File:Pan looking west and southwest from Mt San Gorgonio.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file ‎(9,432 × 1,503 pixels, file size: 13.42 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Description

I had never seen the air so clear before. That's the difference between hiking in the summer and hiking in the rest of the year.

Because the summit of Mt San Gorgonio is the highest point in Southern California, you can see pretty much all of Southern California from the top, on a clear day. Sunday morning the air was pretty clear. I have put notes in the photo identifying SoCal landmarks visible from the mountain (you will have to view the photo in its <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3512/4067147078_92f3b8e3bb_o.jpg" rel="nofollow">original size</a> to be able to see many of them). San Clemente Island, the most distant object in this photo, is 125 miles away (though one Flickr viewer says the Sierra Nevada, 185 miles away, are visible to the right). Looking the other direction, we could clearly see 11,916 foot Mt Charleston, in Nevada, about 163 miles away.

The camera lens and CCD have limitations; you could see even more, with more clarity, with the naked eye. For example, we could see the towers of downtown Los Angeles, just in front of the Santa Monica Mountains (80 miles away). Until this trip I wouldn't have realized Mt San Gorgonio was visible from downtown LA, but now I suppose it must be, frequently, on clear winter days.
Date
Source originally posted to Flickr as Pan looking west and southwest from Mt San Gorgonio
Author Mitch
Permission
(Reusing this file)
This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 19 February 2010, 08:47 by Amerique. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the license indicated.
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

2 November 2009

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current08:47, 19 February 2010Thumbnail for version as of 08:47, 19 February 20109,432 × 1,503 (13.42 MB)Flickr upload botUploaded from http://flickr.com/photo/26209464@N00/4067147078 using Flickr upload bot
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pan_looking_west_and_southwest_from_Mt_San_Gorgonio.jpg"