Monadnock from Brandy Brook Lane
To give some context – we now lived here, the mountain in the background is Monadnock (the mountain in the previous image) and the house was ours
Chaingangs in Huntington Ravine
Ken at the Top of Odell
High on Odell - Mt Washington
You don’t suffer from vertigo, do you? The two black dots centre frame are people (we were those black dots an hour earlier)
The Last Bit of Odell
Crag Camp - White Mountains
But really I was still a mountaineer who took photographs. Those clouds colouring up nicely for sunrise rained on us all the way back to the car (two hours with heavy climbing packs)
Madison Hut Evening
Staying in high mountain huts gives great opportunities like this sunset from the AMC Madison Hut (not that I made the most of the opportunity but…..)
Athabasca Glacier from Third Icefall
And this is Athabasca Glacier from Third Icefall (we climbed all three). The “dust spot” centre frame is a large bus that runs onto the glacier from the Icefield Parkway
Mt Columbia from the Trench
Camping at 10,000 ft – the melt water from near here could flow to one of three oceans – Pacific, Atlantic or Artic
Ken Dave and Mt Columbia
The boys off to Mt Columbia
Mount Athabasca - Icefields Parkway
But New England wasn’t wild enough for my mountain buddies so off to the Canadian Rockies we go. This is Mount Athabasca
Dave and Mt Olive from St Nick
This is Mt Olive from St Nick
Dave on Mt Balfor.
And this is Mt Balfor - Big country!