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Diablo Lake North Cascades National Park Washington

Diablo Lake, nestled within Washington's North Cascades National Park, is a striking reservoir renowned for its vibrant turquoise waters. This distinctive hue results from glacial flour—fine rock particles produced by surrounding glaciers.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/morning-diablo-lake-north-cascades-national-park-washington-vertical-wayne-moran.html

#DiabloLake #NorthCascades #NationalPark #Washington #Nature #travel #travelPhotography #Landscape #landscapes #art #fineart

#ayearforart #buyintoart

Nestled deep within Washington State's wild North Cascades National Park, Diablo Lake shimmers with glacial hues and mirror-like clarity. In this serene autumn morning scene, low clouds and mist drift across the forested peaks while golden foliage hints at the seasonal shift.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/morning-reflections-diablo-lake-north-cascades-national-park-washington-wayne-moran.html

#DiabloLake #NorthCascades #NationalPark #Washington #mountains #Landscape #photography #travel #travelphotography

#AYearForArt #buyintoArt

Mt. Shuksan at dusk. #landscapephotography #mtbaker #northcascades #pnwoutdoors #pnwphotography #mountbaker #mountains #naturephotography #longexposure

Mount Baker across the icy Fraser River. Taken and sunset yesterday. #mtbaker #portcoquitlam #pnwoutdoors #pnwphotography #landscapephotography #northcascades #yvr #vancouver #sunset #metrovancouver #mountains

Mount Baker across the icy Fraser River. Taken and sunset yesterday. #mtbaker #portcoquitlam #pnwoutdoors #pnwphotography #landscapephotography #northcascades #yvr #vancouver #sunset #metrovancouver #mountains

Watching a video of a Glacier Peak flyover, and even more impressive than the amazing views & nature, is Gary Paull's incredible detailed/intimate local & geological knowledge, his orientation and pattern recognition skills... I've always been in awe of people who're so aware of and linked to their environment(s) and their place within (even if it's here more about the physical rather than social aspects). To me this is what hiking is partially about: Not just an activity, but more so a method & process of deeply connecting with a place/environment, using each visit for learning & trying to understand it, to navigate it without map, to appreciate its history, how it came to be, why it is the way it is etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s1RMPH9p0

Each time this is a vivid reminder of Brian Eno's "Big Here / Long Now" concepts (even if his European framing and many other aspects of the Long Now foundation/funding are problematic):

https://longnow.org/essays/big-here-long-now/

"How could you live so blind to your surroundings? How could you not think of where I live as including at least some of the space outside your four walls, some of the bits you couldn't lock up behind you? I felt this was something particular to New York: I called it "The Small Here". I realised that, like most Europeans, I was used to living in a bigger Here.

I noticed that this very local attitude to space in New York paralleled a similarly limited attitude to time. Everything was exciting, fast, current, and temporary. Enormous buildings came and went, careers rose and crashed in weeks. You rarely got the feeling that anyone had the time to think two years ahead, let alone ten or a hundred. Everyone seemed to be passing through. It was undeniably lively, but the downside was that it seemed selfish, irresponsible and randomly dangerous. I came to think of this as "The Short Now", and this suggested the possibility of its opposite - "The Long Now".

"Now" is never just a moment. The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of our social systems seem geared to increasingly short nows."

— Brian Eno

#BigHere #LongNow #Hiking #GlacierPeak #NorthCascades

I recently got a spiffy 360-degree camera. We hiked Blue Lake recently in North Cascades National Park and I did a time-lapse of the descent. I learned that I need to select a different lapse-delay and that I need to be more careful about keeping the camera steady, but the video is rather interesting.
https://youtu.be/FZW7-tp_x28
#bluelake #northcascades #pnw #pnwhiking #larchmadness #oct2024 #midweekhiking

As part of our little Bagley Lakes hike, we hiked up to the Heather Meadows Visitor Center, originally built in 1940 by the Civilian Conservation Corps as the Austin Pass Warming Hut. It's on the National Register of Historic Places. It's built on top of a glacially smoothed knob of columnar andesite. #PNW #nature #mountains #architecture #NRHP #history #geology #NorthCascades

I wrote a little thing on WTA. I like writing these little, short things. #PNW #Cascades #NorthCascades #forest #oldgrowth #Rockport #WTA #hiking
https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trip-reports/trip_report-2024-07-30.202408110060?_authenticator=c5e77898a3a0709f557573dbbc7a953c161a0051

So, last Saturday, we got out of Dodge and went for a hike through Rockport State Park, about 4.2 miles because the accountant tracks this. This place is beyond beautiful. The trees are thick and tall. It's all old growth forest. We virtually had the place place to ourselves. And it was Saturday! Like all our day trips food is involved and generally close out with beers someplace. #PNW #Cascades #NorthCascades #forest #oldgrowth #nature #naturephotography #photography #Rockport

Federal officials reintroduce apex predator decades after it was hunted to extinction: 'The odds are in their favor'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-officials-reintroduce-apex-predator-004500011.html

#Rewilding
#Bears
#GrizzlyBears
#Hunting
#Reintroduction
#NorthCascades

Feds want #GrizzlyBears back in #Washington's North Cascades https://phys.org/news/2024-03-feds-grizzly-washington-north-cascades.html

"U.S. agencies published final proposals calling for reintroducing #grizzly bears to the #NorthCascades. Grizzlies roamed much of the West before colonization. A #KeystoneSpecies, #bears are known to till, aerate #soil as they search for potato-like roots like Alpine #sweetvetch, munch on #berries, and later deposit the #seeds through their scat."

#Rewilding #Restoration #Biden #USpol #Climate #Conservation

I love living in this world of color. Larches and changing leaves, North Cascades WA on the hike to Blue Lake

#photography #wa #NorthCascades #larches

The larches are turning in the North Cascades. I was there last fall and made one of my favorite photos of the year. Read about it here: https://jeffcarlson.myshopify.com/blogs/latest/larches

#photography #autumn #fall #larches #golden #PhotoPrints #NorthCascades #WA

View of Diablo Lake in North Cascades National Park, Washington State, USA. I thought of this photograph today as much of the mountains on the far, right side of the lake have burned in the #SourdoughFire recently. A few more (older) images of the area here:

https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/diablo-lake/

For #MountainMonday
#Mountains #NorthCascades #Washington #Landscape #Lakes #LandscapePhotography

Slideshow of process work in my studio, Planet Art. The installation is The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis, Museum of Northwest Art, 2018-2019, Surge exhibition. Scrolls are acrylic mixed media on digitized historic topographic maps of North Cascades glaciers. There are 3 posts in my blog; the first from 2018: https://www.planetart.space/the-lay-of-the-land-glacial-biocenosis-update/
#climatechange #landscape #SkagitRiver #NorthCascades #NationalPark #glacialmelts #glacialtill #glaciers #MuseumofNorthwestArt #SCSC #Surge #installation

We ambled up to Newhalem after hiking through Rockport State Park. We wandered around the Gorge Powerhouse and Ladder Creek Falls. Spectacular setting. Remnant evidence of the 2015 Goodell fire, scorched trunks, bleaching snags, and fallen logs. The Gorge Dam dewaters a section of the Skagit River, feeding its waters into the Gorge Powerhouse. Could salmon swim up again? #Newhalem #NorthCascades #salmon #dams #FERC #SkagitRiver #photography #SeattleCityLight #hydropower
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-dams-did-salmon-actually-use-the-skagit-river-before-the-seattle-dams-were-built