B and I made it up to Lord Hill at the end of January. It was a mostly-clear day, and we found the viewpoint I’d been wanting. Huzzah! Here I am standing upon it in triumph, gazing toward the Cascades:
There are two kinda-hard to see things here, but I’ll bet you can find them. There’s the moon, and there’s a classic u-shaped glacial valley. I’ll give you some time to look round, and then show you it tomorrow! There will even be an airplane for scale!
So that was pretty awesome. The really neato thing we discovered is that you can see Mount Rainier from up there – but only in winter!
In summer, I’m pretty sure it’s perfectly invisible. This almost makes me regret the fact trees are starting to bud. Sigh. Ah, well, I’ll soon have some gorgeous fruit tree flower photo opportunities, so I suppose that’s all right. Let’s have another look at Mount Rainier, though.
I found both! I’m pretty sure, at least.
And I even found Mount Rainier through all those sticks! Still majestic. :)
Looks like gorgeous weather.
The moon is easy enough. I see a couple of candidates for “u-shaped glacial valley”, one right of center and the other to the far right.
The real test is which, if any, of those white tips peeking out is Glacier Peak?
The moon is easy and I found the U-shaped valley but I can’t see an airplane.