cascades

A couple weekends ago I went down to SW CO. Hiked a couple 14ers and make a stop to one of my favorite hikes and places in CO. The wildflowers have been so pretty this year! cc welcome!

Drone view of Mt. Baker from above my house 1/4/22

After the incredible sunset Wednesday I kept the drone handy hoping for more. Pretty nice view from above my house this morning. View East - South (Gallery Image) South (Gallery Image) East

Almost missed this sunset down in the basemen at my computer. My wife called me up to see it, I ran down to get the drone, rushed out and got it up to grab this. Skyline L-R: Cascades, Mt. Rainier, Sky Scrapers of Seattle, Olympics, Puget Sound. Lake Stevens below.

I just posted some color images over in Landscape, but as usual converted many to B&W. Hall Pk. Snow covers a fallen tree on the shore of the river Drone View of snow The drone makes it easy to get nice snow pictures without footprints!

I went X-skiing up The Mountain Loop Hwy with my wife last week and had a great time. Fresh deep snow was heavy in the trees so it was a winter wonderland. I only had my iPhone 13 Pro, which did a great job as usual, but I really wished I'd brought a real camera. After a few days of rain in the...

I posted a landscape view looking west from this spot a few days ago. This vertical is looking east toward Big Four and Hall Pk.

This popular little hike is mobbed in the summer so I never go then. Last Monday I had it mostly to myself on a cool and cloudy day. Ciffs and clouds above the lake Symetry Cloud Play Drone View

Mt. Stuart is the Queen of the East Central Cascades. At 9,416 ft. it is the 2nd highest non-volcanic peak in the state and has some of the best alpine rock climbing. I got this shot from a ski tour on Bean Peak just SW of Stuart. The SE face of Bean hides the lower half of Stuart.

A beautiful day of spring skiing up the Teanaway valley in the central Cascades.

I finally viewed and edited this fly-by I got of Mt. Index a while back. Amazing the tools we have at a reasonable price now!

Not to be confused with the mountain of the same name in Mt. Rainier NP, this one is viewed from Hwy. 20 in the North Cascades. Paul Bunyan's Stump just to the left.

One last shot from my hike up to Lake Serene last week. This one is looking west out toward the lowlands, Hwy 2 traverses this valley.

After Jim Fox's comments on my previous version of this in portrait orientation I went back and found this landscape zoomed in version and processed it today for a tighter view into the distant peaks.

Taken from the Lake Serene trail at sunrise looking north to Columbia Peak area.

This might be my best from a recent hike up to Lake Serene below Mt. Index. This is a drone pano made from a total of 65 shots - 5 rows x 3 columns x bursts of 5 stacked and median blended then stitched in ACR.

The start of spring but Mt. Index is still wearing it's winter coat.

Yesterday I set the alarm for 4 am so that I could make it up to Lake Serene below Mt. Index for sunrise. I was expecting this popular just less than 4 mile trail to be well boot packed, but was disappointed that the last mile was deep snow that only had a snowshoe track. My pace slowed...

Ross Lake and Hozomeen Mt. behind.

Highway 20 through the north Cascades isn't plowed in the winter so is gated and closed until later in the spring. I was skiing up there this week and got these on the way. Skagit River Sunrise peek at the peaks Colonial Peak rises above Diablo Lake North Face of Colonial