My favorite place in the U.S. has
to be Zion National Park in
Utah. The majestic rocks of Zion are an ancient windblown sandstone.
This picture was taken 1500 feet above the Zion Canyon floor, atop
Angel's Landing in August 1987. It was straight down to the stream
below all around this perch from where I was taking this picture.
This is my friend Jim
Steenburgh hiking across a snow field in Grand Teton National Park during a
hike we did together in July 1990. What you don't see below is a snow
field which is about a few hundred feet long---if we slipped, it was a
long cold ride down. Nice butt, Jim!
I spent four years living in
Seattle while I attained my Masters degree at the University of
Washington. This picture is of the Space Needle and downtown area
from atop Queen Anne Hill north of the city.
South of Seattle is a dormant
volcano named Mt. Rainier. Mt. Rainier is the
tallest mountain in Washington State and is covered with glaciers. A
beautiful place to see Mt. Rainier is on the south side of the
mountain at the meadows at Paradise. This picture is of Mt. Rainier looking
northwest from a trail leading away from Paradise.
This is another picture of
Mt. Rainier, this time viewed from 60 miles to the south from the peak
of Mt. St. Helens, the volcano which erupted in May 1980. The rock
formation at the bottom of the photo is the new lava dome in the
crater rising up again. The remains of Spirit Lake are visible in
the middle of the photo.
In July 1994, fellow meteorologist and
classmate Greg
Hakim and I toured Norway on our bicycles. In two weeks, we
covered 550 miles and had great weather practically the whole time(!).
This picture was taken at our highest elevation on that trip (1434
meters) on a road travelling up over an elevated plateau in the center
of the country, the Sognefjell. Despite all the snow around, the
temperature was quite warm.
One of our steepest climbs on
that bicycle trip was near the Geiranger Fjord. We descended into the
fjord on the near side of the picture and then climbed out on the far
side of the photo on the 12 switchbacks in the road. The total
elevation climb was about half a mile along about 8 miles of road.
In Encampment, Wyoming,
the miners built a two-story latrine for access in the winter, when
the first story is buried under six feet of snow.
Here I am in Medicine Bow National
Forest, west of Laramie, Wyoming.
This picture was taken on the South Kiabab Trail on my way down into the Grand Canyon in October 2000. This was on a three-day South Rim to North Rim backpack across the canyon with members of the Oklahoma City Chapter of the Sierra Club.
David Schultz
