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I love when the sunset colors strike the snowy peaks makin them shine! See the bright golden autumn of birch?



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Awesome view GT....

Despite the short summers an all, you still have a lot of plus points living there...lovely!

16 Sep, 2009

 

OH..wow..GT!..love this..!

16 Sep, 2009

 

beautiful

16 Sep, 2009

 

Beautiful.....

16 Sep, 2009

 

What is the Mountain Range called again? I love the view..it reminds me of our Olympic, Cascade and Rocky Mt.s here..

16 Sep, 2009

 

Thank you. I have been trying to catch a good alpineglow for a year! SO glad to finally get to share it. :-)

This is the Alaska range. This is Mt Deborah, Hess, and Hayes. To the right is Mt Mckinley though that is rarely seen up in the clouds. I've got a few shots in here. None like one from in the park. I'll have to scan one I've got from there in.

17 Sep, 2009

 

Our Mt. Rainier is like that..so often clouded over it is part of the weather news..the Mt. is out today sort of thing! lol and everyone knows what Mt. we are talking about...although she is not so high as McKinley...the clouds hang about her it seems....
Looking forward to your pictures..

17 Sep, 2009

 

GT:

How many miles are you from this mountain range?

18 Sep, 2009

 

About 180 miles. The peaks are about 18,000 feet and the elevation here is 600. These are called the sisters.

20 Sep, 2009

 

That's quite a distance...they are such beautiful, very
tall mountains to have as a background.

Have been up into those mountains?

20 Sep, 2009

 

awesome GT. its so great to see the snow in the distance...

20 Sep, 2009

 

These are hard to get to Delonix, the highway southeast goes out closer along them and a favorite recreational lake has a great close view, but we don't have the road system to get there, they are pretty remote. It is wonderful having the alaska range out there snowy white year round. My recent mountian picture are in this range on the right side towards Mt Mckinley. The Denali Park Preserve is in this range on that end.:-)

Thank you Sandra, lucky for us this alpine snow doesn't foreshadow the coming winter. It's always there.

20 Sep, 2009

 

so even on your hottest of days you can see this?

20 Sep, 2009

 

Yep, year round. Glacier flows are common between the peaks. Ice just millions of years old. Of course sunset light is gone part of the season so they get hazy through midsummer.

20 Sep, 2009

 

wow what a wounderful place you live in GT.

21 Sep, 2009

 

It is a spectacular and wild place. :-)

21 Sep, 2009



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