Snowshoeing through a Ski Area Photo Gallery by Dave Beedon at pbase.com

Snowshoeing through a Ski Area

My explorations of desert landscapes were preceded by hiking, scrambling, and snowshoeing
in Washington's Cascade Mountains. These shots are from a snowshoeing hike to Divide Lake
near Snoqualmie Pass in January 2005. The winter of 2004-2005 was one of pathetic snowfall
in the Cascades: note the brush sticking out of the snow in some ski area shots.
Freezing rain coated everything with ice at the end of the day.

The shortest route to the lake is via the edge of a ski area that for decades was called "Ski Acres,"
but which is now called "The Summit at Snoqualmie---Central." A buy-out by a huge ski corporation
resulted in this gross mis-naming. In meaningless protest I am using the former name.

Shots that I converted to black-and-white generally have a greenish tint that I don't know
how to eliminate (with Photoshop Elements 2). Any suggestions for correcting this?

Photos are posted generally in chronological order.
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Photo break on Interstate 90 on the way to Snoqualmie Pass	Light wintery coating on the trees	View from the parking lot of the ski slope	Young skiers assembling for class	Parking lot for gloves
Not enough snow...	The easy way up (I snowshoed)	Father and son getting off the chairlift	Groovy grooming	Groovy snowshoes
Lack of snow = too few people to justify operating this ski lift	Available if needed	Ring of fire	Front row seats	Strainer
Out of service because of a lack of snow	Snow bunny	Attack!	My tracks	Collision cushion
Upward mobility	Colorful conference before descending	Taking a rest after a tiring ride on the chairlift	Skier under layers of clouds	Snow-covered Divide Lake in the distance
Lunch break for Plastic Man	Legs and snowshoes	View from lunch spot	Essential snowshoeing equipment	Returning in my own tracks
Ghosts	Hi guys!	Snow-making machine	Intake end of the machine	Let there be snow!
Close-up	Ballet movements	Here they come...	Almost down...	Chairlift terminal
Coming and going	Headlight shield covered with ice	Ice-coated backpack	Ice-covered camera holster	View from the car when I arrived at the parking lot
View from the car when I was ready to drive away

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Dean		08-Mar-2007 04:53
Ah yes, winter activities at Snowcrummie Pass. I've been snowshoeing up there a couple times and it was never worth the time to drive up there. Nice to be outside and all, but... I had a fun argument with a cross cross country skier up there one trip; I was happily plowing away in an off-trail area when I met said skier at a clearing. She laid in to me about my destroying "her" X-C trail and that I shouldn't be on "her" trail with my "damnable foot things". I assured her that she was on "my trail" and that "her trail" was 1/4 mile to the south. She finally realized she was lost and shuffled off in to the trees with not even a word of thanks.

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