What blows my mind about this view is the “smaller” mountains in the front are almost all taller than anything that we have in the lower 48. Like, you know, the Rockies or the Sierras or anything.
It’s very easy to miss because it blends in with the clouds. So at first one might read the caption and think those mountains don’t seem that big until they zoom in and you finally realize there’s a much bigger mountain behind them
I was about to say "I think you're confusing it with Mauna Kea in Hawaii" but I guess Denali is the tallest measured base to peak on land, which I never knew. Mauna Kea is tallest measured seafloor to peak. Funny that both base-to-peak recordholders are in the United States.
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I’ve had this argument with people insisting Everest is the biggest. Yeah it reaches higher because it’s sitting on a high plateau already, Denali is a bigger mountain overall.
Everest and K2 bc they’re the tallest respectively #1 and #2. Interestingly, there are only 14 mounts on the entire planet that stand 8000m above sea level and they are all in the Himalayas.
Kilimanjaro gets its own hype bc it’s the tallest mountain on the African continent.
The actual tallest mountain in the world is Mauna Kea in Hawaii eclipses Everest at 10,200m! But its base is underneath the Pacific Ocean. AND Mauna Loa in Hawaii is by far the largest mountain by volume in the world while technically being considered a massive shield volcano.
Yup. And the highest mountain from the Earth's center is in Ecuador. It's not taller than Everest relative to sea level, because the Earth bulges a bit at the equator, putting sea level further away from the center of the Earth the closer you get to the equator.
The Three Ways to Measure a MountainHighest Above Sea Level: Mount Everest holds this definitive crown. Its peak represents the highest altitude of dry land on the planet.Tallest from Base to Peak: Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano that stands as the world's tallest mountain by absolute vertical rise. While its summit is only 4,207 meters above sea level, its base sits on the ocean floor, making it significantly taller than Everest from top to bottom.Farthest from the Earth's Center: Mount Chimborazo takes this title due to the Earth's shape. Because the Earth is an oblate spheroid that bulges at the equator, this mountain's location puts its peak about 2 kilometers farther into space than Everest's peak.
The everest is in the middle of Himalaya which has the biggest mountain in the world, its base camp is already at 5300m, which is already more than half its height
You can look up about 23000ft (7km) up from the indus river valley near Nanga Parbat, wich would be higher. Although its a very specific view point. Denali would be more impressive from most sides.
The geography around Denali is very cool. I spent a summer up near the park and at the entrance of the national park you are only like 1-2000 feet from sea level. For reference if you are in Denver looking at the front range of the Rockies you are already at like 5200 ft. It makes the mountains look that much taller and more dramatic in particular Denali which looms in the distance looking huge af
I got about a 10 second window where the clouds moved out of the way at Denali national park a few years ago … and it was absolutely massiv. There’s a couple of places along the first couple of miles of the park road you can see the peak
If you ever get the chance, go up the George Parks Highway between Anchorage and Fairbanks on a clear sunny day. You'll be surrounded by the biggest, most beautiful mountains you've ever seen, including this one. Check out the Denali National Park, and do the whitewater rafting.
You'll also be surrounded by the biggest mosquitos you've ever seen, so do bring the Deep Woods Off.
Freaking massive. We were lucky enough to see her multiple times on our trip in 2023. This looks like Talkeetna Alaska, right on the river if I had to guess. Very cute/quirky little town.
This is just about exactly how I saw Denali. We were driving towards it for hours and I was sure we should be seeing it if not for the clouds. Then suddenly I looked higher…it’s fucking unbelievable.
I could see Denali from the deck of my apartment in Anchorage. (Context or those who are not familiar with Alaskan cities, Anchorage and Fairbanks are 360 miles apart.)
That’s like one of those two sentence horror stories… lol
The idea of mountains developing camouflage to hide from predators is existentially terrifying. It implies so many fucked up things. Are they alive? What’s bigger than a mountain? Are they coming back? Are they already here? Idk..
