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Tuesday, August 29-Saturday, September 2, 2017; to
Brooks Lake, Absaroka Range, Wyoming.
C1638
“Afternoon Haze”
(Brooks Lake, Absaroka Range, Wyoming)
Oil Sketch on
Centurian oil primed Linen Panel
4” x 6”
Tuesday: Much to do today, as I leave Mosquito Lake
and head back to Dubois for supplies, a clothes washing session, and to the
library to get a blog post published.
The post I did get published was “The Eclipse,” and what with filing
photographs, it took me 3-1/2 hours to do, and no time to even check my emails. Last chance I had to do that was in Rifle,
CO, or I might have briefly cleared some in Green River, Wyoming, although I
believe that I just checked on free campsites while there. But this morning on the way to Dubois, it
took me 3-1/2 hours to drive the 30.4 miles of forest roads to hit pavement,
what with all the photo-recon I accomplished on the way, as well as the partial
4-wheel drive four mile side trip to Lake of the Woods, near Union Pass. I managed to get everything done, finishing
my washing just before 21:00, and headed north on 287.
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| My 1st stroll along Brooks
Lake … Sublette Peak (left) & Brooks Mountain (right). |
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| The outflow of Brooks Lake Creek. |
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| Brooks Lake Creek with the Pinnacle Buttes beyond. |
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| Brooks Lake Creek. |
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| Denizen … there were quite a few of
these in residence ... some sort of ground squirrel. |
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| Supping on Fireweed … that’s Rosebay Willowherb to the Brits. |
How interesting is serendipity … 24 miles up the road,
5 of which is on a forest road, brought
me to Brooks Lake, and the National Forest Pinnacles Campground,
my intended way stop on the way to Jackson Hole and the Tetons Range. It was 22:30 and as I squared away the truck,
keeping my bear spray to hand as this is still very much Grizzly country, I
could see a mountain ridge above me in the moonlight. Well, the next morning, and the Sun arose
behind that ridge, which turned out to be the Pinnacles Buttes. A morning walk down by the lake, with a view
across to Sublette Peak, and Brooks Lake Cliffs (Buttes?), and I realized I
needed to stay around here for a couple of days; and so I have … a couple of
days in the campground painting the Pinnacles from my campsite, and a few more
above the north end of the lake at a free dispersed site, with a great view
over the lake to Sublette Peak and the Brooks Cliffs, and I’ve had a visit from
a Grey Jay, in both sites thus far. Serendipity
… I knew nothing of Brooks Lake, before I stopped for the night, on Tuesday the
29th, and what a lovely find it has been! Just as well, as Jackson Hole and the Tetons
National Park will probably be heaving with visitors over this Labor Day
weekend.
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| Pinnacles. |
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| Pinnacles. |
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| Pinnacles. |
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| Brooks Mountain. |
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| Resident Squirrel at my Campsite. |
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| Evening Pinnacles from my Campsite. |
The pigments used
were:
Imprimatura: Rublev
Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre
Drawing: W&N Cobalt
Blue
Painting: W&N Venetian
Red, Cerulean, Cobalt & Ultramarine Deep Blues, Permanent Rose, Cadmiums Orange
& Yellow Pale.
Rublev: Blue Ridge
Yellow Ochre, Ercolano Red, Purple Ochre & Lead White #1.
Blocxx
Ivory Black (in a green mixture).
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