Tootfinder

Yep it's a volcano all right.
Quakes around here are pretty common but this is the first time I've noticed one with a negative depth. Makes sense given that the mountain is over 4km high, there's plenty of spots deep underground that are well above sea level.
I'm no geologist but there's probably either a magma chamber there or one deeper underground that's inducing stresses in overlying rocks.

Today has been mainly about stripping down my favourite mountain bike for repainting and renovation.
#BikeTooter

Yesterday near Rossgundscharte, Allgäu High Alps
(Longest, most stunning & varied tour in a while, traversing Warmatsgundtal into Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley — 21km, incl. 1450 hm grueling descent over loose gravel...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Good Morning #Canada
We are wrapping up a Canada-cation with the family at Blue Mountain in Collingwood, Ontario. This area has exploded as a year-round resort since my wife and I skied here in the mid-70s. One of the big tourist attractions that we never visited was Blue Mountain Pottery. Started in 1953 to help increase revenues in the gift shop for the ski resort, it produced pottery with distinctive mixtures of glazes, the most common of which included a blue-green and a dark grey or black glaze. The pottery became popular in Canada in the 1960s and 1970s; it was also exported to the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. After Blue Mountain Pottery closed in 2004, the pottery became popular among collectors, and examples are held by the Royal Ontario Museum and the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Pottery #CanadaCation
https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2014/07/how-pottery-saved-blue-mountain/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ozzy Osbourne:
🎵 Over the Mountain
#OzzyOsbourne
https://ellefson.bandcamp.com/track/over-the-mountain-ozzy-osbourne
https://open.spotify.com/track/0i1RTnH2Lj5gTDRU5wtyT2

Creative Commons, eine der ignoriertesten Lizenzen der Welt mit Sitz in Mountain View, diskutiert AI Scraper systematisch zu legitimieren. In other News sind die Koksvorräte in Mountain View auf historischem Tiefstand.
#CreativeCommons #CCSignals

Hot damn #iceland #landscape

Climate change and depopulation confirmed as main concerns affecting mountain areas in Europe https://phys.org/news/2025-06-climate-depopulation-main-affecting-mountain.html

Climate change and depopulation confirmed as main concerns affecting mountain areas in Europe
In Europe, mountain areas account for about 36% of the total territory and are home to 16% of the population, but they are crucial for the continent as a whole. The availability of basic commodities, like water, depends on them; they play a key role in carbon sequestration, and are areas of biodiversity.

Correlation of Coronal Hole Area Indices and Solar Wind Speed
Egor Illarionov, Andrey Tlatov, Ivan Berezin, Nadezhda Skorbezh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21641 https://

Correlation of Coronal Hole Area Indices and Solar Wind Speed
Coronal holes (CHs) are widely considered as the main sources of high-speed solar wind streams. We validate this thesis comparing the smoothed time series of solar wind speed measured by Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and various indices of CH areas constructed from the CH catalog compiled at the Kislovodsk Mountain Astronomical Station for the period 2010-2025. The main result is that we find specific indices of CH areas that give a strong correlation with smoothed solar wind speed variat…

Back home from a bike and hike with a friend. I'm absolutely devastated.
Every muscle from my hips downward hurts. But I made it!
#nature #landscape #hiking

My favorite blues and snow white sands near Crodon di San Candido (October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Extra big 3am kitty came by a few nights ago. California Mountain Lions are 100lbs or so. #Caturday https://loops.video/v/9M52GtXRqT

14 Mountain Towns in the U.S. So Beautiful They Feel Like Heaven on Earth
#travel
https://themodernfield.com/best-smal…

14 Mountain Towns in the U.S. So Beautiful They Feel Like Heaven on Earth
We all get that deep urge to swap city noise for the scent of pine. I know I have. Hence, I am always on the search for the best small mountain towns in the US. 

