Cross-posted from pics, which I think I may start just posting to, as it has a higher subscriber/activity. If anyone has any thoughts on where they’d best like to see these daily posts, let me know. Hiking may be best, but I don’t think it has many subscribers.

Yes to the handhold (i’ve got a canon r8 that does a good job of stabilizing as long as I don’t go too long on the exposure), but I’ll also break out the tripod if Imm doing more than a couple quick shots and moving on. No for the ND filters on this shot. I carry nd filters with me, but this was shaded enough that I didn’t break anything out. I’ve got variable one’s for each of my lenses that I’ll bring along that I like so you can adjust in the fly. Sometimes you’ll see the rotating filters on the extreme ends though.

Ooh, thanks for the info!

Yeah, it was a really enjoyable hike! Good breeze at the top for me as well, but muggy before that haha.

Hell yeah! I managed to get two done while there, but that was all. Enjoyed the hell out of both. Did Lafayette a couple days later (tomorrow’s post I think), but I definitely could not see that far, more like a few hundred feet haha. And yeah I checked out the wreck on the way back down, pretty sweet.

Haha, yep! And thanks!

It really does! I’ve seen tannin dyed water before, but that was to a whole new level.

Haha, yeah, the storms that rip through there are certainly something. On the final day I was told my first day rainstorm was 2 inches accumulated and I definitely believe it!

Thanks! Yeah that haze can both limit views and make them otherworldly at times.

If anyone else has done this hike, I’d love to hear their thoughts on it. Water levels were also very high when I went, making the many beaver ponds a massive frustration, as well as the exposed rock areas, but I still just don’t get it.

So, I’ve been out in Oregon for about 15 years as a fisheries scientist, but due to burn out and where we are now I realized I couldn’t do it anymore. Last job with fish and wildlife had me traveling all around the state for work so I built out a van over a couple years before quitting and spending all my time out hiking and seeing as many landscapes as I can while this is still an option. The 2020 Oregon wildfires gave me a really bad case of FOMO for just all the hikes, so that’s what I’m doing haha.

Right now I’m driving way too many miles, but I agreed to meet my dad for a fly fishing thing in NY at the end of the month, so there’s about to be a ton of movement in location as I cross of the last few states on my 48 (currently in Maine).

…Also, the glacier/waterton area is probably my favorite part of the continent. I couldn’t do winters there, but I love that area and the hikes there are the perfect mix of challenge but manageable with stellar views.

Oh nice, I’ve never actually seen before it I don’t think, or at least didn’t realize that’s what it was.

Should be an arrowleaf balsamroot, which is in the sunflower family. I’ve always just called them balsam flowers, but I guess I’ve never really seen the other balsam flower that people grow in gardens. I feel like I butchered this post haha.

Just crossposted, thanks for the suggestion!

Nice! It looks so great when it covers a large area!

Nice! Yeah, they really pop out of their surroundings.

Absolutely! Badlands are some of my favorite places to go, I always call them my spirit landscape haha.

Yep, totally had it marked wrong from the get go and didn’t even notice as I was copy pasting. Hoped to correct in time, but always appreciate corrections.

Yeah, I was blindly copying what I had saved before I realized I had marked it wrong from the get go. Been going back and changing all the different places I put it before I noticed. Hoped I got it corrected before anyone else saw, but appreciate the heads up

Yeah, I’m not too sure, possibly the hardiness of the flora and needing more ‘gut space’ to help break it down? I know there was a blip somewhere in the museum disussing how the dinosaurs were starting to be dominated by larger species near the extinction. May have been the same forces at play. I also think, in general, a cooler climate supports larger animals… as per the second comment, yeah I absolutely love Montana. Don’t think I could deal with the winters, but I try to make it to at least a part of it every year.