Post the snaps you made while out hiking - any size forms is at will do. This snap was taken in Patagonia's Torre del Paine National Park while hiking to the Grey Glacier:
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Pentax K1000.
Thomas
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Post the snaps you made while out hiking - any size forms is at will do. This snap was taken in Patagonia's Torre del Paine National Park while hiking to the Grey Glacier:
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Pentax K1000.
Thomas
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.5cm X 21.4cm, from a Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB67 single lens reflex camera fitted with a 360mm f6.3 lens The larger rocks in this boulder field are the size of a double-decker bus. Glacial ice moved them easily. Walking through this area is not so easy.
These are some previously posted images taken while backpacking.
1) My shadow and Western Juniper on Shell Mountain on my 60th birthday (Rolleicord, platinum/palladium print)
2) Looking up Redwood Creek (5x7, negative scan and inversed in PhotoShop)
3) Mistaking the Map for the Territory, from on top of Sentinel Dome (4x5, 16x20 Silver Gelatin Print). One can backpack here when Glacier Point Road is closed.
4) Redwood, Dolason Creek, Redwood National Park (4x5 Carbon Print)
And some general photos of me hiking and/or backpacking:
1) Many years ago -- in my lederhosen in the North Cascades...Glacier Peak in the back. Pre-photo days...wish I still had those monster legs!
2) Day-hiking with my boys and the 8x10 above Yosemite Valley (to an unnamed waterfall)
3) Day hike up Fern Canyon with the Rolleicord, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
4) Recent backpack trip up Redwood Creek (took my 4x5)...me feeding the fire in the rain.
Me on top of Mather Pass - camera pointed south:
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About an hour before this was taken, I fell off the snow-covered north side and slid down about 100 meters before self-arresting in the soft afternoon snow.
Pentax K1000.
Thomas
Wow, that's quite a fall!!!
I went hiking today in the north GA mountains, on part of the Appalachian Trail. Specifically, the Woody Gap trail to "Preachers Rock." On the way I found this nice scene:
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Thanks Corran. That happened a few years back and after a little reflection it was more like 50 feet - 100' at tops. I had fallen downhill head first on my back with all my gear on which, back in those days, was upwards of 50 lbs, and without thinking about it flipped over and got my head pointed uphill and self-arrested digging the toes of the boots and fingers into the soft snow. I would have went down about 100 meters or so to where the slope leveled off if it was early morning when the snow would have been frozen, but even then I would have been unhurt as there were no protruding objects along the path. It sure sent the adrenlin through the roof and my heart was pounding away as I made it back to where I was.
Here's a late afternoon/early evening view from my campsite north of Muir Pass in Evolution Basin, Kings Canyon NP:
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Pentax K1000.
Thomas
Very nice, Bryan!
Thomas -- love that area...especially Dusy Basin. What a place for thunderstorms...the thunder rolls around that basin and shakes your insides! The last time I was there must have been 1973, maybe '74.
Probably 90% of my photographs are taken while hiking (further than 1/2 mile from the road, or hiking around for more than an hour) with the exception of the 11x14 camera.
Pear Lake, Sequoia National Park, from last June.
Wista/Zone 6 4x5. Schneider Apo Symmar 135mm. Fuji quickload NPS expiration date 2005..
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Interesting area Chester. I haven't done much hiking out of TH on the western side but the hike out to Pear Lake looks interesting. I'm going to put that on my list.
Vaughn: I've been to Dusy Basin many times - usually continuing over to the TH out or down to LeConte Canyon on the way in. But a couple of times I got a late start out of Bishop and camped in Dusy. Here is an image shot out of the door of my tent at sundown:
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It's a little blury due to the shutter speed - probably 1/8 second or even less - and in those days I never used a tripod or a cable release. Pentax K1000.
Thomas
Any format? Even digital? ;)
I'm pretty new to all this hiking but I really like it. I recently climbed the highest peak in the country (which isn't very high) and brought my DSLR with me, some pictures below. I brought my Texas Leica with me as well but not up to the top.
Visibility was...limited. For 7 of the total 13 hours of walking up and down.
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The day after:
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Beyond that I've only been out hiking twice before, but I have a long time ahead of me (I'm only 30) to explore this hobby.
That first one is fascinating. What is with all the cairns?
You have plenty of time to enjoy it! The fog image is fun!
Steve -- balancing rocks is the new thing (well, not brand new). Can be very obnoxious when done in heavily visited areas. A way for people to yell, "I have been here!", or perhaps "I am so bored with all this nature stuff. What can I do to make my mark on the land?" A new twist to the wilderness ethic of "Take only pictures, leave only footprints -- and a bunch of arty rock piles." I am not a fan of it -- I even try to minimize my footprints I leave behind.
Thanks!
