Day 2. Early morning, like 4:22 a.m. early, I stumble out of my pickup truck to see if the heavy cloud cover from the day before had left. I had been trying for 4 years to get some good photographs of the 7 Seven Devils mountain peaks covered in snow and had come up empty so far. As I climbed up this small hill, the peaks came into view. It was still dark, but I could see the peaks clearly. The sky was beginning to get light. I ran back to my truck to get my camera. Within 5 minutes I was climbing the lookout tower......but clouds had already moved in and covered the peaks. I could see nothing of them. When I reached the viewing platform on the tower, I felt a 40 mile an hour wind blast me in the face. The temperature was just above freezing. Where's the coffee ?!!! What am I doing here?!!!
The Seven Devils were to the southeast of my position and the Snake river and a good view of Hell's Canyon was to the northeast of where I was. The northeast began to get first color in the early morning sunrise. I had my camera aimed to the southeast, ready to snap my shutter the moment the cloud cover opened up a view of the mountain peaks. The sky kept getting more and more color and I kept having to move my camera around to the northeast and take photographs and then swing back around to the covered mountain peaks. The following images may give you an idea of the battle going on between heaven (where I was standing) and hell...what I was photographing.
The Snake river working at deepening the canyon of Hell.
A shadow of a tree.
Hell's cauldron is churning.
The Seven Devils refuse to reveal their faces.!
A first peek of the Peaks.
Four of the Seven Devil's reluctantly give me a consolation prize.!
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