The world doesn't really need another badly drawn ferry, and I'd omit it if I drew it again, or take care to draw it better. You can live your entire life in view of a giant volcano, and never see it. "Three Fingers," or "There's Mount Pilchuck," you might say, and never notice Glacier Peak in the distance. #GlacierPeak is my favorite major Washington stratovolcano, because it is the most hidden and sneaky.

#PleinAir in a garden on a bluff over Puget Sound. 4"x5” watercolor.

All three mountains were out during my morning commute today. 🗻🗻🗻

#MtRainier #MountRainier #MtBaker #MountBaker #GlacierPeak #Tahoma #Kulshan #Dakobed #volcano #SubductionZone #Cascadia

Watching a video of a Glacier Peak flyover, and even more impressive than the amazing views & nature, is Gary Paull's incredible detailed/intimate local & geological knowledge, his orientation and pattern recognition skills... I've always been in awe of people who're so aware of and linked to their environment(s) and their place within (even if it's here more about the physical rather than social aspects). To me this is what hiking is partially about: Not just an activity, but more so a method & process of deeply connecting with a place/environment, using each visit for learning & trying to understand it, to navigate it without map, to appreciate its history, how it came to be, why it is the way it is etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s1RMPH9p0

Each time this is a vivid reminder of Brian Eno's "Big Here / Long Now" concepts (even if his European framing and many other aspects of the Long Now foundation/funding are problematic):

https://longnow.org/essays/big-here-long-now/

"How could you live so blind to your surroundings? How could you not think of where I live as including at least some of the space outside your four walls, some of the bits you couldn't lock up behind you? I felt this was something particular to New York: I called it "The Small Here". I realised that, like most Europeans, I was used to living in a bigger Here.

I noticed that this very local attitude to space in New York paralleled a similarly limited attitude to time. Everything was exciting, fast, current, and temporary. Enormous buildings came and went, careers rose and crashed in weeks. You rarely got the feeling that anyone had the time to think two years ahead, let alone ten or a hundred. Everyone seemed to be passing through. It was undeniably lively, but the downside was that it seemed selfish, irresponsible and randomly dangerous. I came to think of this as "The Short Now", and this suggested the possibility of its opposite - "The Long Now".

"Now" is never just a moment. The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of our social systems seem geared to increasingly short nows."

— Brian Eno

#BigHere #LongNow #Hiking #GlacierPeak #NorthCascades

Dakobed (Glacier Peak) in Washington state this afternoon from West Seattle.

#Dakobed #GlacierPeak #PNW #LenticularCloud #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Seattle #WestSeattle

@[email protected] Had a nice one over Glacier Peak tonight, too.

#GlacierPeak #PNW #photography #LandscapePhotography #CascadeMtns

I wish I were a geologist just so I could do all the long-overdue research on Washington’s own Glacier Peak volcano (and become a mountaineer in the process, I guess). It’s amazing how little is known about it. But kind of understandable, too, since it’s embedded in the remote Cascades.

#GlacierPeak #volcano #geology #Washington #WA #CascadeRange

#GlacierPeak this morning from #WestSeattle.

#Seattle #LandscapePhotography #Photography #PNWonderland #BestCoast

I’ve finally officially laid eyes on #GlacierPeak/#Dakobed, the 5th of Washington State’s 5 stratovolcanoes. It’s just hiding in plain sight, among the #CascadeRange peaks NE of #Seattle and actually visible from the city on good days. A magnificent, slumbering monster, capable of the same sort of violence as #MountStHelens/#WyEast, but so remote that it’s only been possible to install one monitoring station so far.

Every #volcano deserves our respect, awe, and reverence.

Cascade volcanoes at normal background levels of activity this week: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcano-updates#cvo

#CVO and PNSN are in the air today, checking out snow levels and conditions at #GlacierPeak. Plans are underway to install 4 new stations in August. #volcano #usgs

Ohhhh man, this episode of #StormStories (#WeatherChannel) is about the #Oso mudslides in NW Washington State. I drove to #Darrington when trying (unsuccessfully) to get a glimpse of #GlacierPeak (#volcano east of Everett). It didn’t even hit me until the return drive, when I saw the sheared-off mountain, that I had passed through Oso, and the roads I was driving on were rebuilt after having been obliterated.

It feels kind of slimy to use so many hashtags…but that’s how Mastodon rolls, eh?