Chiwaukum Mountains

Tharhawk

I was up in the bitter cold climbing for a few days. There's a 5 thousand foot climb straight up from the Hwy to the high country. Anyhow, saw this cool tree along the way.

1. Frozen Tree



2. Camp and the moonlight (awesome moon!)



3. One of the lower Chiwaukum peaks at night.



4. Moon over some frozen Larches.



5. It was a good night to be out



6. Some more daylight and ski stuff when my fingers thaw!

Cuong

Beautiful...and cold.

Cuong

ront

So far, I only dream of taking pictures like these. It is pictures like these that keep me coming back to this great site. Excellent!!

Ron

scole

Way to get after it, Jason. I really love the hoar frost sparkles in #3.

Look forward to more.

Hikin' Mike

I miss snowshoeing/backpacking. :cry

Excellent series!

kdog

Amazing. Great shots. You are one tough hombre'.

Cheers,
-joel

Ridgetop

You've inspired me. I've got a 9,000' pass right behind my house. Once we get a little more snow I think I'll have to try and get a few shots with the full moon. Next month if all goes well.

Very well done.

Allan FG

The moon and tent shot is really fantastic.

Eia

2 & 3 are worthy for commercial Christmas cards! They are beautiful!!!!

chrismoore

Love them all! The lighted tent is a nice touch, and the sky is beautiful

Dogdots

Beautiful

I've always wanted to camp out in the winter after hiking through the snow. You'd thinking living in ND I would of done that once or twice. Now my body cringes at the thought

redleash

Great series--thanks for sharing your outing!

CoryUT

Excellent pictures! Thank you for sharing these.

dlplumer

Fabulous stuff as always Tharhawk

Tharhawk

Thanks guys! I'm glad you enjoyed. Sorry for the late reply as I just returned from another outing in BC and this time it may really take my fingers a day or two to thaw!

FlyNavy

Your pics are stunning!!!!! How does your Nikon perform in the extreme cold? Anything that you do to keep your equipment working in these conditions?

Tharhawk

FlyNavy wrote:

Your pics are stunning!!!!! How does your Nikon perform in the extreme cold? Anything that you do to keep your equipment working in these conditions?

This weekend I got my Nikon down below 0, and wind chills don't really matter on something like a camera, but the wind was blowing up to 50 at times. The camera itself was crusted in ice (wish I had a picture of that!) and it worked fine. For the D700 this was the coldest I have taken it...since I bought it this summer (3 days in temps of 15 to below 0 without warming up in that time). The D200 never had issues and it appears the D700 is the same.

borrowlenses.com

Great shots. I get cold just looking at them.

Awais Yaqub

Fantastic

kwalsh

All very nice, for some reason I'm really drawn to number 5 (water boiling in front of the tent). Maybe because it is I miss getting out backpacking! (though I never braved snow).

Ken

eMOJO

Stunning shots, I love them all... well done, can't wait until your fingers thaw out