Friday, July 3, 2015

Snowfield Peak, Colonial Peak, Pyramid Peak, North Cascades National Park, June 2015

This photograph was taken from the same overlook where the Davis Peak photograph was taken.  Snowfield Peak is on the far left, Colonial Peak is the tall, bare, peak in the middle, and Pyramid Peak is on the right.  Paul Bunyans Stump is just to the left of Pyramid Peak.  They comprise the Skagit Gneiss Complex formed some 90 million years ago.

The storm clouds from earlier in the day were breaking up, but the challenge was to get a photograph without sun caused flares (avoided by holding my hand above the lends just outside of the frame).  A sliver of the Thunder Arm of Diablo Lake shows in the bottom left.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Davis Peak, Diablo Lake, North Cascades National Park, June 2015

Davis Peak towers above Diablo Lake which splits the North Cascades National Park.  This is taken from the overlook along the North Cascades Scenic Highway.  There aren't any bad views from the overlook though if you look along the water line you'll see the high voltage lines from Diablo Dam.