More Family Photos!

Gotta love family pictures! I only used Fujifilm this time: Fuji 160C (120 format), Fuji 800Z (35mm), and Fuji Neopan Acros (120 format). If you need pictures for Christmas cards, let me know!

Baby Abby

I took these a while ago, back when she was only a week old. She is so cute! Ilford HP5+ black and white film, pushed to ISO 1600.

Family Pictures

These next three are with my new pinhole camera:





The "Beach Bums" family pictures. What a great family! The pinhole shots are Kodak 400VC, the rest are all Fuji Pro160C.

HOLGAs of Las Vegas Temple

HOLGA plastic toy camera + Fuji Pro800Z film.

Father/Son to Turtlehead Peak, Red Rock Canyon

HOLGA shot from the trailhead of Turtlehead Peak.

After 2.5 miles, 2300 vertical feet, and 90 minutes, here were are on top.

Eli's first peak: Turtlehead Mountain, 6323 feet.

HOLGA shots of Eli at the summit.

I asked Eli, "Where are your ears?" :)

Celebrating our first peak together.

View of Las Vegas and Lake Mead from Turtlehead summit.

Eli holding the summit register. We signed the inside of the back cover.

Turtlehead Peak from the ridge, looking southeast, late in the afternoon.

The last bit of sunlight hitting the peak as we arrive back in the parking lot. An hour and a half up, and one hour flat back down.

I carried Eli in a Kelty TC 3.0. He is about 28 pounds now, plus two cameras, plus water, plus Eli's milk, jacket etc. I don't know, but pretty soon he will have to start walking himself. HOLGA shots are Fuji Pro800Z. The 35mm shots are Fuji Pro160C.

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.