sean's musings

Planned out a camping trip earlier in the year for the end of July thinking that we’d get some good hiking in up at Mt Rainier. Thanks to the massive snowfall we’ve had this season, much of the upper elevations have not melted out yet. Still I wanted to try and photograph reflection lakes much like I did last year at sunrise. Chad was my willing partner this time to get up at 4:30am and make the short drive over from the camp site. Considering it was mostly snow around the lake, we didn’t see nearly the number of photographers as Nick and I did last year. In fact, due to the cold night prior, the lake had actually frozen back over. We’d seen it the day before fully melted. A few people got a good idea to throw some rocks out to break up the ice a little bit, and these images were born. Another person decided to break the ice with his entire body as he slid down the snowbank and into the lake. Luckily it was shallow where he went in and was ok.