Greatest Views Experienced

[Glasseye]

 

- Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina

- Grand Canyon,  Arizona

- Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro 

 

[Bazle]

A few years ago in London, in a 69 position with a Brazilian girl called Gessica. 😀

[Phantom51red]

2 hours ago, Bazle said:

A few years ago in London, in a 69 position with a Brazilian girl called Gessica. 😀

[Phantom51red]

To many to chose.

Scotland glencoe,anoch eagoch 

Bidean nam beinn 

Austrian alps vorder brockgokel 

 

 

[Butch]

3 hours ago, Bazle said:

A few years ago in London, in a 69 position with a Brazilian girl called Gessica. 😀

[Stillearly]

2013 Yi Peng at Mae Jo University in CM mass lantern release , thousands of Khom Loi all sent up together ... I got goosebumps, it was an epic sight ..

unfortunately my pics are crap

 

[richy65]

Masai Mara, Kenya. No photos to hand but I’ll never forget how the savannah seemed to go on forever then disappear into a heat haze 

[Butch]

Seeing a "dust devil" while driving across the Wahiba Sands in Oman.

Also, I went out as an "extra" on a patrol with a group in the Rub 'al Khali. No light pollution and total darkness, very little moonlight as well. we slept under the stars,during my turn at stag I remember looking up into the night sky and just being in total awe at the incredible sight, marveling at the shooting stars which would occasionally streak across the sky, leaving trails of white, red and green. I just stared in such wonder. It hadn't occurred to me that at one point, tears were running down my cheek.

Dawn was equally incredible, pastel shades illuminating the sky until an electric blue took over, and the sunlight illuminated the rocks on the ground from a deep red to a grey sand colour. The other interesting sensual experience was the smell of the morning dew on the sand. Never smelled anything like it since.

Edited December 25, 2025 by Butch

[Phantom51red]

This one was epic,whilst staying in namche bazaar the 2nd night we had a power cut,so I knew what I had to do and quickly,Google how to take night sky shots with s23 ,a d set my phone up against a beer bottle.

 

[Phantom51red]

16 hours ago, Glasseye said:

 

- Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina

- Grand Canyon,  Arizona

- Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro 

 

Thats a great views indeed! Always fancied rio,one of my mates who has been a pattaya regular for 20 years has started going there now instead of Thailand.

[Glasseye]

11 hours ago, Butch said:

 

 

555555555555555 !!!!

 

They used to have some top notch private clubs. Holy Cow !

[Glasseye]

4 minutes ago, Phantom51red said:

Thats a great views indeed! Always fancied rio,one of my mates who has been a pattaya regular for 20 years has started going there now instead of Thailand.

 

Yeah Rio is great and in the same time zone as the U.S.   But their English is bad and you really have to watch your ass.

I am going to be checking out Medellin Colombia in a year or two when I save up enough funds.

[Toy Boy]

Mont Salève in France on the border with Switzerland is pretty impressive. There's a cable car up to some restaurants so no need to knacker yourself with the climb, and then you hike on a fairly gentle gradient up to miles of open Alpine pastures.

Utterly drop-dead gorgeous on its own, but to one side you have a view down over Geneva, the Rhone river and Lac Leman, set against the backdrop of the Jura mountains.

On the other you look across a vast area of rich farmland towards Chamonix and the Mont Blanc massif. This one is taken with a telephoto lens, it's actually far more distant than that in reality. 

There are more spectacular views in the world, I'm sure, but probably not a lot with so many famous vistas visible from one spot. 

 

[Glasseye]

13 hours ago, Phantom51red said:

To many to chose.

Scotland glencoe,anoch eagoch 

Bidean nam beinn 

Austrian alps vorder brockgokel 

 

 

 

Awesome mate !

[Zambo]

16 hours ago, Butch said:

The forum has rules covering this - rule 22. 

[maipenrai]

Fraser, British Columbia - Customs station and highway maintenance camp, South Klondike Highway aka Skagway Rd:

[Phantom51red]

6 hours ago, maipenrai said:

Fraser, British Columbia - Customs station and highway maintenance camp, South Klondike Highway aka Skagway Rd:

I've seen these mountains on YouTube and it's funny how photos never do them justice.

[Phantom51red]

Tingboche monastery and couple of lodges from up on viewpoint

Edited December 28, 2025 by Phantom51red

[Glasseye]

46 minutes ago, Phantom51red said:

Tingboche monastery and couple of lodges from up on viewpoint

 

Oh my ! That is wonderful.....  

[Glasseye]

 

I don't have any pics (I know, I'm stupid).....

But a nighttime flight over Alaska (at night with clear skies and a full moon) was pretty fcuking cool. I would do the route in a second..... But.... going not coming.

[maipenrai]

More pics from the same area, taken during my last- and probably best-ever helicopter ride:         

This is the next valley over, the headwaters of Bennett Lake with the historic White Pass & Yukon Route railroad visible:

And here's one taken on a previous flight, showing lower Lake Bennett, magnificent country and I was sad when that particular job was finished:

 

[Phantom51red]

8 hours ago, maipenrai said:

More pics from the same area, taken during my last- and probably best-ever helicopter ride:         

This is the next valley over, the headwaters of Bennett Lake with the historic White Pass & Yukon Route railroad visible:

And here's one taken on a previous flight, showing lower Lake Bennett, magnificent country and I was sad when that particular job was finished:

 

Awesome 👌, yukon route that name rings a bell, is that the area where the guy went :into the wild: died on the bus then they made the movie about him ?

 

[Lirchenfeld]

Northern lights and all day complete darkness in snowy northern Sweden.

[RedDragon64]

Jasper Alberta.

[maipenrai]

14 hours ago, Phantom51red said:

Awesome 👌, yukon route that name rings a bell, is that the area where the guy went :into the wild: died on the bus then they made the movie about him ?

 

Nope, that happened a long way away in the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.