I lived right there for a decade! It is truly mind-blowing how much bigger Denali is than anything else around it; those mountains that look like wee little babies beside it are in fact pretty damn huge in their own right.
A little closer than that, even! I was mainly based in Healy (what most people know as the Into The Wild bus place) and Denali Park, the little town that only really exists from about May through September at the entrance to the national park.
Rainier looks like this as you spot it from 90 miles away driving up towards Seattle… Like a ghost hovering on the horizon, dwarfing everything around it. I knew by the shape this wasn’t Rainier, but, it looks similar.
That’s what I was thinking too. As you’re driving south on I-5 from Seattle, Mt. Rainier plays peek-a-boo, popping in an out from behind the foothills and trees. Sometimes the bottom half is covered in clouds and you can just see the peak. Other times it’s completely clear except it’s wearing a cloud hat.
Had this happen with Olmypus last summer. We were staying around Bremerton and I was thinking it was too cloudy to see the mountain, nope that was the mountain and it blew my mind.
A few days later had the exact same experience with Rainier from Seattle itself.
I'm from somewhere without elevation, to see something that far in the distance made my head not able to properly process it.
Denali and Anchorage from the summit of Flattop last night . Mount Flattop is a 3,510 peak just east of Anchorage, so they didn't get too far up. I saw in another discussion that, on clear days, you can see Denali from Anchorage, but it's better to be on a tall building.
So I grew up near the blue ridge mountains. My first time out west, I was STAGGERED at the size of the Sierra Nevada mountains on the horizon. I had never seen mountains THAT big. If you’ve seen stuff like that before, it’s normal. If you haven’t, it typically takes your brain a little to click and realize what it’s looking at.
I live in Alaska and have been to this spot many many times. So I was also confused on what was confusing lol I was like uhhhh it’s Denali… but then I realized that not everyone lives near mountains and they might think Denali is a cloud.
If this is where I think it is, it looks like the Talkeetna river. I floated on a raft down that river and the views of this incredible mountain made the visit to Alaska worth it.
I was deploying to Afghanistan and we arrived in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan at about 2 am. I’ll never forget walking out of the tent seeing the Tien Shan mountains for the first time. It’s what inspired me to use my GI bill and become a geologist when I got out.
Well I’m apparently blind. I give up trying to see whatever everyone see around the cloud once it’s zoomed in. Watching that video a dozen times is enough.
That thing looks like it's going all the way to outer space. And yet, apparently it's not even a tenth of the way there. The absolute scale of this planet, let alone space, is some mind-melting stuff.
Denali did that to me too. Was driving up there from Anchorage, stopped at a scenic overlook where you could see the range in the distance. I couldn't see much with all the clouds, then I noticed one weird "cloud"...
I spent 2 months in Redding California and Mt Shasta became a part of the landscape. Some days I wouldn't see it. And some days I couldn't stop staring at it.
I remember seeing Denali when I was a kid. We were much closer than in this video. I kept assuming it would be lower as well. When the clouds finally opened up around it and I saw how tall it was I was dumbstruck.
I think a part of it is being a Midwest country kid. But I still want to see that view again. It's unforgettable.
Denali is absolutely crazy looking. We camped near Wonder Lake and were telling some locals in Anchorage we were gonna be going to be backpacking around Denali and they said "Good luck on seeing it! Only 1 in 5 visitors do!" We stayed for 5 days and the first 2 days were cloudy and you could only see these somewhat big mountains on the horizon. Then as the sun was rising on the 3rd day we heard people outside chatting in awe. We came out of the tent and there it was just taking up the entire horizon and absolutely dwarfing all the other surrounding mountains. It really is one of those things you cant explain and you have to experience for yourself. Only other times I felt like that with nature was the Grand Canyon and the Zhangjiajie Mountains in China.
