Ed Book's Journal - Ski Trooper Ridge panorama

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About a week ago, Gene, and Phil, fellow ski patrollers and I skied out to this ridge to scout a hopefully proposed location for a new temporary Mount Tahoma Trails hut about two miles beyond the Copper Creek Hut. The view included Mount Rainier above the Glacier View Wilderness and Mount Beljica, the Goat Rocks, Sawtooth Ridge, Mount Adams, Griffin Mountain, Mt St Helens, Mount Storm King, Puget Sound, and the Olympic Mountain Range. What a day! What a view!
(the image also has three sets of cougar tracks that course along the ridge).

Mount Tahoma Trails - Ski Trooper Ridge - 360º panorama
©2008 Ed Book

We are calling the ridge Ski Trooper Ridge to honor the Army's 10th Mountain Division who got their start early in the 1940's on Mount Rainier. The location is on privately owned timber company land and so any hut we would erect would have to be stationed in place temporarily being moved after the snow season. We've been thinking of designing some sort of arrangement of ocean shipping containers mounted on trailers. This hut would be crude compared to our (Mount Tahoma Trails Association) other huts which are actually (3) two story cabins and a two story yurt located along our 50+ miles of cross country ski trails.

Ski Trooper Ridge 360 degree view of Mount Rainier, Mt Beljica, the Goat Rocks, Sawtooth Ridge, Mt Adams, Griffin Mtn., Mt St Helens, Mt Storm King, Puget Sound, and the Olympic Mountain Range - Mount Tahoma Trails - Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY) http://edbookphoto.com

The image: I exposed about 52 exposures made
with a Canon EOS 1Ds MkII camera (RAW capture)
and stitched them together using PhotoMerge in
Photoshop CS3. The file size was beyond the
capabilities of Photoshop so I had to make
five panoramas and then downsize them before
stitching them into one image.

Peace

Tags: forest, landscape, mount rainier, mount tahoma trails, mountains, olympic mountains, olympic mtns, panorama, photohoop, snow, wa, winter

	From: thoughtsbykat	Date: February 28th, 2008 12:36 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Wow, what a fantastic location. I feel like I am standing on that ridge admiring the wonderful view without freezing my butt off. Great stitching job Ed.

	From: edbook	Date: February 28th, 2008 03:24 pm (UTC)		(Link)

just because there was snow, nine feet deep, doesn't mean it was cold. Remamber, this is Washington, not Virginia ;). The temps that day were in the 50's and I had to peel off a few layers but was still sweating too much from all the effort.

Peace

	From: yorkieboy	Date: February 28th, 2008 02:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed. Wow!

O_O

so. beautiful.

thanks so much for doing this and sharing it with us. I desperately need to be at home now just so I can use my horizontal scrolling mouse and view this in widescreen up on my Mac. so. beautiful. even the thumbnail is kind of cute in its own way: it'd make a great title bar to something, I think. : ) My own photography continues to improve, and here's a link to similarly snowy stuff you might like to see from a trip I made the other week. I'm probably foolhardy posting a link to it in this incredible entry of yours, but there you go! ; ) my photos on ----> the lightoutside

	From: edbook	Date: February 28th, 2008 03:39 pm (UTC)		(Link)

now, your images make it look cold where mine, from personal experience, don't. I like the sense of composition you put into your images.

Peace

	From: salida	Date: February 28th, 2008 03:27 pm (UTC)		(Link)

This is such a delight to look at.
I feel like I'm there and not stuck in Kansas City!

	From: art_thirst	Date: February 28th, 2008 03:56 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Wow, breathtaking. I need to do a few more panoramas.

	From: yarnwoman	Date: February 28th, 2008 04:18 pm (UTC)		(Link)

*
QUITE an accomplishment .. gorgeous, Ed.

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	From: yurtmeister	Date: March 2nd, 2008 07:35 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Where'd they go?

For some reason, my browser's only displaying the first panel of the larger image; even though the display widens to the full width.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: March 2nd, 2008 07:41 pm (UTC)		(Link)
Re: Where'd they go?

...Nevermind...it loaded the whole image after I logged out of LJ then clicked on the link again. [Weird]

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