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Find your hike - SummitPost.org

I love it when the web works like it's supposed to. I'd like to hike to the top of Heart Mountain in northern Wyoming sometime this winter. I've driven around Heart Mountain for years, but admittedly have never looked for the trailhead that would take me to the summit - although I was quite confident that there must be one. So the other night I did a quick Google search and immediately came up with an excellent description of the trail on SummitPost.org. The description includes photos, a description of the hike, and detailed directions to get to the trailhead. Bingo!

You can check out the Heart Mountain Summit Post here, and then traipse through the site looking for the next hike you'd like to bag: http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/282559/heart-mountain.html.

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Filed under  //   Heart Mountain   Hiking   mountains   Wyoming  
Posted December 9, 2008
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Heart Mountain from the Banks of the Clark's Fork River in Wyoming

A couple of years ago, I took a shot of Wyoming's Heart Mountain from a bridge over the Clark's Fork. I was amazed at just how lush that area was - if you know Wyoming, 'lush' and 'Wyoming' are not two words used often in the same sentence. And yet here was this green, grassy river bank in the middle of sage-covered hills. I loved the shot, but because I was shooting hand-held at dusk the image was slightly blurry. To save it, I applied an Orton Effect and have lived with it as a soft, watercolor-like shot since.

This past weekend, I decided to stop at the same spot on my way home from Cody to see if I could do a better job the second time around. It's later in the season now than the first time I shot it, so the fall colors are more prominent and the greens are not as vibrant. This most recent image is certainly sharper, but I'm not convinced I like it better. Let me know what you think.

   

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Heart_Mountain_from_the_Banks_.zip (278 KB)

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Filed under  //   Clarks Fork   Heart Mountain   Mountains   Orton Effect   Photography   Rivers   Wyoming  
Posted October 8, 2008
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