Look Heroic

10:32:54 am, day two. We have been traversing through the headwaters of Mount Hood’s southeastern drainages for about 2 hours. Snow field, boulder field, snow field, boulder field and so on.

Except for some scrappy white pine and a random purple flower, nothing grows here. I can feel the late summer sun beginning to drape over my neck and carve out my shadow. It is desolate and beautiful.

“Look heroic,” I said to Damon before this shot. With a waning gibbous sitting over the right shoulder of a volcano, all the picture needed was a hero.

A panorama of Mount Jefferson.

Last September, I hiked the Timberline Trail around Mount Hood. With 75 degree days and minimal wild fires, the conditions couldn't have been better.
 

Composed of two photos, this photo is the first of a couple fantastic panoramas I was able to create from the trip.

I believe we are less than a mile from the lodge at this point.

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