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Sorry for the inactivity recently, been a bit busy lately so not getting out either. Mind you, it's not been the weather for it.
This is one I took when descending Chrulaiste with Dru Dodd, Mike Ridley and Ant Johnstone a few weeks ago and only now got round to processing.
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It had been a rather sparse winter in terms of winter conditions and there was one adventure I try and fit in every year. However this year I hadn’t managed to do this and it had been eating away at me for a few months! Some late snow fall and a brief cold snap saw us heading to Glencoe and hoping that the route I wanted had enough usable snow!
Our location was Glencoe and we decided to head to Broad Gully (the gully I hadn’t done) via the zig zags. At this time of the year this is a great day out with a little scrambling to get some height then an easy climb with the crampons and ice axe
The rain on the journey soon petered out and by the time we reached Glencoe blue skies were starting to appear which was perfect. Geared up and we headed on the path that eventually leads to The Lost Valley, and once we had walked a little while we branched off to find the start of the zig zags. The weather was good and in the shelter of Gear Aonach it was very spring like and I was soon starting to shed layers, I was really hoping the weather was a little colder higher up the mountain!
2013 was the last time I had been up the zig zags and it was fun getting back here – a few scrambly corners an we were soon striding along the top of Gear Aonach with SCNL now in view. It was looking good and from what we could see , broad gull looked intact. Soon we got the crampons on and ice axe out and were heading up broad gully with big smiles plastered across our faces The od snow was good and much fun was had. Topping out and the views never fail to impress… Bidean reveals itself and the views down towards Ballachuillish are spectacular
There wasn’t much snow around the corrie rim so with us still having all the gear on, we decided to head back down broad gully and enjoy the snow for as long as we could. Much fun. The sun was shining ad view immense – another fine day out in Glencoe
On this day I went out scouting for night photography sites in the Cascades, the clouds were stunning for long exposure. I took a few cloud studies, this one over the Sisters (pretty much covered up) at McKenzie Pass.
If you like, take a look at my others from my two trips to the Pacific Northwest (Oregon/Washington) in 2014 and 2015.
Three Sisters - Katoomba in some 'less than ideal' light thanks to an approaching storm this afternoon...
Sparks Lake is one of those alpine picturesque lakes with sweeping views of South Sister to the North, Broken Top to the Northeast, and Mount Bachelor to the Southeast. Although this lake is probably its deepest during the peak of snow melt in the spring, this time of year its deepest area is only about a foot and a half. This makes it extremely difficult to canoe solo across...I ended up beaching myself about 8 times on the muddy lake bottom and had to portage my canoe to another section of the lake. In the end I stayed on this island until the sun had completely risen and thoroughly enjoyed every minute...I just dreaded paddling back to the boat launch. As usual, this frustrating (and very dirty) trip ended up being completely worth it.
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Glencoe
Linhof Technikardan, Schneider Apo-Symmar MC 150mm f/5.6,
Fujichrome Velvia 50 5x4
3.5º rear tilt forward, 3º front tilt, 1/2" f/22, 0.9 hard + 0.3 soft GND
Digitized on with lightbox and Nikon D800E with 60f/2.8 micro, 4 frames stitched in CS6.
South Sister is the most geologically active of the Three Sisters - a set of volcanoes in the Central Oregon Cascades. It last erupted about 2000 years ago (a blink of an eye in geologic time), and there has been slow bulging in the last 20-30 years, although an eruption is unlikely in the near future - human time, that is.
A view of the Three Sisters from the Three Sisters Overlook in Blue Mountains National Park, Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. To get a sense of scale, notice that the leftmost tower is connected to the cliff face by a footbridge, and that a person is on the footbridge.
Up in the Blue Mountains again and visiting the old haunts ....
Dawn at Echo Point sometimes feels like Groundhog Day, but the light usually manages to bring something special.
On my way to a breakfast meeting, I spot this guy who has probably been up for hours with his easel. BTW. The small white object at the shoreline is the Chinook statue seen in some of my previous pics.