morning dawn on the Schwäbische Alb 2015-02-12

view from Raichberg tower in the morning 2015-02-12

Having taken pictures from the Zeller Horn at night, I was on the way back to the parking lot when I saw something like clouds above the horizon. Clouds? Well, not quite, it appears as if I was too unbelieving so it took me a second look until I realized those "clouds" were actually the Alps in 150 km distance which can be seen from here on clear days. I took the shortest way through the snow-covered landscape to reach the Raichberg tower before sunrise to enjoy the view from there:

View to the east.

View to the northeast: Roßberg (17 km distance).

View to the north.

View to the west with Black Forest at the horizon.

view of the Alps

labels ON labels OFF There are different variants of this image. Move the cursor over the correspondent boxes to display them.View of the Alps before sunrise.

View of Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, in 178 km distance.

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After sunrise, the mountain range of the Alps appears violet instead of blue.