If your browser loads this as I hope, you’ll see one large photo above that shows Lake Tahoe at the top (north) and the snowy Sierra Nevadas below it; one large photo at the bottom which looks back west and north across the arid western Nevada landscape, to Lake Tahoe and the Sierras. And in between, ten photos I took during the six minutes that elapsed as our plane flew across the Sierra Nevadas, leaving behind California and beginning its flight across Nevada.
Certainly from a Dutch perspective, we can call that a mountain. All seen from the train between A’dam and Berlin when I returned in early July for a week of work. What I didn’t manage to photograph b/c it went by too fast and I wasn’t paying attention was a remarkable mountaintop memorial to Emperor Wilhlem in the interestingly-named Lower Saxony town of Porta Westfalica. I simply must get off the train there, some day…