Post a picture of your Peak(s)

[Figglyduff]

This is one of my favourite mountains, Cnicht in Snowdonia. Its small but easy to walk up, so its a good one to start with if you have to get back into the swing of things. If I remember rightly, 'Cnicht' is Welsh for 'helmet' and its named that because of its shape.
http://www.celtrail.com/images/P108.jpg
I really like The Eagle's Nest near Berchtesgaden in the German Alps, its good because you can get a brass plated lift (elevator) up if you're lazy, the views are really nice and there's a pretty good rocky area to climb around on. It's otherwise known as 'Hitler's Tea House' but I think thats a bit of a weird name for it, even though it is now a tea house :D It just makes me think of a kiddie's tea party. I like that whole area of Bavaria, but I don't know the mountain's names.
http://www.photohomepage.de/Hobby%20Fotografie%20Naturfotografie%20Reisefotogr afie%20Sportfotografie/fotos/reise_berchtesgaden_kehlsteinhaus.jpg

Got a favourite peak?

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[Figglyduff]

Hey, I wanted a serious discussion about mountains :(

Hang on, I think I see a mountain in the background graphics, all is well in the world :P

[Figglyduff]

Sigh, this is going to turn into a breast-fest isn't it?

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[tackledspoon]

^ Well, she did have a widow's peak.

I don't know the name of my favorite album. It's in the North Eastern part of Ireland (Ardrah, to be exact), on my family's land over there. If you climb up to the top, you can see all down the shoreline. There are all sorts of caves and such along the shore and the water is a great blue-green color. I haven't been there since I was about 13, but I still remember how beautiful it was.

[Edited on 2-3-2006 by tackledspoon]

[Figglyduff]

Wow, I would love to live near something like that! I love caves (now I really want to go caving/ potholing, its been so long!) or just any cool rock formations (I'm easily pleased) and I've always wanted to live near mountains, even small ones. Where I live its just fields, hills and some woodland.

[tackledspoon]

^ I live on just what you described. My town in New Jersey is on a small mountain and has an expansive wildlife reserve. It's great. The mountains don't slope enough to have a peak, though, so I think they're excluded.

[birdman]

Originally posted by spiritualdishwasher
http://www.spookshop.com/images/wigs/widows_peak.jpg

That looks like the kid from the monsters...Transexual style!!!

[BigBlackSmoke]

hey my school is at twin peaks in san francisco, to whoever posted the twin peaks thing

[magneticrollerskater]

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e93/theelephant6/peek.jpg

[Edited on 2-4-2006 by magneticrollerskater]

[gavsygoo]

Mt. Vesuvius, March 1944. The most recent eruption, at the height of WWII. don't get much peakier.

http://www.josephgomer.com/images/vesuvius.jpg
http://www.warwingsart.com/12thAirForce/Vesuvius7V.jpg
this last one is a painting, but i like how it captures the images with some color.
http://www.afapo.hq.af.mil/Presentation/Common/..%5C..%5CPresentation%5Cimages%5Cartwork%5C1983.2 46.JPG

[icarus]

http://peak-performance.tripod.com/photos/peak-020.jpg

[Figglyduff]

Originally posted by gavsygoo
Mt. Vesuvius, March 1944. The most recent eruption, at the height of WWII. don't get much peakier.

http://www.josephgomer.com/images/vesuvius.jpg


Thats a really striking image!

[Plastic_hero]

I'm going to say Stromboli, a bit north of Sicily, which is both a peak and an island I guess. It's also an active volcano which erupts daily and a quite wonderful place.

http://www.strombolieolie.net/vulcano/stromboli_3.jpg

[DrinkTeaEatBooks]

Oh, Krakatoa for sure.

http://www.rotten.com/library/history/nature/natural-disasters/krakatoa/krakatoa2.jpg

It's embarrasing that I wanted to create something regarding the story of it all, but was beaten to it by Neighbours.

[boyindrag]

fuji
http://www.miami.us.emb-japan.go.jp/images/fuji.jpg

[jaimi]

http://www.friendsofthebluehills.org/galleries/march04/qalbaponk122803.jpg

The Blue Hills are so weak.


http://www.viewsfromthetop.com/gallery/ski/mwh/pix/washington.jpg

Mt. Washington > The Blue Hills

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[gavsygoo]

Originally posted by Figglyduff
Originally posted by gavsygoo
Mt. Vesuvius, March 1944. The most recent eruption, at the height of WWII. don't get much peakier.

http://www.josephgomer.com/images/vesuvius.jpg


Thats a really striking image!

it was emblazoned on my brain last week at the Pompeii exhibit here in Chicago at the Field Museum.. the vesuv's just lying in wait ready to killlllllllllllllllllllllllllll.... (muahahaha) but, that was the last eruption documented.. and they're watching Ol' vessy 'round the clock.

[Figglyduff]

What was the last really tragic volcano eruption? I always used to be scared of volcanos, even though I live in England so it was a very irrational fear :D On the school playground on the tarmac there used to be these weird lumps (from the heat I guess) and I used to think they were volcanos forming...

[gavsygoo]

hrrrm.. dunno. that would require some research methinks. in the meantime:

supposedly 1820 explosion
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/6/61/250px-Vesuvius1822scrope.jpg
as noted
http://www.ov.ingv.it/img/galleria/12.JPG
1779
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-tours/typo3temp/pics/2abad42b62.jpg

i can't find any color photographs. 1944 was the last serious eruption, so that would imply a simple lack of the proper equipment. poor timing. maybe it will happen soon, and along with the smiting of innocent lives someone could get a proper digital image. of the eruption, not the horrible senseless carnage. how could sense apply? we's all goonna diiie.

[gavsygoo]

http://comunita.gay.it/bart/eruption.jpg

79 AD is way old school. the O.G., if you will. look at the people flee!! or, maybe they're performing Godspell. yeah, could be Godspell.

[opopopo]

I have a lot of favorite peaks. The tiny hills that some people think are mountains are embarassing. If it doesn't exceed the treeline, it's just a hill. Phil should call his band Hill Eerie.

Pictures I've taken:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/opopopo/mountains5.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/opopopo/mountains4minnewanka.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/opopopo/mountains3.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/opopopo/mountains2.jpg

Cute deer:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/opopopo/mountainscarthewalderson.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/opopopo/mountains1.jpg

[magneticrollerskater]

Originally posted by magneticrollerskater
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e93/theelephant6/peek.jpg

[Edited on 2-4-2006 by magneticrollerskater]




this ones very peekish

[gavsygoo]

i just hope she's not peeking anywhere near Vesuvius when it inevitably blows.