MOUNTAIN HIKING
With friends on Sunday morning, we decided to do a mountain hiking. With supplies and other gears ready, we started hiking by passing a creek leading to the forested hills following a man-made clearing by previous hikers. The surrounding area is lust green, mosses started creeping in the bark of a tree. The trees are competing themselves to reach the sun. I can feel the freshness of the winds, the color of the flowers and the presence of monkeys in the branches of a higher tree that are fruiting.
Trails can take you through beautiful areas with showcase of spectacular views, small streams, cascading falls and wildlife. It provides time for reflection and can be very relaxing.
There is a feeling of contentment, wonders, peace of mind by just looking the beautiful scenery that surround me. I feel relax created by ultimate and tranquil environment. It challenge me to see the fantastic and wonderful panoramic views. In the farthest distance of the mountain, you can see the undisturbed landscape, feeling the good air and water in the water fall. It provide me with myriad opportunities for solitude, renewal and inspiration in a wild experience. That’s the beauty of nature.
But what it benefits you? It shifted your metabolism from storing fat to burning fat. It increases fitness to greater overall energy and vitality. It is vital to experience a relaxation and stress reduction. By exploring the mountain, it can get you fit and losing weight. It is a good exercise spending a good quality time with friends and family. Learning and sharing along the way makes a very enjoyable outing.
If you are interested to go on my next trip, then prepare yourself. Now is the time to be with me!…
WINDS OF DISASTER
Even with the presence of sun rays, not all section of the earth was uniformly warm. Sunlight arrive vertically in the equatorial zone. This is the reason why the equatorial air is much warmer compared to the polar air because of an oblique angle near the poles. The difference in temperature make the atmosphere into an engine of heat that causes the wind to blow in the direction of its choice.
As the earth rotate, a westward drift of air occur in the lower atmosphere. The westerly wind born into an immense high altitude eddies with thousand of miles across. There are also many smaller winds that swirl and later on vanish and then replace by another set of winds. That’s how the winds in its direction and degrees changes every now and then.
Larger winds was different. It cannot change direction immediately instead they move eastward before subsiding in the matter of days. The presence and growth of this winds in the matter of days. The presence and growth of this winds wil cause a changeable weather in the middle latitudes.
When a low pressure wind rotate and spinning counter-clockwise from northern to southern hemisphere, then it can cause a cyclone. It spin because the air and its center is lighter and lower in pressure while the air surrounding the eddy is more heavier and higher in pressure.
For instances, the breeze that come from the sea and in land that we can felt along the coastline. The temperature of the ocean surface stays fairly constant, while the wind in the surface of land may fluctuate widely. During hot days, the beath become warm as the air above rises, if cooler, the denser air from over the water, the sea breeze is draw in to replace it. At night the beach cools rapidly and the air circulation is then reversed the air over the land is now denser, and the land breeze flows offshore.
A cyclone are mostly to be born at sea and to mature as they move in the grip of the trade winds and will bring disaster if they sweep over the land.
A hurricane form as a zone of low atmospheric pressure over tropical ocean. The warm air laden with moisture flows toward this zone and ascend it. The water vapor in the rising column of warm air condenses into clouds and rain liberating a great deal of heat further speeding the upward flow of air. Tons of water are extracted from the ocean and the coverging air every second by hurricane and the condensation over one day releases energy. As the heated air rises faster and faster, new air converges on the storm center with ever increasing speed, generating winds about 180 miles per hour. At the center is an eye, an area of calm. A ring of dense cloud from where the volume of rain falls, surrounded the eye and this ring of winds is not furious with the wind speed that changes in an instant in a hundred miles in an hour.
Living organisms cannot live without air. We need air to continue our existence. But the air in a form of winds can also bring havoc to us. This natural disaster was already upon us all the time, continue changing and damaging when it happen to cross its path.
