Ethan Shaw
@cutoffmountain
Naturalist. Landscape: physiography, ecosystem geography, etc. Wallowa-Blue Mtn Snowfield Project (Insta: wallowasnowfields). Wisconsin to the Columbia Plateau.
Amid heavy wildfire-smoke haze, an old, broken-top Interior Douglas-fir buddy on the slope
Edgy skyscape vibes in NE Oregon as thunderstorms (fresh fire-makers) rear up amid smoke-haze...
Descending from snowpatch fieldwork—sightlines to mostly hidden thunderhead far off to the south-southwest...
The Flying V Snowfields appearing quite early this year on the great horned peak...
Portraits of dying snowbanks (recharging soil moisture as they rot away) in the subalpine deadfall woods
This year's rather dismal subalpine seasonal snowcover breaking up around what will become the Grizzly Face Snowfield (in the foreground)...
A couple of weeks back: Weather-maker rolling in over part of the snow-patched Black Mount, Scotland's Central Highlands.
The Raven Snowpatch has yielded a lot of ground in the last week. Shoots popping up at its foot in the damp melted-off snowbed.
The Raven Snowpatch much-diminished after an unseasonably warm week in the Interior Northwest...
Snow-lean mid-December ridgetop above 6,000 feet, waiting to get buried...
Moonrise on the eve of some much-needed snowmakers for the high country...
One lonesome snowpatch still shining in this high-country viewshed...
Summit: weather-beaten Curl-leaf Mtn-Mahogany & Douglas-fir...distant N-face snowfield beacon across the valley
Hunting out final snowpatches in an obscure range, amid crown-of-spikes snags & wolf sign...
Subtle skyline imprint, but an important, ancient caldera highland in profile...
Roiled yesterday of high-based thunderstorms over Northern Intermountain West, and more today brewing...
Seasonal snowfields up on the big ridge, dimmed by fall of summertime snow pellets...
Cloud shadows playing on the great barren anticlinal ridge of Lalíik (Rattlesnake Mountain), one of the Yakima Folds & a legendary house of wind.