Snow Lake Lovebirds
Megan and I took a hike this afternoon up near Snoqualmie Pass. We went up to Snow Lake, in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. It’s the most popular hike in the Washington Cascades, for several reasons: close to I-90, not far from Seattle, and you can get into what feels like wilderness within an hour of the car. Well, if you can ignore the hundreds of other people doing the same. But it’s great exercise, and more fun than hanging out in the gym.
The photo above was not taken today. I took that one in February of last year, two days after I met Megan. I was hiking alone in the deep snow, and when I stopped for a snack these birds swooped down to see what they could get. I reached up and snapped a picture of them before they backed off. Later that night, when I sent Megan an email asking her out for our first date (dinner at the Space Needle), I attached this photo because it was, well, two birds. The rest, as they say, is history.
Today I finally took Megan to this spot. We brought a bottle of cheap screw-cap wine and enjoyed it in the shade above Snow Lake before hiking back down to the car. Here are the photos from today’s hike:
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on July 17, 2006 at 7:04 am Scott wrote:
Looks like an incredible day. How’s the new lens?
on July 17, 2006 at 7:22 am Doug wrote:
I love it. It’s great to be able to take just one lens and get everything from wide-angle (the wine glasses in our hands) to telephoto (Megan passing a crowd on the trail) to macro close-ups (flowers and bees). Now I just need to get my sensor clean once and for all, and I should be able to keep it cleaner than in the past because I won’t be swapping lenses nearly as often.
on July 17, 2006 at 12:28 pm Megan wrote:
What a cute little birdy that is in the foreground of the old picture. He has a certain Dougishness about him, too. Must have been what made me say yes when Doug asked me out.
on July 17, 2006 at 1:37 pm Tom wrote:
Yeah, a dirty sensor (censor?) is a boy’s worst enemy.
Seriously, that’s a great lens. That bee is fantastic. As for the bird being Dougish, I can see it. Up to the part about sitting on a branch, anyway.
on July 17, 2006 at 10:14 pm Doug wrote:
Yeah, this lens is so much fun it was hard to fit in a bucket of balls and nine holes at the par-3 after work.
I’m going to take Megan back down by snow lake this winter and re-create the bird shot. I think those two stumps are sturdy enough to hold us.
on July 18, 2006 at 4:30 pm guillermo wrote:
hike06 is a great picture of megan. looks really good. plus, i love the way wine is always present around the two of you. cheers.
on July 18, 2006 at 7:18 pm LaVonne wrote:
I enjoyed the hiking pictures, but I would never be able to keep my footing on trails like that. But it looks like fun. Mom