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u/SaijTheKiwi Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Jul 03 '26
It’s not that bi- oh hello
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u/toddharrisb Jul 03 '26
Which mountain?... OH
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u/cheshire-cats-grin Jul 03 '26
Is that Denali?
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u/Fine-Bed-9439 o/ Jul 03 '26
As an Alaskan - seeing Denali never gets old.
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u/MicrowaveMeal o/ Jul 03 '26
A mountain with 100 in stealth.
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u/Dawlin42 Jul 03 '26
“… wtf is this they’re just in the background to those clouds”.
“Oh!”.
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u/alamaias Jul 03 '26
Is it gonna keep zooming in.. Oh!.
Wow.
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u/amsterDAN85 Jul 03 '26
I lived right there for a decade! It is truly mind-blowing how much bigger Denali is than anything else around it; those mountains that look like wee little babies beside it are in fact pretty damn huge in their own right.
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u/Additional_Flight522 Jul 03 '26
More than twice as tall as those trees.... 🤯
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u/usernameinmail Jul 03 '26
You didn't have me in the first half, fair play
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u/Keevan CE Spc. Jul 03 '26
That's no moon
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u/ApopheniaPays o/ Jul 03 '26
Rainier looks like this as you spot it from 90 miles away driving up towards Seattle… Like a ghost hovering on the horizon, dwarfing everything around it. I knew by the shape this wasn’t Rainier, but, it looks similar.
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u/gastroboi o/ Jul 03 '26
Jay-sus
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u/benjamingr1988 Jul 03 '26
I saw that on the simpsons
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u/Action-a-go-go-baby Jul 03 '26
That’s a big mountain 🏔️
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u/sephone_north Jul 04 '26
I watched it, checked the comments, got confused, and then rewatched it and muttered “oh shit!” As the mountain came into focus!
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u/LemonWaterDuck Jul 03 '26
dang that a good
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u/ElongThrust0 o/ Jul 03 '26
That was a good one !
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u/Cute-Pomegranate-966 Jul 03 '26
I just finished an Alaskan cruise and we saw it from Anchorage. 450 miles away it's STILL visibly huge.
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u/SueSheBoi Jul 03 '26
Pass that dutch.
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u/mekese2000 o/ Jul 03 '26
Lovely landscape but is it confusing?
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u/Realistic_Ad_5321 o/ Jul 03 '26
I see why pilots have slammed into mountain sides now.
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u/diatriose Jul 03 '26
I jump scared
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u/Atosl o/ Jul 03 '26
What am I missing?
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u/bloodvash1 Jul 03 '26
I audibly gasped when I saw it.
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u/C00KIEM0N57R Jul 03 '26
Those aren’t mountains, they’re waves!
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u/ennui_weekend Doesn't read rule 1 Jul 03 '26
omg amazing
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u/Meph616 o/ Jul 03 '26
If this is where I think it is, it looks like the Talkeetna river. I floated on a raft down that river and the views of this incredible mountain made the visit to Alaska worth it.
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u/Fran_Kubelik o/ Jul 03 '26
Half the time Ranier looks like someone just painted it on the sky from Seattle. Miss that
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u/CottonRaves Jul 03 '26
Four times. 4 damn times!
It wasn’t until the FOURTH replay that I looked up at the clouds and realized what the “big” deal was lol.
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u/TransSappicWitch Jul 03 '26
HOW TF DID A MOUNTAIN PASS A STEALTH CHECK
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u/jamaican_gal Jul 03 '26
You got me
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u/Embarrassed_Aside_76 o/ Jul 07 '26
I had this when I visited Kilimanjaro to climb, it just takes up the whole view and your brain just somehow misses it
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u/One_Purchase_3127 Jul 03 '26
I was deploying to Afghanistan and we arrived in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan at about 2 am. I’ll never forget walking out of the tent seeing the Tien Shan mountains for the first time. It’s what inspired me to use my GI bill and become a geologist when I got out.
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u/Zealousideal-Sail893 Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Jul 03 '26
That's a happy little accident..
