maanantai 12. syyskuuta 2016

Mountains

Colorado. Longs Peak

Received from Debra. Nebraska U.S.A.
Distance: 7,449 km
Travel time: 11 days

Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.  Longs Peak is the northernmost fourteener in the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in Boulder County and Rocky Mountain National Park. ( fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet) 


Vysoké Tatry, High Tatras Slovakia

From Otto in Kosice, Slovakia
Distance: 1,553 km
Travel time: 12 days

National Park High Tatras (Vysoke Tatry) is situated in the north of Slovakia, shared partly with Poland. The only mountains of Alpine type in the whole Carpathian Mountain range are often called "the smallest alpine mountains in Europe".


New Zealand. Sunset over Mount Taranaki

Direct swap from Lyn in Wellingron, New Zealand

Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont, is an active but quiescent stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.  The 2518-metre-high mountain is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world.

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