the Badia Valley in the Dolomites, Belluno province, Italy, Europe. From the Refuge, one can walk 2.5 miles one way down 2200 feet on steep trails, optionally via dark slippery tunnels built in World War I (bring a flashlight) in the Ampezzo Dolomites. The Dolomites are honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
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  • Sedimentary layers of the Black Hand Sandstone Member of the Cuyahoga Formation, at Cantwell Cliffs, Hocking Hills State Park, near Logan, Ohio, USA. The park contains numerous gorges, waterfalls, overhangs, and cliffs worn out of the picturesque Black Hand Sandstone, colored from orange to tan. The Black Hand Sandstone Member of the Cuyahoga Formation was deposited early in the Mississippian Period (359-318 million years ago). It underlies the Hocking Hills like a sandwich, with a hard top and bottom and a soft middle layer. Its geologic formation involved the ancient Appalachian Mountains to the east feeding rivers which deposited sand and gravel, which later become a coarse, sometimes conglomeratic quartz sandstone.
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  • Pink sunset at BIG4 Howard Springs Holiday Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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  • Natural striped rock pattern, Nanguluwurr Aboriginal rock art site, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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  • Rice terraces on Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. The name Flores is the Portuguese and Spanish word for "Flowers".
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  • Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) Aboriginal art gallery loop walk, Kakadu National Park, Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia
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  • Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) Aboriginal art gallery loop walk, Kakadu National Park, Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia
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  • Zebra Stone is a fascinating, private science museum in Northern Territory, Australia. Zebra stone is a unique, very fine-grained siltstone / claystone, formed from 0.6 to 1 billion years old — first discovered in 1924 by T. Blatchford, near the old Argyle Downs homestead, Western Australia. The rock is mostly extremely fine-grained quartz and sericite, with minor alunite, kaolinite clay and its polymorph dickite. It shows regularly spaced, ferruginous (rusty iron) brown bands on a white to pale brown clay rich matrix. Address: 895 Litchfield Park Rd, Rum Jungle, NT, Australia, 0822.
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  • Zebra Stone is a fascinating, private science museum in Northern Territory, Australia. Zebra stone is a unique, very fine-grained siltstone / claystone, formed from 0.6 to 1 billion years old — first discovered in 1924 by T. Blatchford, near the old Argyle Downs homestead, Western Australia. The rock is mostly extremely fine-grained quartz and sericite, with minor alunite, kaolinite clay and its polymorph dickite. It shows regularly spaced, ferruginous (rusty iron) brown bands on a white to pale brown clay rich matrix. Address: 895 Litchfield Park Rd, Rum Jungle, NT, Australia, 0822.
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  • Zebra Stone is a fascinating, private science museum in Northern Territory, Australia. Zebra stone is a unique, very fine-grained siltstone / claystone, formed from 0.6 to 1 billion years old — first discovered in 1924 by T. Blatchford, near the old Argyle Downs homestead, Western Australia. The rock is mostly extremely fine-grained quartz and sericite, with minor alunite, kaolinite clay and its polymorph dickite. It shows regularly spaced, ferruginous (rusty iron) brown bands on a white to pale brown clay rich matrix. Address: 895 Litchfield Park Rd, Rum Jungle, NT, Australia, 0822.
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  • Zebra Stone is a fascinating, private science museum in Northern Territory, Australia. Zebra stone is a unique, very fine-grained siltstone / claystone, formed from 0.6 to 1 billion years old — first discovered in 1924 by T. Blatchford, near the old Argyle Downs homestead, Western Australia. The rock is mostly extremely fine-grained quartz and sericite, with minor alunite, kaolinite clay and its polymorph dickite. It shows regularly spaced, ferruginous (rusty iron) brown bands on a white to pale brown clay rich matrix. Address: 895 Litchfield Park Rd, Rum Jungle, NT, Australia, 0822.
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  • Seen from Barron Falls Skyrail Station, Barron Falls cascades steeply from Atherton Tablelands along the Barron River near Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The Skyrail Rainforest Cableway transports visitors from Cairns to Kuranda, in Queensland, Australia. A fun loop trip starts at the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway's Smithfield Terminal, to reach Kuranda village by gondola. We enjoyed returning via the Kuranda Scenic Railway to Freshwater Station in Cairns and back to Smithfield Terminal via bus.
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  • Total solar eclipse of April 20, 2023, seen from a ship in the Timor Sea off the coast of the Kimberley, Western Australia. The solar eclipse at 11:49am April 20 (Perth time) was bright and brief, with 1 minute of totality and 2.5 hours of partiality. Bright red prominences erupted from the sun’s left side and the dimmer corona spread exquisitely into space. Tom edited this HDR composite photo to show what our eyes saw (by combining three images, exposed at 1/125th, 1/1250th and 1/12,800th second). From Darwin in Northern Territory, we cruised the Kimberley coast of Western Australia aboard the Coral Geographer chartered by Wilderness Travel tour agency. The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of the state of Western Australia.
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  • Babinda Boulders features lush rainforest and a popular swimming hole, at Babinda, Queensland, Australia. Boulders Scenic Reserve is managed by the Cairns Regional Council, adjacent to Wooroonooran National Park in far north Queensland, Australia.
