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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 2
Contributors: Katy Jensen and Nathan Greenland So, here we are in the arches between the elevated station and the Dome. Within the arches you find the Facilities, Engineering, Maintenance and Construction (FEMC) shops, the power plant, and massive areas for storing building supplies, spare parts and fuel. The nearby ice tunnels run under the surface near the arches, and they connect the station and the arches to a number of outlying structures. This cavernous room with the monumental steel doors is in the logistics facility, which is commonly called the LO. It is designed for receiving incoming cargo. Most of the new materials arriving at the Pole on next summer’s planes and on the traverse will come straight here. In the coming years we hope to also move most of our storage off the berms and into these well-lit and wind-resistant arches. Once through these doors, the cargo will be sorted, inventoried and put in its proper place. It will be a major improvement in inventory control. The last plane of summer left here a month ago, and there will be no more flights until mid-October at the earliest, and so this room has been fairly quiet lately. At least there haven't been many people down here. We don't get a lot of snowfall at the Pole, but with temperatures that never get much above 0 degrees Fahrenheit, the snow that does fall doesn't melt. We are approaching winter, and with recent winds of up to 30 knots, the persistent snow is swirling just above the ground in gossamer, white rivulets. The wandering snow seems always to be looking for a way inside, and it has found a convenient inward route through a gap in the LO doors. Ours is a very light, very fine, powdery snow, at least on the surface. Easily picked up and put outside on the blade of a shovel, much of it quickly returns to us on the edge of the wind. A quarter inch gap in a doorway can create a deep drift that extends far into a room. As we work at tightening up the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for the winter, this room looks like a good place to do some snow shoveling and an equally good place for creating a hindrance to the incoming snow. And so we see a doc with a shovel moving the snow outside where it belongs, and we see the carpenters at work tightening up the gap the doors. Have a look around this place. Even if it is -55 degrees Fahrenheit in the LO today, and the wind is howling mightily beyond the doors, you probably won't even have to dust the snow off your keyboard when you are done. The 23 images of this panorama where photographed with a Nikon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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Ledge trail is a long abandoned trail that runs from the backside of Curry Village up to Glacier Point. About half way up you can cross the creek and climb up the rocks to this spectacular view. At one time power or telephone lines ran up this way, and there are a trio of eyehooks embedded in the rocks, thus my name for this spot, "Eyehook Point". From here you can see down into Yosemite Valley with a panorama that goes from Yosemite Falls to Nevada Fall and everything in between. Royal Arches, Washington Column, North Dome, Tenaya Canyon, Half Dome, Mt Watkins etc.
Check out the higher rez mid day version of this view at http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=10095 Check out http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp608/html/JoelBaldwin.html for a 360/180 spherical panorama from this spot. |
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This is a high res and wider field-of-view version of the Yosemite Association's Ahwahnee Meadow webcam at http://www.yosemite.org/129/Web-Cam-View.htm.
Can you find the rock climbers on Royal Arches? Can you see anyone on Half Dome? Can you see anyone at Glacier Point? What else can you see? |
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Ledge trail is a long abandoned trail that runs from the backside of Curry Village up to Glacier Point. About half way up you can cross the creek and climb up the rocks to this spectacular view. At one time power or telephone lines ran up this way, and there are a trio of eyehooks embedded in the rocks, thus my name for this spot, "Eyehook Point". From here you can see down into Yosemite Valley with a panorama that goes from Yosemite Falls to Nevada Fall and everything in between. Royal Arches, Washington Column, North Dome, Tenaya Canyon, Half Dome, Mt Watkins etc.
Check out a sunset version of this view at http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9985 ( unfortunately lower rez ). Check out http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp608/html/JoelBaldwin.html for a 360/180 spherical panorama from this spot. |
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Shi Shi Beach and Point of Arches on Washington State's coast in Olympic National Park. For more information: http://www.nps.gov/olym/planyourvisit/shi-shi-beach-olympic-wilderness.htm |
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A view from Bryn-Bach Pond, looking east. |
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View from the center of the Windows Section parking area of the west side lit by the morning sun. |
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View from Devil's Garden Campground |
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in Arches National Park |