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I'm the photographer among most of my ski partners. I often wait for them at the top to shoot (or ask them to wait while I ski down and then get set up), which can give a nice little person in a big landscape perspective. This was taken a couple years ago on a wonderful 7,000 ft. descent from...

This was taken a few years ago when I was back-country skiing around Chinook Pass.

Mt. Adams Dawn

This was taken on a ski tour in the Wasatch range of Utah back in the 70s. Shot on Kodachrome it was one of my favorite attempts at converting to black and white using a slide-duplicating set-up with negative film loaded. BW-snow-curve by Jim Dockery posted Feb 7, 2018 at 9:18 AM

I had posted that color shot of Vernal Falls in Yosemite earlier in the week. I had a feeling I would like it in B&W perhaps more, and was also thinking that a vertical composition would be nice with this to help balance the pour off in the foreground with the falls in the background. All...

These were taken on a 3 day ski tour in the North Cascades National Park, The Forbidden Traverse. In the spring it starts and ends with a few hours of carrying skis through some slide alder which can be challenging. The views are some of the best in the park. Forbidden-N-face-pano by Jim...

From a few weeks ago in Yosemite, after a fresh snowfall I decided to hike up to Vernal Falls and I was hoping to get a little different perspective on it. Where I shot this from would be impossible during the spring and summer, only in the later fall would the water be low enough to get out...

The view 3 blocks from my house (sure wish I lived there!). Whitehorse-bw by Jim Dockery posted Feb 7, 2018 at 9:22 AM

Many people consider this profile of Eldorado Pk. in the North Cascades to be the most graceful in the park. Eldorado-sunset-2 by Jim Dockery posted Mar 17, 2018 at 5:55 AM

Taken on a spring ski touring trip to Rogers Pass, Canada. Provia 100 Slide scan. Tupper-N-Ridge-BW by Jim Dockery posted Feb 7, 2018 at 9:24 AM

My partner Eric cooperates the best he can to help me get good ski shots. Ski fun, and getting down safely, is always the priority, but when we can get a shot like this where he hit the sun spot perfectly, it makes me very happy when I'm back home. Eric-skis-slot-bw by Jim Dockery posted Feb...

A couple more from my backyard. The snow melted, then a bit came back this morning. Snowy-Maple-(1bw) by Jim Dockery posted Feb 26, 2018 at 6:26 PM Snow-on-Maple-(10) by Jim Dockery posted Feb 26, 2018 at 6:26 PM

Yesterday I attempted to do some snowshoeing in RMNP. The wind was too much for my liking 30-50mph is not fun to be out in. However I did manage to get some shots while leaving.

These are all old slides (mostly Kodachrome) from the late 70s - early 80s, scanned with Nikon Coolscan 4000. Climbing-Mt.-Temple-N-face by Jim Dockery posted Feb 7, 2018 at 9:20 AM Near the top of Mt. Temple's North Face Climbers-on-Mt.-Athabasca by Jim Dockery posted Feb 7, 2018 at 9:18 AM...

We haven't been getting much lowland snow the last few years in western Washington, but woke up to ~5" at my house this morning. I managed to get out on my crutches in the backyard to capture a few of my favorite maple with my new Sony 24-105mm. Snowy-Maple-(28) by Jim Dockery posted Feb 18...

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...