Somehow, my Mr. Boots air freshener ended up with a flower monocle.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Meagre Martin:
🎵 Mountain
#NowPlaying #MeagreMartin
https://meagremartin.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/2uOaHBDKHvC2YLkLahLmE2

We hoofed it up Mill Mountain before the heat ~really~ set in. The humidity did not wait, unfortunately, but we enjoyed it all the same.
We are now decamped in a coffee shop and pondering lunch options. I think we’re off to a bistro and bakery we’ve heard great things about. Their Better Than Sex cake is reputed to be true to its name.

Glacial lake flood hits Juneau, Alaska, reflecting a growing risk as mountain glaciers melt around the world https://phys.org/news/2025-08-glacial-lake-juneau-alaska-mountain.html
Glacial flooding measured in real time at Juneau, Alaska

Glacial lake flood hits Juneau, Alaska, reflecting a growing risk as mountain glaciers melt around the world
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.

The Origami flip graph of the $2\times n$ Miura-ori
Lumi Christensen, Thomas C. Hull, Emma O'Neil, Valentina Pappano, Natalya Ter-Saakov, Kacey Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19700

The Origami flip graph of the $2\times n$ Miura-ori
Given an origami crease pattern $C=(V,E)$, a straight-line planar graph embedded in a region of $\mathbb{R}^2$, we assign each crease to be either a mountain crease (which bends convexly) or a valley crease (which bends concavely), creating a mountain-valley (MV) assignment $μ:E\to\{-1,1\}$. An MV assignment $μ$ is locally valid if the faces around each vertex in $C$ can be folded flat under $μ$. In this paper, we investigate locally valid MV assignments of the Miura-ori, $M_{m,n}$, an $m\ti…

🖐️ Brembo Brakes Are Going on Mountain Bikes Now
#bikes

Brembo Brakes Are Going on Mountain Bikes Now
They've got very cute little red calipers, too.

#Requiescat For John Whitson, founder of Holy Mountain, who released essential albums by Six Organs of Admittance, Davis Redford Triad, Wooden Shjips, Zdrastvootie, Residual Echoes, OM, Daniel Higgs, Mammatus, and so many others. Here’s an interview from 2018.

Astroboter Asks: John Whitson (Holy Mountain Records // USA)
This interview with record label owner John Whitson from Holy Mountain Records is part of my ongoing series “Astroboter Asks”, in which I interview artists, creators and people who inspire me. Enjoy…

BIG KITTY!

Started watching Untamed on Netflix. Is it worth the time?
Just a few minutes in and I have trouble taking this seriously: mountain cop is suspended high up on the cliff of El Capitan and pulls out his phone that is not attached to a cord or anything to snap some photos 100s of meters above ground? Then he drops a wristband but finds it again at the bottom of El Capitan. At night! With a flashlight!
That's a lot of disbelief they are asking me to suspend...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Deftones:
🎵 my mind is a mountain
#Deftones
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vBRAhaSk91csuuWtttPf8

How do you think the Israel / Iran war ends?
Iran surrenders
Peace talks
US drops bunker buster on mountain
Israel nukes mountain bunker

Since some of you've been asking me if/when some of my photography is available in print form, I made a thi.ng:
https://calendar.thi.ng/
Join me on a journey through the breathtaking varied landscapes of the Alps. Captured over the past four years of hiking and personal discovery, this calendar showca…

Calendar: Mountain Life — Landscape photography by Karsten Schmidt
Calendar: Mountain Life — Landscape photography by Karsten Schmidt

Hey guys, let your path be always be filled with sunshine and a great view ahead.
Enjoy your weekend, stay safe, healthy and happy. Block the hate and be friendly to a random person. Often it's just a smile, a "good morning" that's a welcome surprise to someone.
#photography #landscape

Rocky Mountain Straphanger
How the Town of Banff (pop. 8,000) Built one of Alberta's Most Successful Transit Networks
Taras Grescoe
https://www.highspeed.blog/rocky-mountain-straphanger/?ref=high-speed-newsletter

