February 6, 2024 11:00 am
Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
After a few weeks of rain, and snow followed by extreme cold, a temperature inversion finally occurred and banks of heavy fog appeared here in Pittsburgh. It wasn’t the good kind of fog, I’d mention, it was more of a precipitous mist.
After banging my head against the wall for two weeks during an arctic interval of gray and rainy gloom, I couldn’t stand staying inside anymore and jumped into the car to go see what I could see. This one is from West End Overlook Park, a nearby facility which I visit periodically.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The elevation is the star of the show here, which offers a panoramic view of Pittsburgh’s center. Pictured above is the ‘North Side’ area which I’ve spent a bit of time getting familiar with in recent months.
In the foreground is part of the West End Bridge, a span over the Ohio River which I’ve also been getting to know. It started raining again while I was up here, so I headed back to the Mobile Oppression Platform for cover and decided that I needed to go somewhere else that offered my lens some overhead cover from precipitants. It was about a 15 minute drive to my next destination.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That’s Seldom Seen Greenway’s fantastic brick lined tunnel entry pictured above. Another spot I’ve visited quite a bit in the last year. I like bringing Moe the Dog here for walks, as there’s a small trail and flowing water and a bit of woods.
As the crow flies, this cannot be more than a couple/three miles from West End Overlook, but you need to drive a long and curvilinear path through a couple of neighborhoods and an industrial zone to get here.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The water moving through here is a stream called Saw Mill Run. On weekends, you’ll encounter groups of people climbing the masonry walls and rappelling about on ropes. It’s organized, I’d add, and they’re part of some club from one of the universities.
The water is pretty dirty, I tell’s ya, and it smells of residential sewer overflow on rainy days. Trust me when I tell you what the various flavors of sewage smell like, as I’ve got a lot of experience in that arena.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
There’s an active rail bridge over the trail, one which I’ve spent several frustrating hours waiting for a train to appear upon in the past.
What looks like a staircase on the left is actually quite cylcopean in scale, and you’d have to be of Professional Wrestler or NBA stature to consider it as being a set of stairs. I get up to the top via a dirt trail on the other side of the masonry.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
As always seems to be the case, just as I was breaking down my kit and getting ready to head back to HQ, a train appeared when I wasn’t prepared to properly shoot it.
It’s a Pittsburgh & Lake Erie train set, if you’re interested.
Back tomorrow.
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Categories: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Tags: fog, photowalk, Pittsburgh
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