So I am having fun with some images and Paint shop Pro 2018.
This one is an image from a trip to Capitol Forest taken last year and was a fun project!
This one is from a recent trip over Stampede pass with a friend, I had always wanted to make this trip since I found out there was a useable route from Greenwater to I 90!
So Steve and I took most of the day starting with breakfast at Chick Fil A in Puyallup WA then on to Greenwater and turned off at NF 70 to come out at Easton and Hwy ! 90. It was pavement for a while and then gravel roads and more gravel roads up to 5,000 feet elevation and back down to around 2,000 feet elevation. It was a lot of fun and Steve has a true GPX of the main road now so he will explore spur roads and other points of interest on his motor cycle. For another time we lost some railroad tracks on the I 90 side of the trip but we will figure out where they are hiding!!
This was the best scenic area for taking pictures on the whole trip and the fog burned off just at the right time for Mount Rainier to be visible with some low clouds hanging on.
Appears from the clouds
Steve caught me getting out of the Jeep.
Three action shots in the same area just for fun.
And a copy of our route for the day almost 49 miles of gravel roads.
So I took a friend and went first to Porter Creek campground so he could see if his car would make it and if it was a place he could camp with family then we went on to Rock Candy Mountain as I had never been all the way to the top. We came across this rock quarry on the way and took a short break and took a few pictures. The trip to the top was interesting but all views were blocked by tree tops!!!
Amazing exposure of the different cracks in the black rock.
The CCC (Civilian Conservation Core) during the war at the end of the depression when there were not enough jobs built ten earthen dams near Beaver Utah that are still functional today. On the far right of this photograph you can see the earthen dam still doing its job years later!
The back story is one of my co-workers from around the end of the late sixties saw some of the pictures of one of these lakes I took while visiting my father. At that time he was pushing 50, but he got all excited and told me in his youth he had worked on those dams while in the CCC, it is a small world!!
Sharon my Dad and myself visited a few of them (they are spread out over miles of forest lands). So on our last trip there we visited 5 lakes for old times sake and it brought back some good memories. In this picture is the Face of The Mountain in the background as Dad called it where there is a ski resort and many miles of Jeep trails to explore.
One of ten lakes
So we were on top of Pelican Butte near Klamath Falls Oregon elevation around 8200 feet and a nine mile 4 X 4 climb and this was another view of Mcloughlin Peak and 4 mile lake just visible over the hood of our jeep. It was truly breath taking.
Pelican Butte (8200 feet elevation) view of Mount Mcloughlin and 4 mile lake
So here is the back side of the hotel we stayed at in Ogden Utah, it is an older place with a restaurant separate from the hotel itself that serves decent food and has great service. The room it self was almost on a western theme and dated but clean and comfortable. We would stay there again! The surrounding mountains were capped in snow and a beautiful site in the morning. Through the breezeway you can see the side door of the restaurant!
Hotel in Ogden Utah
Taken at Bryce Canyon looking towards Moab Utah. The layers of different colors and the development of the Hoodoos due to erosion caught my eye. Trip was in 2017
This beautiful park was on the back side of the hotel where we stayed and was full of Koai Fish. They do a lot of weddings there, a beautiful setting. There is just out of this picture a kiosk with fish food in it for a quarter.l
Merry Christmas
We took a couple rides in the Jeep while in the Klamath falls area, one was to the top of a butte and the other was to Crater lake. Beautiful country and scenery.
The first image is a radio and communications tower on top of a butte at 8022 feet elevation and a long rough 9 miles of switch back road,.Well worth the trip as the views were fantastic.
From the Butte we could see Mount McLaughlin miles away standing 9495 feet tall with a snow covered peak.
Here is some summer time snow left over from winter protected only by some sparse shade.
Next we went to the famous Crater lake and could only do the west side rim as the east side road was under construction for some badly needed repairs. This is a Island in the lake.
This is a wide angle picture of part of Crescent lake that I really like. It was a nice trip and we saw some beautiful landscapes on the way to the lake itself.
