North Twin Sister-West Ridge

Mike, Ryan, Doug and I went up the West Ridge of the North Twin Sister in a day and a half this August 18-19. We got a late afternoon start after pizza and beer (before the climb, which is unusual!).

We had heavier-than-usual packs since we were spending the night. This made the approach more difficult, with a fair amount of walking our bikes...but we knew that we would have a cruiser ride out the next day.

Camp was nice, a few mosquitoes kept away by the fire and then the cold. We woke just after dawn and hike up to the ridge:

Beautiful scrambling just below the summit.

Zebra in Ngorongoro Crater

 
The plural of zebra is zebra.

Barranco Valley Waterfall

 

This is getting to be fun! I know it looks a little fake, I'm going to try not to go too far overboard on the HDR stuff but at the same time it's really interesting to play with.

This shot is a self-portrait taken at a waterfall in the Barranco Valley, Kilimanjaro.

Rescuing photos

 
I'm starting, very slowly, to rescue some old corrupted images from 2008. My old chipset had a graphics card problem that ate a lot of my favorite photos. Some of them, though, were preserved in the original RAW file form. I'm now slowly developing those and learning a bit about high dynamic range tone mapping--here is one example, with hopefully more to come soon!

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

 
Took about 1/2 hour to fit out the truck bed with 3/4" closed-cell foam.