MONO LAKE, CA

Sunrise at Mono Lake, California. 100% Fujichrome Velvia 100. Can't beat it. Take that digital.

Grandeur Peak, Salt Lake City

Goblers Knob from Grandeur Peak.

Salt Lake City

Mt. Olympus, south of Grandeur Peak.

I-80 running through Salt Lake Valley.

Jereme and I on the top in less than two hours.

Back down in one hour because we ran.

These last two are Kodak BW400CN on a HOLGA. Trees and stream near the road.

Jereme and I hiked Grandeur Peak from the Church Fork trailhead. About 3.2 miles each way. Elevation gain of a little more than 2000 ft. Running down was fun, but my legs were sore for two days afterwards. The color shots are on Kodak Ektar 100.

A couple HOLGA shots from Mt. Nebo

Both are on Fuji Pro800Z film.

4 Peaks in one Weekend

Sunrise at White Mt. Peak trailhead.

Looking back at our parking area/campsite/trailhead for White Mt. Peak.

Barcroft Research Station - 2 miles from trailhead.

First view of White Mountain Peak.

Climbing the long switchbacks. Mt. Barcroft in the background.

White Mountain Peak summit hut.

Research in progress!

Me and my old man on the summit of White Mountain Peak - 14246 ft.

The White Mountain range south of White Mountain Peak.

White Mountain from Mt. Barcroft.

Me on the summit of Mt. Barcroft - 13040 ft.

Mt. Barcroft summit box and register.

The final stretch back to the trailhead.

Bristlecone pine in White Mountains.

Boundary Peak, highest point in Nevada, trailhead marker for Queen's Mine trail.

Wild horses near the trailhead.

Boundary Peak is the highest one in this picture.

Trail Canyon from Queen's Mine trail.

Boundary Peak from the north...just a big pile of loose rocks.

Holga version.

Holga version of the scree pile.

Holga version from the north.

Holga version of my old man climbing the scree pile.

Summit survey marker for Boundary Peak - highest point in Nevada - 13140 ft.

View down the way we came up.

Me on the highest rock on the summit.

My old man.

My old man is that little black speck on top of Boundary Peak. I took this from the top of Montgomery Peak, which is 3/4 mile west of Boundary Peak. This is a crop of the following picture.

Boundary Peak from Montgomery Peak.

Summit register for Montgomery Peak, CA - 13441 ft.

The summit box on top of Montgomery Peak, White Mountain Peak, which we climbed one day earlier, is the highest one way in the back on the left half of the picture.

Boundary Peak from the knife edge ridge between the two peaks...I'm on my way back to Boundary Peak.

Looking back up to Montgomery Peak, where I just came from.

Halfway back to the trailhead from Boundary Peak.

From the dirt road. Boundary is the big gray one on the left, Montgomery is on the right.

Same picture pretty much, but from the highway pull-out.

We drove out and got to the White Mountain trailhead late at night. We set up camp and went right to sleep. After a big breakfast, we started hiking about 8am. 7 miles and almost 4 hours later, we were on top of White Mountain Peak. On the way back to the truck, I made a one mile detour over to Mt. Barcroft, which is the 13er behind the Barcroft research facility. We met back up and finished the hike together. We drove up the windy dirt road, and I got carsick. We got gas in Bishop, CA and washed the sweat off our faces in a McDonald's bathroom. We got dinner and Carl's Jr. and then drove to the Queen's Mine trailhead of Boundary Peak, NV. Set up camp and went to sleep by about 9pm. Woke up, ate a big breakfast, and hiked about 4 miles and almost 4000 vertical feet to the top of Boundary Peak, the highest point in Nevada. I made the 3/4 mile traverse over to Montgomery Peak. The route was rocky and loose and steep, but fun. Montgomery is a little taller than Boundary. After making it back to the truck, we heated up a foil dinner and ate it on the drive back to Vegas.

Mt. Nebo

The trailhead to Mt. Nebo, from the northeast.

Kelly resting, with Mt. Nebo in the background.

Mt. Nebo

Me on summit of North Peak, which is directly north of Nebo.

Mt. Nebo from the summit of North Peak.

Kelly making a call from the top of North Peak.

