A "Tiefblick" on Valbonë, Albania, from the south ridge of the Albanian summit (Podi e Kollatës / Ravna Kolata, 2556 m) of Maja Kolata, in the Prokletije mountain range.
This is the first time that I localize a belvedere beforehand, with Google Earth, and memorize its position on the GPS. I am very satisfied with the precious help that the GPS has given me in the mysterious "cursed mountains" - this is the meaning of the name Prokletije.
The incredibly strong wind moved the clouds in such a way that to collect coherent panoramic shots seemed to be an impossible challenge. I had experimented something like this only in the setting of N.6615.
As a result, I shot... a lot of candidate panoramas, among which it is now extremely difficult to locate a "best" representative. The present one simply appears to be the easiest to stitch, consisting of only four horizontal shots. Maybe I will remove it if I will find something better in the future.
For a coherent description of the summits, please wait a future panorama from Maja Rosit, shot two days later, with far better visibility (a prototype is here: www.panoramio.com/photo/95841161).
On the other hand, do not wait for a panorama from the highest summit, namely, Maja e Jezercës, 2694 m, since the visibility was the one depicted here: picasaweb.google.com/albertopedrotti/Balcani_2#5920209739180309506
Hans-Jürgen Bayer, Sebastian Becher, Peter Brandt, Hans-Jörg Bäuerle, Friedemann Dittrich, Gerhard Eidenberger, Thomas Janeck, Martin Kraus, Giuseppe Marzulli, Jan Lindgaard Rasmussen, Barcud Revnik, Arne Rönsch, Christoph Seger, Konrad Sus, Markus Ulmer, Jens Vischer, Benjamin Vogel, Augustin Werner
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Here I was in Albanian territory only for few hundreds of metres, and illegally; namely, my starting place was on the Montenegro side.
The unique night which I slept illegally in Albania, I did this inside one of the local bunkers - just in case.
Neither do I know what the Albanian law says concerning illegal Brocken spectres...
Following your Tatra panorama, I had a glance to my old Tatra pictures, where I found two Brockens that I had completely forgotten: one on the Rysy ( www.panoramio.com/photo/97720781 ) an another, the same day, on the Koprovsky Stit ( 97611741 ).
I need indeed to perform a Brocken census on my disk and slide archive!
Jörg Braukmann's Brocken #13003
Jan Lindgaard's Brocken #13889
... and your Brocken is also very beautiful ;-))
Cheers Hans-Jörg
In the last one quoted I also see that the evil Fahnenmaststitchingfehler, that has been so widely researched in latter times, gets frightened and fades away when the flag belongs to a country with more than 80,000 US$ GNI per capita. This contradicts harshly the conclusions that I wrote down to N.13961 - sorry, but error is an unavoidable moment of the research process!
Always speaking of research, I have spotted a rare example of a 29-February-Brocken, although not on a remote mountain: www.panoramio.com/photo/77286875
As for remote mountains, instead, I have found another strange phenomenon: www.panoramio.com/photo/97755062 I could promise *very* rich rewards (maybe US$ 2 under the form of a beer...) to any expert accepting to explain this to me...
KR Alberto
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