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A Heavenly Day on Mount Baldy

Posted on | December 10, 2007 | 7 Comments

Mount Baldy Winter Photo First Winter Snow on Mount Baldy

It was two years in the making, but this past weekend finally brought a significant amount of fresh snow powder to the local slopes. Making up for lost time seemingly, the road was packed with cars from Mount Baldy Village up to the ski lifts. It was exciting to see daredevils going up these steep slopes then sledding down, wiping out and taking out spectators along the way.

It had been overcast for several days and I actually had other plans yesterday but as soon as I got to the top of my street, I saw the conditions on Mount Baldy then I immediately had a change of plans and headed up there. For much of the year, Mount Baldy looks unremarkable but right after a snow storm it is as beautiful as a mountain can get. Mount Baldy has a vertical relief in excess of 9,000 feet depending on where you are photographing it from. I think there is about 7 or 8,000 thousand feet of vertical relief from this vantage point. By comparison, I think Mount Everest has 12,000 feet of vertical relief from base camp.

The drawback to photographing mountains with a wide angle lens is that makes them look small. Wide angles are the most commonly used type of lens for landscape photography, but mountains are supposed to be big, imposing, powerful. So I used a 70-300mm zoom lens at 192mm to focus in on the summit ridges.

See more of my Mount Baldy pictures.

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7 Responses to “A Heavenly Day on Mount Baldy”

  1. testing the system
    December 10th, 2007 @ 2:54 pm

    testing 1, 2, 3

  2. bfk63
    December 12th, 2007 @ 8:38 am

    Beautiful image Richard, I love the snow but hate the cold, not much I can do about it though.

  3. Richard
    December 12th, 2007 @ 12:34 pm

    It was 30 degrees in this photo, but the worst part was the wind. Later in the day I started having problems getting sharp photos due to the longer exposure times.

  4. Anonymous
    December 12th, 2007 @ 11:15 pm

    Great to see snow in those mountain! Nice Richard!

  5. Anonymous
    December 13th, 2007 @ 9:30 am

    I see from my comment last night that I better sign my name after my comments or you will no long know they are from me!

    Ron

  6. Richard
    December 13th, 2007 @ 9:33 am

    lol Ron, I figured it was you from the exclamation points.

  7. Anonymous
    December 13th, 2007 @ 1:15 pm

    That is funny!!

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