Igor, The whole place =is= surreal. When I first got up there, nothing was visible except the mountain and the clouds below us.
It is also vast, and the humans are puny indeed. Their scale in the photo is deliberate. Thanks for looking and commenting! Rick > On Dec 12, 2017, at 8:48 PM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: > > > I assume those clouds are below (at least partially), right? > Seeing the clouds below the grass makes it a bit surreal. > > I wonder if you also had another shot, much more zoomed in, so that the > bicyclists are more dominantly seen being above the clouds. > That would be a very different story but an interesting one too, methinks. > > > When I was first learning to ski on mountain (downhill) skis after > having skiing cross-country for the entire childhood, the ski instructor told > me: when you can use gravity to work for you, it's much smarter. > > So, those who pedal all the way up are also not the most efficient. :-) > > But then, it depends on which result you (they) are trying to achieve. > > > > Tue Dec 12 20:25:05 EST 2017 Rick Womer wrote: > > There are two kinds of bicyclists on Haleakala in Maui. > > The first are those who ride in vans with racks full of bicycles up to the > top, and ride down. > > The second are those who bicycle all the way up (from the base, 10,000 feet > and 24 miles) and then ride down. > > Both are crazy. > > https://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18443482-orig.jpg > > (K-5, DA 17-70) > > Comments appreciated! > > Rick > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
