tag: human landscape

cold camping shower
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

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Echo Park campfire
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

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driving the Echo Park road
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

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end of lacrosse practice
  • place: Golden, Colorado

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bike underpass
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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Eben G. Fine Park
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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on the Boulder Creek bike trail
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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at the lake on campus
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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sorority roofers
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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landscaping
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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Bear Creek bike underpass
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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bike lane with traffic
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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kids playing
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

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coal train brakes (again)
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

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melting snow on greenhouse
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

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waiting for Genevieve
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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drunk students on campus
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

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another coal train
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

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train
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

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distant train
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

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soccer game
  • place: Pueblo, Colorado

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broken Light
  • place: Denver, Colorado

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water drain and Interstate-70
  • place: Denver, Colorado

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engines and Interstate-70
  • place: Denver, Colorado

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train engines idling
  • place: Denver, Colorado

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rain at the Post Office
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

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outside Symphony Hall
  • place: Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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near loud open-air restaurant
  • place: Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Central Station food court
  • place: Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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street singer
  • place: Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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outside Symphony Hall
  • place: Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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outside Pedal, Malaysian Restaurant
  • place: Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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construction work near library
  • place: Bundoora, VIC, Australia

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construction west of library
  • place: La Trobe campus, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

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outside the building exit
  • place: Bundoora, VIC, Australia

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86 tram
  • place: Bundoora, VIC, Australia

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the Agora
  • place: Bundoora, VIC, Australia

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bus stop
  • place: Bundoora, VIC, Australia

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on the red couch
  • place: Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona

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downtown
  • place: Whanganui, New Zealand

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main street sound
  • place: Whanganui, New Zealand

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drenched
  • place: Blue Mountains National Park, Katoomba, NSW, Australia

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overlook panorama, Blue Mountains National Park, New South Wales, Australia, November 2010

brutal day, too late to change it: deciding to go out to the closest bush access — the Blue Mountains National Park up at Katoomba to check it out — bad weather, but this is the only opportunity to go before leaving for New Zealand on Friday. I suppose it is the rough equivalent of hitting Yosemite or so (not near the grandeur of Yosemite, but the proximity and intensity of being a tourist attraction, they get three million folks up here every year). a 90-minute train ride from Sydney Central up the hill to Katoomba Station. decide to fuel-up at a cafe in town first, do some writing, pick up on the vibe. then head south from town on foot to the edge of the main escarpment of resistant Triassic Hawkesbury sandstone that Katoomba sits on. pouring rain by the time I get an hour out. thankfully I have full Goretex on which is useless. so, drenched to the point that it makes no difference.

along the escarpment picking up the energy, not seeing a soul. clouds lower before I leave town, so visibility contracts to 1-200 meters or so. dense, rich, empty, wet. a bit taken aback at the emptiness so close to town, but not in a negative way. I decide to make about an 8-mile loop hike, down the Golden Staircase, and along the base of the escarpment through the muck and rain. hang out in a small cave-overhang for a time, meditating on the dripping sounds, and why I hadn’t been up here before now. I had always been reading adverts about travel to the Blue Mountains with tour companies and the prices were prohibitive (for my budget), more than AUD 100 for a day trip, so I simply eliminated it from my list of possible things to do. now I discover that it costs a AUD 5.50 train ticket, and a mile walk to get into the park boundaries. another 5 miles and I’m in pretty rugged country. dang.

wet. continue the long loop, crossing a landslide area which was quite a chore to get across, especially exposed to the now constant pouring rain. unfortunately no decent photos, though the clouds wreathing the escarpment were dramatic. still no sight of any other humans. but absolutely not used to this wetness, since the long climb in the West Elk Wilderness in 2009. continue along, a bit unsure if I’ve taken on too much of a walk after being rather out of practice. eventually get around to the re-ascent point, meeting a couple just off the funicular rail that descends to a touristic overlook — they are in dress shoes and no rain gear. hmmmm. won’t get far in that! finally slog up the long sets of stairs back up to the top, boots sloshing, and with any luck, no damage to my electronic gear. long, tiring walk back into town where I stop for a glacially-served burger, fortunately it doesn’t impact getting to the train. in exchange for lame service, I leave a substantial wet region at one of their tables. back on the city-bound train, I look down after a time to see a leech writhing on the floor. I then discover two bleeding holes in one ankle. hmmmm. wonder if those critters are dangerous, or are just plain old leeches. I leave a sizable wet spot on the train as well. finally make it home after a 14-hour day, finding my boot and sock soaked in blood. so much for the first (and perhaps last) foray into the Blue Mountains, into the Oz bush.

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Argyll Cut at night
  • place: Millers Point, NSW, Australia

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leaky drainpipe
  • place: Sydney CBD, NSW, Australia

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Belmont Park at night
  • place: Sydney CBD, NSW, Australia

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Sydenham platform
  • place: Sydenham, NSW, Australia

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crosswalk
  • place: Haymarket, NSW, AUstralia

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street sounds
  • place: Sydney, NSW, Australia

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street sounds
  • place: Sydney, NSW, Australia

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under the Bridge
  • place: The Rocks, NSW, Australia

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