Sweet light Carl!

Thanks man .. though I figured if you lived out there you’d know the answer, and not have to be asking people.

Cheers

Carl

Mount Drum is a stratovolcano - volcanoes formed more by the typical eruption of lava blasting out of the ground into the air. But Mt Sanford is WAY higher . it’s over 16 000′ tall, and Mt Drum is a good bit shorter, at 12 000′. 12 010′ to be exact. Mount Sanford is 16 237′ high. What’s REALLY wild is that people have ridden snow machines to the top of these mountains .. and Mount Wrangell, which is 14 163′ high. I can’t imagine riding a snow machine up anything that steep - of course, I don’t have a snow machine either, so that would definitely make it imaginary for me.

Mt Sanford looks much shorter from this angle because it’s so much further away than Mount Drum is.

Cheers

Carl

Nice image. Thanks for the trivia, too. It’s all very fitting since I’m taking Geology classes now :). Stop by my blog sometime and say hi … take care, and try not to lose any fingers.

Chris,

Geology stuff is so cool to learn about .. I wish I knew it better.

I’ll try to drop back by your blog and say something, but once I hit the dirt road tomorrow mmorning, I won’t have much internet time at all .. just emails, send some images off, update my blog, and back to my cabin. I won’t even have time to visit Ron’s blog, and he’s already warned me I’m a deadman if I don’t make at least 2 posts a week on his site.

Cheers

Carl

Beth, I did grow up in the area - I used to look at those mountain on my drive back and forth to school - it was pretty sweet!

Ron