Last additions - Eclipse from Thompson Peak, August 21, 2017
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IMG_7877.JPG31 viewsPeople busied themselves with an array of recording devices. Many had carried tripods to the summit. Some held the inexpensive viewing glasses in front of point-and-shoot cameras.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7873.JPG31 viewsPeople cheered as the corona became the only source of light. Someone said it was OK to view it without protective lenses.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7871.JPG32 viewsTotality; I never saw a distinct shadow racing in from the west. It was more like a highly compressed sunset. It got cold! Thompson Peak is 10251'; the highest in the Sawtooth. I heard jet aircraft.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7869.JPG29 viewsBy 10:47, the eclipse had already begun. I tried to imagine what a shadow would like traveling from the west at 1600 mph. How could I capture that? Hopefully I would see a swath of darkness, with areas of daylight at the extreme edges of the field of view of my widest lens. Would there be enough light to handhold, or should I set the camera on a rock and guess a time exposure? I didn't think too long about this. I was enjoying the conversation I was having with these two about about extreme skiing.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7866.JPG25 viewsWe had seen several others short-cutting through the scree below the south face of Thompson Peak from the Thompson/Williams saddle--not a route I would have taken--but we were taken by surprise at just how many were already up there. Someone counted a total of 31, including a young man and his dog, who spent the night on the summit! We gingerly stepped over to the northern-most of the split summit blocks.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7864.JPG21 viewsOn the eastern horizon, barely visible through the haze, lies Castle Peak, just left of center.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7863.JPG23 viewsMike joins me on the Thompson Peak/Mickey's Spire saddle. To the east, Castle Peak is barely through the haze on the horizon.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7861.JPG20 viewsThompson Peak casts its shadow into the valley from whence we came; from the Thompson Peak/Mickey's Spire saddle.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7857.JPG24 viewsSmoke diffused early morning alpenglow lends an eerie quality to the fantastic views.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7855.JPG29 viewsThe light only gets better...Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7856.JPG28 viewsThe big day has arrived! At 7:01, we are nearing the top of the steep couloir leading to the basin directly below Thompson Peak. With good route finding, we have avoided climbing on the frozen snow in the couloir.Aug 30, 2017
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IMG_7851.JPG21 viewsOur camp in pristine meadows at the 8900' level.Aug 30, 2017
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