The stone piles (cairns?) in this case are located after a long, steep climb (obviously, it's a mountain...) before a decline and another long, steep climb before reaching the peak. We were pretty surprised seeing the amount of cairns on the first peak, but on our way back from the peak we made a pile ourselves.
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Taken on a hike along Donaldson Run in Arlington, VA. There are a surprising number of wooded trails in the immediate environs of Arlington/Washington DC.
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Recently returned from a trip through Glacier NP/Banff/Jasper Park/Edmonton/Saskatchawan. Most of my photos were taken with Nikon DSLR, but I always bring a vintage film camera too. This time it was a 1937 Voigtlander Bessa RF with a Heliar lens. Love that Heliar! First shot is of Waterton Lake, Alberta. second shot is of the Great Falls of the Missouri River (Montana.) Third was done with Nikon DSLR using the 24mm shift lens, along Icefield Parkway, Alberta. It's a 3-shot pano. These are surprisingly easy to do with a shift lens. Wish Nikon made more than just three of these lenses. We didn't make any of the silly rock piles, but I'll say their better than carving the trees.
Kent in SD
From the Wayback machine!!!
I must have taken this in 1979. I hiked the university's Linhof monorail in its aluminum case (strapped to the top of my Kelty external frame backpack) and some big old pod about 8 miles up the trail to Canyon Creek Lakes, Trinity Alps. Then hiked straight up the mountain from the lakes another 1000 feet or so (at about 6700') for this image of Thompson Peak (9003')...looking roughly north.
The photo is a recent platinum print of that old neg -- just a rough print to judge contrast, etc -- not too pretty of a print, but will work on it more one of these days.
Thompson Peak is second from the left. On another trip I hiked up to the ridge between Wedding Cake Peak (first on the left) and Thompson, but just with the Rolleiflex. Minor frostbite on my hands as I made my way down from the ridge -- had to visually check my finger-holds as I could not feel my hands anymore. It was so nice and warm on the west side, but oh so cold as the wind blew over the snow upwards on the shaded east side!
Lookin' Back - The John Muir Trail
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What a great hiking trail! Pentax K1000.
Thomas
Taboose Pass (?)
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I don't recall with certainity where this is but I think it is the Taboose Pass entrance into Kings Canyon NP. Pentax K1000.
Thomas
PS: It's Taboose Pass.
Egad, Taboose? !! Wonder if I'll ever make it up that oven climb at my age? Lake Basin is still on my bucket list. For those of you not in the "know", Taboose is one of the "Fearsome Foursome" passes of the east side of the southern Sierra. It begins in desert and climbs about 7000 feet to the actual pass. I've always opted for the easier passes that start high to begin with, like Kearsarge, Bishop, or Army, though I have done my share of strenuous off-trail approaches, like Lamarck Col. In the background you can see Arrow Peak. Lake Basin would be toward theright, off the current trail behind those ridges. In between is the canyon, Muro Blanco, itself untrailed but doable if you don't mind a lot of brush. But your previouspic, Thomas, looks a lot more like the vicinity of Chocolate Peak, looking east on the way up to Bishop Pass, and not along the Muir Trail. Am I right?
... I just noticed your post of Evolution Basin too. Sapphire Lake with those two peaks in the background was the first color image I ever printed myself. It came
out surprisingly well, although the chrome was upside-down in the carrier and the image reversed. I printed a dawn shot of Clyde Minaret the same day, in the correct orientation after I scratched my head about the prior image.
Waterfalls of Ordesa y Monte Period National Park. Hasselblad Xpan, 45mm, Foma 100
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Hiked to Springer Mountain, the Southern Terminus of the Appalachian Trail today (see my thread in the Location & Travel subforum).
Here's a few pictures from the day. All taken with my Nikon SP 2005 and Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 lens, on T-Max 100 dev'd in FX-39:
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Couple of iphone/instagram shots from my hike last July. Enontekiö, Lapland, Finland.
Thought I would throw my hat in the ring. Here is an image of me on King's Creek Ridge in Kananaskis - that's in Canada - eh. It shows me with my Graflex Century which is a work horse. Getting up there is a grunt as it has over 700m (2300 ft.) with no switchbacks. I have also hauled my 4x5 Chamonix up there along with a 6 x12 back. I have yet to produce an image I am totally satisfied with on that ridge although it is quite spectacular ,especially early summer when there is still snow on the peaks behind. I have series which is based on being up high called Icelines and Ridgelines which is on my website www.rayvannesphotography.com Attachment 154769
Cuernos del Paine from Lake Pehoe - Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia.
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I hired a motor craft in Puerto Natales to drop me off at the parks boundary and hiked ~ 13 or so miles into the park. This was the scenery as I approached Lake Pehoe. Pentax 67II.
Thomas
Flowers & Rock - The John Muir Trail.
