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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  December 19, 20175:00 am| 34 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

Submit Your Photos

Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.

For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

 

For the rest of the year, I’ll be cleaning up old pictures. Feel free to use the form to submit more, but like so much I’m dealing with right now, I feel honor-bound to clean up the old archives and get ready for new content. I didn’t realize I’d missed so much good stuff from mid summer and beyond!

 

 

This is from ancient, email submission from PaulB that I missed long ago. Sorry about that, but I’m glad I have some “seed in store”. These are just amazing, and there’re more days coming!

 

 

Where it was taken: Mount Rainier National Park

When: July 3, 2017

Commenter: PaulB

Other info: Day 3 of the Mount Rainier National Park vacation, this time focusing on the eastern and northeastern areas of the park.

1: The Ohanapecosh River taken from a bridge in the campground. I’m about to hike up the trail to the Silver Falls, a 2.5 mile round trip hike that also includes a stopoff at the other hot springs site in Mount Rainier National Park.

2 and 3: Not much remains of the old hot springs (and even less remains of the once-thriving hotel and baths site that mirrored the Longmire site on the southwestern edge of the park). Longmire got his name immortalized forever, with a popular site named after him, whereas Eva Neal, N.D. Towers, and Dr. A. W. Bridge have vanished into obscurity. Such is life. The Ohanapecosh Hot Springs Resort was shut down in 1960 and everything was dismantled and removed by 1967.

4 and 5: On the trail to Silver Falls.

6 through 9: Silver Falls. And yes, the water is green(ish). I believe I read that this is the highest-volume falls in the park.

10 and 11: This is the “back” side of Rainier. Most pictures are taken along the southern roads; I was on the road to Sunrise Point, which is north of Rainier. The glaciers are really visible from this angle, as is the fact that Rainier is just one of a chain. The chain of mountains isn’t readily visible from the south, which is why you so often see shots of Rainier all by itself.

12: A lovely mountain lake, 6000 feet above sea level.

13: Sunrise Point, the highest vehicle-accessible point in the park at 6400 feet above sea level.

14: Even though this point is higher than Paradise, it gets more sun, so most of the snow is gone. The rangers here spend half their time repairing the damage caused by people wandering all over the meadows because it’s so easy to do. But every footprint off of the main trail can damage as many as a dozen plants with one step.

Just….wow!

 

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  1. 1.

    raven

    December 19, 2017 at 5:16 am

    Spectacular. I was stationed at Ft Lewis between Asia tours in the late 60’s. I was in an Honest John Missile unit and we’d drag over to the range at Yakima and light one up once and a while. Mt Rainer was always the high point.

  2. 2.

    Sab

    December 19, 2017 at 5:16 am

    Yes, those pictures are WOW! Sitting here in thawing northern Ohio, worrying slightly about the icedams on my roof eaves, and you show me those. Perspective about our problems is important. Plus those pictures are gloriously gorgeous.

    We really have to watch autocorrect. It does eye-popping distortions of the original text as typed. Speaking from experience here.

    Always proofread before you post.

  3. 3.

    raven

    December 19, 2017 at 5:23 am

    @Sab: Why, you can edit for 5 minutes?

  4. 4.

    Ruckus

    December 19, 2017 at 5:24 am

    @Sab:
    Alas I can’t blame autocorrect for my spelling foibles, I have turned it off.

    And yes the Pacific Northwest is gorgeous, very nice pics.

  5. 5.

    eclare

    December 19, 2017 at 5:31 am

    Sigh…really need to visit the Pacific NW. Just beautiful.

  6. 6.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2017 at 5:32 am

    I’ve read that there’s another hot spring up in the crater on Rainier.

  7. 7.

    Sab

    December 19, 2017 at 5:49 am

    @raven: I have often missed that deadline. Plus the system freezes up occasionally,

    Seriously, is it hard to proofread before you post?

    I just made 15 corrections before I posted this. And it was a tiny post. And in my day job I don’t mis-type a lot. These typos are autocorrect. Don’t let your browser embarrass you.

  8. 8.

    JPL

    December 19, 2017 at 5:52 am

    Wow!

  9. 9.

    raven

    December 19, 2017 at 5:55 am

    @Sab: “Seriously”? Fuck yes it is. Writing on an iPad or iPhone sitting outside at the bakery with my dogs in sub-freezing weather wearing “computer gloves” it is.

  10. 10.

    raven

    December 19, 2017 at 6:11 am

    @Sab: Embarrass? Wow, this ain’t some fucking english class up in this motherfucker, we’re all pals here.

    We also have an “eta” tag if you get all worried about your grade.

  11. 11.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2017 at 6:18 am

    In yesterday’s OTR, I wrote a comment about reducing highlights and increasing shadows to bring out more detail in photos, In a subsequent comment JR in WV suggested that I provide some instruction on how to do this with the tools provided in Windows(or MacOS). Unfortunately, while both Windows and Mac have photo editors, neither provide the tools to easily reduce highlights and increase shadow luminosity. Here are some programs that will accomplish these tasks, paid first and then free:

    Paid:
    Adobe Photography Package(Windows/Mac) $10/month(this is what I use),
    Luminar(Windows/Mac) ~$70
    Photoshop Essentials(Windows/Mac) ~$60

    Free:
    Fotor(Windows/Mac)
    PhotoScape X(Windows)
    Camera360(Windows)
    Photoshop Express(Android, maybe iOS)
    Snapseed(Android, iOS)
    Google Photos(Android, iOS, I think).
    Darkify(Linux)

    There may other apps for iOS, but I can’t test them out since I don’t have access to a iOS device.

  12. 12.

    Mustang Bobby

    December 19, 2017 at 6:29 am

    Thank you for the fantastic photos. They remind me a lot of Rocky Mountain National Park, which is dear to my heart after spending 10 summers leading hikes with my campers from Cheley Colorado Camps in Estes Park.

  13. 13.

    Where's my hammer

    December 19, 2017 at 6:38 am

    Enjoyed the photos, PaulB. I made it up to the Paradise area at the beginning of last August on an absolutely beautiful day with temperature about 70F and clear blue sky in all directions.
    Mt Rainier is very photogenic. What always seems to fail in the photos is the scale. In the photos showing the big mountain from Paradise, the summit is 9000 feet higher than where the photo was taken. In the photo taken from Sunrise, the summit is 8000 feet higher. The crevasses visible in the glaciers are around 200 feet deep. The overlapping calderas on the summit are almost 2 miles across. And this mountain can be seen from 150 miles because it stands alone, 10000 feet higher than the surrounding mountain range. Really enormous.

  14. 14.

    debbie

    December 19, 2017 at 7:06 am

    Spectacular is the right word! I love them as they are.

  15. 15.

    satby

    December 19, 2017 at 7:08 am

    Lovely photos PaulB! And now another place on my bucket list!

  16. 16.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2017 at 7:45 am

    @debbie:

    I love them as they are.

    OK, I’ll shut up now.

  17. 17.

    debbie

    December 19, 2017 at 7:50 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I’d suggest a guest post from you explaining the intricacies of photo correction would be appreciated and very useful, without singling out anyone’s photos.

  18. 18.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2017 at 8:06 am

    @debbie: If you read my comment yesterday, it was a general comment, NOT directed at PaulB’s photos.

  19. 19.

    Quinerly

    December 19, 2017 at 8:10 am

    ❤??

  20. 20.

    Another Scott

    December 19, 2017 at 8:12 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Another few apps for such things – these are ones I know about and use.

    PMView Pro – a paid, very fast, bitmap viewer, converter, manipulator. I’ve been using it for decades now.
    Picasa 3 – a free but orphanware Google product. I love “I’m feeling lucky”.
    ImageJ – a free, heavy-duty image manipulation program (popular with many microscopists, etc.)
    xnView – a free/paid cross-platform app kinda like PMView Pro.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  21. 21.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2017 at 8:17 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: In fact if you read yesterday’s comments, I believe that I had the first comment saying that they were nice photos. My comments were of a general nature about landscapes and that digital cameras do not produce good results in that they tend to blow out highlights and shadows end up too dark and you lose color and texture.

