In Joshua Tree National Park at a roadside pullout looking to the southeast and across a snowy landscape with Joshua Trees and other desert plant-life. This was another image captured where I liked the layering present with the foreground and it's snowy landscape leading up to the rock formations in the distance. I decided to minimize the overcast and overcast skies as I felt it really didn't add much to the image.

At a roadside pullout along California State Route 127 with a view looking to the northeast to Nopah Peak and Nopah Range. During that part of the drive as I headed north to Death Valley National Park, I kept seeing this mountain range and wanted to find a point where I could not only capture an image of the range but also include some Mojave Desert landscape to add to the setting. Around the Tecopa area, there was a wilderness area leading up to the mountains that had an eye-catching landscape. I angled my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to bring out more of a sweeping view, leading up to those ridges and peaks with its varied colors in the layers or rock.

A zoomed in view of climbers coming down the cliff-face of El Capitan. The view is looking to the north-northwest from a roadside pullout along Northside Dr for viewing. By using a portrait orientation, I hoped to bring out more of a sense of grandeur and the immense size of this undertaking with El Capitan.

A setting looking up and to the south while taking in views of nearby coastal redwoods at a roadside pullout along the Avenue of the Giants (California 254) in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. What I wanted to capture with this image was the look of the redwood trees seemingly rising into the skies above. Not being able to capture the full height of the trees, I focused on the upper portions with the tree crown and the skies above.

Now that the St. Anthony Blvd. bridge is open again at the south end of Northtown, it's fun to go back and visit the spot I spent so much time as a teenager. The SD9s are long gone, but still a good place to watch the modern Pullout SD40-2s make up the outbound trains.

Here BNSF 1808 shoves a cut towards the D tracks as the BNSF 1594 pulls out of the bowl. That 1594 sure is scuzzy, but I can't say I've seen a BN engine in quite sometime with the C&S lettering still somewhat legible above the number boards. That is a long CP intermodal transfer from Humboldt to Shoreham moving overhead.

Agathla Peak, near Kayenta, Arizona.

In fact, I had driven by this formation numerous times without stopping for a photograph, including just a few days earlier. This time, however, I decided to pull off the road for a few minutes.

There are more familiar landmarks in nearby Monument Valley, which is probably why Agathla Peak isn't as commonly photographed. Folks want to get to the famous sites they have seen and heard about for years, plus there isn't a pullout here that makes it easy to stop. But to me it's definitely worth it.

To my eye, Agathla's practically a twin to northern New Mexico's Shiprock, but it's easier to view. US Route 163 passes right by in the foreground.

Waiting for me as I stop to make a couple of snaps. Why not let him out? We had just had a little walk about less than 1 km down the road. It was pretty windy and there was a mud factor.

Pullout on Alaska Highway, Muncho Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.

9 Days, 4 Dogs, 2,558 Miles.

Day 4 (Watson Lake YT - Fort Nelson BC. 327 miles).

A view looking to the north at Slump Block Pullout. With this image I worked the focal length to zoom in to this one section of the formations with the many colors and layers present. This was a stop that I wanted to make in the North Unit after seeing images on other photographer's sites. Metering the image was the just a matter of adjusting the shutter speed given the bright sunlight in those late morning hours.

Along US 11 and US 15 and the Susquehanna River between Selinsgrove and Liverpool, Pennsylvania

March 2008

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At the roadside pullout and parking location along the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a view looking to the southwest while taking in a setting with the Place of a Thousand Drips.

On the Natchez Trace Parkway, as it crosses over the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, there is a small circular drive. There you can get out and walk to the edge of the waterway, just south of the lock and dam at Bay Springs Lake. At this stop there are also a couple of small ponds, that seem to be more marshes than ponds. It is one of my favorite places to stop. This particular morning brought some glorious mist and light. The scenery itself doesn't compare to some majestic mountain or seashore landscape, but the details have their own beauty and charm. It was difficult for me to decide between my favorites, so I've just uploaded all of them.

My first long exposure of traffic. I was in a pullout on Valdez Bay taking night photos of the Alyeska Terminal across the water, having to wait long spells for headlights to not mess up my shot. So, it occurred to me I might just take a shot of the traffic, using the same settings for the Marine Terminal across the Bay.

While at a roadside pullout along the Mahan Plaque parking area along the Avenue of the Giants (California 254) with a view looking up and to the northeast at nearby coastal redwoods in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. My thinking in composing this image was to take advantage of the road, with trees on both sides, and use it as a leading line into the image. The rest was metering the image so as to not blow any of the highlights in the upper portions and tree crowns of the nearby redwoods while still being able to pull out the more shadowed areas later in post production.

A setting looking to the west-southwest while taking in views across the west Texas desert present at this road pullout along I-10. My thought on composing this image was to zoom in with the focal length and capture a view of those ridges and peaks beyond the interstate. As I wasn't able to find high ground to capture more of a sweeping image (by angling my Nikon SLR camera downward), I decided to capture what I could and then have the cloud formations in the skies above fill up the rest of the image.

I really had not planned on visiting St. Mary at all on this past trip to Glacier National Park. The whole east side of the park had fallen off my radar once I had read online that the road to Many Glacier was closed for construction. If you had asked me even the night before, I would have shrugged with mild disinterest and said I figured I would spend most of my time there west of the Continental Divide. I had been over Logan's Pass before but my dim memories of the east side of Glacier hadn't held much that enticed me to explore over there on this trip (closed off Many Glacier notwithstanding). But here we were, driving up and over the pass and heading down the Going To The Sun road on a definite eastbound trajectory. We had slept in that morning, having driven all day the day before and opting for a lazy start. By the time we reach Logan's Pass the parking was was a never-ending circle of slow cars full of hapless visitors all hoping they drew the 1-in-a-100 chance of catching that departing hiker's spot. I wasn't much interested in joining that shuffle, seeing as how I had been in a car all day just one day prior. So we crested and headed down figuring maybe one of the pullouts would give us a place to park and hike back up to the pass. The first pullout was full, so was the second, and the third. Even visiting in the shoulder season was proving to be pretty crowded and I was not even able to imagine what the park must have been like during the summer. After being initially stymied though I figured since we had driven all the way up this far, we might as well keep going. While I did not remember much to entice me on, the vague lack of memories was more than enough reason to go explore. And - spoiler alert - it turned into an incredibly beautiful drive through the eastern stretches of Glacier. The color on the east side was somehow differently vibrant than that on the rugged west side and I soon discovered that all the beautiful clouds were hanging out around St. Mary as well. We stopped here, right at the eastern entrance and gave up several minutes of our lives wandering through this forest combining the yellow of the leaves with that blue sky.

I guess the point I would add, not quite a moral but somewhere in that general direction, is that a certain mental flexibility can come in handy with expectations. I usually only make vague plans just for this reason. Vague plans mean vague expectations and vague expectations are easier to reroute around when obstacles occur. Rather than banging my head on the wall that was the full parking at Logan's Pass, despite my desire to get out on the trails up there, I let the innate gravity of the day pull me off in a different direction. Not that this is advice meant to help guarantee you will end up somewhere like this. It isn't really about where you end up, but - yes, you guessed it - how you get there. And maybe more importantly, how much you enjoy the getting there. That parking lot looked like a kettle of frustration waiting to happen. Then again, getting there too late also could have been. But a leisurely drive down from the Continental Divide toward unknown landscapes and distantly glimpsed destinations? That was well worth the drive.

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This is a second photo of the Upper Ammonoosuc Falls in Crawfords Purchase, New Hampshire, within the White Mountain National Forest. The source of the water is Mount Washington, where water crashes down the side of the mountain and through a tributary brook named Deception, where it then pours through a series of gorges, falls, and basins that make up the Upper Ammonoosuc River.

The tallest drop at the Upper Falls is only 8 feet. During high water, a whirlpool forms in the pothole just below the waterfall. The whirlpool may contain strong currents that pull down and spin around the edges of the pothole. Right after this pothole are two other pools, where swimmers often dive from the 25 foot cliffs.

Directions to Upper Falls: On route 302 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, take the turn onto Base Station Road, which is between and on the same side of the road as the Mount Washington Hotel and Fabyan's Restaurant. Drive about 2.3 miles to two fairly large pullout parking areas on either side of the road, with a kiosk on the right side (parking is free). The falls and a foot bridge to the other side of the river are easily found down a short path.

While at a roadside pullout along the main park road in Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The setting is looking to the southwest across this northern New Mexico landscape with Fajada Butte to my front.

I can't help it. The song "Strawberry Fields Forever" was going through my head while I edited this shot. Have I given you an ear worm now?

I know, it looks like a nice, run-of-the-mill landscape image, but this is about as close as I could get to this portion of Yosemite National Park while sitting in my car in traffic, waiting for the other side to finish making its way along the one-lane road due to construction.

My original goal had been to visit as many different locations in the park as possible during my 10-day stay, and Tuolumne (pronounced Too-all-um-me) Meadows was on the list. Unfortunately, every single pullout was either completely destroyed or it was crammed with construction equipment as work on Tioga Road continued. The goal that summer was to improve the road while creating new parking areas for this area of the park from Tenaya Lake on past Tuolumne Meadows. I just happened to be there at the wrong time. Even the roadsides were jam packed with visitor and construction vehicles, so I couldn't park anywhere.This is the best I could do.

Now, what makes this run-of-the-mill shot of a portion of Tuolumne Meadows so special? Well, according to the National Park Service: "One of the largest high-elevation meadows in the Sierra Nevada, Tuolumne Meadows at 8,600 feet has been also among the most visible to past pioneers, and present visitors and scientists." And, "this roadway [Tioga Road] marks the northern end of the largest contiguous roadless wilderness in the continental United States." Hmmm. remember this, because I might put this in a National Parks Traveler quiz and trivia piece, someday.

Those rounded mountains towering over the tree-carpeted hills and meadow are the granite Sierras.

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While at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64 with a view looking to the southeast across this northern New Mexico high desert setting. Off in the distance is the Shiprock formation. In composing this image, I chose to have a leveled-on formation with the horizon, keeping a balance between the earth-tones in the foreground with that of the blues of the skies above.

Taken from a short stop at a pullout near the East entrance of Zion National Park, which ended being about a 2-1/2 hour exploration of this amazing terrain.

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We all have seen soooooo many photos of the Grand in color from the Snake River Pullout site north of Jackson, WY along Rt 191 so I decided to try a B-W.

This is a composite shot. The day I took this, I had a totally blue sky so I took one of my cloud shots and replaced the sky and then desaturated after flattening the layers.

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... was a stop at a final pullout off US Routes 62/180 for this view of El Capitan in Guadulupe Mountains National Park.

El Capitan, at an elevation of 8085', is the 10th-highest peak in Texas. (Guadalupe Peak, the highest, is seen to the right.) That's a 1000' sheer drop from the top to the base of the cliff, and my position is another 2000' lower.

From here, it was about a six-hour drive back to Tucson, with a quick stop for gas and another to scarf down a Whataburger, my usual reward when returning from Texas.

While at a roadside pullout US Route 101 in Orick, California with a view looking across a nearby grassy field to hillsides of trees off in the distance. My thinking in composing this image was to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward and create more of a sweeping view across this meadow leading up to the hillside. That was in bring them higher into the image and minimize what I felt was more of a negative space with the blue skies above. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

At a roadside pullout location around the park entrance with a view looking to the east to some nearby mountains with the Moon rising in the skies above. I was drawn to both of the color patterns of the layers of rocks in the mountainside, as well as the simple beauty of watching the moon rise above it.

While at a roadside pullout along the Red Rock Parkway in Waterton Lakes National Park. The view is looking to the southwest and across the prairies and hillsides to my front with ridges and peaks of Mount Blakiston as a distant backdrop.

An accidental photograph, my original destination for my dawn and sunrise photos was on top of the Watchman, which is the high peak on the left side of the photograph. Instead, I overslept and as I frantically hurried from my campground to get to the Watchman to salvage any sunrise photo was this pullout. Salvaged and saved.

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A setting looking to the north-northeast while taking in views of small field of butterflies fluttering about along the shores of Otter Creek. This is at a roadside pullout along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

In February 2019, a severe winter storm hit Oregon. Due to downed trees across the track, heavy snow, and power outages, a southbound Coast Starlight was trapped in Oakridge for 36 hours. The passengers and crew sat on the train for a day and a half, literally with nowhere to go. Oakridge was overwhelmed with four feet of snow, no electricity, and no supplies due to road closures.

When Union Pacific was able to reopen the Cascade Subdivision, a set of UP power towed the stranded Amtrak train back to Eugene. That summer and fall, UP cleared trees from several miles of its right of way between Oakridge and Eugene.

In many places, views of the track that were completely overgrown have reopened. This vantage of Minnow siding at a pullout on Oregon Highway 58 is one. Three years to the month after the big biizzard, the northbound Coast Starlight rolls past Lookout Point Reservoir.

A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across the northern New Mexico high desert with a distant view to the Shiprock formation. This is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64. With this image, I zoomed in with the focal length to include more of the surrounding landscape to add to the setting in the image captured. I also liked having a leveled-on view with the horizon in keeping a balance between the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image with the blues of the skies above.

At a roadside pullout along Utah Scenic Byway 12 in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The view is looking to the east-northeast at the Head of the Rocks Overlook. My thoughts on composing this image was to use the highway as a leading line into the image as it cut through the escalante canyons and colorful slickrock. Angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward would also, in my mind, create more of a sweeping view looking across it. That would in turn raise the horizon higher into the image and perhaps create more of a sense of grandeur in the image captured.

While at a roadside pullout along the Airline Highway and a view looking to the southeast to nearby ranch land and then hillsides. That was my thought on composing this image was to zoom in on the focal length and angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward. I feel that would create a more sweeping view across the ranch as a foreground setting before coming up to the main hill, that would fill up the center portion of the image. The blue skies would then be that color contrast to complement the image with earth-tones present in the lower portion. The rest was later making adjustments with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

While at a roadside pullout along the Icefields Parkway with a view looking to the southeast to ridges and peaks around the Columbia Icefield area. This is in Jasper National Park.

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Each year I head up to Mammoth Lakes for Autumn Foliage pics, and then spend another day up in the high country of Yosemite NP. That requires driving north on CA 395 and turning onto CA 120 (Tioga Road). Tioga Rd begins a long climb up to Tuolumne Meadows. Just a couple miles up the road is a pullout, and down below is Gibbs Canyon. I always stop there because it gives me a wonderful view of so many things: forest, meadow, peaks, and sky.

I enjoy this spot because it also provides a scene not found many places today. A place where people have not intruded. A place of quiet and solitude.

We only saw this gal because we missed the turn to Lamar Valley. Before we realized our mistake, there she was, right by a convenient pullout along the road, with a few snowflakes falling. Yellowstone National Park.

As seen from a pullout in Kauai, HI, highway 550. This is en-route to Waimea Canyon. Multi-shot panorama, stitched in Microsoft ICE

Split Rock Meadows,

Oregon Trail, Wyoming

a place discovered accidentally while taking a break from driving from Denver to Yellowstone

I almost got a ticket while taking this one. Was on a rather deserted road, no pullout, so I just pulled off on the shoulder as much as I could and left the flashers on. Came back to find a sheriff parked behind me. Ooops! Oh and no Photoshop or editing.

Taken on a highway 80 frontage road to nowhere between Fairfield and Vacaville, California.

My 4th photo to make Explore. #84 on Sunday, March 2, 2008. I finally broke into the top 100!

- Roy Lichtenstein.

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Holla Bend is a National Wildlife Refuge located about 3 hours away from my home. Last Saturday was the big day for birding, and to mark this occasion and test our toddler’s tolerance for car journeys, we decided to make a trip to this beautiful refuge. I had a secret plan for the trip, which was to see painted buntings. Ever since I have seen their pictures online, I have always wanted to see one.

The trip was a great success with our daughter. Most of the challenge was to restrain her from running into the forests. We had the whole refuge to ourselves; we only saw three other cars. We reached the park around mid-day, so my hopes of seeing birds were not that high. We parked at the first pullout near a boat ramp and, while my wife was busy with our daughter, did a short stroll with my camera. I saw a flash of color in a tree nearby and pointed my camera to see what bird it was. I was thinking maybe an indigo bunting, but to my surprise, it was the bird that I came all the way to see, a painted bunting. He only stayed for a couple of seconds, but I managed some images before he flew off. It took a few minutes to sink in, but man, I was happy.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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When you think about California's landscape, golden-colored desert landscapes are the first to come to mind, followed by dramatic coastlines of the Big Sur, rugged peaks of the sierra, and the ancient Redwood forests. But another landscape always fascinated me, and that is the gently rolling hills of the central valley. It's one of my favorite spots in California, especially the ones near Monterey and Los Banos. Every time we pass these landscapes, I vow to once day venture into these areas, but it was a random mistake that eventually forced me to get some images of these beautiful landscapes.

We were on a trip to Yosemite Np and missed our usual exit off Route 99, the GPS rerouted us through a new highway, and it passed through Catheys Valley. This short detour coincided with a cloud inversion and suddenly we were driving through a stunning valley filled with rustic farms and green rolling hills. We were pretty much the only people on the road and could stop at almost every pullout along the road and take images. It was one of my best photographic experiences.

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Oct 27-30, 2007

The Great Smoky Mountain

A very beautiful place to shoot

Cades Cove is a lush valley surrounded by mountains and one of the most popular destinations in the Great Smokies. Deer are almost always sighted in the fields, and observations of other wildlife, including bear, Wild Turkey, and fox are possible. Please use pullouts when viewing wildlife and never approach or feed animals.

A wide array of historic buildings dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries is scattered through-out the cove. These include a grist mill, a variety of barns, three churches, and a marvelous collection of log homes and outbuildings.

An 11-mile one-way loop road takes you around the cove. Traffic will be heavy during the tourist season in summer and fall and on weekends year-round.

A visitor center (open daily), restrooms, and the Cable Mill historic area are located half-way around the loop road.

Numerous trails originate in the cove, including the five-mile roundtrip trail to Abrams Falls and the short Cades Cove Nature Trail. Longer hikes to Thunderhead Mountain and Rocky Top (made famous by the popular song) also begin in the cove.

Several designated backcountry campsites (camping by permit only) are located along trails.

Only bicycle and foot traffic are allowed on the loop road from sunrise until 10:00 a.m. every Saturday and Wednesday morning from early May until late September

There is one spot on the Chain of Craters Road in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park that has spectacular old lava formations. Actually, there are great formations all along the road, but there is this one particular pullout, on a fairly steep slope, had the best formations of the pahoehoe lava that I found.

Just a little ways past the views of Telluride Box Canyon, is this area. It is very tight through here, and even the pullouts for other vehicles to pass is narrow. Since I was driving toward Ouray, it requires that drive on the ledge side of the road, which has the dropoffs you see in this picture. This requires co-operation for the people driving this road. You have to drive defensively, because you never know how much experience the other driver has. Imogene Pass Road is not for the inexperienced driver.

Imogene Pass Road is one of the most beautiful roads to drive in the San Juan Mountains. It has many narrow ledge roads, but the views are incredible. If you want to see them, you can do one of the jeep tours out of Ouray. You can also rent a jeep in Ouray, and you can drive this road. If you do this, please be very careful. If you choose this option, it would best if you could go with someone that has experience on this road.

While at a pullout along Hwy 101 in Orick California with a view looking across a grassy meadow to a herd of Roosevelt Elk relaxing early afternoon.

At a roadside pullout along the Whitney Portal Road with a view looking to the east-southeast at an Air Force F-15 fighter jet flying over the Owens Valley. My location is in the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area with the distant ridges and peaks of the Inyo Mountains in the lower portion of the image.

Every once in awhile I pullout my nesting dolls to photograph.

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At a roadside pullout location along Sparks Lane in the Cades Cove area with a view looking to the east taking in the setting of a grassy meadow with ridges and peaks in this part of the Western Great Smoky Mountains. This is in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

While at a roadside pullout along U.S. Highway 50 with a view looking to the northeast across the Utah high desert at this location with a view beyond to more distant ridges and peaks of the House Range. While seemingly a wide angle view with the look across the mountain range, I actually zoomed in with the focal length to this one portion of that range. I used some high ground I was located on to include some nearby foreground of the high desert leading up to the more distant ridges and peaks. The rest was later making adjustments with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

In the mid-90s there were still nice looking GE Dash 9s fresh in a few different schemes. My favorites to catch were the Santa Fe and SP Dash 9s back then, but a clean warbonnet my absolute favorite.

ATSF 676 leads a Northtown-Tulsa out the 603 and under the St. Anthony Blvd. bridge back on Aug. 30, 1997. Looking forward to returning to this bridge to railfan when I head to the Twin Cities in warmer months. It has been rebuilt, after being closed for a long time here on the east end of Northtown Yard. Was my favorite spot to hang out around town in the 90s. Not as much variety and no SD9s on the Pullout Jobs, but still a nice place to watch trains.

Not too very far - maybe only a few hundred feet or so from the turnoff onto Westside Road, is the bridge over Tahoma Creek. There's only one vehicle-sized pullout to the left side just after driving over the bridge. I'd parked my SUV there when I visited during a rainy May day, but didn't come away with any keepers because it was raining way too hard.

During this more recent winter trip into the park, I parked at that same pullout and walked with camera and tripod back over the bridge, veering to the right for a detour along the creek bank to capture this image and others. I liked the definition between the sharp clearness of the rocks around the loud, frothing creek, and the much lighter, softer view of the trees and mountainside in the distance, framed in part by the trees around me. This is another one of those places that people don't usually visit on their quest to reach the Longmire and Paradise areas of the park. Suits me just fine. I had the whole scene to myself.

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The morning after I returned from an all-too-short day trip into Mount Rainier National Park, my sister asked me if I'd snowshoed. No, I told her, I never reached the Paradise area as I was too busy photographing all the other areas in the lower elevations. Surprised, she asked "Haven't you already photographed all those places?!" Well, yes, I told her, but the thing about photographing the same place over and over again, during different seasons, times of day, and weather conditions, is that the same place can look different, either in small or quite large ways.

So, as I was driving along, heading toward Paradise, I looked over to one of my favorite spots that I was actually going to pass by, and I saw snow on the top of one little tree within the forest interior. None of the other trees - at that level - had any snow on them. Sure, there was a dusting of snow on the trees that reached above the forest canopy, but there was nothing underneath except for that one little tree. So, I found a pullout, turned around, and returned to this usual favorite photo spot to capture the deeply saturated greens (due to it being very wet, with water dripping from the trees) and that one spot of bright white snow.

It's just as well I never made it up to the Paradise area. I was pretty sure that - despite the icy roads and the fact that cars had to put on tire chains (except for AWDs like my vehicle), the area was probably pretty crowded judging from all the cars that had sped past me while I was busy with tripod and camera. Besides, The Mountain was hiding behind a thick curtain of grey, anyway, so I knew I wouldn't get any mountain shots on that day. Instead, I kept myself to myself, never coming across anybody else, which was great.

There's something to be said for photographing all the other spots that would normally get ignored in the quest to photograph the majesty of Mount Rainier. It's those other things that flesh out the story of a national park.

I'll save the snowshoeing for another day in the park.

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