Day 2: Mapping walls you can’t see from above. 🧗♂️ Yosemite Valley. Climbers need to understand vertical terrain, but most maps show the world from a bird’s perspective. I used airborne LiDAR at 0.5 meter resolution to create a Digital…
Day 1: The Map That Started Everything – Aiudului Gorges (2011)
The map that started everything. 🗺️ Aiudului Gorges, Romania. 2011. A place close to my heart. I still go there to hike and climb, and I know the terrain well. I was fascinated by the karst topography. The Trascău Mountains…
The Sentinel, Cathedral Spires .. Să fie Judas Priest?
Ei bine .. Nu, nu e, dar e la fel de tare (it rocks)! 😀 Bun, gata cu glumele seci. Postarea aceasta este despre Yosemite Valley, un canion sculptat glaciar în munții Sierra Nevada din California, care adăpostește unele dintre…
The Sentinel, Cathedral Spires .. Is it Judas Priest?
Well.. No, it isn’t, but it rocks, too! 😀 Ok, enough with the corny jokes. This post is about Yosemite Valley, a ~1-km-deep, glacially carved canyon in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, that hosts some of the largest granitic…