Rocky Mountain Straphanger
How the Town of Banff (pop. 8,000) Built one of Alberta's Most Successful Transit Networks

F-ck...
“Chair of board for Trans Mountain to lead new Calgary-based federal Major Projects Office”
#EndFossilFuels #bcWildfire #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #ClimateEmergency #Liberals #ABPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/major-projects-office-carney-1.7620935

Existence and multiplicity of solutions to discrete fractional logarithmic Kirchhoff equations
Lidan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18840 https://arxiv.or…

Existence and multiplicity of solutions to discrete fractional logarithmic Kirchhoff equations
In this paper, we study the discrete fractional logarithmic Kirchhoff equation $$ \left(a+b \int_{\mathbb{Z}^d}|\nabla^s u|^{2} d μ\right) (-Δ)^s u+h(x) u=|u|^{p-2}u \log u^{2}, \quad x\in \mathbb{Z}^d, $$ where $a,\,b>0$ and $04$; then we verify the existence of ground state sign-changing solutions based on the method of Nehari manifold f…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Magenta Mountain (Edit)
#NowPlaying #KingGizzard #TheLizardWizard
https://playtodie.bandcamp.com/track/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-magenta-mountain-8-bit

Why is everything on the cloud these days?
I’m kind of getting tired of every piece of professional and business software being a SaaS or cloud-based solution these days.
I have a good computer, it can run a lot of complex programs on it locally. I wish I had the option to do so.
Not everything needs to be synced 24/7. And I’d much rather have some tools include a cloud sync functionality that backs up changes with some kind of regular frequency for version control and cross-device access, but otherwise runs on my device.
These days, when I’m trying to go work somewhere without an internet connection or am traveling and have spotty data - I can’t access 90% of my work. Files don’t back up locally even when there’s a native desktop client app. Why?
It feels wasteful, sending so much data to the internet and back with constantly required online sync and web apps.
I feel nostalgic now, remembering the days of software that would require buying a license every couple of years, that would run on your device and could be accessed even from the top of a remote mountain if you wished, and that didn’t log you out every other week.
#tech #software

Today’s road trip

Heat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions #Australia

Heat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions
Heat-stressed Victorian mountain ash forests are thinning fast, turning from carbon sinks to carbon sources, new research reveals.

A general model for time-minimizing navigation on a mountain slope under gravity
Nicoleta Aldea, Piotr Kopacz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06720 https://

A general model for time-minimizing navigation on a mountain slope under gravity
In this work, we solve the generalized Matsumoto's slope-of-a-mountain problem by means of Riemann-Finsler geometry, making close links with the Zermelo navigation problem. The time-minimizing navigation under gravity is analyzed in the general model of a slippery mountain slope being a Riemannian manifold. Both the transverse and longitudinal gravity-additives with respect to the direction of motion are admitted to vary simultaneously in the full ranges, showing the impact of cross- and along-…

Israel is counting on Trump to join the operation against Iran, now that the risks of failure and downed planes have been minimised.
“The whole operation is premised on the fact that the US will join at some point,” an Israeli official told CNN.
“We are waiting for the decision of the president,” another senior official told the network.
Israel has yet to attack Iran’s most secure enrichment facility, at Fordow, which is built into a mountain with up to 100 metres of rock abo…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Deftones:
🎵 my mind is a mountain
#Deftones
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vBRAhaSk91csuuWtttPf8
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Simulation and Performance Studies for the Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory
Carlos A. Arg\"uelles (for the TAMBO collaboration), Jeffrey Lazar (for the TAMBO collaboration), William Thompson (for the TAMBO collaboration), Pavel Zhelnin (for the TAMBO collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08524

