- At the base of the mountains you find beautiful scenery with alpine lakes reflecting the stark volcanic mountains. Stepping up the slope triggers a sudden surreal change from summer settings to arctic extremes. Aurora borealis, glacial pools and ice slopes for sliding down on top of the glacier and underneath swimming down within its hidden streams. The top of the world isolation, looking down on the rest of the island landscape.
- An environmental sphere turns the mountains into arctic environment when you cross the boundary surrounding the area. View of rest of island changes to arctic but back to normal as soon as you descend out of the bubble.
- offers the top of the world isolation feeling - tries to catch all, that standing on top of a snow covered peak can give you - a sense of no humanity, isolation, sharp contours versus the flatter softer contours that can be seen below
- high altitude/snow covered mountains are universally recognized as spiritually transitioning between lower and higher consciousness
- cross an invisible sphere surrounding the 3 Sisters mountains and they change from desert to arctic - turn around and rest of island is also in white - pure white beyond the mountains even the ocean is iced over - could see the white start from the top and freeze out in all directions - and talk about a water theme - no wind or anything - a real frozen world
- interaction is the discovery of controlling how to make snow zone appear
- make sure the circle starts below the tree line of forest that appears in the snow version
- 3 Sisters is a copy of those mountains on the Cascade range of Oregon
- manipulate/funnel participants to hit arctic sphere on southern side with alpine lakes - alpine lakes on the southern side reflecting mountains and possibly sun or moon from the southern angle - so must make sure terrain and or flora don’t prevent that -
- snow melts off trees and some rocks in sun/afternoon -
- make terrain detail so that seeing from the 3 sisters you don’t see observatory house or obvious routes to it - can always hide peaks with clouds - clouds below the peak forming off the glaciers when sun hits snow - fog from warming snow
- have to cross the snow sphere line in the dusk or dawn to see the mountains in snow - it stays in permanent dawn or sunset - until you leave - when you do leave you go back to real time and sun and moon etc. transition very quickly to the real time of day - like a time camera sped up to catch back up with real time.
- Aurora Borealis!
- put glaciers and glacial pools on North side of terrain - lots of water and echoes of water moving and dripping- a mammoth or other surreal scenes frozen in glacier
- leftovers from climbing expeditions as theme on human nature
- a surreal reenactment of a Nemo memory - climbing a peak in Asia - as his family reflects on the lucky who get to adventure just for the exploration versus the ones who don't have the resources to see these adventures
- island turns back to desert when you re-cross sphere or an adjusted sphere further down slope
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