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| Topic Started: Sep 29 2015, 04:19 PM (168 Views) | |
| Kahu | Sep 29 2015, 04:19 PM Post #1 |
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Posted Image Spring's here, and summer is a comin'! Aoraki (Mt Cook) and the Southern Alps Posted Image Taranaki (Mt Egmont) New Zealand's Mt Fuji Posted Image North Island High Country Bush |
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| Darcie | Sep 29 2015, 04:25 PM Post #2 |
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Is the snowless part of the picture usually covered? |
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| Kahu | Sep 29 2015, 11:06 PM Post #3 |
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That 'snowless' part in the first picture would only be covered in the depths of winter, and even then it would only be for a short time, before the next cold snap covered it again. In the second picture the snow in winter usually comes down the mountain a bit more than shown, but the 'snowless' part in the foreground is rarely if ever snow covered ... Taranaki is in the North Island. |
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| Trotsky | Sep 30 2015, 01:38 AM Post #4 |
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The "Mount Fuji " is quite beautiful and I guess it could be used as a clear barometer of future global warming. In our lifetimes has its snow-capped peak retreated noticeably? Edited by Trotsky, Sep 30 2015, 02:28 AM.
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| agate | Sep 30 2015, 10:08 AM Post #5 |
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Lovely Kahu. So far we are having a lovely fall and hoping for a mild winter. |
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| Kahu | Sep 30 2015, 11:09 AM Post #6 |
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The area was used for filming 'The Last Samurai' with Tom Cruise ... with Taranaki as a backdrop for Fujiyama. Summer coverage of snow would only be approximately a bit less than a third of the snow shown on the peak. The photos below are winter views. Posted Image In the first, approaching the summit there are two roped climbers on the LHS just above the rather deceptively smooth slope. There's a parasitic cone on the side of Taranaki spoiling the 'perfect Fuji shape' called Fantham's Peak ... which Sooty told me that was named after an ancestor of hers Posted Image Posted Image On descending there is the outline of two climbers and the' hump' is part of Fantham's Peak, the clouds below, and the surrounding ring plain, and view of the Tasman Sea towards the top RHS. Posted Image More people have died on this mountain than most in the country, because being close to the sea the weather changes very quickly and savagely. We never made the summit that day either because big slabs of ice were being blown down off the summit which threatened to knock us over. This was an alpine skills training climb run by our local climbing club. The loss of snow is probably best seen in the retreat of glaciers rather than snow covering mountains. |
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