  22. 22.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2017 at 8:21 am

    @Another Scott: The primary thing I was looking for in the apps were specific settings to affect highlights and shadows. I excluded those apps that didn’t have a specific setting for that. For example, most photo processing apps will allow you to change the luminosity of highlights and shadows via curves or levels(levels is really a subset of curves), but those have a pretty steep learning curve(excuse the pun).

    ETA: For example, gimp is available on all the desktop platforms, but I excluded it because the only way to change highlights and shadows are via curves and levels.

  23. 23.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 19, 2017 at 9:08 am

    @raven: Well, at least no one questioned your English comprehension and called you a non-native, because you made a typo. Typing wreck, when you meant wreak because it was late at night and you were tired.

  24. 24.

    MikeInOly

    December 19, 2017 at 9:21 am

    Hey, that’s my back yard! Well, almost. I’m two hours away. Was just up at Silver Falls a few weeks ago. Had forgotten how beautiful they are after not having gone for nearly a decade. An excellent place to visit. Good trail and beautiful scenery, at any time of year.

  25. 25.

    J R in WV

    December 19, 2017 at 9:39 am

    @schrodingers_cat:

    You are one of the most appreciated and well-regarded participants on this site. Your insight and perspective is nearly unique, with only Amir approaching it. Remember, we communally are a pack of raving jackals.

    Take it easy, relax, enjoy the community of howling. Nothing is to be taken personally, unless someone puts your name in amongst slurs, obscenities, adverbs and adjectives aimed at you personally, as opposed to those poor folk who allow autocorrect to run wild in their posts. ;-)

    Chill a little and enjoy the felling of communal bliss as we hate on conservatism in general and Republiclans in particular!!

    Take care, and Happy Holidays !!

  26. 26.

    Sab

    December 19, 2017 at 9:44 am

    @raven</Come on. You are up at night when the pedants are out.

    Also my personal pedantic issue: if you aren't British then judgment doesn't have an extra e( "judgement" isn'the correct American English even though it makes phonetic sense.) It' just not correct. Makes American lawyers hair stand on end. Makes American pedants hair stand on end. Half the commenters here use it but it isn't correct American spelling so if you are American don't use it. Britain, Canadians and former British colonials it's correct, but for Americans you are mis–spelling badly. Don't do it.

  27. 27.

    Sab

    December 19, 2017 at 9:54 am

    @raven: Okay. You win. My dogs’ spelling badly sucks.

    ETA because I didn’t proofread before I posted.

    And my dogs won’t type. They hate the internet.

  28. 28.

    Sab

    December 19, 2017 at 10:02 am

    @schrodingers_cat: I bet your English is better than mine, and my family has been here for 200 plus years (I’ve been reading your comments for years, and I’ve been reading my family letters for years. Ain’t no comparison).

  29. 29.

    Steve in the ATL

    December 19, 2017 at 10:35 am

    I was there in March, I think. It was cold and there were a few feet of snow on the ground. I hiked through it even though my footwear was only running shoes and really warm socks. The scenery was unbelievable. To match that level of beauty in the Southeast you would have to go to an SEC football game and observe the ladies in their sundresses.

  30. 30.

    Steve in the ATL

    December 19, 2017 at 10:39 am

    @Sab: I’ve had my English corrected by non-native speakers. They are taught proper usage and don’t know casual usage. For example, I was once lectured by a Norwegian on my improper use of jealous versus envious. After sucker punching him for his hubris, I explained that, when we are not taking the SAT, we use the two terms interchangeably.

    I experienced it from the other side back when I spoke French. It’s a little jarring, and you wonder if you actually know something that the native speaker doesn’t….

  31. 31.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 19, 2017 at 10:48 am

    @Steve in the ATL: I am not a non-native English speaker though, that assumption is what rankled.

  32. 32.

    Steve in the ATL

    December 19, 2017 at 10:54 am

    @schrodingers_cat: ah! I swear that autocorrect makes more mistakes than non-native speakers.

  33. 33.

    Cckids

    December 19, 2017 at 1:15 pm

    Gorgeous pics! Oddly enough, I was at Rainier that same day! I saw a beautiful silver fox, only got a crappy pic of him, but was thrilled anyway. Such a lovely place.

  34. 34.

    suezboo

    December 19, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    Fabulous fotos ! If I could handle the cold, I’d check it out. It’s a beautiful place.

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