Last weekend three of us left friday to cross country ski 8 miles and stay in this fire lookout. We left at about 3:30PM and finally reached the tower at approximately 10:00PM. When we left it was almost 60 degrees and sunny. When we reached the top, exhausted, it was roughly 32 degrees, windy, and snowy. This was one of my most favorite adventures yet.
first night
saturday morning trek to the outhouse.
It was a blizzard all day saturday. We were supposed to be joined by 5 other guys who had bought a snowmobile off craigslist for $300. The weather was too bad for them to make it up.
There was a Popular Photography mag in the desk. Tell me this isn't the most rediculous accessory ever.
wings
drying clothes
drawer contents. the UNO box was empty...
sunday morning was perfectly clear with about a foot of new snow.
Packed to leave. I never used my boots once. We made it home in 3.5 hours because we got to board/ski down most of the way.
Comments:
1) I think my autofocus is dying. Even with "all AF points" selected, it simply fails to focus and hardly even attempts. Its getting to the point where it is really annoying. I don't trust the camera anymore to focus.
2) I find it really difficult to white balance for snow.
3) To add to that, my new monitor has a hint of pink tint to it. After editing all these photos, I put them on the macbook screen and they were all green. These photos may be off in color... I was too lazy to correct it.
4) I forgot to dump some trampolening photos before I left. For the first time ever, I filled up two 2GB cards in one trip. I had to delete many of the tramp photos to make room.
5) This trip was a real treat because I got to shoot at really low ISO's all the time. I havent been able to do that in a long time.
6) I'm very impressed with the battery life in DSLR's. I don't think I even went through one and it was pretty cold the whole time.
Dope trip, though we lucked out in many many ways. Had we not found food or had the weather cooporate, things could have been very uncomfortable.
Thanks!