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  • Babinda Boulders features lush rainforest and a popular swimming hole, at Babinda, Queensland, Australia. Boulders Scenic Reserve is managed by the Cairns Regional Council, adjacent to Wooroonooran National Park in far north Queensland, Australia.
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  • Raised arms at the Wandjina Art Gallery on Wollaston Island, Kimberley coast of Western Australia. From Darwin in Northern Territory, we cruised the Kimberley coast of Western Australia aboard the Coral Geographer chartered by Wilderness Travel tour agency. The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of the state of Western Australia.
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  • Ancient rock painting at Wandjina Art Gallery on Wollaston Bay, along the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. From Darwin in Northern Territory, we cruised the Kimberley coast of Western Australia aboard the Coral Geographer chartered by Wilderness Travel tour agency. The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of the state of Western Australia.
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  • Tree roots. Explore a beautiful coastal forest estuary along Madja Boardwalk in Daintree National Park, along Cape Tribulation Road, Queensland, Australia. Walk from rainforest to mangrove forest, where the native plants represent 400 million years of evolution. As the world's oldest living rainforest—around 130 million years old—Daintree Rainforest is much older than the Amazon. Alongside the Great Barrier Reef, the Daintree Rainforest ("Wet Tropics of Queensland") is the only place in the world where two UNESCO World Heritage Sites meet.
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  • Copper pattern in a rock. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952. It's just west of Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • Octopus agave (Agave vilmoriniana). Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952.
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  • Garden Wall hike at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Red and orange alpine moonscape on Akamina Ridge, in Akamina-Kishinena Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. The loop hike to Forum and Wall Lakes via Akamina Ridge is 12 miles with 3440 feet ascent & descent. The trailhead is in Alberta, accessible by road from Waterton Park.
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  • From Akamina Ridge in Canada, see blue ridges of Glacier National Park located in the United States. The loop hike to Forum and Wall Lakes via Akamina Ridge in Akamina-Kishinena Provincial Park (British Columbia, Canada) is 12 miles with 3440 feet ascent & descent. The trailhead is in Alberta, accessible by road from Waterton Park.
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  • Ancient seabed ripples in Akamina-Kishinena Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. The loop hike to Forum and Wall Lakes via Akamina Ridge is 12 miles with 3440 feet ascent & descent. The trailhead is in Alberta, accessible by road from Waterton Park.
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  • Orange rock pattern with yellow lichen. Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Orange rock pattern with yellow lichen. Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Orange & blue rock pattern. Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Orange and blue striped rock pattern. Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Red, orange, & white rock pattern. Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Red, orange, & white rock pattern. Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Yellow lichen pattern on orange rock. Gunsight Pass Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Broken purple boulders, Sperry Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Ancient fossilized orange & purple seabed ripples at Comeau Pass, Sperry Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern vista at Comeau Pass, Sperry Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern vista at Comeau Pass, Sperry Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern, Gunsight Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rime ice on pine needles at Gunsight Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • A stream descends strikingly striated rock layers above Gunsight Lake, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Borer beetle tracks, Gunsight Pass Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern, seen on the hike to Dragon's Tail ridge, starting from Hidden Lake Traihead at Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern, seen on the hike to Dragon's Tail ridge, starting from Hidden Lake Traihead at Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern, seen on the hike to Dragon's Tail ridge, starting from Hidden Lake Traihead at Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern, seen on the hike to Dragon's Tail ridge, starting from Hidden Lake Traihead at Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern, seen on the hike to Dragon's Tail ridge, starting from Hidden Lake Traihead at Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Rock pattern, Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Green rock pattern, Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • The Eiger at sunset seen from Hotel Gletschergarten in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Europe.
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  • Swiss Via Alpina 1: sharp blue ridges of the Alps seen from atop Mt. Titlis, near Engelberg, Switzerland, Europe. In Engelberg, we rode the Titlis lift, the world's first rotating cable car. The Titlis cable car system connects Engelberg (996 m or 3,268 ft) to the summit of Klein Titlis (3,028 m or 9,934 ft) via stations at Trübsee and Stand. At Klein Titlis, we visited the illuminated Glacier Cave and Titlis Cliff Walk, the highest elevation suspension bridge in Europe, opened in December 2012, giving views across the Alps. We enjoyed walking 2 miles around scenic Trübsee, a circuit where six play stations for kids make an ideal family excursion, suitable for strollers. Scheduling 3 nights in Engelberg provided a well-needed rest break in the middle of hiking the first ten stages of the Swiss Via Alpina (National Route 1).
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  • Swiss Via Alpina 1, Day 5: views on descent from Surenenpass to Fürenalp, near Engelberg, Switzerland, Europe. Swiss Via Alpina (National Route 1), Day 5: From Altdorf, we rode the PostBus to Attinghausen Seilbahn, a cable car which ascends to Brüsti, from where we hiked over Surenenpass to Fürenalp cable car (8.8 miles, 3360 feet up, 2340 ft down), which we rode plus PostBus to reach Hotel Sonnwendhof in Engelberg.
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  • Sunset at Bonatti Refuge in Val Ferret, Italy, the Alps, Europe. Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB) trek Day 5: I hiked from Courmayeur via the Mont de la Saxe option to Walter Bonatti Refuge (10 miles with 5200 feet ascent, 2700 ft descent) (whereas the standard TMB route hiked separately by Carol was 8 miles with 3300 ft up, 700 ft down).
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