I really thought you had applied some effect in photoshop to get that look. Nice shot.
Heh, nope...that's just mud swirling around in Spring snowmelt as it comes down out of an avalanche zone. Glad you like it.
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So another lovely shot ! Phrasikleia are there trails that take you to that apparent altitude or is this just off a roadway... how did you access this lovely location ?
Tks,
Barry
Thanks, Barry. You have to backpack to that location. The trail entails an elevation gain of about 2,700 feet, along a route that cuts across some pretty steep terrain, but it's a lovely hike. Since you asked, I'm pasting in the rest of the text that I wrote for this photo:
//My husband and I were fortunate to be among the first people this year to venture up into the heights of the Jof Fuart massif (its many steep couloirs make it mostly inaccessible until the snow becomes more dense in late Spring). The two guys who run the local refuge hut had themselves arrived only a week earlier, and they were quite happy to have their first visitors of the season. The four of us stayed up much too late sipping their amazing Tocai Friulano, sharing hiking stories, and marveling at the Alpine Ibex whose curiosity brought him all the way to the hut's terrace where he could peer at us through the window. Of course the late night made waking up to shoot sunrise all the more difficult, but it was a highly memorable evening. After the morning outing, we returned to the hut, and our hosts brought out huge *soup bowls* (big bowls without handles) brimming with
guess what
foam-topped cappuccino. At that point, I definitely began to join nature in its essential transition after winter: the great awakening!//
So yeah, it's a good huff to reach the top, but there is plenty up there to reward the effort.
