27 August 2014

On and around Strawberry Mountain, August, 2013. Smoke haze and rain....

Strawberry Range.


Strawberry Lake. Short hike, good bang for the buck. Visibility hindered by smoke haze.
View back toward Prairie City.



Wildcat Basin trail start.
Taking the Strawberry Mountain Summit trail option.
Rain moving through.



Strawberry Mountain.



Strawberry Lake is at bottom of cirque.






Back on the Wildcat Basin loop.




Rain and hawk.

26 August 2014

Around the Wallowas in a Haze of Smoke, August, 2013

  
Between Union and Medical Springs.




Hell's Canyon....






Why, yes. Hell's Canyon Dam.






Back toward Halfway.
Leaving Halfway.

Hell's Canyon Overlook, Idaho at back.


On toward Joseph.

Wallowas, road from Joseph.


Wallowa, Oregon.


Elgin, Oregon.
Looking back north, almost to Union, Oregon.