A few images in monochrome from our recent epic adventure to Chicago Basin in the Needle Mountains near Silverton, Colorado...
Looking down from the blocky-airy summit of Windom Peak:
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Today has dawned clear, warm, and calm. Yesterday was a different animal, though, as another monsoon moisture wave blew through the state, leaving a thin layer of snow and ice in the high country...
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” –John Muir,...
Flickering fireflies...headlamps high above on the trail, also below, and a lone light flickering on Missouri Mountain summit. For the first time, I wasn't the first to start out.
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Some who are on this same Colorado 14er quest are pretty hard line about their rules and ethics. That is, what counts as an ascent, which peaks they choose to climb (which list of 14ers), and so on.
That's...
[If you are the videographer I spoke to on Quandary, leave a comment or e-mail me with your website address. Hope you had a great climb!]
Quandary Peak is a great choice for the 14er...
Out of one hundred frames: zilch.
I was working with the foam floating around a side eddy on a local creek with the idea of capturing some abstract patterns (that is, abstracts containing some identifiable...
Just as an example for those who might care, the following two images were hand held (likely supported on a bench or railing, if I remember right) inside your standard, low light, Gothic cathedral.
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This one has the reputation of being one of the quickest and easiest of Colorado's 14ers. They say a Cessna 310 crash-landed on the long, ridge-like top in January of 1967 and all survived--sounds...
I have always loved the aspen colonies (yes, they are colonies...more on this in a jiff). Climbing up into the aspen forests meant you were finally up at cooler altitudes, usually approaching 9,000...