More on the business of traversing breathtaking mountains

Daddy took his Cascades trip crew -- 8 students (grad, undergrad, and high school), himself, and another professor -- to some of his favorite places in the world. He has lots of fantastic pictures of these nice people hiking on or posing with Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens. Since Daddy has been to all these so many times, and because the lighting was consistently so fantastic, he went for arty new angles with some of his pictures.



This is one of his new favorites -- the caldera of Mount St. Helens in the background, with colorful new flowers growing around a tree felled by the 1980 eruption.