Simulation and Performance Studies for the Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory
While IceCube's detection of astrophysical neutrinos at energies up to a few PeV has opened a new window to our Universe, much remains to be discovered regarding these neutrinos' origin and nature. In particular, the difficulty of differentiating electron- and tau-neutrino charged-current (CC) events limits our ability to measure precisely the flavor ratio of this flux. The Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory (TAMBO) is a next-generation neutrino observatory capable of producing a high-pu…

what was that silly helmet that Jonas #Vngegaard wore in his time trial uP a MOUNTAIN!
#TourdeFrance #TDF2025

Mark Lettieri - Guitar
Wes Stephenson - Bass
Jason "JT" Thomas - Drums
Shaun Martin - Keys
Frank Moka - Percussion
Live set @ New Mountain AVL Sol Bar
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yl-My520zdM&si=zf8iVVpnz56K3B0V

Was ist eigentlich der korrekte Hashtag für das Silkroad Mountain Race?
#smr25 oder #SMRno7?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Diana Ross:
🎵 Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
#DianaRoss
https://weddingparty.bandcamp.com/track/diana-ross-aint-no-mountain-high-enough-wedding-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1KbuhBnzMHp4eq1q6flhWd

Jon Hassell - "Earthquake Island" (1978)
#NowPlaying #JonHassell #TomatoMusic #NanaVasconcelos

Two national parks, two American robins (Turdus migratorius): in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; and at the summit of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park
#naturalist #wildlife #photography

Por si no se habían enterado, Deftones anunció la publicación de un nuevo disco este año y junto al anuncio lanzaron el primer adelanto «My Mind is a Mountain».
#Deftones

Stringent constraint on the CCC TL cosmology with $H(z)$ Measurements
Lei Lei (Purple Mountain Observatory, University of Science and Technology of China), Ze-Fan Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory, University of Science and Technology of China), Tong-Lin Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory, University of Science and Technology of China), Yi-Ying Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory), Guan-Wen Yuan (University of Trento, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications), Wei-Long Li…

Stringent constraint on the CCC+TL cosmology with $H(z)$ Measurements
Recently, the Covarying Coupling Constants and Tired Light (CCC+TL) hybrid model was proposed to explain the unexpectedly small angular diameters of high-redshift galaxies observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that are challenging to reconcile with the $Λ$CDM model. In this work, we test the CCC+TL model against model-independent Hubble parameter [$H(z)$] measurements obtained from cosmic chronometers. It turns out that the parameter set optimized for the type-Ia supernova (SN Ia) …

I wonder if I ever shared #photos from my #FrozenMajesties Collection - or at least it is a while since I last shared them.
Anyways, I took it during a winter hike in the #Karwendel and r…

It's one of those " I told you! " moment.
They Trusted ChatGPT To Plan Their Hike — And Ended Up Calling for Rescue - The Trek
https://thetrek.co/they-trusted-chatgpt-to-plan-their-hike-and-ended-up-calling-for-rescue/

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
View from Many Parks Curve. October 2016

Der diesjährige #Monsun im #Himalaya-Raum wird heißer und nasser als üblich.
Laut International Center for Integrated Mountain Development drohen vermehrt #Überschwemmungen,

Disasters loom over South Asia with forecast of a hotter, wetter monsoon
Communities across Asia's Himalayan Hindu Kush region face heightened disaster risks this monsoon season with temperatures and rainfall expected to exceed normal levels, experts warned on Thursday.

I don't want to live forever, I just want to live long enough to... (list in alphabetical order by verb):
- climb every mountain, hill, and cliff
- hug every pillow, plushie, and stuffed animal
- learn every language
- listen to every song, podcast, radio show, and sound effect
- meet every person, animal, and other living being
- play every video game, board game, sport, and musical instrument
- read every book, newspaper/magazine article, website, and social media post
- run every computer program
- sleep on every bed, couch, and futon
- swim in every lake, river, and other body of water
- view every painting, sculpture, photograph, map, and other work of art
- visit every city, landmark, historic site, and protected area
- watch every movie, TV show, video, and theater production
...that all shouldn't take too long, right?

