The following are the images from the Whiteface Mountain, New York in the Fall gallery. If you would rather see the slide show version (which requires Macromedia's Flash version 7 or higher), please click on show me the slide show.
Whiteface Mountain is just down the road a short distance from Lake Placid, New York, site of two Winter Olympics. This tourist attraction receives thousands of visitors each year, all looking to drive the road from the base to almost the peak. At the end of the road, one can walk along a dark and damp sidewalk that enters into the center of the mountain, where you can take an elevator to the top. For the hardier and more in shape, there is a trail that also leads to the top. Most people are probably like me, they cheat and take the elevator to the top and then walk down the trail when ready to leave. In either case, the views are spectacular, from the auto road, the outside trail and the peak itself. For the photographer, the views can be difficult to capture well due to the extreme risks fog and rain at the top. White skies are too often the result. However, the landscape itself is still worthy of many an image.
The following images from the Whiteface Mountain in upstate New York in the Fall were all taken with a Kodak DCS265 digital camera, a point and shoot, 1.7 megapixel camera.
Whiteface Mountain, New York in Fall - A view of the river before reaching Whiteface Mountain
Whiteface Mountain, New York in Fall - Much of the shoreline of the rivers and ponds in this area are lined by trees ready to drop their fall foliage. Timing is everything in this chase of fall colors
Whiteface Mountain, New York in Fall - The weather can change quickly in the mountains, from cloud-cover to blue skies and then back again, all in the space of the time it takes to drive to the summit
Whiteface Mountain, New York in Fall - The road is steep with steep fall-offs in many sections, not for the squeamish driver
Whiteface Mountain, New York in Fall - The break in the clouds is rapidly coming to an end, the question is whether you'll end up above the clouds or below them, or worse, in the middle of them
Whiteface Mountain, New York in Fall - As you get closer to the top, the density and size of the trees rapidly diminishes, turning more into shrub rather than forest
Whiteface Mountain, New York in Fall - When the clouds are at your level, visibility can become zero, not a comforting situation when driving a mountain road
Whiteface Mountain, New York in Fall - Almost at the peak, and just where the clouds will no longer be above us. The sense of being swallowed by the skies is a strange feeling and an even stranger view
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