Snowshoe Adventure in the Cascade Mountains

The winter forest glows with the soft light of a January afternoon high in the Cascade Mountains near Mt. St. Helens. Silver firs rustle in a light breeze that heralds the coming of new snow, and Gray Jays flit through the canopy above. Snowshoeing is great way to get out for a hike during the cold and quiet months of winter.

Lake Lenore Caves State Park

Lake Lenore Caves State park, a stunning and historic hiking destination in the heart of the Scablands of the Columbia Plateau in Central Washington. Carved by catastrophic Missoula floods that heralded the end of the last Ice Age, this vast canyonscape is pockmarked by caves that nomadic native peoples once called home in the days when vast herds of bison and other megafauna once roamed the land.

 

How Time Flies - 5 tips for video creators

When looking back at 2019, it is incredible to realize just how much footage I captured and all the amazing things I was so privileged to experience in the year prior. However, putting all of footage together into a single video of watchable length turned out to be no simple task. Sorting through hundreds of hours of footage searching for fondly remembered 10 seconds of video cost many many late nights. The whole process taught me valuable lessons to carry with me in the coming year.

Snow on the Sword Ferns - Winter in the Temperate Rainforest

Even under the fresh snow of a prior nights winter storm, the lush forest floor of the temperate rainforest remains a vibrant emerald green, From the might sword fern to the humble mosses with their infinite delicate variety, life springs from the blanket of snow. Soon the silvery filigree that so gilds this woodland realm will melt away to feed the thirsty forest in preparation for the explosion of life that will soon occur with the coming of the spring.

San Francisco Peaks

The San Francisco Peaks are the lonely sentinels of the plateau country that stretches in undulating flatness to the edge of the enormous chasm of the Grand Canyon. Here these towering volcanoes stand, Humphreys peak, the high lord Flagstaff, proud Kendrick Peak, and shattered Red Mountain - the eroded core of a similarly grand volcano. Inside Red Mountains stony corpse stand towering sculptures of red rock, a heart that once glowed bright with the fires of the earth, now cold, silent and frosted with snow.

Southwest Skies - Flying to Arizona

From the bright lights and dark skies of the Pacific Northwest, through the fog cloaked mountains of Oregon, fly into a brilliant winter sunrise in the Southwest Skies. The first rays of dawn paint the rugged mountains of Nevada and the distant Cascades a pink and pearlescent hue, while shifting layers of feathered clouds hide dry desert valleys and rolling snow frosted ridges. Soar down around the globe, past the wild wastes of Death Valley, the horizon crowded with the soaring peaks of the Sierra Nevada, and over the canyon country of the Colorado River to the sunny flat country of Phoenix Arizona, its sprawling mass girdled by tawny arid peaks.

Cathedral Rock - A Sunset Adventure at Crescent Moon Ranch

Cathedral Rock towers over the quiet sycamore groves of Oak Creek and the cactus haunted slickrock moors of Sedona. The last pale rays of a winter day paint the red rock towers a glowing amber as the evening wind blows chill through the fragrant forests of juniper trees.