#mountain ridge

[nature-hiking]

Sunset over the mountain ridge - Alta Via 1, Italy, August 2023

photo by: nature-hiking

[tenth-sentence]

From the top of the second ridge Shasta looked back again.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy" - C. S. Lewis

[wonders-of-natur]

[prinnay]

“You want anything?”

[cloudy-knot]

2023/1/21(土)　山間の街

[satakentia]

Moody nights (x,x,x)  Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina, USA

by Johan Hakansson

[intheholler]

file under: the cutest fuckin holler i ever did see

[botanyshitposts]

ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).

[bugcowboyart]

Nantahala National Forest

Wanted to create a small artbook/zine thing about how I feel when in the mountains of west North Carolina (small and weird)

[nature-hiking]

Refuge on the mountain ridge - Adlerweg, Tirol, Austria, October 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

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Following these excitedly he and the dwarves found traces of a narrow track, often lost, often rediscovered, that wandered on to the top of the southern ridge and brought them at last to a still narrower ledge, which turned north across the face of the Mountain.

"The Hobbit" - J. R. R. Tolkien

[kv3d]

[noordinarysunset]

Sunrise at Linn Cove Blue Ridge Parkway Linville, North Carolina

[chlobody]

Blue Ridge Mountains [ shot by @ohseephotography ]

[digitalprintsgalleryshop]

[michael-massa-micon]

Mountain Ridge - April 2022 From Portal, Arizona, you can loop all the way round Silver Peak on narrow mountain roads. There are several fabulous views, including this top of the ridge rock formation that looks like a backbone. One the same ridge is a needle’s eye arch formed by two large rocks. MWM