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Hugging the very last step down when decending Mather Pass. I believe that the rock is potasium feldspar which gives it the pinkish color. Pentax K1000.
Thomas
Thanks! Yes I've had pretty good results with FX-39 in retaining highlights. This is a fairly straight scan, not much done to it.
In the FX-39 information, it says FX-39 was specifically developed for T-grain films and that it "does not compress midtones." I haven't done anything like rigorous analysis of densities but it definitely seems to give T-grain films a bit more snap. That and Acufine are my favorite developers (Acufine for traditional films).
Yes, that's me, about a week ago, atop Middle Sister in central Oregon. It was a pretty tough slog. I wouldn't have made it with a view camera, that's for sure.
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Vaughn, that's why this caught my eye, I have never seen such a collection. And it seems like such a weird thing to do. I'm used to seeing them singly as trail markers or hiding places for the registry often found at the top of tall peaks. A common occurrence in Colorado.
One of the 6x12 frames from my hike in July 2015.
A view to mount (fell) Tierbmesvarri, Enontekiö, Finland.
Toyo field (4 3/4 x 6 1/2), 6x12 back, SA 90mm, Ilford Delta 100
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Thomas. Just noted your Mather Pass photo. Hard to see the detail, but that looks more like an oxidation surface on quartz monzonite granite rather than feldspar, which wouldn't share that salt and pepper pattern, but usually occurs in think pinkish veins in that area. Pretty just the same. My mtn gear is all cleaned and repacked for next season already, along with the little Ebony folder. And I've already got some wannabee "trainees" to accompany me on the shorter tune-up trips
in the high country next summer. Longer trips need more experienced companions, since they tend to get into rough off-trail terrain. I still feel great at higher
altitudes, but need longer rest after a "death march" than when I was younger, and a lighter pack too!
Quartz monzonite has a lot of feldspar (roughly 80% or more), of which about half-and-half is plagioclase and orthoclase feldspar (the latter is a type of potassium feldspar or "K-spar" for short). So calling that rock "potassium feldspar" is not too far off the mark, because K-spars can be pink. Rocks such as granite are composed of minerals such as feldspar, so saying "granite rather than feldspar" is like saying "cookie rather than sugar".
Strictly speaking, granite and quartz monzonite are different types of rock, according to common classification systems (e.g., Streckeisen's), but many casually lump them together as "granite". Ironically, granite has more quartz than quartz monzonite (but quartz monzonite has more quartz than plain old monzonite, so it all makes sense). The "pepper" Drew mentions is probably hornblende, black mica (biotite), or other dark mineral; these could be in granite or quartz monzonite as well as other rocks. Many of the famous granite mountains are actually quartz monzonite.
The pinkish veins in the Sierra (and other places) is pegmatite, and it's main minerals can be similar to granite or quartz monzonite, but the distinguishing feature is that the crystals are big, due to slow cooling as they were intruded into cracks within the surrounding rocks.
This is a ways off-topic, but the statement about feldpars etc. was way-off, and worth a little effort to correct.
It was completely out of control on Marginal Way in Maine - so much so that they outlawed it. Rightfully so, in my opinion.
Here's a little YashicaMAT shot from Bearpen Mountain in the Catskills. Some kind of weird scratch/marks across the top edge that I hadn't noticed until now. Odd!
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Well as you probably already know, MMERIG, "granite" is the blanket term for the primary plutonic material of the Sierras per se, and the most common type is
quartz black n' white salt n' pepper quartz monzonite. I have a geology background myself, and at one time my father bought out leading commercial quarry to this stuff, while it was temporarily out of business. Beyond that, there are infinite nuances of the term granite, both casual and specific. I just returned from a long backpack trip which involved a brief stay at Porphyry Lake, which has several thousand acres of huge beach-ball like inclusions of black andesite in a matrix of typical salt n' pepper monzonite; but also random examples of things more tempting to color film like olivine or concentrated pink feldspar. I took one such shot with all the above in direct proximity, plus some reddish surface oxidation due to water and bacteria once running through a crack. Olivine also tends to form in cracks, at times re-depositing as stunning fern-like pseudo-fossils. We built our well pump-house out of examples of this! I still think the picture in question was an example of surface oxidation rather than feldspar concentration, but of course could be wrong because it's hard to see detail over the web. Our
resident igneous & plutonic expert here at work is off on vacation, no doubt to lava tubes or something like that. I'm was more trained in geomorphology. But we both share a fair amt of paleontology training. Specific feldspars themselves can not always be correctly identified strictly by eyesight. That much I know. Things
get insanely complicated in the vicinity of roof pendant geology, which in fact is a major element in various Sierra sub-ranges (one reason we locals referred to
them as "Sierras" in the plural), yet the constituent of many of its most most dramatic peaks.
