I bagged three peaks that were each over 10,000 feet yesterday but I was too tired to brag about it so here you gopic.twitter.com/qCQLKKNAOR
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a “peak” here is defined as a mountain that people often climb on its own without visiting the other ones so it’s a big deal ok
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a creepy defunct (I hope? because it’s bent in half??) gondola system the communications workers used during winter (road inaccessible)pic.twitter.com/HsVBEEiuFd
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side view of lake tahoe that lets you picture how deep it is (about 1600 feet max, 1000 feet average)pic.twitter.com/DTcK1J3fIi
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looks like an older generation of lift with the visible counterweights. I google around for such a lift at Mt Rose (in NE tahoe, near where you were based on shot of Tahoe in this thread), couldn't find anything.
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it’s on Relay Ridge by Relay Peak (next to the big antenna)pic.twitter.com/DaXE2Pj2yF
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The tree in my mountains post is just beside the dirt road alongside that gondola thinghttps://meaningness.com/metablog/meaningness-mountains …
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those are whitebark pines right? the crazy ones some have described as “grotesquely beautiful”
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it's sleeping
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There is something peaceful about abandoned infrastructure because it shows the absence of ruthless garbage collection.
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Wait I actually wrote something about this already https://ema-fox.github.io/thoughts/ugly.html …
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