Please share your favorite LF images of mountains and ridgelines.
Maybe you’re looking up at them. Or looking down from them. Either way, chances are there’s a story to go with your shot, so please share any stories you might have. And if you can name the place, that would be even better.
I live in Seattle, so all of my mountain images are in the N. Cascades (east of Seattle) or the Olympics (west of Seattle, on the coast). The N. Cascades are full of volcanoes and igneous rocks; the Olympics are mostly sandstone, have no volcanoes, and are not as high. But they’re closer to my heart.
Here’s one to start off:
I’m in Olympic Nat’l Forest (about 4,000 feet), looking into Olympic NP. On the right horizon, that’s snowy Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in the Olympics (about 6,900 feet). That’s not very high compared to mountains in the Cascades, but its perennial snow cover – thanks to the moist air from the Pacific Ocean – makes it seem that way. In the valleys (between those parallel ridgelines) are roaring rivers, flowing left to right, that soon meet the Pacific Ocean. They flow through rain forests, which may be hard to believe with snow-capped peaks above them, and the Pacific Ocean just a few miles away.
Please share your mountains and ridgelines, and any stories behind them.
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