Every Christmas I make a calendar for my friends and family. This year the theme of the calendar is "Aerial North Cascades," containing 13 carefully selected high-quality aerial images of Washington's rugged and beautiful glaciated North Cascades. Each month is represented by an aerial photo taken during that month. Here is a 
 PHOTOSET 25"A Spectacular Series of Morning-Sun-Lit Snowy Summits" Jack, Ballard, Azurite, Golden Horn, Tower, Logan, Goode, Buckner, Booker, Hurry-up, Johannesburg, Snowqueen, Chaval, Higgins, Whitehorse, Three Fingers, Sloan, Pugh, White Chuck JANUARY 3, 2013
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This photoset is from a 335-mile aerial adventure with John Scurlock over the North Cascades on the brilliant bluebird winter morning of January 3, 2013. We took off shortly before sunrise and reached Jack Mountain just as the first rays of the day’s sun touched its rugged crest. Then we swooped through the spectacular golden-lit Cascades, snapping photos right and left of a series of well-known summits such as Ballard, Azurite, Golden Horn, Tower, Fisher, Logan, Goode, Buckner, Booker, Hurry-up, Johannesburg, Formidable, Snowqueen, Chaval, and Higgins. After touching down to refuel in Arlington, we again took to the skies and enjoyed some aerial photography of Whitehorse, Three Fingers, Sloan, Pugh, and White Chuck before finally returning to the airstrip in Concrete, nearly 3 hours after we had left.
The flight path is shown to the right. (This flight line is made with actual GPS data.) |
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(Click here to go to a trip report for a winter ascent of Three Fingers in March 2010, where a friend and I climbed up to the lookout, dug out the door, and slept inside. A 5-star snowcave!) |
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