Category Archive: Landscape

30 Aug

Waterfalls At Ricketts Glen

Waterfalls At Ricketts Glen

My friend and fellow photographer Stephen Gushue joined me for a hike along Ricketts Glen’s Falls Trail, which encompasses 21 waterfalls in its inspiring 8-mile loop.

 
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19 Aug

Adirondacks Re-Processed

Adirondacks Re-Processed

I decided that some of the shots from my excellent vacation could use a black & white film emulation. These are digital shots converted to b&w with a (real) TMax 400 film texture.

 
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05 Aug

Phelps Mountain

Phelps Mountain

We had already completed two hikes which to us were special – our one-way traverse of Gothics & Sawteeth and our first “unmaintained” hike up Street & Nye. After making them both easily, our new 46er mentors gave us a new challenge, for a secret passage up the back of Phelps Mountain.

 
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04 Aug

Street & Nye

Street & Nye

Having successfully navigated a one-way traverse of Gothics & Sawteeth, and with the encouragement of our new 46er mentors, we decided to hike our first “unmaintained” trail to Street Mountain and Nye Mountain.

 
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02 Aug

Gothics & Sawteeth

Gothics & Sawteeth

The views from 4,736-foot Gothics were wonderful. We had a perfect day again.

 
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31 Jul

Mount Marcy

Mount Marcy

Mount Marcy, at 5,344 feet, is the highest mountain in the Adirondacks. It is also the most hiked of the 46 high peaks, which is a little odd to me since it is a 14.6-mile round trip taking the usual way from the Adirondack Loj (pronounced ‘lodge’).

 
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30 Jul

Keene And Keene Valley

Keene And Keene Valley

On two of our rest days, we had nice intermittent cloud cover making for dramatic infrared shots. The last shot is the view of Hurricane Mountain from our rental, and you can see the fire tower in the distance.

 
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29 Jul

Lower Wolfjaw, Upper Wolfjaw, & Armstrong

Lower Wolfjaw, Upper Wolfjaw, & Armstrong

We made it fairly easily up to 4,173-foot Lower Wolfjaw which offered better views on the way than on the top, and then went back down-and-up to get to 4,173-foot Upper Wolfjaw. After lunch on Upper Wolfjaw, we easily had enough in us to make it down-and-up again to 4,400-foot Armstrong.

 
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27 Jul

Big Slide

Big Slide

Wanting to ease into 2012, we decided that our first hike was up 4,240-foot Big Slide. The scenery on the hike up to Big Slide was varied and had enough climbing to be interesting and challenging.

 
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13 Aug

Porter & Cascade

Porter & Cascade

Our first time up we were new to hiking (Cascade was our first high peak) we didn’t think to take the side hike to Porter Mountain. This time we did both, two peaks in one day.

 
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