In the Cascade Mountains, where frequent storms that pour down a deep blanket of snow upon their ramparts, a clear sky can be a rare event, and should not be missed. In the waning days of 2018 I took to the skies to view this slumbering landscape of frosted mountain peaks, quiet winter woodlands, and icy canyons from above. Flying through skeins of glowing fog, and above drifting cloud banks this perspective gives new dimension to these high and lonely places.
You can find things when flying a UAV that you might otherwise never even know existed, a hidden canyon within a valley, nearly an impossible place to view or visit by any other means.
The space between two high cloud layers as the sunset burns in the west.
Patterns in the forest.
The far off summit of a volcanic peak, Mt. Rainier, obscured from the ground by ridges and veils of cloud.
And of course where trees block the view, one may rise above and get the perfect panorama.
Eventually though my hands started to freeze (I had once again forgotten my gloves), and I was forced to land and race the coming wave of dusk as night settled once more over the white snowscape of winter in the Cascade Mountains.
