Grand Park and the North Cascades from Ptarmigan Ridge Limited Edition Print

Grand Park and the North Cascades from Ptarmigan Ridge Limited Edition PrintA late summer morning found me around 11,000 high on a route called Ptarmigan Ridge on the NW side of Mount Rainier. The low sun of the morning played with the lazy summer haze in each of the countless valleys, and gave depth and dimension to the amazing topography stretching all the way to the rugged peaks of North Cascades National Park. Each limited edition print includes a one inch white border with a hand signed signature and edition number along

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Tru-Vue Museum Optium Acrylic Plexiglass

and highly consequential east face of Mount Thomson as seen from Chikamin Peak at sunrise

Every rider knows the feeling of flowing through

Dicentra formosa- This small perennial herb gets its name from its heart-shaped pink flowers

Big Snow Mountain is anomalous for its granitic composition in an area with generally less aesthetic stone

Mallory Estenson reaches for a key hold on the classic 5

the spiraled shoots unfurl to reveal glossy heart-shaped leaves which broaden to blanket sections of the ground before shooting up delicate star-shaped white flowers

The longer

Record-breaking low temperatures created snowflakes so light that they hovered in the frigid air

Tru-Vue Museum Glass and a hand-stained charcoal alder hardwood frame

Gymnocarpium Dryopteris- The individual plants grow at spaced intervals along the long rhizomes and usually grow in large colonies