Trip to Mount Hood

greenpea

This last weekend I traveled down to the 11,239 foot (3,426 m) Mount Hood in Oregon with a group of friends. The goal was to make an attempt to climb the Mountain on Saturday. Unfortunately the weather on Saturday did not cooperate for climbing to the top, and since we all had to be back home early on Sunday we didn’t have enough time for a second summit attempt on Sunday. However, the weather on Sunday turned out to be amazing, and I did have enough time to get up early and get some pictures of the Mountain.

The lodge sits at 6000 feet, and with a base of 213” of snow many of the third story windows were partially covered with snow (note the windows with light coming from them are all on the 3rd floor).




If you don’t mind starting your climb up the mountain really late in the day, you can take 2 chairlifts from the lodge at 6000 feet to the top chairlift at 8500 feet.




Most climbers start up well before the chairlifts are running.



The first part of the climb follows a pretty straight forward trail. The markers are there to show the trail and to help climbers find their way down in the fog or weather


Here’s the Southeast side of the mountain at sunrise



Here is the lodge with Mount Jefferson in the background some 50 miles away to the South.



Close up of Mount Jefferson.



A picture of the inside of the comfortable Timberline Lodge where we stayed.


I should mention, I have no regrets about not making it to the top of the mountain, because 12 years ago (on this same weekend) I did summit the mountain. I do regret not waking up earlier on Sunday and photographing star trails behind the mountain...I thought 4:30 AM would be early enough :rolleyes

ian408

Spectacular! Looks like a great trip. Perhaps a reason to go back?

greenpea

ian408 wrote:

Spectacular! Looks like a great trip. Perhaps a reason to go back?

Thanks. This was actually my 3rd trip. I would like to try and make it an annual event.

Ann McRae

So Andrew.....you went out purposefully to be in the snow


Nice shots - the lodge looks lovely and the early morning shots are beautiful.
I took exactly 0(zer-o) photos when I was in the Seattle area! Just visited lots which was really wonderful.

ann

greenpea

Ann McRae wrote:

So Andrew.....you went out purposefully to be in the snow

...it was cheaper than Las Vegas. rolleyes

Ann McRae wrote:

Nice shots - the lodge looks lovely and the early morning shots are beautiful.
I took exactly 0(zer-o) photos when I was in the Seattle area! Just visited lots which was really wonderful.

ann

Thanks!

Sometimes, you just need to see the sites without a camera lens.

I'll try and stay in town next time you visit.:D

Digital Illusions

greenpea wrote:

Here is the lodge with Mount Jefferson in the background some 50 miles away to the South.

Living in snow country sandwhiched between Crater Lake and the California border. I sure appriciate a shot like this. I have always loved landscape photos when you can get above the fog. Have you tried to crop out the bottom third (the lodge) and see how it would look as a panorama? Nonetheless it is a great shot!

greenpea

Digital Illusions wrote:

Living in snow country sandwhiched between Crater Lake and the California border. I sure appriciate a shot like this. I have always loved landscape photos when you can get above the fog. Have you tried to crop out the bottom third (the lodge) and see how it would look as a panorama? Nonetheless it is a great shot!

Thanks!

I appreciate what your talking about with the fog. For me there is something about getting up to altitude and getting above the fog or clouds; it really adds something to the picture.

For some reason I didn't do any panoramas on this trip, recently I've been doing lots of them but during this trip, I didn't even do one, which I regret. I don't have a proper panorama (or my tools to slice off the top half of that image), but I do have this more telephoto version of Mt. Jefferson with the clouds on it.