cascades

Might have been our last day of X-skiing up The Mountain Loop Highway. A bit of new snow made for good skiing and nice views of the misty mountains. Hall Peak North Ridge of Big Four Valley View

#1: Skiing down from the Paradise Glacier, Mt. Rainier. Not the best ski shot of the year, but I managed to capture my friend Silas in perfect position on his 70th B-day - my present to him. #2: Another summer ski day at Mt. Rainier. My partner Eric got this one of me on a new descent for us...

Taken from the SE, which is where the climbers route goes. This is a drone view from above the snow-park I camped at. I tried to ski it the next day but had to turn back 1,000 ft. from the rim in a whiteout. Click through for large gallery image.

I made a solo attempt on Mt. Saint Helens yesterday. Soon after I got this shot the clouds from the west enveloped me in a snowy whiteout. I turned around about 1,000 ft. below the rim and skied down by brail - we joke that it is like being inside a ping-pong ball. Luckily some other skiers...

My partner Jeff got this shot of me taking a rest on a ski descent of the Colman Glacier route on Mt. Baker many years ago. We were headed right, not down through that crevasse area below us!

We woke up late to a nice sunrise starting. I got up and made coffee, but didn't think it would amount to much. Just when I was pouring my cup it peaked and I hurried to get the drone up. Shoulda waited on the coffee - I missed the best of it, but the left overs were still nice. Mt. Pilchuck...

A drone view pano from above my house. I love to watch dramatic thunderheads change, esp. at sunset/rise. Click through for large gallery image

A steep scrappy spur trail leads off of the Snow Lake route to this view. Not much room to move around, especially in this social distancing time, but there was only one other hiker when I arrived and she was packing up to go so I had it to myself for a while last summer. Another shot that got...

Last week I was first tempted to fly my drone up by this nice thunderhead over the mountains. I really like the glimpse of the mountains beneath the clouds and the veil of rain. I landed and waited a bit before taking off again to look toward Lake Stevens when the color got better. Not my...

Whitehorse Mt. on the right

The serendipity finding a nice unexpected sunset with my drone a couple days ago got me psyched to fly more. When a few clouds looked a bit promising I figured I might as well take er up again since I can just take off from my backyard and shoot up for a view. When I first looked out the window...

I just posted a pano taken from the summit of Keyes Pk. in the Cascades near my house on my birthday a few years ago. Then I remembered the cool avalanche that I watched take place just below me that morning. I had my camera out and ready for other shots so was lucky to capture a sequence. This...

Taken a few years ago on a birthday climb and summit bivy on Keyes Pk. in the north Cascades near my house. The sunlit snowy peak on the left is one of my favorite spring ski runs.

The clouds came in as I plowed a path in deep snow over to the little tarn above Blue Lake in the North Cascades. The color version wasn't very exciting, but I was happily surprised when I finished the B&W conversion.

When snow drapes these peaks it feels like I have Patagonia in my backyard! Early Winter Spires on the left, Liberty Bell on the right. Drone vertical pano.

My wife and I did our nearly annual hike up to Mt. McCausland/Lake Valhalla yesterday. Some color along Hwy 2 on the way up, although it's never outstanding on the west slope. The blueberry plants near Stevens Pass up above 4,000 ft, are very red though and the berries are delicious! Mid...

This was a frame from a time-lapse sequence I shot with my RX100.

A last glimpse before the peak disappeared into the mist for the rest of the evening.

I was hoping to get more sunset shots of White Chuck mountain from Raven Lake, but rising mist obscured the peak just after I got this one.

In my continued enthusiasm with the shots I got up at Raven Lake last week I'm spreading them across the forums. I'm not much of a portrait shooter (wish I was better), and even less frequent with selfies so don't post here much. I had time before the sunrise and was figuring out where to set up...