Continuing my posts on the impact of drought on Bear Mountain. Here are a series of photos taken on the Appalachian Trail ascending to the peak of Bear. These photographs seem monochromatic because of the overall abundance of copper throughout the images. In the first two images you can see what looks like clouds in the upper left sky, this is smoke from brush fires. #hiking #drought #climatechange #forestfire #brushfire #newyork #bearmountain #nature #forest #outdoors #leica #leicaq343