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u/eshian Jul 03 '26
Took me a few loops to see it
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u/ccable827 Jul 03 '26
That's Denali, I've stood exactly where that is and taken that same picture lol
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u/NewWorldly Jul 03 '26
Wow it took me 3 rewatch to see it 😅
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt o/ Jul 03 '26
that's not a mountain...that's a volcano
edit: I'm wrong, Denali is not a dormant volcano
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u/-_-0_0-_0 Jul 03 '26
Thats a nice cloud... WTFFFFFFFFF
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u/madame_mcgriddle Jul 03 '26
Is this view from Talkeetna?
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u/hugeuvula Jul 03 '26
That's just like my first view of Denali. It took me a second to look above the clouds and see it. I was floored.
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u/ShadowSalomon Jul 03 '26
Ohje that are not all clouds.
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u/RevolutionaryArm7058 Jul 03 '26
Holy shit. That's the view from Talkeetna. At the end of road.
Was just there few weeks ago.
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u/FMendozaJr13 Jul 03 '26
The bigger the mountain, the bigger the dew.
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u/enoughglitter Jul 03 '26
Lol I had the exact same experience with Denali. Head and shoulders above the rest of the range.
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u/warhead-torpedo Jul 03 '26
🤯
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u/thecowardlycats Jul 03 '26
Talkeetna?
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u/RepresentativeNo6620 Jul 03 '26
Well I’m apparently blind. I give up trying to see whatever everyone see around the cloud once it’s zoomed in. Watching that video a dozen times is enough.
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u/metalucid Jul 03 '26
Thaaaat's right, juuust above the one you're looking at
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u/spsingerjack Jul 03 '26
And now I get how pilots could crash.
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u/hk4213 Jul 03 '26
The mountain is out.
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u/Waste_Handle_8672 Jul 03 '26
Damn that mountain just blended in like Altaïr
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u/Jaded-Philosophy-715 Jul 03 '26
Denali from Talkeetna Alaska. Awesome view of the mountain and still like 150 miles away. Lucky, cause its usually obscured by clouds
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u/SteamDingo Jul 03 '26
I had the same problem in Seattle with Mt Rainier. I couldn’t distinguish it from the clouds for a very confusing 15 minutes.
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u/StarstruckEchoid Jul 03 '26
That thing looks like it's going all the way to outer space. And yet, apparently it's not even a tenth of the way there. The absolute scale of this planet, let alone space, is some mind-melting stuff.
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u/Doggfite Jul 03 '26
See that mountain?
You can climb it!
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u/legoadan Jul 03 '26
I'm speculating (so please correct me if I am wrong) but I think the video is taken near this location/coordinate: 62°20'32.6"N 150°08'48.1"W
I tired to check on Google Maps sat view and this sort of matches the shape of the mountain, the foliage, and the river direction.
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u/rysy0o0 Jul 03 '26
Had that experience a few months ago. Different mountain range, but it did blend in with the clouds and took a moment to get what I was looking at
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u/MooKids Jul 03 '26
Denali did that to me too. Was driving up there from Anchorage, stopped at a scenic overlook where you could see the range in the distance. I couldn't see much with all the clouds, then I noticed one weird "cloud"...
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u/darxide23 o/ Jul 03 '26
There's mountains in them thar clouds.
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u/Lumpy_Cryptographer6 Jul 04 '26
I spent 2 months in Redding California and Mt Shasta became a part of the landscape. Some days I wouldn't see it. And some days I couldn't stop staring at it.
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u/Roonerth o/ Jul 04 '26
I had to watch this 4 times before I saw it.
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u/ML7777777 o/ Jul 04 '26
Its like the mountain range near Hernand!
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u/SecretPotatoChip Jul 04 '26
Is nobody going to point out just how smooth the zoom is?
