Cross-country Skiing season arrives along the Mount Tahoma Trails
This is a practice post while I attempt to get some bugs out of migrating to this blogging engine. Peace
360 degree panorama along the Rainier Vista Trail
Mount Tahoma Trails hut-to-hut crosscountry and snowshoe trail system – Rainier Vista Trail ©EdBookPhoto.com
moonlight on snow on the Mount Tahoma Trails
My Grandson, Cody, and I were at this location under the past full moon and after photographing the moonrise over Tahoma (aka: Mount Rainier) turned to see this scene. The glow in the distance is from the light of the Puget Sound area some 50 miles away. A very lonely place in winter except by [...]
earthshadow – hole in the sky – snowgauge
Earthshadow – Fullmoon – Snowgauge on High Hut Ridgebefore the snow ©2010 Ed Book This time of day and that month remembered as pictures on my big screen but also recalled on the inside of my eyelids when I close my eyes. I can’t see it when the clouds cover the sky unless [...]
autumn morning moisture in the mountains
clouds form in the valleys at night when the air cools and burns off again in the morningTahoma State Forest – Cascade Mountain Range – Washington state ©2010 Ed Book Autumn in the Cascade Range starts with cooling nights and moisture saturating the air to form clouds that fill all the valleys. At dawn, looking [...]
My LiveJournal Blog is nine years old
On the 15th of this month, I will have Nine years of posting in my LiveJournal. In the spirit of celebrating the anniversary of my birth for a week vice day–which I started doing a few years ago when I missed my actual birth"day"–I’ll celebrate this LiveJournal anniversary for a week… whatever that entails… maybe [...]
The Yurt is ready for snow visitors
The Mount Tahoma Trails Yurt I’m the manager for the Mount Tahoma Trails Association (MTTA) Yurt in the Tahoma State Forest in the Washington state Cascade Mountain Range southwest of Mount Rainier. The Yurt is located at about 4200 ft elevation and about six miles over a couple ridges from the snowpark. I’ve spent quite [...]
The forest near The Yurt
Although it rained all of the six days I was up at The Yurt early this month, it didn’t rain continuously. When it wasn’t raining, I was out and about in the forest, on the trails–light maintenance, trimming errant branches that will be snowladen and hanging low over the ski trails and a hinderance to [...]
Crepuscular Rays in the Cascade Range
This is a scene I watched a while a couple weeks ago when I went up to The Yurt and Mount Tahoma Trails trail system to do some work and spend six very alone (lonely) days. It had rained most of the time I was up there but while I was driving down to civilization [...]
and along the trail…
Bobcat tracks along the trail ©2009 Ed Book I see Bobcat tracks along the trail often but have only seen an actual cat a couple times and it was in the summer. Their main food is the Snowshoe Hare which I noticed this winter being rare probably because of the extremely deep snows of last [...]
Jay and the Pisten Bully 70
Mount Tahoma Trails Association Pisten Bully 70 cross country ski trail grooming machine ©2009 Ed Book Here’s Jay getting ready to start grooming again with our ancient Pisten Bully gromming machine after a short break at Copper Creek hut for some tea. I was driving one of the Skidoo snowmobiles pulling a groomer because Jay [...]
the snow up there is about ten feet deep right now
…and then, there are the drifts wall of snow The Gifford Pinchot NF from High Hut ©2008 Ed Book Peace ps we saw the first hummingbird of the season today
last April in the snow
near the Puyallup Ridge Trail, Mount Tahoma Trails, Cascade Range, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book It gets to be a bit of a challenge when you have to be your own model. (the loneliness most) Peace
a scene from last April
along the Puyallup Ridge ski trail – Mount Tahoma Trails, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book Peace
Ski Trooper Ridge panorama
About a week ago, Gene, and Phil, fellow ski patrollers and I skied out to this ridge to scout a hopefully proposed location for a new temporary Mount Tahoma Trails hut about two miles beyond the Copper Creek Hut. The view included Mount Rainier above the Glacier View Wilderness and Mount Beljica, the Goat Rocks, [...]
big cat tracks in the snow
Mount Tahoma Trails north district near the Morge Lakes Cirque ©2008 Ed Book I’ve seen lots of cat tracks in the snow this year but they were mostly made by Bobcats. I didn’t see any cats though. These tracks were much bigger and there were three sets. I suspect siblings or mother and offspring who [...]
Luka and Bob
a few years ago, Bob was mountain biking in the Capital Hills near Olympia and found that he was being followed by an emaciated looking very young and obviously lost husky. The dog couldn’t be chased away or dissuaded from following. After about eight miles of trail, Bob decided that he had found a new [...]
photos of folks on the trail
©2007 Ed Book When I was on the Mount Tahoma Trails in January, I photographed quite a few folks and had them sign model releases so I could use the images for stock photo sales in exchange for a photo of them. (payment for signing a model release must be of some value so I [...]
Alpenglo tracks at sunset
©2007 Ed Book Mt Wow, Mt Beljica, and Mt Adams from the Puyallup Ridge Trail. Peace
some folks I met along the trail
©2007 Ed Book I’m just now getting to looking at the rest of the images I made in the mountains a couple weeks ago. I got model releases signed from the folks I photographed and I/they wrote descriptions of what they were wearing so I could identify them in the images but now looking at [...]
