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The view from here

by ExcitableBoy » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:17 pm

Another 100+ miles of visibility today. I took some snap shots while walking the dogs.

Mount Baker with the Black Buttes: from left to right Lincoln Peak, Colfax Peak, and Grant Peak (summit of Mt Baker)
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The Olympic Mountains. Seattle high rise buildings are in the lower left corner.
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Re: The view from here

by colinr » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:47 pm

Nice! Good to see that you are out taking in the views! I'm off to run the kids and the dogs myself...might re-elevate that habit in place of ones involving keyboards.

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Re: The view from here

by Bubba Suess » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:54 pm

That is pretty cool. Could you see Rainier too?

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Re: The view from here

by Sierra Ledge Rat » Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:17 am

ExcitableBoy wrote:Image


I used to have a view like that from my house on Dugualla Bay on Whidbey Island

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Re: The view from here

by ExcitableBoy » Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:14 pm

Bubba Suess wrote:That is pretty cool. Could you see Rainier too?

My view of Rainier is blocked by Tiger Mt.

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Re: The view from here

by ExcitableBoy » Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:26 pm

Sierra Ledge Rat wrote:I used to have a view like that from my house on Dugualla Bay on Whidbey Island

Did you ever get used to the "Sound of Freedom"? :D

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Re: The view from here

by boyblue » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:57 pm

As a thirteen year old, I lived in Bellevue. One day I got off the school bus and saw a prominent white cone way to the north. I ran home and used a Washington state map to crudely trace the line of sight to Mt. Baker. I was totally jacked! I excitedly told my parents and siblings. "So what? We see Rainier on almost every clear day don't we?" Well, I guess you just can't explain shit to 'flatlanders'. :roll:

Anyway, I always had a shadow of doubt about that Baker sighting and now, 43 years later, thanks to EB, I can be reasonably sure of what I saw.


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