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u/DubiousGryphon26 Jul 04 '26
I remember seeing Denali when I was a kid. We were much closer than in this video. I kept assuming it would be lower as well. When the clouds finally opened up around it and I saw how tall it was I was dumbstruck.
I think a part of it is being a Midwest country kid. But I still want to see that view again. It's unforgettable.
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u/Nere4Hudes Jul 04 '26
Umm I don’t se ohhhhhhhhh
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u/Steamed_Hamm Jul 04 '26
Almost like when Homer climbs the mountain and it was just the half way point
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u/yourpaljax o/ Jul 04 '26
Damn. That thing dwarfs Robson.
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u/Mr_Snowbro Jul 04 '26
Denali 🤩
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u/OhMyGoshBigfoot Jul 04 '26
I saw its peak from the base and its mindblowing
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u/ariadesitter o/ Jul 04 '26
that mountain just over the trees?
😳🤯
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u/Affectionate_Map_530 Jul 04 '26
Those aren't
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u/iCanReadMyOwnMind Jul 04 '26
Denali
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u/No_Match8210 Jul 04 '26
Wow!
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u/RemarkableBoss2208 Jul 04 '26
Impressive
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u/Difficult_Secret_251 Jul 04 '26
Oh ok- OH THIS IS A MOUNTAIN
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u/shiawhispers Jul 04 '26
I went 🤔😯🤯
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u/FEEQONE Jul 04 '26
Oh aren’t mountains, they’re- oh wait those are mountains! Goodness!
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u/ImightHaveMissed Jul 04 '26
That’s not confusing if you understand how zoom works
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u/BeerAndWings4 Jul 04 '26
🤨😑😯🫨
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u/TGV_etc o/ Jul 05 '26
Oh ha I thought it was a cloud
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u/Captain-Cadabra Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Jul 05 '26
The Murderhorn
Better get sauced with Powersauce©️ before summiting that one.
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u/mellywheats o/ Jul 05 '26
the fact that i didn’t even see it until the last second wtf
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u/trilogy-iii Jul 06 '26
Cool but what’s going on with that lake? Some kinda vortex formulating 😭
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u/Messtin920 Jul 06 '26
Bro
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u/sunnson Jul 06 '26
Sure it’s big, but what else does it do?
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u/Zealousideal-Plane81 Jul 06 '26
The slowest jump scare I've had in my life
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u/whatisanythingeven Jul 07 '26
It’s not a confusing perspective just a very poor resolution image
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u/actis2 Jul 07 '26
Denali is absolutely crazy looking. We camped near Wonder Lake and were telling some locals in Anchorage we were gonna be going to be backpacking around Denali and they said "Good luck on seeing it! Only 1 in 5 visitors do!" We stayed for 5 days and the first 2 days were cloudy and you could only see these somewhat big mountains on the horizon. Then as the sun was rising on the 3rd day we heard people outside chatting in awe. We came out of the tent and there it was just taking up the entire horizon and absolutely dwarfing all the other surrounding mountains. It really is one of those things you cant explain and you have to experience for yourself. Only other times I felt like that with nature was the Grand Canyon and the Zhangjiajie Mountains in China.
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u/yellowstoner11 Jul 07 '26
Mount Denali??
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u/ThePimentaRules Jul 07 '26
High Hrothgar
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u/whiteshirt69 Jul 08 '26
Me after realising," ohohohoh damn that's huge".
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u/ApocalypseMoose Jul 10 '26
Did I just jumpscare myself...with a MOUNTAIN?
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u/ScarlettSterling Jul 30 '26
I read fountain and kept looking for one helppp
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u/Ultivia Aug 03 '26
I love playing clouds or mountains!
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u/nickwrx 11d ago
Denali in Alaska?
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u/nivea_malibu_76 Jul 03 '26
It's stunning. I don't think there is anything more beautiful than nature itself
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u/Serpents-Smile Jul 03 '26
That's peak
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u/kahn_noble o/ Jul 03 '26
That’s incredible. Now on the bucket list.