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My favorite part of the aforementioned hike wasn’t the lake at the end (although it was beautiful). No, the best part, for me, was this meadow. My daughter, on the far left, agreed. She says she is going to get married in this meadow. I’ll show you some more pictures of it in later entries.
On a recent hike to Trail Gulch Lake in California‘s Trinity Alps I took today’s photo.
Brilliant capture of this image by Amanda Bullock.
Looking at Grizzly Peak from town you wouldn’t think that at the top lies a large, mostly flat meadow, but that is what you will find.
If you plan to hike other “peaks” in the area like Mt. Ashland, Mt. McLaughlin, or Pilot Rock you will find no such surprises on the top of them.
If the trees look dead in this picture that is because they mostly are. A fire burned everything on top of Grizzly Peak several years back. To tell you the truth, I find the hike on Grizzly to be much more interesting now after the fire. Not only is the dead wood beautiful but life is springing up like crazy at the base of the trees.
You can’t really see it in this photo, but I risked my camera’s life by taking this and a few other photos as we got caught it a hail and rain storm. I was soaked and so was my camera, but it is still working fine.
The bit of town you can see is probably Medford. I think I was pointed northwest when I took this photograph. This picture looks much better on a big screen, with your browser maximized, after clicking on the image.
For Father’s Day we rode bikes from Lake of the Woods to Fish Lake. The weather wasn’t great and the kids weren’t up for all 15+ miles so I rode back from Fish Lake to Lake of the Woods by myself to get the car. Near the car was this scene. This is actually across the rode (near Aspen Point) from Lake of the Woods. It isn’t a year-round lake at all I imagine–just a swamp of sorts that happened to look pretty good on this day.
This is the fourth time I’ve shown you Mt. McLaughlin, each time from a very different angle. I think I like this one the best due to my love of clouds.
A few weeks ago, on my way home, I notice what looked like a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion in the southeast portion of the sky. It wasn’t quite as pronounced by the time I got home and took this picture, but it still looked a bit out of the ordinary.
In less than two months I will be moving to Tokyo for a year. I don’t want this blog to dry up and die while I’m gone. While the updates may not be quite daily while I’m away I’m hoping that with a hundred or so images from my archives and a little help from some of you who live in the Rogue Valley we can keep things interesting and fresh around here. I may even have a Tokyo week on Ashland Daily Photo from time to time while I’m in Japan.
Today’s image is the first photo from a guest contributor. This picture is of Medford, taken from the RoxyAnn Winery, and was provided courtesy of a former student of mine, Amanda Bullock.
If you have some high quality images of Ashland, or the Rogue Valley, and would like to see them published here drop me a line.
Today’s picture was taken from the highway, window rolled down, going 65 MPH. The snow on Mt. Ashland is mostly gone now in mid-June, but there was still quite a bit when I took this on May 19. The Ashland Springs Hotel is the most visible and recognizable building. My house is among the trees beyond the hotel. A great place to live…
As always, maximize your browser and then click on the image for a much better and bigger view.