Lonely House

Route 13 towards Balestrand was like going into a Snow desert. Rarely we had any other vehicle to accompany or pass us. At places we could pass houses but all seemed deserted. All around the landscape was snow covered. Even the lakes were frozen - the only indication of it being a lake was flat snow as compared to undulating hills. These set of houses were besides Nystølsvatnet lake.

Fire and Ice

What all do these guys have to stand! They had been charred by fire from lightning and now have been subject to the chill of winters.

We had started to complete the loop of hwy 180 in Sequoia National Park, however at the visitor center were told that there was snow during the week and the road was closed. Grant Groove was the only place we could visit.

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Peeking Out

Its amazing to see cute little things, peeking out of thick snow layer ... giving some variety to the bland white landscape - also making us take notice the usually un-noticed

The White Carpet

Posting after a long time ! Very luckily got a very nice Saturday when my friends landed up in Seattle and we went to Hurricane Ridge. The mountains and the trails seemed to be covered by fresh snow which had just started in the region - early winter. As usual I had clicked pics with 0EV resulting in all the snow snow pics coming out under-exposed. As I downloaded the pics, it struck me that I had read sometime back - snow pics as rule of thumb should be +2EV. The above pic was thus processed for brightness. The trail was the Hurricane Hill trail in the Olympic national park.