Room with a View on Stuart North Ridge: Limited Edition Framed Print

Room with a View on Stuart North Ridge: Limited Edition Framed PrintIts possible to climb the iconic North Ridge of Mount Stuart in a very long single day. But there is also the option to camp on a granite ledge just wide enough for two sleeping bags, where the night is punctuated with snapping, cracking sounds from the tumbling glacier a thousand feet below, and the views stretch for hundreds of miles in every direction. Matt Henry and I chose the latter, with no regrets whatsoever. Each limited edition print

but equally captivating is the immense array of botanical wonders which paint the spongy tundra with spectacular shapes and shades of bright green each spring

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a warm autumn sunlight illuminates the golden leaves of a towering cottonwood tree below Mount Si

north facing turns in the entire area

Helens while the subalpine heather shows the last bright colors of fall

The true summit of Mount Roosevelt is rarely a viable destination in the winter

as displayed here by Freeride World Tour champion

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When the midwinter high-pressure weather systems arrive

a bed of supple new beech fern fronds provide a perfect backdrop for the delicate white petals of the Arctic Starflower

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