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Walking into the new year be like...
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Right place wrong shutter So many great things happening here.
An active ecosystem today, 20F and sunny at times.
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Color & Cold
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Thankful for this distraction tonight that turned into a gift
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Strong wind and clouds rolling in, a delight for birds to soar Pretty sure I heard "Witch Hunt" by Rush playing as this unfolded. https://open.spotify.com/track/6cbBAD1AAYVaQR1cx89AZX?si=d58384abd5424961
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Clouds, color, ice & interference before the snow rolled in a few hours later
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Orange I'm glad it was a quiet, still evening
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An Evening Interrupted A bird visited Ellie and I twice
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Do you want to be pretty or do you want to be angry?
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9531 Feet is a Treasure
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High Altitude Colors Attitude
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Still Water Dynamics
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Late to the Party
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Curious Standoff
Echoes of the Herd
Emerging Strength
Where Beauty Waited at Earned Altitude
An Invitation in Green
Stillness Struck
Your Adventure Awaits
Teamwork Aspiring to the Sky
Glacier Garden
Colorado Stillness A quiet high alpine evening, where the only movement was deer passing through.
Rooted Fate
Honk of the Season
Serenity, Joyfully Shattered
Embers at the Edge of Daylight
Autumn at Altitude
Burning Divide
Holiday Drama
Defiant Green
Angry Skies, Quiet Harbor Chased back by angry skies, but not before the show. Nature's eviction notice, delivered in lightning.
Snowy Range Tarn Mid-June in Wyoming's Snowy Range, wildflowers below and snowfields still hanging on up high. We crossed plenty of those snowfields, which happen to be one of Ellie's favorite things in the world. A very happy dog.
Look Up A whole lot of reasons to look anywhere but down.
Burning Layers A hot, ordinary day dissolved into this. Compressed layers of storm and light colliding above the mountains. One of those moments where you just point and shoot and feel grateful.
Born to Send It Doggles on, paws wet, zero hesitation. The serious face just matches the assignment: serious mountains, serious adventure. A happy dog living her best high-altitude life. 🏔️
You Can't See the Smell Ellie sat this one out, her loss. I got the storm and the smell: that clean, sharp, electric, impossible petrichor rush when rain hits dry ground. Surprising, layered, a gift you can't photograph and never see coming. The sky put on a show, but the scent stole it. You can't see the smell. But trust me, it was the best part. ⚡️
Fetch Me a Sunset Everyone else was winding down. Ellie was just getting started. 🌅 Carter Lake didn't stand a chance.
Secondhand Sky A cold front rolled in, trading scorching heat for something cooler, but it came at a price. The wind carried smoke from the PNW fires down to us, hazing out the mountains and bending the sunset into colors that aren't quite normal.
No filter on the camera, just the whole sky turned into one, the light strained through a few hundred miles of someone else's fire. Beautiful and a little uneasy at the same time.
We had a guest for it too: a dog we're sitting, watching the lake and mountains like he'd never seen anything like it.
Gems in the Wilderness Deep into the Snowy Range, Ellie and I found gems in the wilderness: a big boulder glowing blue-green against all that grey talus, with a few more of the same scattered up the slope. Ellie was ready to keep moving; I needed the shot.
I didn't know what caused it at the time. Turns out it's fuchsite, a chromium-rich version of mica that gives the quartzite its teal cast. It's rare enough that in the entire Snowy Range it only surfaces in two known spots, remnants of rock that got metamorphosed and tilted when two ancient landmasses collided almost two billion years ago.
So the "why is this rock teal" question I asked mid-trail had a genuinely wild answer: just under 11,000 feet, I was standing on the seam of an ancient continental collision. Not bad for a Saturday.