"Silver Clouds Below" (please turn on your speakers and get ready for some music!)

Timberline Lodge, Purple Lupine and Silver Clouds. * History buffs please see bottom of page

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

This sparkling image was taken the same afternoon as the one of Timberline Lodge at the top of this page, but this view is upwards toward the summit rather than downwards toward the cloud-filled valleys! You can see the Pacific Crest Trail cutting across the slope just to the right of the hiker's shoulder.

In the dank, crowded valleys and lowlands, it's so easy to fall into feeling dazed and confused!

* 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.