Jonathan Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 Hi, Is there a resource out there that identifies Cascade peaks visible from, say, the eastern slope of Capitol Hill? I can ID Baker, Pilchuck, Sloan, Glacier, Phelps and the peaks of the S. Fork Snoqualmie drainage, et al. I must confess, however, that even after 25 years of traipsing about the Cascades some of those front range lumps are still mysteries to me. Thanks! Jonathan Pryce Seattle, Wash. Quote
Off_White Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 You should hunt down Paul Klenke, nowadays a rare poster here, but a fabulous encyclopedia of peak identification. Quote
TimL Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 How I miss gazing at the Cascades from Seattle on a nice sunny winter day....sigh....4 more months and counting..... Quote
Rad Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 Cool. Thanks for posting. My house is in the last photo! Quote
sirwoofalot Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 JB, Thanks for the research on cc.com. Quote
counterfeitfake Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 Does anyone know where the photographer was standing? Quote
klenke Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 The above panorama was taken from here on the northeast side of Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. Obviously, many of the peaks on the above panorama are not officially named on the map. A chap in Britain named Jonathan de Ferranti created a software that reads topo data to create the same kind of scene but not in a photo format (www.viewfinderpanoramas.org). His results only take into account officially named summits on the map. Click here for his results for the same location as where I took my photos Quote
Off_White Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Klenke, I love that you'll still pop up when invoked. You're sort of like The Rooster that way. (uhm, that's a good thing to my way of thinking). Oh, nicely done Jay, that's pretty much exactly the thing I had in mind. Quote
ken4ord Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 How I miss gazing at the Cascades from Seattle on a nice sunny winter day....sigh....4 more months and counting..... Ah, at least you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Me, who know when I will return, but I will. Quote
lancegranite Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Flew into SEA from ORD yesterday, window seat and unlimited vis. Fricking unbelieveable!!!!! The flight from SEA to Wenachee was even better, flying over the I-90 corridor then down Ingalls creek, past the Enchantments at around 10,500 feet by my guess. NOTE: to the two guys on top of Dragontail, one wearing blue coat, red hat, the other wearing red coat, white helmet. Thanks for the friendly wave, that was me waving back. It looked like your shoelace was untied... Quote
letsroll Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 thanks for the post on where he took the photos. I would like to print something like that up and use it as a tick list. Visual stoke Quote
Jonathan Posted February 22, 2008 Author Posted February 22, 2008 Danke sehr! Спасибо! Merci! Dank u wel! ¡Gracias! Tak! תודה Hayu masi! Shame if you live in the NW and don't know this! Well, how do you like that--I didn't even say thanks! Jonathan Quote
Alpinfox Posted February 22, 2008 Posted February 22, 2008 Flew into SEA from ORD yesterday, window seat and unlimited vis. Fricking unbelieveable!!!!! The flight from SEA to Wenachee was even better, flying over the I-90 corridor then down Ingalls creek, past the Enchantments at around 10,500 feet by my guess. Flew from SEA to DEN today. We flew right down Ingalls Crk as well and Stuart and the Enchantments were gorgeous. Prusik Pk was a little less impressive from ~10k' than from the base of the south face. I love flying. Quote
Bug Posted February 22, 2008 Posted February 22, 2008 Sweet pics! I was flyig back from a fire in PA several years ago. "A River Runs Through It" was my book for the plane. Just as I finished the story about Blodgett Canyoon (the author fought a fire in there in the 40's), I looked out the window and we were flying over Blodget Canyon. Quote
Off_White Posted February 22, 2008 Posted February 22, 2008 Great detail Lance! On a flight down to San Diego I once lucked out by getting a commercial pilot with the soul of a tour guide. It was a gorgeous clear day with virtually no haze, and as we flew directly over Yosemite he banked the plane just so we could look out the windows and straight down into the valley. He also took pains to point out all the volcanoes and took a small detour over Lake Tahoe. Aerial identification is big fun. I've spotted my house and barn in Tenino while on a southern approach to SeaTac, and had a number of great runs through the Cascades. I think a tour with Mr. Scurlock would easily trump all that though... Quote
sarahmorsely Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 Hoping this feed isn't from too long ago to be archived, but was wondering if anyone could relink the panoramas shared above? I can't view them unfortunately, or find anything on Klenke's page. I am working on an illustration of all of the peaks and would like to label them if possible, so if anyone has other resources to share that would be greatly appreciated! Will gladly share the poster once finished Quote
JasonG Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 Perhaps @jon can dig up those images if he's feeling charitable? You may also check out @Steph_Abegg's website @sarahmorsely to see if she has anything that you could use. 1 Quote
jon Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 I've got a support message into the forum software company about why these images are not showing correctly. Here they are..... https://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/509/945Morning_Star_to_Big_Kid_anno.jpg https://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/509/945Ditney_to_4240_anno.jpg https://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/509/945Frozen_to_Bandera_anno.jpg 2 Quote
olyclimber Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 Not sure why imbedding a link doesn't work, but you can always attach the image to the post and it displays. Something nutty with the image display processing for linked images... I'm talking about embedding those images to display in post. Quote
JasonG Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 I've long thought about climbing Phelps since it lines up on 80th going from the family home in Ballard to the freeway..... Quote
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