Dave Murphy skiing a King Ravine gully on Mount Adams in the northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire. April 9, 2008.

Photo Details: Canon 5D w/ EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM lens at 17mm, 1/640s at f/8 and ISO 100.

Star Lake on June 4, 2005. Located at 4896′ in the col between Mount Madison and Mount Adams in the Northern Presidential Range of New Hampshire.

Photo Details: Nikon D2X on tripod w/ 12-24mm DX lens at 14mm, Singh-Ray graduated neutral density filter, 0.4s at f/16 and ISO 100.

Does camping get much better than this? This is the spot where I spent a week in August 2006 in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. This is the Deep Lake area and that’s Haystack Mountain. On the right side of the face is a 4th class descent route called the Grassy Goat Path. The tall central part of the face contains a couple climbs called the Major Dihedral and Minor Dihedral.

Photo Details: Nikon D70 on tripod w/ 18-70mm at 18mm, 30s at f/13 and ISO 200 w/ +1 exposure compensation, light source is a headlamp.

Many areas of New England recorded their first snowfall in the past few days; so I thought a winter teaser photo from March 10, 2009 would be appropriate.

Meathead Films skiers Ben Leoni and Stacey Rachdorf heading up into Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington, New Hampshire. I have to comment that I was really impressed by the skiing of Ben and Stacey: very aggressive (but totally in control) descents including large drops over rocks and ice bulges. You can see footage in the latest release from Meathead Films: Wild Stallions. Another cool thing to check out is the partially filled in fracture line in the left end of the bowl; I believe the USFS Snow Rangers recorded the height at 8+ feet.

Photo Details: Canon 5D w/ EF 16-35mm L II USM lens, 1/800s at f/8 and ISO 100.

Fall colors on the Alpine Garden Trail, September 24, 2009.

After staring at the computer for most of the morning yesterday I had to get outside for some exercise. The weather looked like it would hold on Mount Washington for the afternoon; so my route looked like this: Pinkham Notch (2pm)>Tuckerman Ravine Trail>Huntington Ravine Trail>Henderson Ridge (5.4)>Nelson Crag Trail>Alpine Garden Trail>Lion Head Trail>Tuckerman Ravine Trail>Pinkham Notch (5:40pm). I remembered the iPod Shuffle, but forgot a headlamp.

Photo Details: Panasonic Lumix LX3 (point and shoot). Exposure was 1/640s at f/4 and 400 ISO.