The second half of my first backpacking outing turned out to be even more incredible than the first half. "Glorious" is about the only word that I can think of that even approximates the right mix of beautiful, awesome, mystical, spectacular, mind-blowing, peaceful, wondrous, etc.
Here are just a few of the photos from those days....
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| Majestic Mountain with Mystical Moose in Meadow (between the trees lower right corner) |
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| Lake Nanita with Ptarmigan Mountain behind it.... It's like a fantasy landscape except it actually exists! |
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| A view from the North Inlet Trail |
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| A view from Flattop Mountain near Ptarmigan Point |
As pleased as I am with the photos, they are only capturing the smallest trace of the experience. On my next time out (starting today, for five more days), I'm also taking a sketch pad and some pencils hoping that even if the sketches are really awful (I'm certainly no artist!) I will nonetheless somehow be able to transmit more of the experience into the image through that manual process than through a photograph. I'm going to be out in the backcountry again for five days, so, unless I come across an unexpected coverage pocket, I'll be out of touch for a while!
