Just photos with what you need to know in the captions (usual dial-up caveats)

[DemoTex]

The last snow shower of 6/10 (last of the year, we all hope)


Yesterday, 0500 (AM)


The "Hood" today. I did not like this shopped version, but many on my blog list raved


This was the original Mt. Hood image. Mt. Hood, 137 miles away. Clear day? Wait 'til the last photo.


Some old fart sitting in a fire lookout tower channeling Jack Kerouac


I've been aced! A dear old friend (and fellow airline captain) took this snap from the cockpit of his Airbus A-320 this morning departing SEA. Mt. Ranier and the Cascade giants. (His copyright is in the metadata - I have permission to use this image)

[Dappleganger]

1. Absolutely stunning...

I am jealous of your life but blessed by your pictures!

[proud patriot]

2. Excellent thanks for sharing

:)

[patrice]

3. Thanks! Mt. Hood was "cloud hidden, whereabouts unknown" when I was near there recently. BTW

"old fart" wouldn't happen to be a painter of mandala murals in friends' houses would he? . . . looks like a friend of someone I know.

[tabatha]

4. Great pictures. The last is a stunner.

Substantial laptop you have there - what kind?

[gateley]

5. Getting pretty artsy! And I mean YOUR photos, although the one from your

pilot friend is awe-inspiring! :hi:

[jimlup]

6. Last year about this time I was on the summit of one of those...

Mt. Rainier!

[DemoTex]

8. WOW!

I am impressed! That is quite a feat.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Thanks for the great pics! (The only thing missing was Nick) nt

[DemoTex]

10. Here 'ya go (from last year)!

[stevedeshazer]

9. Great stuff.

I'm looking forward to another summer of your lookout dispatches.

Thanks.

[Skittles]

11. WOW these are such a TREAT

thanks SO much Mac!!! :D

(P.S. this is what it's like dating a friggin' pilot:

Check my schedule out. DAL-MAF, MAF-ABQ, and ABQ-DAL are WIIIIDE open!!!! :)-

[DemoTex]

14. Does SWA fly into Bend-Redmond?

If so, y'all come on up!

mac

[Skittles]

18. I hate flying standby

ten hours at the Tulsa airport is like a slow form of death :(

[intheflow]

12. Amazing shots, as always!

Thanks for sharing your extraordinary life with us again this year. Your dispatch threads are always worth opening. As a fellow photographer, I'm jealous of your daily access to such beautiful subject matter!

[onehandle]

13. Man, That is all so awesome.

If you weren't three thousand-ish miles away, I would show up on your doorstep for a tour.

[DemoTex]

15. Like last year, everything goes into my DU Journal

Since I post late at night, EDT, my threads often sink by morning east-coast time. So check my journal for the latest.

[starroute]

16. Wow, I just noticed that the first shot is a *double* rainbow

Or is that refraction within the snow shower itself and not a normal rainbow?

Either way, it's pretty cool.

[DemoTex]

19. No, it is a double rainbow - I missed the peak

And remember, I'm at 6500 feet. The snow line was probably 6000 feet. So shooting down, the rainbow was probably in - well -rain. I'm not sure if you can get a rainbow in snow. I doubt it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Amazing photos

WOW...

[DemoTex]

20. Shooting is difficult in this cold and wind

Once it warms up, the pic quality should improve (ie, I can take more time outside setting up).

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Well we are going for our hike tomorrow

finished packing all the supplies into my back pack. I am sure we will bring back most of the granola, but we have enough food rations for 24 hours...

And Tom will carry the camera, so he will be taking photos while I just enjoy our time away from the city. He is taking a Lensatic compass I am taking a Silva. I hate the Lensatic jobbies. always have hated them.

(Yes well marked trails, I have not done land nav in a long time, so a safe place to get some practice)

I was going through my list of supplies going... I KNOW why I am carrying all this crap... BUT... you'd better carry all this crap.

Chances are we will bring all this back, sans water, and some granola, but hey... I am even taking fifty feet of paracord. Great for emergency Shelters and believe it or not, emergency splints... Of course as a diabetic I am also taking the glucometer... for obvious reasons.

[DemoTex]

I'm a Silva-Guy, myself

But since you have spilled the beans that there will be a camera on the hike, I want to see some photos!

Have fun. Be safe (I know YOU will!).

mac

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. We will have to wait until Monday or Tuesday

we are staying overnight at Julian.

[DemoTex]

22. I'm a Silva-Guy, myself

But since you have spilled the beans that there will be a camera on the hike, I want to see some photos!

Have fun. Be safe (I know YOU will!).

mac

[havocmom]

24. Thanks for the pics

Havocdad says we should put in a solar powered pump to get your water to your quarters. And maybe a lift for the dog. LOL. He's all about moving water up hill and making life as comfy for dogs as possible.

[DemoTex]

25. Few solar systems could provide the current to lift water 50'.

But I have my eye on a small Honda gasoline pump

[havocmom]

26. heh heh heh, you need to talk to the lad. He has all sorts of strange projects

He moves H2O up 600 feet with solar pumps from time to time. Does 250 feet up regularly.

Says to talk to local NRCS tech people. They solve water engineering problems all the time, or SHOULD be doing that. He does.

[DemoTex]

27. I'm hip!

[Hekate]

28. Absolutely jaw-droppingly gorgeous.

Thanks, as always.

Hekate

[lamp_shade]

29. AWESOME photos... breathtaking. Thanks for sharing.

[Call Me Wesley]

30. Excellent pictures as always!

Glad to see you posting them again! :hi:

[Cass]

31. Your photos are beautiful! Thank you for sharing this part of your life with us.

I'm really looking forward to your posts this summer...I enjoyed your posts and photos last year so much.

Take care up there!

[IDemo]

32. My niece is in pic #3

She is in snowboard camp at Mt Hood this week.

Incredible pics, thanks!

[phasma ex machina]

33. Thanks for sharing! Can you help me name the peaks of the Cascade giants as seen from the cockpit?

The closest is Rainer? The next Hood?

Thanks again for providing me with vicarious Kerouac existentialism. :)

[DemoTex]

34. Here 'ya go:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/columbia/forest/geology/index.shtml

Scroll about half way down the page for a map of the major Cascade volcanoes (peaks).

:hi:

[Odin2005]

35. WOW! You can even see the curvature of the Earth in the last one!

[DemoTex]

37. I think the curvature you see is camera spherical aberration.

It's spherical aberration from the camera lens or from the effect of shooting through the cockpit window of the Airbus.

[Odin2005]

38. Oops, my bad!

[Suich]

36. Sunday afternoon kick!

:kick: