denali

Really digging deep for these as they are from 12 years ago on a trip to Alaska where I essentially never processed any of the photos except for a couple. So I guess it's time to finally get to some. :rolleyes: This is in the Denali area. I have no idea what the names of the mountains are, this...

Since I dug in the archives to process a photo from Alaska for Friday's Focus I decided to dig a bit more and found another one. I recall the it was sunset which was lasting forever. One thing with Alaska is there can be hundreds of miles of roads where all you see is forest on both sides of the...

Orient Final 1 by Jim Dockery posted Feb 13, 2018 at 9:57 AM Pat climbing into The Orient Express couloir on our last attempt. We only make it half way up the rib to the right (avoiding dangerous wind slab snow). Note the spindrift blowing off the top. Jim Descent 1 by Jim Dockery posted Feb...

Denali (241) by Jim Dockery posted Feb 13, 2018 at 10:00 AM Cruising around the 14,000 ft. plateau on an acclimatization day. Denali (236) by Jim Dockery posted Feb 13, 2018 at 10:00 AM Ice chunks the size of houses that fell from an ice cliff. PatSki1b by Jim Dockery posted Feb 13, 2018 at...

Most of the climb up the West Buttress is snow slogging with heavy loads. We would carry a load of food and fuel up to the next camp a few thousand feet higher, ski back down with empty packs, then pack up everything the next day and bring it all up to that next camp. This not only makes each...

I'm going to break this into 4 threads because I got a lot of shots on a 19 day trip up the standard West Buttress route in 2005. This was my first expedition using a digital camera. I went with a Canon Rebel XT for it's light weight with an 18-125mm Sigma lens. I brought a solar charger which...

These were taken on a trip to AK 12 years ago. I climbed, and attempted to ski, from the summit as a 50th b-day gift to myself. Afterward my wife came up and we rented a car for a two week tour where I shot these when we drove into Wonder Lake. Wonder-Lake-(4) by Jim Dockery posted Feb 7, 2018...