Category: Mount Hood

  • The headwaters of the White River begin in a vast maze of sandy canyons that fan out below the White River Glacier, located on Mount Hood’s south side. The geologic story here is surprisingly new. Few hikers making their way up the west rim of this maze on the Timberline Trail realize that much of…

  • I visited this spot again last summer, twenty-two years after I took this photo. It was among my first with a digital SLR – back when that was still a novelty! This old Whitebark pine still survives here, in one of the harshest environments Mount Hood has to offer.  Gnarl Ridge is located high on the mountain’s…