It's been a while since I've posted here. I've simply got too much on my plate these days but I do still enjoy photography and I pass by apug once in a while 
Beginning of this month I hiked up Grays and Torreys here in Colorado. Started before dawn. Due to an issue with the party of 6 involved we delayed and waited and eventually I and most of the others made it up to Grays and came back down (but from a google search on somebody's phone during the drive back we found it was the higher peak by 20-30 feet, so we count that a moral victory!)
It also was the ONLY peak with snow. A much lamented fact. We were layered right but it still made for interesting travel at the peak.
Very low light, so blurry. The beginning of the hike, peaks barely visible in distance.
Looking back, still low in the valley with the trees. Sun has come up more:
Grays on the left, Torreys on the right. There is a trail from one ridge and actually along the ridgeline itself over to the other. That's the trail we declined to take this time around.
Looking back at the valley we came from... Excuse the grain, operator error (wasn't thinking, stopped it down)
Switchbacks started above snow level... As high as the clouds!
Me at the top:
I didn't take it naturally, but I framed it and positioned it and suggested how to frame it, so the end result showed the mountains hidden on the backside of the peak.
Oh, and excuse the poor corners on the scans. Did some web-friendly scans to share with other members of the hike but my scanner does that.. Slides the photo on the glass and then gets the white angled corners. Too much effort to recrop or rescan them all, so there you have it.
Beginning of this month I hiked up Grays and Torreys here in Colorado. Started before dawn. Due to an issue with the party of 6 involved we delayed and waited and eventually I and most of the others made it up to Grays and came back down (but from a google search on somebody's phone during the drive back we found it was the higher peak by 20-30 feet, so we count that a moral victory!)
It also was the ONLY peak with snow. A much lamented fact. We were layered right but it still made for interesting travel at the peak.
Very low light, so blurry. The beginning of the hike, peaks barely visible in distance.
Looking back, still low in the valley with the trees. Sun has come up more:
Grays on the left, Torreys on the right. There is a trail from one ridge and actually along the ridgeline itself over to the other. That's the trail we declined to take this time around.
Looking back at the valley we came from... Excuse the grain, operator error (wasn't thinking, stopped it down)
Switchbacks started above snow level... As high as the clouds!
Me at the top:
I didn't take it naturally, but I framed it and positioned it and suggested how to frame it, so the end result showed the mountains hidden on the backside of the peak.
Oh, and excuse the poor corners on the scans. Did some web-friendly scans to share with other members of the hike but my scanner does that.. Slides the photo on the glass and then gets the white angled corners. Too much effort to recrop or rescan them all, so there you have it.
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