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Hitting another forum with material from Raven Lake this week.

From Raven Lake. My most productive photo shoot in a while - gotta share the love across all the forums.

Taking panos is so easy with a drone that I almost always do so when taking pictures. For this one I started looking almost straight down, it gave me vertigo looking at my phone realizing how big and steep the cliff just below me was! You can see the little lake I camped at and my red jacket...

Two views looking down the length of little Raven Lake toward Mt. Pugh and Sloan. 5ish a.m., still pretty dark other than some moonlight. Dawn.

I've already posted a version of this scene in the landscape forum, but hadn't processed this one. Like Jim said in the first one it would have been nice to include the whole mountain in the reflection, this one does. Two images stacked, sky 25 sec., earth 79 sec., ISO 3200, Sony A7rII + Batis...

It was so much fun to get back out with my repaired drone. North Cascades sunrise, White Chuck Mt. in center. Click through for gallery image

I hiked up to this little lake/tarn on the side of White Chuck mountain hoping to find a relatively easy place to take my wife for a nice night. I've looked down on this spot from the summit a couple of times and thought it would be cool to get over there sometime. With the crowds on the well...

I got this on a solo trip into ski the north side of Mt. Adams a few years ago. I camped here, up at tree line, and got some good shots, but the mosquitoes were terrible and I only had a bivy sack without netting, so suffered through a hot afternoon. I've now learned my lesson and carry a nice...

The only glacier free route to the summit.

Paradise creek valley curves below the distant mountains. We were on our way back to Paradise after a day of back-country skiing on the Cowlitz Glacier.

Mt. Rainier NP

My partner Eric and I explored some steep chutes off the Muir Snowfield last week. We were dismayed to find the lower part melted out into a steep waterfall that forced us to climb up and over to another gully that went to the Nisqually Glacier. We had this part of the mountain to ourselves and...

I got out for a good day of skiing yesterday. Couldn't find a partner (much to my wife's dismay), but this is one of my favorite local routes, so wasn't worried and took care. I also have an emergency locator beacon for a last resort. I only brought my iPhone and snapped a couple of landscapes...

They have lifted the rules here in WA to allow dispersed camping and hiking on most forest service land. We loaded up our new truck-camper (which has been sitting idle in our carport for months) and drove over Hwy 20 with two friends for 3 wonderful days of hiking and skiing. Gorge Creek...

The shelter in place rules here in WA are pretty clear - including no non-essential travel. Our national forest trailheads are all closed, but the trails are open for those who live close enough. Up till yesterday I've been strictly following these rules (with the exception of driving an hour to...

Stevens Pass, WA 1/28/20. Warming temps will turn this to mashed potatoes today, but we got the goods yesterday!

Taken on a great day of back-country powder skiing at Stevens Pass, WA. As you can see we had the mountain to ourselves and knee deep powder! I've posted a ski shot from the same location over in the Sports forum (which doesn't seem to get much traffic).

1. Sunset North Cascades, drone pano, I continue to learn and use my drone to capture new perspectives. White-Chuck-Drone-002a-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Oct 27, 2019 at 2:16 PM 2. Morning Star Pk. drone view in winter. Taken on a rare winter climb/ski of Vesper Pk. that kicked my old butt...

My wife and I went on our first X-ski day up The Mountain Loop Hwy yesterday. You can't see it in this picture but it was lightly raining all day (not unusual in this area) but our Gortex worked and we had a nice day - the snow was surprisingly good skiing in a snowmobile track.

My partner Jeff and I did what we think might have been the first ski descent of Columbia Peak's west face. Jeff got this shot as I started down the steep snow slope just at sunset. This was the perfect end to a very long and tiring day. We slept very well in our bivy just below the face.