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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 BookWe 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.
( Here's a larger version of this photo (~600K) )Peace Tags: forest, landscape, mount rainier, mount tahoma trails, mountains, olympic mountains, olympic mtns, panorama, photohoop, snow, wa, winter
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 ©2005 Ed BookPeace Tags: -print available-, blue, clouds, landscape, mountains, olympic mountains, panorama, snow, wa, white, winter
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 ©2004 Ed Book ( larger image here ~750k )This December 8,'04 image was exposed on seven frames of Fujichrome Velvia 50 ISO film in a tripod mounted Nikon F4s camera, scanned with a Nikon Super Coolscan LS-5000 film scanner, panorama stitching with no adjustments with PhotoShop CS3 Photomerge tool, and optimization in Photoshop CS3.
Peace Tags: -print available-, brown, canyon, desert, landscape, orange, panorama, photohoop, snow, utah, winter
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 'takin' a break from a project to look at some images I made yesterday while returning home from an appointment. I went for a short walk on Gold Mountain in the Green Mountain State Forest south of home about ten miles. It's January and the Red Alder is showing it's red phase of new growth with catkins soon. Alder is one of the first trees to return after clear cut logging. It grows quickly and is considered a garbage tree because it's brittle and has little strength. It fixates nitrogen in the soils and makes it acidic so the firs, cedars, and pine can start. It's overwhelmingly the most populous deciduous tree of the Puget Sound lowlands. Peace Tags: -print available-, forest, highway, intimate landscape, kitsap peninsula, landscape, panorama, puget sound, trees, winter
Current Location: Nika Trail
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 ©2006 Ed Book Peace Tags: -print available-, autumn, forest, intimate landscape, landscape, orange, panorama, phot expd, red, trees, wa, yellow
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High Rock - Sawtooth Ridge, Cascade Mtns, WA ©2006 Ed Book Upon close examination of the top of the highest peak, you should be able to see the High Rock Lookout, coated white with rhyme ice. The lookout provides an excellent view of the Tatoosh Range from the south with Mount Rainier towering above. Access to the lookout is from a trailhead located at the forest service road at Towhead Pass. Its an interesting mile long trail with a rise of 1000 ft. I plan to spend the night at the lookout some moonless night this year (after the snow is off the trail) to make startrail photos. Anyone want to join me? Of course, a trip like that is weather and moon-phase dependent.
I composed this image like I did because I liked the repeating line that the ridgeline produced.
Peace Tags: -print available-, forest, landscape, mount tahoma trails, mountains, panorama, snow, winter
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