steamy sunday on the lower east side with garcia peoples, the 2nd installment of their weekly july gig at piano's. new tunes, twin guitar zaps, & a few dips into the inner oceans (plus "holy mountain" screening behind them for extra zoneiness). #nyc

Top three Goldfrapp albums IMO:
1. Felt Mountain (not up for debate, sorry)
2. Silver Eye
3. Black Cherry
With this list as a preface, I pose to you, the reader, a daunting question:
Should I listen to Alison Goldfrapp’s new releases, or are they going to make me Upset somehow (not musically, just re: the post-Goldfrapp era in which we now find ourselves)

JP « Le Pad » Tremblay, "Montagne" (2021)
https://jplepadtremblay.bandcamp.com/track/montagne
The Flatlanders, "Rose From the Mountain" (1972)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Deftones:
🎵 my mind is a mountain
#Deftones
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vBRAhaSk91csuuWtttPf8

Wow, AI can now simulate a 2005 3D engine for a few minutes only by stealing petabytes of data and using the power consumption of a small country!
(With my puny human mind I can only imagine a mountain scene with a lake that looks like reality by not stealing anything at all and using the power consumption of a grain of rice.)

Alone[1] enjoying the peace & quiet at the end of the valley, in the cirque below The Great Wall (Grubenkarspitze, Karwendel)...
[1] Alone, apart from some adders in the grass...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: Blake, I've just been checking on Del Ten. It's an ultra planet, fantastic mountain scenery, and the gravity's so low you can practically fly.
BLAKE: Switch to manual.
ZEN: Confirmed
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/0 B7…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Inner Life:
🎵 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
#InnerLife
https://sfbdhq.bandcamp.com/track/inner-life-aint-no-mountain-high-enough-original-larry-levan-12-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/06xAJjt8HY09e14cLmBmgP

'Sonnenuntergang oder Sonnenaufgang' #FotoVorschlag 'Sunset or Sunrise'
You might know that I'm not that much a #sunrise / #sunset person. But that day we hiked to the sum…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kevin Morby:
🎵 I Have Been To The Mountain
#NowPlaying #KevinMorby
https://kevinmorby.bandcamp.com/track/i-have-been-to-the-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2umTklGNx0IiiTFFVNZNlC

My son's becoming a true master with #WorldPainter & #WorldMachine and has been creating some stunning and super detailed landscapes (not just alpines ones) for #Minecraft/Ardacraft/…

Nekso (@Nekso@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 2 images The new map is officially out! Download here: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/etelande-free-custom-realistic-minecraft-mountain-range-2-5k-x-2-5k-1-21-5/ #minecraft #minecraftmap #terrain

Quick snap from a smaller #cycling loop today. Now relaxing and recovering for the mountain tomorrow.
#benediktbeuern #KochelAmSee

Exactly one hundred sixty days apart.
(This past Friday vs. early Feb, Raintal)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Phtography

2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…

At 79, Dr. Jeffrey Bland hikes mountain ranges, surfs in the ocean, and sailed over 40,000 miles on his boat.
Dr. Jonny Bowden plays tennis two hours a day, hikes five days a week and conquered the Fight for Air Climb.
In this fireside chat, these two respected pioneers share science-backed secrets for living younger, longer.
As thriving examples of what’s possible through smart nutrition, functional medicine, and lifestyle design.
This conversation will explore h…

PanelPicker | SXSW Conference & Festivals
PanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.

Hey all, if you are just starting here and seek Accounts posting on mountains, hiking, mountaineering, trail-running and the outdoors in general:
Check out the Mastodon Starter Pack from @… :
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Mastodon Starter Pack: For Mountain Enthusiasts 🏔️ - Mastodon Starter Pack
Accounts posting on mountains, hiking, mountaineering, trail-running and the outdoors in general.

