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NSFW tag missing here. Wow.

Awesome shot! Are the green and yellow hues pushed toward orange? In my experience I’ve never seen pine trees of that color unless they’re dead

The trees are burnt from wildfires lit up by the sun. It's pretty here but the wildfires are real and the smokey summers are real.

Could be golden hour on icy trees, but I still agree that hues are bright : )

Edit: Yes, they are Larch trees!

Edit: Why am I being downvoted for my perspective? I agree they are real golden Larches!

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The trees are larch trees. They shed their needles every autumn and are def worth seeing in person sometime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larch

I'm pretty sure these are just living larches, they do this every fall.

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Bob Ross painted this

Damn was I missing Limgrave all these days.

Inspiration Lake?

I live here :)

Correct. These trees are larches and look perfectly healthy. Every fall they turn yellow/gold. It has nothing to do with wildfires

Altus Plateau

Ray tracing on.

That is actually a natural color of larches in the fall. This doesn't look color-graded (at least to an unrealistic degree)

Larches are deciduous coniferous, i.e., pine trees that lose their needles in the fall.

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Same location in late July, morning and afternoon

Yup, you are exactly right. September and October in the Enchantments looks just like this. Larches are a deciduous conifers so they loose their chlorophyll just like other deciduous plants! Their needles are also surprisingly soft and spurt out of funny little bulbs.

Favorite time of year, good capture

poaaah 😍

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You’re right! Larches are beautiful in the PNW

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I Could look at that for hours.

if i made a melodic death metal album, this would be the cover

so many goats

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I miss it!

Yea….. that’s a good one! Wow.

Yeah the color palette here is pure Altus

Nice!

I just got there for the first time! Elden Ring is gorgeous.

As is our Earth ☺️

Still beautiful! I can’t remember exactly but is this in the Chain lakes area?

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This is absolutely breathtaking!!

for real... some kind of extra special notice when you're gonna blow people's minds with a photo from Valhalla

Looks like the enchantments

Stop. Telling. Them. About. My. State.

BEAUTIFUL😍

Which camera did you use?

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That's the most awesome picture of the nature that I've ever seen and I'm definitely setting it as my phone's wallpaper

Sony A73 with a 24 mm prime lens! Just the G series (not GM).

Thall. I’m a huge metal head, actually. Favorite comment! Thanks

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

I thought I would share a brief story about how this day went.

My wife and I are nurses. We ascended Aasgard Pass of the Enchantments with a group of seven critical care nurses (on a through hike day, also known as the Larch March). There was a cardiac arrest that took place, and we ran a code for two and one-half hours, waiting for air rescue support.

The patient’s wife was a pediatric surgeon, and she was hiking with two other friends of hers—they happened to be a fellow surgeon and an ER doctor.

We were unable to resuscitate him, and he passed on that mountainside. We shared our deep condolences, and had tearful moments with the patient’s wife and group.

I will never forget that day. We finished the 23 mile hike having started at 05:30, and ending about 23:45 (an 18 hour day). We talked about the juxtaposition of insane beauty and tragedy, coexisting in the same space. It took quite awhile for us to process the day; it’s very different responding in the field than in a controlled hospital setting with the equipment we use every day to resuscitate patients.

We learned later that the patient’s wife also finished the hike with her group at 01:30, and displayed incredible strength (undoubtedly in emotional shock as well).

The beauty we saw that day will never be forgotten. And I will never think of the Enchantments without thinking of the lives that were forever changed up there.

Stunning.

Oh hey, I've climbed that mountain. This is Leprechaun Lake with McClellan Peak and the prong in the background. One of my favorite places.

Sure is! Walking through here at golden hour was surreal. The core I absolutely breathtaking.

What did you shoot it with?

Sony A7iii with a 24mm prime G lens! It was the perfect little setup to take on this trip.

Even better in the Sawtooths and north

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Looks like Satik in CoD MWII

Lol I thought the same.

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Wow, OP, that's quite the story. If he couldn't be saved with that many medical professionals on hand, sounds like it was his time. I think the Enchantments would be a good place for someone's last moments. And it just goes to show why hikers are always told to pack a little extra, you never know when something out of your control will happen. Glad you guys got out safe.

That’s the sort of place I wouldn’t mind kicking the bucket. Of course it’s hard on his partner.. they met hiking across the country, and the Enchantments were a dream for them. So that was very sad. We were all quite accepting of the circumstances, and thankful we could have given him the best shot at surviving a cardiac event in the backcountry. It gave his wife peace of mind that we were there and able to assist in the ways we could.

Washington state is a rainy, dreary, depressing shit hole. It's ALWAYS overcast. Even when it's not raining it's cloudy. You couldn't pay me a million dollars a year to live anywhere near Oregon or Washington. Both have terrible weather, the two cities with any kind of commerce are over crowded and traffic is a nightmare. Everywhere that isn't the main cities is basically Deliverance. Just racist as hell ass fucking maniacs. And that's not even mentioning Idaho which is right there.

If I could give anyone a little advice it's to stay the hell away from the Pacific Northwest. It's nothing but hippies and meth heads. Ever since the BLM riots the destroyed ruins of the cities look like Detroit.

Just bad news. Real grim. Don't even bother visiting. It's more depressing than Reno, which makes people suicidal. And that's before the dark, dreary, rainy, ominous weather is even factored.

Turn this upside down

If you check my profile, I posted a picture at a tarn located in Mount Rainier NP; that’s the craziest reflection I’ve seen in still water. Check it out! Really cool spot.

That subtle rumble in the distance is the herd of Californians on their way to settle the PNW.

r/beautifultrees

This guy gets it.

Excellent description. I love it here.

Don't forget the 9.0 earthquake that could happen at any moment! Definitely a terrible place

That’s beautiful 🤩

It’s the Enchantments. Leprechaun Lake, I believe.

With mount gelmir in the back. Lol.

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You forgot to mention our imminent deaths by volcano and/or random murder due to our persistent state of lawlessness! Also, the cougars that will eat you on the trails.

Dear Reddit:

Do not make plans to visit. It is beautiful, but over-loved. The only way to get here is to (1) win the lottery for a camping permit, which is harder than getting Taylor Swift tickets, or (2) hauling your ass 19+ miles and 5000+ feet of elevation on a day hike.

2000 feet of that elevation gain is covered in less than 3/4 of a mile up Aasgard Pass. It is a shifty, slide-y mess of rocks that requires some route-finding and scrambling. Every year I run into someone who followed the pretty pictures on the internet and is sobbing while clinging to a rock because while they are out of water and too tired to keep going, they are too terrified to go back the way they came (tbh going down Aasgard is not at all fun, you have to play a game called 'which boulder might arrest my fall as I careen down the mountainside').

OK, it's not that bad and you will almost certainly survive, but it's going to be a real sufferfest unless you are in great shape. It will be hot, too, and the mountain goats will creepily follow you around the Core waiting for you to pee so they can lick it up. They may or may not try to yeet you off the trail.

Or you'll easily get a May permit, smugly congratulate yourself on cracking the permit lottery code, and then promptly fall through the snow on Aasgard through to the hidden waterfall and die. They will collect your body when the ice thaws in the spring. (This one is actually true and happens not infrequently.)

It's not even fall yet man

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What a view!

Thanks! I‘m always thinking about getting that lens, maybe now I should really get it

Fantabulous

Well that’s just breathtaking.

Shining theme intensifies

I really want to go to Washington 🥲💗

We’d love to have you! Beauty is for all who want to appreciate it. We only hope that people treat her with respect because of how precious she is to us.