Lens Artists Photo Challenge # 222 – Mountains are Calling

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Amy has asked us to share our joy of visiting/climbing mountains. I live in coastal Georgia where the nearest mountains are many miles away. Some of our most memorable trips are ones we took to visit mountains.

A few hours north of where I live is Brasstown Bald, the highest point in Georgia at 4784 feet in elevation. I don’t have a picture of the mountain itself but here is a view from the top.

View from the top of Brasstown Bald, the highest point in Georgia

If we travel a little farther north into North Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia we can visit the beautiful Great Smokey Mountains National Park or take a ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Cataloochee Valley Overlook Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina

We can keep going farther north in Virginia to take a ride on the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.

Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

We’ve made a few RV trips to the western United States to visit the majestic mountain ranges there.

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Storm over Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado
Pikes Peak – “America’s Mountain”, Colorado
Sandia Crest, New Mexico
Bighorn mountains in Wyoming
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

We even traveled to the Canadian Rockies.

Banff National Park, Alberta

Of all the mountains I’ve seen, the ones in Alaska are my favorites. The rest of the images are from our RV trip to Alaska several years ago.

Denali (formerly known as Mt. McKinley), 20,320 feet tall, is the tallest mountain in North America. The last three images were taken from three different locations. No matter where you are when you see it, it is an amazing sight.

Many thanks for Amy’s Lens-Artists Challenge #222 – Mountains are Calling

20 thoughts on “Lens Artists Photo Challenge # 222 – Mountains are Calling”

  1. Thank you so much for the ride from Georgia, to N. Carolina, Colorado, Wyomin, … Canada, and Alaska! Wow, what a grand view of each mountain site. All were beautifully captured, great series.

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  7. I love how you covered the nearby mountains first Beth and then moved on to glorious mountainscapes in Alaska. It’s funny you say Denali is visible from everywhere. Unfortunately it was not visible other than for the evening of our arrival at the national park because we had a full week of cloud cover that totally encompassed it and everything else. Lucky you for your weather when you were there! Thanks for showing we what I missed 😢

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    1. Tina, thank you. I love the Smokey Mountains and Blue Ridge Mountains and had to include them before moving on to the western mountains. We never saw Denali inside the park because of the cloud cover. The weather cleared up after we left the park. We were always on the lookout and stopped whenever there was an overlook.

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