Mt.
Hood. "Silver Clouds Below"
(please turn on your
speakers and get ready for some music!)
Timberline Lodge, Purple Lupine
and Silver Clouds
Another of those days on The Mountain,
like a dream. I'm aloft, in the clear air, while the lowlands
endure dullness and confusion beneath those brillant, silvery
clouds.
Hiker
at 6,200 ft. along the PCT
The cloudless image below was taken the
same afternoon as the one at page top, but this view is upwards
toward the summit rather than downwards toward the cloud-filled
valleys! The Pacific Crest Trail cuts across the slope just above
this point.
In the dank, crowded valleys and
lowlands, it's easy to fall into feeling dazed and confused.
Please pause for a moment and
* Timberline Lodge was built by
the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930's, a massive
labor of love. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated it
in the summer of 1937. Since that time, over 30 million visitors
have passed through its sturdy stone passages and slept in its
beds.
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