View from Wolf Pass up towards a false peak.

The true Nebo from the false peak.

Kelly getting close to summit of Nebo.

Me near summit of Mt. Nebo.

The SUMMIT of Mt. Nebo. 11,928 feet, with Middle Nebo and South Nebo in the background.

Us of on the summit of Mt. Nebo.

The odd place to keep the summit register. We found a notebook and pen inside, and signed our names.

Clouds were gathering and we needed to not be lightning rods on top of Nebo.

But they looked pretty cool against a dark blue sky.

Black and white version.

Mona, UT from top of Mt. Nebo.

View northward from Nebo, Mt. Timpanogos is under the clouds a little bit right of center.

Deseret Peak and Flat Top Mountain off in the distance to the northwest.

still on the top.

Cool rock formations on the way back down.

Me coming back down. (I'm not in focus but you can see the trail).

Kelly and I drove south from Salem, UT for more than 20 miles through a winding canyon to get to the trailhead. We started at about 8am. We climbed up North Peak, since it was pretty much on the way to Mt. Nebo. We slid down the backside of North Peak through loose scree to Wolf Pass, and then climbed a very steep section to a false peak, then traversed across a knife-edge ridge to the northern most and highest peak of Nebo. The forecast said it was going to be partly cloudly, and it was. But the closer we got to afternoon, the closer the clouds got to us, and the darker they got. There was some rain to the east, but we made it down just in time. As we were approaching the car at the end of our hike, we looked back up to see dark clouds and rain all around the peak we were just at 3 hours before. Nice hike, about 9-10 miles total with about 4000 feet of elevation gain. And I learned the importance of eating a good breakfast before long hikes. I didn't eat very much for breakfast and I was really running on fumes on the way back.

100th POST!!! - Deseret Peak - in Utah west of Salt Lake City

This is my 100th post!!! And to celebrate I want to give someone a FREE 8x10 of any photo from my blog, unless it is someone else's family (that is weird). All you have to do is be the first person to email me, put "100th post 8x10 giveaway" in the subject line, and tell me which one you want. That is it! Good luck! (And if enough people email me, I will give a FREE 5x7 print to emailer #10, #20, #30, and so on...) THANKS for following my blog!!!

Deseret Peak:

Brent on the South Willow Creek route of the Deseret Peak loop trail.

A deer just before we got the the ridge. I know, its very small.

Brent, on the switchbacks right before reaching the ridge.

Nice mountains north of Deseret Peak.

The ridge. Very windy here. Turn right to get to the summit.

Brent and Koko walking along the ridge, northward towards the peak.

We thought that one in the back was the summit, but the true summit is still hidden from view.

Climbing along the west side of Deseret Peak, getting close to the summit.

Nice cliff on the east face of the false summit.

The summit of Deseret Peak!

The view eastward from Deseret Peak. The Great Salt Lake on the left side, Grantsville underneath the lake, and Tooele on the right side of the picture at the base of those mountains.

Those nice looking mountains again, from the summit of Deseret.

Me and Brent at the summit, and Koko.

Koko was tired. 6.5 miles hiked so far, and that far to get back to the truck.

Eating some snacks on the summit, trying to get out of the wind a little.

Me on the summit.

Skull Valley, west of Deseret Peak.

Those are the color photos from this trip. All are 35mm Fujifilm. The black and white ones are on 120 medium format film.

I thought this was the peak, but it turned out to be a false peak. The true summit is slightly higher and just behind this one out of view. But this is a pretty nice cliff on the east face of the mountain.

Some nice mountains just north of Deseret Peak.

Skull Valley to the west, as seen from the summit of Deseret Peak.

All three were taken with Mamiya RZ67 on Fuji Acros 100 B&W film, with a red filter in front of the lens.

Mummy Mountain - Black & White film

Mummy Mountain:

Don & Brandon next to the "M" tree--at this point we leave the North Loop trail and climb the scree slope on the right--->

This is looking upward to the right of the "M" tree.

This is looking down the part of the slope I just climbed, with Griffith Peak in the background.

All three of us at the summit of Mummy Mountain.

Summit of Mummy Mountain with Mt. Charleston in the background.

Mummy's summit marker.

