The Drainpipe

My favorite area of Minnesota is easily the North Shore area with all of the state parks, rivers, waterfalls and the Superior Hiking Trail. The image below is of the Drainpipe, which is a small section of the Superior Hiking Trail and it can be found in Tettegouche State Park. I shot it fall of 2009 on a quick backpacking trip. I don't know for sure but I am guessing that it got it name because this is the main run off for water after a rain from the top of this ridge. It might not look like it here but it gets really steep really quick almost to the point of a 4th class scramble.
Shot with a D300 and a Nikon 18-35mm.

Glacier Sunset

Glacier National Park is probably my favorite park that I've been to so far. It's where I first got into photography, I went back there several times while I was in photography school and then there was one more time a few years back. It's that last trip where I got this image, it is pretty common to have overcast skies for days on end and this image was taken at the end of about three overcast days in a row.
I saw that the clouds were breaking up a little bit on the way back to camp on the Going to the Sun road so I pulled over the first place I got just as the peaks on the other side of the lake were lighting up. I had about 5 minutes to get the shot before the light disappeared. I used a Nikon N80 film body with a Nikon 80-400 racked out to 400mm, a 2 stop graduated ND filter and Fuji Velvia 50.

Hit a mile stone

In the last few days I have hit 1,000 views of this blog half of which came in just the last month. Leaving me to believe that there is something to this Adventure Bum idea of mine. Personally I think people want to read stories about an average Joe's adventures though you couldn't tell by reading most of the major magazines.
I am still currently in SoCal and planning a couple big trips yet, places like Death Valley, Bishop and a couple more trips to Joshua Tree. So stay tuned and lets see how fast I can get to 2,000 hits.

Mount Rainier

I came to the conclusion that you can't take a trip to the Seattle area without shooting at least one photo of Mount Rainier. This was actually shot from the parking lot of an REI.

About two months ago I decided that I wanted to climb this peak. I've never been all that interested in this type of climbing, it always seemed like a lot of work for the pay off. But the more I read about Rainier the more I am interested in climbing it.

This again was captured with a Nikon D300 with a 16-85mm racked out to 85mm and handheld.

A day in Seattle

This last weekend I caught a flight up to Seattle to spend a few days with my oldest friend and his family that I hadn't seen in about a year and a half. Other then a day of golf, which was only my third time playing, the only thing we got out to do was explore Pikes Place Market. It's the place where the throw fish to each other at one of the bigger seafood stalls. The rest of the trip was spent telling stories, catching up and heavy drinking. But here are my favorite shots from the market.






Everything was shot with a Nikon D300 and a 16-85mm, handheld and processed in Adobe Lightroom 3. Enjoy