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Took the day off to head up to Natural Bridge State Park with my wife. Pictures don’t really do justice to how massive it is.
Then there are the Blue Ridge Mountains, always gorgeous. Will return to Skyline Trail later this summer, as it’s an official International Dark Sky viewing location. Perhaps in August for the Perseid meteor shower season.
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Took the day off to head up to Natural Bridge State Park with my wife. Pictures don’t really do justice to how massive it is.
Then there are the Blue Ridge Mountains, always gorgeous. Will return to Skyline Trail later this summer, as it’s an official International Dark Sky viewing location. Perhaps in August for the Perseid meteor shower season.
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Day 3 of my #MotoCamping trip. After the previous days adventures I decided I needed a day to hike rather than ride. Started the day off with a quick ride into town for provisions and then went to Natural Bridge State Park, where I hiked the Original trail up to Balanced Rock and then the Low Gap trail up to the Natural Bridge. Both are considered moderate by the locals, but I think by anyone else's standards they would be better described as reminiscent of the path two hobbits took in order to sneak into Mordor. Complete with stone staircases.
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Day 3 of my #MotoCamping trip. After the previous days adventures I decided I needed a day to hike rather than ride. Started the day off with a quick ride into town for provisions and then went to Natural Bridge State Park, where I hiked the Original trail up to Balanced Rock and then the Low Gap trail up to the Natural Bridge. Both are considered moderate by the locals, but I think by anyone else's standards they would be better described as reminiscent of the path two hobbits took in order to sneak into Mordor. Complete with stone staircases.
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When I saw "Natural Bridge" on the map, I had to go see it. It's off Bridge Gulch Road in Bridge Gulch, so I'm not the only one obsessed. (Plaque words are in the alt.)
All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2024/10/massacre-natural-bridge.html
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #dayhike #California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #PNW #naturalbridge #limestone
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When I saw "Natural Bridge" on the map, I had to go see it. It's off Bridge Gulch Road in Bridge Gulch, so I'm not the only one obsessed. (Plaque words are in the alt.)
All the details are here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2024/10/massacre-natural-bridge.html
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #dayhike #California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #PNW #naturalbridge #limestone
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Muscleman Arch In Canyonlands National Park
Description: Lately Wordpress, or more accurately, Jetpack, has been telling me my post titles are dull. It gives them a low score, like the
https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/muscleman-arch-in-canyonlands-national-park/
#NationalPark #NorthAmerica #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #Utah #adventure #arch #canyonlands #geography #geology #mountains #MusclemanArch #NationalPark #NaturalBridge #NaturalFeatures #NPS #PhotoOfTheDay #southwest #travel #USA
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Muscleman Arch In Canyonlands National Park
Description: Lately Wordpress, or more accurately, Jetpack, has been telling me my post titles are dull. It gives them a low score, like the
https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/muscleman-arch-in-canyonlands-national-park/
#NationalPark #NorthAmerica #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #Utah #adventure #arch #canyonlands #geography #geology #mountains #MusclemanArch #NationalPark #NaturalBridge #NaturalFeatures #NPS #PhotoOfTheDay #southwest #travel #USA
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Back to Australia for today's #WaterfallWednesday from June 2006. 3 frames bracketed and merged to HDR.
#NaturalBridge #Springbrook #NationalPark #Queensland #Australia #'Waterfall #Photography #LandscapePhotography #LongExposure
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Back to Australia for today's #WaterfallWednesday from June 2006. 3 frames bracketed and merged to HDR.
#NaturalBridge #Springbrook #NationalPark #Queensland #Australia #'Waterfall #Photography #LandscapePhotography #LongExposure
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On the drive back to Denver I stopped off at this natural bridge park. Pretty an peaceful- a little break from Wyoming's lovely 80mph non crowded highways. There were "watch for Rattlesnakes" signs- but I only saw a little garder snake.
Gonna miss those wide open speedy highways and big skies- they aren't found in NYC. Time to get back to the land of trains and buildings and people.
#travel #bridge #wyoming #river #nature #sculpture #naturalbridge -
Natural Bridge, Virginia
“The Natural bridge, the most sublime of Nature’s works, [...] is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781The Natural Bridge, located in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia's Valley and Ridge, stands as testament to the slowly erosive power of water, the solubility of limestone, and the vastness of geologic time. Some 500 million years ago, the area was an ancient shallow sea called Iapetus, home to organisms whose calcium carbonate shells and other deposits collected slowly on the sea floor. Compacted and cemented over the eons, they eventually formed the thick horizontal limestone strata found in Virginia today.
