Cirque of the Towers Trip Report

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Posted by Scott Bacon on August 29, 2006 at 11:12 PM

Wolf's Head

Canon 30D, 24-105 f/4 IS L, PS coversion to B&W

I finally finished my Cirque of the Towers trip report.

If you want the short version without all my verbose babblings, you can download the Google Earth file with photos. Turn on the tracks layer to see our route. I've also added a few more images to my gallery, including the one shown here.

The Cirque of the Towers is an incredible place. If you ever have the opportunity to go... GO!

I welcome any comments/critiques, and please let me know if you find any broken links or glaring grammatical errors in the trip report. Thanks for looking and enjoy!

Posted by Momo Vuyisich on August 29, 2006 at 11:26 PM

Hi Scott. I looked at all your photos from the trip report. WOW! What an amazing place, and what an experience that must have been. My favorite composition is the bottom panorama on day 3. You have better light in some photos, but I am a sucker for panoramas. Thanks very much for the report.

Posted by Paul Martin on August 30, 2006 at 2:43 AM

Looks like I got back just in time, great report on your travels, Scott. Even better were the "fruit" of all your labourous steps, from what you have in your gallery it appears that every stride was worth it. Truely a fantastic trip, we should all be so lucky as to find ourselves in such a place. Thanks for all you work!

Posted by Don Grall on August 30, 2006 at 3:51 AM

Great idea, to put a Google Earth map with pics in your report. How do you do that? My favorite is the BW of Wolf's Head, very dramatic!

don

Posted by Scott Bacon on August 30, 2006 at 8:17 AM

Don, for the Google Earth file with photos I use a program called RoboGeo. It is fairly simple to use. You sync the clock on your camera and GPS unit. Then you go out and take pics. Import the folder of pics into RoboGeo. Import your GPS tracklog into RoboGeo and it geotags the images with lat/long and altitude based on time. Then it has an option to output to Google Earth. Fun!

Edit: Obviously, this does not work with my LF camera.

For those images, the lat/long and altitude can be manually entered...

Posted by Paul Beiser on August 30, 2006 at 9:13 AM

Way way nice, Scott, thanks!!

I hope to get some time tonight to look at the photos and read your report - love that integration with Google Earth

Posted by Jim Talaric on August 30, 2006 at 10:14 AM

Hey Scott,
Great work on the photos and report. I really like reading about the details of your expedition and seeing the beautiful photos. Makes me want to get out and do more exploring.

Thanks for taking the time to put the report together. I appreciate it.

Jim

Posted by Jesse Speer on August 30, 2006 at 11:06 AM

Scott, awesome report. Great pics and maps. I loved the details and insight you provided. Now, I can't wait to go someday.

Posted by Bill Pelzmann on August 30, 2006 at 11:18 AM

Beyond the great photos, you need to be honored for the best trip report ever !

Posted by Jack Brauer on August 30, 2006 at 2:22 PM

Nice! I'm famous! hahaha... it was good to see a lot of your photos finally. I particular like this one here, and the deep lake pano on day 3. Also your star shot turned out good! Looks like you got a shooting star in there. Ah... memories! I would love to return there someday, preferrably when the wildflowers are going off. What an incredible cirque!

Posted by Rick Dunn on August 30, 2006 at 6:02 PM

The images and the writeup are outstanding, Scott. Reading the day-by-day details was a lot of fun, even though I knew most of what was coming next. It was good to hear that you got tuckered too finally!

Epic trip with great company!

Posted by Brian VanDenzen on August 30, 2006 at 8:51 PM

Looks like a great trip! I really need to do that trip. Excellent report, photos, and fun!