Here's a challenge for you nature photographers: the cirque of the towers in wyoming's wind river range.
I just got back from ten days of alpine climbing there (not even all the way back ... i'm writing from the Quality Inn in Rock Springs Wyoming, where it's currently happy hour and i'm sipping a complementary scotch on the rocks out of a coors light cup). But back to the point ... the cirque is stunning, which is not unusual for mountain wonderlands, but it's stunning in a way that is completely lost on photographs of the place. I'd never been there before. pictures and descriptions from climbers made it sound appealing enough to devote a vacation to. but i had NO idea what to expect until i dropped in over the pass and saw the place.
the cirque is surrounded on all sides by monoliths worthy of lord of the rings ... which seems to be the problem, photographically. attempts to encompass even a small fraction of the surroundings requires such a wide lens that the peaks get pushed far back and made tiny. maybe someone with a gigantic camera could pull it off?
getting there with a big camera would be no joke. the hike in requires a couple of thousand feet of elevation gain and a couple of miles of boulder hopping. we found it pretty exhausting and precarious with a week of food and climbing gear (and our borrowed digital point-n-shoots) on our backs. i think you can come in by horse via another route, but i don't know about it.
has anyone here photographed there? if so i'd love to see the results.
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