"Infinity Pool" Views
- vandman
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Re: "Infinity Pool" Views
And this one I posted in the Photothon last week. Classic infinity, poised over the Kern Trench...
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Re: "Infinity Pool" Views
here's one taken in the ionian basin...
oops, that was done on page 1 already...
here's a few miles away of the lake at the base of scylla. it drops down into the enchanted gorge and then up to charybdis...
oops, that was done on page 1 already...
here's a few miles away of the lake at the base of scylla. it drops down into the enchanted gorge and then up to charybdis...
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Re: "Infinity Pool" Views
that last one totally reminds me of a place an architect friend of mine showed me a while back - Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore:
that pool is 55 stories above ground
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that pool is 55 stories above ground
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Re: "Infinity Pool" Views
vandman: I'm trying to place where you got that shot; was it below the Red Spur, or further north. Regardless, it's an intriguing angle!
lostcoyote: looks to me like the Ionian shot I posted (from 2008) and yours were taken at almost identical times with respect to the snow melt. I wonder whether it looks like that every year?
fishmonger: there's a true infinity pool....
cg
lostcoyote: looks to me like the Ionian shot I posted (from 2008) and yours were taken at almost identical times with respect to the snow melt. I wonder whether it looks like that every year?
fishmonger: there's a true infinity pool....
cg
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Re: "Infinity Pool" Views
cg, it was last year in september. it looks evcen more like an infinity pool from the shoreline instead of where that shot was taken.
a really kewl infinity pool (which i do not have a picture of) is from the highest lake in lake basin right at the base of cartridge pass. if i find a picture of it online, i will update this post with the link.
a really kewl infinity pool (which i do not have a picture of) is from the highest lake in lake basin right at the base of cartridge pass. if i find a picture of it online, i will update this post with the link.
- Mike M.
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Re: "Infinity Pool" Views
cg: Vandman's "Kern trench" shot was taken from upper Crabtree Lake, just below Mt. Chamberlain.
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Re: "Infinity Pool" Views
Mike,
OK, for some reason I thought it was looking East, but since I could not fit any of the peaks into my mind's eye of what that ridgeline (Whitney, Russell, Barnard, Tyndall, Williamson, et al.) looks like, I was puzzled. Of course, I'm not having a whole lot better luck picking out who is who, but I'll work on it. Presumably, Kaweahs, Picket Guard etc are in the mix.
Thanks!
CG
OK, for some reason I thought it was looking East, but since I could not fit any of the peaks into my mind's eye of what that ridgeline (Whitney, Russell, Barnard, Tyndall, Williamson, et al.) looks like, I was puzzled. Of course, I'm not having a whole lot better luck picking out who is who, but I'll work on it. Presumably, Kaweahs, Picket Guard etc are in the mix.
Thanks!
CG
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CG: I think the view is toward the back (south) side of the Kaweahs, in the direction of the Big Arroyo (I don't have my map with me; did I get that right?). I took a bunch of photos during the same trip from the same vantage point, and that is what we thought we were looking at. A more open shot, without the Mt. Chamberlain ridge in the foreground, would show the main Kaweah ridge on the right, with the Big Arroyo visible to the left. If my memory serves me, this spot is roughly 8 miles (as the crow flies) SE of where the Colby Pass trail intersects the Kern River.
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Re: "Infinity Pool" Views
CG, I stand corrected. I went back and looked at my maps and I think that is Picket Guard Peak at the right of Van's picture.
Below is a more open view, showing (I think) Picket Guard in the middle of the frame. Kern Peak is slightly to the right, with the jagged peaks in the vicinity of Milestone/Midway/Table to the far right.
Mike
Below is a more open view, showing (I think) Picket Guard in the middle of the frame. Kern Peak is slightly to the right, with the jagged peaks in the vicinity of Milestone/Midway/Table to the far right.
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