Mountain Photography by Jack Brauer
Trip Reports: Hideout Cabin, San Juans - January 2009
This weekend I joined some friends for a three day weekend up at their backcountry cabin in the San Juan Mountains south of Telluride, Colorado. Situated at about treeline at the foot of numerous high peaks and cirques, the cabin provided a perfect base for snowboarding, skiing, and photography.
With amazing spring-like sunny weather, we spent each day skinning up the nearby bowls and skiing/snowboarding back down to the cabin to relax for the rest of the evenings. In such a prime location for photo opportunities, I couldn't resist waking up super early one morning to hike up a nearby peak for a sunrise shoot.
Here are my favorite shots from the trip. Check out my blog for more skiing/snowboarding photos from the trip.
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Vermilion Peak, 13,894 ft., towers over the backcountry cabin. Photo © by Jack Brauer.
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Mike, Cecily, and Aimee skin up a high ridgeline with a rugged backdrop. Photo © by Jack Brauer.
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Moonlight illuminates the high peaks of the San Juan Mountains south of Telluride - January. Photo © by Jack Brauer.
Fine Prints available.
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Dawn light high above the small town of Ophir, the lights of which you can barely see at this resolution down in the valley floor - January. Photo © by Jack Brauer.
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Pre-sunrise glow illuminates the rugged slopes of Yellow Mountain, 12,933 feet - January. The earth-shadow stretches across the horizon behind. Photo © by Jack Brauer.
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A winter sunrise view of the high peaks of the Lizard Head Wilderness and San Miguel Range, including, from left to right, Mount Wilson (14,250 ft.), Gladstone Peak (13,913 ft.), and Wilson Peak (14,017 ft.) - January. Photo © by Jack Brauer.
Fine Prints available.
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Snowboarding with a backdrop of the San Miguel Range. Rider: Parker McAbery. Photo © by Jack Brauer.
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My friends relaxing in their cabin with a San Juan sunset backdrop. I wasn't intending to take a cheesy "lifestyle" photo, but still I like this shot (not to mention the incredible vista through the windows). Photo © by Jack Brauer.