Don at the summit of Mummy Mountain.

Another marker on the top of Mummy.

Brandon at the top of Mummy.

This summit of Mummy Mountain is very flat and big like a football field.

This is us on the way down from the summit.

We had to scramble up this chute to get to the summit, but this photo is on the way down.

Mt. Charleston from Mummy Mountain.

Brandon on cliff on North Loop trail with Charleston Peak in the background.

Me.

These are the photos from the first part of our hike. After Mummy, Brandon and I hiked to Charleston and Griffith Peaks.

Mummy Mt., Mt Charleston, and Griffith Peak--20 mile hike

Charleston Peak:

Mt. Charleston in the background, from North Loop trail between Mummy Mt. and Charleston.

Same place, but with Griffith Peak in the background.

Brandon on top of a cliff.

Mummy Mountain as seen from base of Mt. Charleston.

Pahrump from summit of Mt. Charleston.

Summit of Mt. Charleston.

Brandon and I at the top of Charleston.

Near the peak, on the way down the South Loop trail.

Brandon in the "meadows" between Charleston and Griffith Peaks.

Me.

Griffith Peak:

View back towards Mt. Charleston from Griffith.

Red Rock Canyon area from Griffith Peak.

Las Vegas from Griffith Peak.

Brandon on Griffith Peak.

Me.

Bristlecone tree on Griffith.

Brandon and my dad and I started the hike at 6:45am from Trail Ridge Canyon up to Mummy Mountain. (those pictures are on a black and white roll--will post when I get them developed) My dad went home and me and Brandon continued along the North Loop trail to Mt. Charleston, then around the South Loop trail to Griffith Peak and then back down to our car at the Cathedral Rock parking lot. We had to walk the last mile or two in the dark, and got to the car right at 8:00pm. It was a good twenty miles and our legs could feel it. I never hiked with trekking poles before, but man they sure are nice. Really does make it easier on your knees, etc.

Hiking to Summit of Timpanogos

Mt. Timpanogos:

We did Timpooneke Trail..about 7 miles each way, 14 miles round trip.

We started at 2:30am. (I took this picture on the way out)

Sunrise. This is how high up we made it in the dark.

This meadow is at about 10000 ft. elevation I think.

Still have almost 2000 ft to climb to the top. See the 'glacier' on the left?

More flowers.

Kelly on the trail.

We had to cross a couple of snow patches...

Across the ridge, but not quite to the top yet...that is Orem and Lehi behind me.

mountain goats near the top...

The trail to the summit...

The SUMMIT!

YEAH! 11749 ft. above sea level.

The summit markers..

We saw two of them up there...one inside the shack, one outside.

Kelly on Timpanogos summit.

Me on Timpanogos summit. About 9:30am.

Guess how we took this picture? I carried my heavy tripod all the way up there! Stupid me, but it came in handy.

On a spur of the moment kind of thing, Kelly and I decided to climb Timpanogos. We started at 2:30am, saw a huge bullwinkle moose right on the trail 10 yards from us, which scared the crap out of us, took a couple little power naps cause we didn't sleep more than an hour the night before, and made it to the top around 9:30am.

We hid some of our gatorades in the bushes in the meadow at 10000 ft. so we wouldn't have to carry them that last 1750 feet up, and drank them when we got back to the bottom. We didn't slide down the glacier, we walked the long way back down. Oh yeah, we saw a few mountain goats on the way up and back down, near the top. I was an idiot and brought the Mamiya RZ67 and my canon cameras, and tripod all the way to the top.

The Mamiya is huge and people at the summit were asking me how I got it up there...(the pictures of me and Kelly in front of the little hut were taken with the Mamiya). The black and white film is Ilford HP5+ (ISO 400) and the color is Fuji Velvia 50 and 100 slide film.

Baby Rylie - newborn / infant photography

These are the rest of the baby Rylie photos.  She did so good!  All were taken in her parents living room with two portable studio lights and a couple of black blankets.  All are film of course!  Film is the best!  It has that special 'feel' to it that I love.  :)  The color ones are Fuji Pro400H and Fuji Pro160C.  B&W are Kodak Plus-X Pan.  You can order prints by emailing me or by clicking HERE.