Back in July I made a trip out to Washington State to see some family. While i was out there I did a few day hikes, one of which was on Heliotrope Ridge Trail on Mount Baker. Now being from the east coast I’m just not use to the scale of things in the West so I really enjoyed Mt. Baker. I went during the week so the trail was practically abandoned. I only ran into a couple hikers the whole day. Although grass was coming through in many spots I was still surprised on how much snow was still on the upper parts of the trail for late July. I was really hoping for the wild flowers that were supposed to open up at the end of July but they were barely starting to poke through the snow and new grass. After about 2 hours huffing and puffing it up the last difficult part of the trail I made it to the ridge looking out towards Mt. Baker in the distance which was unfortunately completely blocked by clouds (actually behind me in this photograph below). I did a little more post-processing on this image then I usually do but as i was playing it started to remind me of some old National Geographic pictures in my grandfather’s basement that had that slightly washed out look so I decided to roll with it.
