Great images everyone... 
A recent image from bitterly cold day in January 2009.
The sun was quickly setting in the waning afternoon, where the sun's final rays illuminated the hoar frost tips of the trees within the high mountain pass. Just long enough for me to capture this image. The mountain air was bitingly crisp and very calm. The sun's rays kissed the tree tops straight down the mountain pass, producing wave after wave of rolling hoar frost tree tops across the pass for a few kilometers. Quite an amazing scene actually. The back side of the mountains received their soft quiet light from the high clouds.
As a side note, I find moments like this produce a very strange feeling when I am alone, especially when a scene such as this unfolds in front of me for a few moments, and I want to scream at someone to share that moment. I felt like Tom Hanks dancing on the beach when he manages to make a fire and there is no one there to witness that historic event. Later, I poured a hot coffee from my thermos, reviewed my notes, and sat in my truck till the scene faded to black...
Not a soul anywhere.
jim k
Hoar Frost, High Mountain Pass, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, 2009
Originally Posted by dlin
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