Erosion studies from our morning hike yesterday, a ~500m long section of the valley exposing interesting structures and the fragility of life resting on the thin layer of top soil...
#Geology #Erosion #NaturePhotography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Neil Young:
🎵 Sugar Mountain
#NeilYoung
https://killphonicrecords.bandcamp.com/track/sugar-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/1EVgCMjGny4sUxsZ7ghPmh

A selection of pictures from yesterday
#iceland #reykjavik

Uff finally I wrote the blogpost for a hike I did in May (and you've probably seen the video of it already). But I haven't shared the #photos ans some more background story from it.
I don't know why but this time I found it really hard to write. Maybe I'm a bit out of practice or I just didn't find the right mood for it - I'm not sure.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Deftones:
🎵 my mind is a mountain
#Deftones
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vBRAhaSk91csuuWtttPf8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
War:
🎵 Magic Mountain
#War
https://mixshowdjs.bandcamp.com/track/eric-burdon-war-magic-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/6QtiAYvcOTFkxtpgnojTOw

What Mountains Provide and Why They Need Protection #Mountains

What Mountains Provide and Why They Need Protection
Humans have the power to harm mountain ecosystems, but also the power to protect them as citizens, consumers, policymakers and tourists.

Yeah, that’s the stuff.
#iceland #reykjavik #nature

Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

#FotoVorschlag 'gegenlicht'
I think this might the topic.
I took the photo in early march this year.
The summit wasn't very crowded as it was VERY windy and thus very cold up there. Most people weren't prepared for this much wind and went further down to seek shelter from the wind and sit cozy in the sun.
I dressed up and spend the time exposed to the …

Nice to see Michael Hansmeyer still following his dreams: The White Tower was finally revealed 2 weeks ago, currently the largest 3D printed structure in the world (30 meters [90ft] tall), located in a small village in Switzerland:
https://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/white-tower

Tor Alva | White Tower - Project Overview
Tor Alva, White Tower, Weisser Turm in Mulegns, Switzerland, Origen Foundation

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Hollow Ship:
🎵 Magic Mountain
#HollowShip
https://hollowship.bandcamp.com/track/magic-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gExMyY0hcnLisq9OJRabP

Bitter Willow & Mountain Pine by the lakeside.
(The beautiful blue backgrounds are the colors of the water)
#NaturePhotography #Photography #BloomScrolling

I finally finished the blogpost including some new photos and a short video (!!) from my hike last Saturday.
To me it was a really really gorgeous day!
Read the story here: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/getting-up-early-for-the-mountains/
(a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Obongjayar:
🎵 Holy Mountain
#Obongjayar
https://obongjayar.bandcamp.com/track/holy-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2l5tfcgwEAi6gErNcsL5OU

And here are the last two #photos from my bike&hike recently. the one shows one of the (in my point of view) interesting geological parts of the hike. And in the second I tried to get some more foreground into the photo
I hope you enjoy the view as much as I enjoyed the hike up there 🙂
And I wonder if we could see the home area of @…

Solace! Spirit cleansing.
(Incredible light on our morning hike today. So very grateful for these experiences, especially these days... 🙏)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk

No footpath to be seen here, but a short impression from near the goal of our morning hike today, back down before more mountain bikers, hikers and horseflies arrived, then followed by a good day's work until late...
Ps. Sound on!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Peace & solitude on the Kessel ridge, the rim of a large doline funnel in the Ammergau Alps.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

This was a very nice loop between #ohlstadt and #garmischpartenkirchen!
Beautiful views to the #mountains, an excellent way, almost no major roads and we also escaped a little rain…

An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)

I took this photo pretty close after the last that I posted. I just turned around to see what's behind me. I assumed just the bushes and the trail.
But obviously I was high enough that I already got some nice view into the distance.
If you're wondering why it's so flat in the distance: I am directly at the northern end of the #alps. To the south, there are

Green Therapy
(an impression from an early morning hike last July)
#ForestFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography