The Monument at Smith
Cristian Brothers of Smith Rock State Park
This was a 150sec exposure at f2.8 with a 18mm
Smith Rock landscape is undeniably amazing
Smith Rock Trip
June 19th, 2010Yellow Aster Butte
May 16th, 2010
Matt trekking through avalanche debris
Took this shot of Matt on our way up Yellow Aster Butte last Thursday. We did not make it up due difficulties in the steep forest. I found a few tree wells to be rather inviting unintentionally.
A Gull at Larrabee
May 15th, 2010
Taking flight at Larrabee State Park
I got this shot on Friday at Larrabee State park along Chuckanut Dr south of Bellingham, Wa. Went out there for some bouldering and photography after a hard day in the mountains on Thursday.
Mount Saint Helens
April 23rd, 2010
Mount Saint Helens from the Worm Flow approach trail.
I had a 3 hour window of opportunity yesterday morning so I decided to scope out the standard winter approach on the South side of Helens or Loowit (Keeper of the Fire). I took the above photo with my little HD video/photo camera. The lighting is not as I would have liked it had I used my DSLR.
Mount Hood
March 24th, 2010
On March 19, 2010 Tom Hanlon and I went for a little adventure around the Eastside of Mount Hood. I took the above image from our bivy on the Southside at the start of our journey. The next day we woke up at 0300 and got moving by 0430 to circumnavigate around to the Black Spider area above the Mount Hood Meadows ski area on the Northeast corner of the mountain. We went up towards the base of the Steel Cliffs seen in the photo below at the right edge of the image.
Then we wrapped around and up onto the ridge line that continues out of frame to the right in the above image. From there we continued on a generally level contour to the Black Spider area of Mount Hood’s East face as seen in the image below.
The day I took this image of the Black Spider the ice line above the snow bowl just left of center was unclimbed. The following day two climbers tagged this wonderful line and named it Fric Amos. Tom and I continued around to the Cooper Spur and finished with a climb to the top at 1209 on 3/19/2010.
For the trip report on Cascade Climbers.com for the journey Tom and I took click here.