A side canyon of the Little Salmon River seen along U.S Highway 95 between Riggins and Council.

The Wallowa Mountains of Oregon seen from the top of Brownlee Summit on Idaho State Highway 71

The descent into Hells Canyon, 2000 feet straight down into the canyon on Idaho State Highway 71.

The Wallowa Mountains as seen while approaching Halfway on Oregon State Highway 86.

Looking down into Pine Valley along Oregon State highway 86 just outside of Halfway.

On the approach ot Baker City, ruts from wagons traveling along the Oregon Trail in the 1840's are still visible.

The Sumpter gold dredge, abandoned since the 1950's, which harvested roughly a cubic yard of gold.

The remains of the dredge: the valley is filled with tailings piles, basically rockpiles that came from the processing of the dredged material for gold.

Whitney, an Oregon ghost town, founded as a logging town in 1900.

Prehistoric Indian pictographs from Picture Gorge near Dayville. These images date from somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago.

Sheep Mountain standing 1,100 feet above the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.

The shoe tree on U.S. Highway 26. Why? Who knows? Shoe trees seem to grow spontaneously throughout much of the United States and southern Canada.

Mount Jefferson, a peak in the Cascades is centered in a notch in Columbia River basalts. A rolling irrigation system is at the edge of a hayfield.

The Three Sisters with South Sister Peak on the left as seen from east of Sisters on Oregon Highway 126.

The Three Sisters with South Sister Peak on the left as seen from west of Sisters on Oregon Highway 242.

Volcanic terrain on the road up McKenzie Pass passing over the Cascades. On Oregon Highway 242, the McKenzie Highway which is closed during the winter months.

The glorious Douglas fir forest on the west side of the Cascade Mountains. The Douglas fir is the Oregon state tree.

The glorious Douglas fir forest on the west side of the Cascade Mountains. The Douglas fir is the Oregon state tree.

An elk on the Fort Niobrara Wildlife Refuge

Bear Butte seen east of Sturgis, South Dakota.

A scene in the Badlands near the aptly named Interior in the SW area of South Dakota.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Devils Tower seen above an irrigated field. The columnar jointing is common in basalt geologic formations

Mount McGinnis seen rising above Juneau.

The terminus of Herbert Glacier. For scale, note the people walking on the tidal flats in the distance.

The terminus of Mendenhall Glacier

An ice cave under the Mendenhall Glacier.

A glacial melt waterfall at the Mendenhall Glacier.

The Crazy Horse Memorial, a work in progress. This is claimed to be the world's largest sculptural undertaking, a memorial to the Lakota Sioux leader Crazy Horse.

Sundial Peak at Big Cottonwood Canyon

Broken Arch at Arches National Park

Courthouse Towers at Arches National Park

Courthouse Towers at Arches National Park

Fall view of "The Castle" and cottonwood trees at Capitol Reef National Monument .

Snow at Bryce Canyon National Park

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

White hoodoos near Wahweap, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Rainbow over the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City

Salmon berries

Salmon berries

Salmon berries

Flowers on a Yukon River sandbar

Flowers on a Yukon River sandbar

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