Dan Leonhard wrote:this is a cool thread that sparked curiosity about one of my own photos that I had since forgotten about. This photo was taken from Thunder Mountain in Juneau, AK (N 58.381389 and W -134.524167) looking west toward Glacier Bay:
http://www.summitpost.org/image/597796/176118/chilkat-range-and-fairweather.htmlJudging from the size of the peak and direction, I think you can see Mount Fairweather behind the Chilkat Range. About 120 miles line of sight. If this is fairweather, it'd probably be my record to date.
Neat shot. Unfortunately, thanks to the abysmal terrain data for Fairweather, it doesn't even show up on the Google Earth 3D, so I cannot be as sure of the identification here. That being said, after careful analysis I believe that the sharp peak on the center right background is actually Mount Crillon to the south of Fairweather, and the other point on the photo's far left is Mt. La Perouse. I carefully looked at the terrain in the photo and matched it up with GE to make sure of it. It seems the prominent dark squaretop peak rising right above the water is Mount Golub, and if you line Thunder up with Crillon, the line passes right to the left of Golub, just as the photo shows. Crillon is just short of 100 miles away, so still a respectable view in these stormy SE Alaska environs!
By the way, Fairweather is still in the line of sight from Thunder, I believe - just a bit farther to the right, out of the photo. Maybe if you took plenty of shots there might be one of it?
That was a fun exercise. Let's get some more photos into the mix if we can. I'm glad the thread has been resurrected!