Monday, August 20, 2012

The Winds

The Cirque of Towers was an amazing place, due to smoke from fires in surrounding states there was limited opportunities for doing landscape photography, never the less it was truly impressive. Jackass Pass kicked our butts going in, but once in, the views where truly inspiring. A climbers mecca, the Cirque has a lot to offer to any one interested in the the outdoors, from 1000 foot walls of rock to clear, trout filled lakes and streams.

Image: 5D Mk III, 70-200 f4 L IS
Me and Ducky at the Cirque


Image: 5D Mk III, 16-35 f2.8 L II
 Our camp in the Cirque

Image: 5D Mk III, 70-200 f4 L IS, f11, 1/200th sec.
Steeple and East Temple. The Wind River Range, Wyoming.
 
Image: 5D Mk III, 70-200 f4 L IS, f11, 1/40th sec.
Clear Lake. The Wind River Range, Wyoming.
Image: 5D Mk III, 70-200 f4 L IS, f7.1, 1/640 sec .
Steeple and East Temple. The Wind River Range, Wyoming.

The Wind River Range, Wyoming. I have had a chance over the past couple of weeks to see some of this country's most beautiful back country. The Wind River Range in Wyoming, it is an incredible place to hike, you feel a real sense of isolation and awareness of your surroundings, its remote and wild, one morning we woke to moose foraging for willow near camp, trout swim in the open shallow waters of Lonesome lake, almost as if you could reach out an grab one.

12,600' East Temple and Steeple peaks tower above Clear and Deep lakes beckoning climbers, Wolfs Head and Pingora Peaks in The Cirque of Towers: see Fifty Classic climbs of North America


 Pingora's shoulder with Wolfs Head behind

Not a place to visit only once

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