What did I forget... Oh, that pink plagioclase feldspars frequently get extruded into large veins in the Sierra, often in the vicinity of wide milk quartz veins. More
color film fodder, exp in the rain. And this pattern is the identifying feature of certain dramatic landmarks like Striped Peak. The more tangled things get, the more
miners were attracted to the locale, primarily for gold and tungsten; but platinum and palladium were also extracted by the biggest mines. If someone wants a
dramatic geological "mess" within dayhiking distance, with caves n' karst thrown in to boot, the Mineral King area offers it all.
[QUOTE=Drew Wiley;1351377]Well as you probably already know, MMERIG, "granite" is the blanket term for the primary plutonic material of the Sierras per se, and the most common type is quartz black n' white salt n' pepper quartz monzonite.
Regarding a "blanket term", I say as much in my previous message about the casual term "granite". Of course it's fine to call the predominant rock in the Sierra's granite, but when getting more specific about minerals and rock types, as you did, we should try to be accurate, even if most LFPF readers may be interested in just pictures and photography. But maybe some LFPF folks are especially interested in natural features in the pictures, and a separate forum to cover them could be appropriate -- just a thought.
This is all I am going to say about it.
Yes, guilty as charged. I'm using layman's language, generic "granite". Even pegmatite is a blanket term for slow-cooled big crystals and not a specific mineralogical identification. I had an amazing contrast of flavors even in my front yard - incredibly hard purple-brown diorite boulders in long parallel dikes, typically about a quarter mile apart, with salt n' pepper granite in between, but overlayed with Pliocene river terrace deposits containing all kinds of rocks. Huge Pliocene basalt flows were in the vicinity, plus earlier Pliocene fossiliferous sandstone layers below that. My parents ashes are buried below their favorite garden rock, a diorite "book" with bronze plaques symmetrically mounted, just like adjacent pages to an open book. The tops of the rocks contain many Indian acorn grinding holes. I eventually had to sell the property just due to the sheer amount of constant maintenance, especially the constant brush and weed control in forest fire country. Then you've got all these countertop dealers around here, with all kinds of flavors of big crystal granite that don't resemble anything we in'
the Sierra called granite. My wife picked out a slab of Iranian granite that is almost jade colored. ... one more remodel project I haven't completed yet.
Oh, added to that topic.... One evening on my last trip we were camped right at the edge of a vista overlooking three different forks of the Merced, and could see in a single sweep both where the specific glaciers once was which John Muir's advocacy of the glacial origin of Yosemite Valley, and where we could see the distinct vertical differences on the main canyon wall which gave Matthes the clue to the possible number of major glaciations themselves. Highest up, the granite has been long oxidized and is subtly yet distinctly reddish, while furthest down and youngest, you still have bright whitish salt n' pepper granite, along with intact patches of striated glacial polish. Otherwise, all the same kind of predominant granite. Of course, there are all kinds of glacial erratics laying around - basaltic, metamorphic, dark andesites, etc - another distinct clue to major glacial activity. Whitney denied the whole premise.
These snaps were taken while hiking Crete's Samaria Gorge on a bicyle trip through Crete and mainland Greece:
The Gates
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The sides of the gorge rise to just under 1000' and narrow to a mere 4 meters apart.
Abandoned Castle or Village of Samaria
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Just inside the gorge which was inhabited until 1962 when it became a national park.
Village of Agia Roumeli
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This is the terminus of the hike on the Libyan Sea where you catch the ferry back to Chania - a picturesque 1 hour boat ride. The hike is about 10 miles in length and I would rate it a moderate if you're in decent shape. All photos were taken with a Pentax K1000. For more info on the Gorge, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samari%C3%A1_Gorge
Thomas
Thomas that gorge is a neat location. Never heard of it before but looks like a great place to shoot.
From a couple of days ago, more of the same - Appalachian Trail, 15mm, etc.:
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If you find yourself in Crete and have the time, I highly recommend it. I took the overnight ferry to Heraklion and bicycled Crete clockwise following the coast where possible. When I got to Chania I rented a room and took this trip. Here are a few more snaps from the hike:
You start out high in the White Mountains and head downhill downhill to Agia Roumeli on the coast:
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At Agia Roumeli you catch the ferry back. Here is a view of a scenic Libyan Sea coastal village you pass by on the return:
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Thomas
It took me about 2 weeks to figure out your post Drew - "previouspic" was throwing me. I didn't know if you were talking about the Taboose Pass image or what. I got it figure out now: The "previouspic" was taken looking back to the north on the climb out of Evolution Basin while heading south. It's a terrific view and justifies humping a large camera up there for a mural-size print.
The Pacific Crest Trail is America's preeminent hiking trail, The JMT is the best part of the PCT.
Thomas