After spending most of a week in our tents watching rainstorms pass thru we decided to bail out of the Southern Picketts in the North Cascades NP. Our choices were slim - a long 2 day traverse involving several rock faces, or the quick route - a descent of 4,000' thru Devil's Club,downed timber and other underbrush.
Above the clouds on Mt. Kinnabalu.
A hike up the south face of Mt Ralston leads to a stunning payoff - views of the Echo Lakes, Desolation Wilderness and Lake Tahoe.
Link to Ralston Peak Hike on Trailspotting
Landscape shot of the Ojai valley with snow on the mountains.
A lone kilometer marker stands sentry along a misty mountain road in the northern Philippines.
The view from the Toubkal summit is spectacular. This side of the peak looks out over the high atlas and to the Sahara desert while behind me were the pink walls of Marrakesh.
Early evening in Yosemite's high country sits this tranquil lake.
This is an example of how this little zoo came to have so many animals. These animals would not have survived in the wild.
At the top of Whistler's Peak Chair Lift.