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Re: Pictures of your locale

Postby DrEvil » Sat Apr 30, 2016 6:50 pm

As usual I can't be arsed to take my own pictures, so I'll just crib from Wikipedia. This is roughly the view from my house (it's about 150 yards to the left of where this was taken).

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Re: Pictures of your locale

Postby zangtang » Sun May 01, 2016 12:16 pm

thats a bitching steep walk to the monastery there !......

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Re: Pictures of your locale

Postby DrEvil » Sun May 01, 2016 5:34 pm

No monasteries, but supposedly an ancient stone altar to Ullr somewhere up there. And yes, it's steep. Bring chocolate and good stamina.

The really steep parts are about a half hour from where I live, in Gudvangen by the Nærøyfjord:
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Re: Pictures of your locale

Postby PufPuf93 » Sun May 01, 2016 5:43 pm

Awesome mountains Dr Evil

Wild ride off the mountains too.
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Re: Pictures of your locale

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sun May 01, 2016 9:56 pm

^^^^ Truly awesome, Dr. That video was a frightening! Thrilling! So close to doom, he was! But it was cool watching his shadow grow and shrink, reflecting his height from the ground. What a ride!!

NY claims to have mountains, but our highest peak in the Adirondacks is only 5,343 feet high! The Catskills are much older though, but due to erosion its highest peak is now only 4180'. The Catskills formed some 395 to 325 million years ago. The Appalachians, the oldest mountains on Earth, were formed about 480 million years ago. Oddly enough, the Appalachians were once connected at one end to the Little Atlas Range in Morocco and at the other, the Highlands of Scotland. A very long time ago. (The Himalaya's are babies, only 50 million years old.)

I love dramatic panoramas! Thank you for sharing.
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Re: Pictures of your locale

Postby DrEvil » Mon May 02, 2016 7:49 am

^^You're welcome.

Here's a couple more from the Aurland Valley (aka the Valley of Love because people have a tendency to run off into the bushes and do the naughty):

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This is a Giant's Kettle called 'Vetlahelvete' (Little Hell), which according to legend is bottomless, and contains the bodies of several of the wives of a crazy guy who used to live in the valley:
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Re: Pictures of your locale

Postby chump » Wed Jun 01, 2016 8:29 pm

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itty bitty backyard bunny

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red wing blackbird eyeballin' a finch

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blue herons made a dead relative part of their nest
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Re: Pictures of yer locale

Postby chump » Fri Aug 12, 2016 12:48 pm

Back 1889, Seattle - built at the base of some very steep mountains, suffered a fire that destroyed the entire business district. Instead of clearing the rubble away, the city filled it all in and rebuilt a new city atop the ruins - meandering beneathe the streets today.

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looking up thru the sidewalk from the street below

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Somebody's sign from long ago

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Tesla generator

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Olde business district beneathe the new


When I toured the Seattle Underground, the tour guide mentioned Madame Lou... Madame Lou who? Madame Lou Graham - originally Dorothea Georgine Emile Ohben, whose family was from Germany. She pitched the prospect of pricey prostitution to savvy Seattle city officials - featuring sophisticated women who could discuss any topic with their well heeled clientele. Madame Lou's prostitutes - were practically prepared from pre-pubescence to please the pervs who paid the pimps; and for peforming some blackmail and rituals too.

At the end of the tour, I asked our guide why he failed to mention Mr Drumpf. He and the other guides all looked at each other, as though I shouldn't have asked that question; then pointed out that everyone who hustled in Seattle at that time did so only with Madame Lou's blessing.

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Madame Lou with some of the girls - and "her dirty secret" with his back to the wall



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monorail

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Seattle nightscape

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Seattle Space Needle sproutin' from the fountain

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Seattle skyline
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