Because rain water is slightly acidic it slowly dissolves limestone. Seeping in through cracks and crevices and dissolving the rock as it goes, the water eventually forms an underground river. As the river carved further down into the earth, the sides of the cavern steepened and the top gradually eroded its way upstream leaving only the beautiful arch at Natural Bridge.
Some day it too will be gone, but in August of 1767, Thomas Jefferson was enraptured by his first glimpse of the Natural Bridge. Jefferson purchased the tract of land that Natural Bridge was located on in 1774 from King George III. Jefferson wrote that, "I view it in some degree as a public trust, and would on no consideration permit the bridge to be injured, defaced, or masked from public view."
During the time the Natural Bridge was in Jefferson's care, it became an international tourist attraction, and an inspiration for many great artists including Frederic Edwin Church who painted the Bridge in 1852 shown below. The bridge was even immortalized in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, who described the breaching of the whale as; “...for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia’s Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.”
Today the Natural Bridge is one of the oldest tourist destinations in the United States. The Natural Bridge and surrounding areas have been designated a National Historic Landmark, a Virginia Historic Landmark, managed by the Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund, a nonprofit devoted to conservation, education, and recreation. Natural Bridge consists of over 1600 acres of wildlife habitat, streams, and caves that are home to hundreds of wildlife species, rare bats, invertebrates, and unusual communities of plants. They write that "The property will be preserved and restored wherever possible before donation of the property to the Virginia State Parks system."
Image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Edwin_Church_-_The_Natural_Bridge,_Virginia.jpg
Photo from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridge_(Virginia)
#NaturalBridge #Virginia #FredericEdwinChurch #Limestone #Art #ThomasJefferson #geology
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Natural Bridge, Virginia
“The Natural bridge, the most sublime of Nature’s works, [...] is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781The Natural Bridge, located in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia's Valley and Ridge, stands as testament to the slowly erosive power of water, the solubility of limestone, and the vastness of geologic time. Some 500 million years ago, the area was an ancient shallow sea called Iapetus, home to organisms whose calcium carbonate shells and other deposits collected slowly on the sea floor. Compacted and cemented over the eons, they eventually formed the thick horizontal limestone strata found in Virginia today.
Because rain water is slightly acidic it slowly dissolves limestone. Seeping in through cracks and crevices and dissolving the rock as it goes, the water eventually forms an underground river. As the river carved further down into the earth, the sides of the cavern steepened and the top gradually eroded its way upstream leaving only the beautiful arch at Natural Bridge.
Some day it too will be gone, but in August of 1767, Thomas Jefferson was enraptured by his first glimpse of the Natural Bridge. Jefferson purchased the tract of land that Natural Bridge was located on in 1774 from King George III. Jefferson wrote that, "I view it in some degree as a public trust, and would on no consideration permit the bridge to be injured, defaced, or masked from public view."
During the time the Natural Bridge was in Jefferson's care, it became an international tourist attraction, and an inspiration for many great artists including Frederic Edwin Church who painted the Bridge in 1852 shown below. The bridge was even immortalized in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, who described the breaching of the whale as; “...for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia’s Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.”
Today the Natural Bridge is one of the oldest tourist destinations in the United States. The Natural Bridge and surrounding areas have been designated a National Historic Landmark, a Virginia Historic Landmark, managed by the Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund, a nonprofit devoted to conservation, education, and recreation. Natural Bridge consists of over 1600 acres of wildlife habitat, streams, and caves that are home to hundreds of wildlife species, rare bats, invertebrates, and unusual communities of plants. They write that "The property will be preserved and restored wherever possible before donation of the property to the Virginia State Parks system."
Image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Edwin_Church_-_The_Natural_Bridge,_Virginia.jpg
Photo from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridge_(Virginia)
#NaturalBridge #Virginia #FredericEdwinChurch #Limestone #Art #ThomasJefferson #geology
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On the way to Emerald Lake in #Yoho National Park, British Columbia, you'll find the Natural Bridge across the Kicking Horse River. Worth a quick stop. There's also a walking trail nearby, which leads to the Meeting of the Waters where the Amiskwi River and Emerald River merge with the Kicking Horse River, but it was bear season when we went and we were under equipped. Wouldn't even attempt it.
#NaturalBridge #BritishColumbia #Canada #CanadianRockies #landscape #nature #travel #photography
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You've probably seen a lot of photos of people standing on the natural bridge in #Arnarstapi, but have you seen one taken by someone standing on the natural bridge? Well, now you have. 😀 I think the #mountain in the background is called #Stapafell and the basalt cave/bore hole under the natural bridge #Eystrigjá. Arnarstapi is located in the southern coast of #Snaefellsnes peninsula, one of my favourite places in #Iceland.
#landscape #nature #travel #photography #NaturalBridge #basalt #geology
