At sunset, the Crater Lake volcano in the Cascade Range in Oregon is shrouded in the smoke of a wild fire ignited by lightning strike.The devastating eruption of the stratovolcano Mount Mazama 6900 years ago emptied the interior of the volcano. Under its own weight,...
At moonrise, the nighttime Mount Rainier volcano in Washington mirrors with the stars of the Milky Way in the Reflection Lakes. The Reflection Lakes are getting ever shallower and smaller as aquatic vegetation takes root and mud collects on the lake bed. The Puyallup...
The snow-capped stratovolcano Mount Rainier is reflected at sunrise in Tipsoo Lake near Chinook Pass. After a catastrophic eruption about 6000 years ago, the volcano grew to its present dimensions 2500 years ago and has since been intensively reshaped by...
Elowah Falls of McCord Creek in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon freefalls in a 65 m (213 ft) into a natural amphitheater of layered basalt, lichens and mosses.
Mount Shuksan is mirrored in Picture Lake in the North Cascades in Washington. In the last light of dusk, high cirrus clouds of an approaching low pressure system illuminate the sky in deep pink. The wild and rugged North Cascades mountain range is also geologically...
