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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Looking down-country at day's end

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Evening with the big black birds...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Glassing perennial snowfields in the high country—smoky distances

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Amid heavy wildfire-smoke haze, an old, broken-top Interior Douglas-fir buddy on the slope

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Edgy skyscape vibes in NE Oregon as thunderstorms (fresh fire-makers) rear up amid smoke-haze...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Evening skyscapes (smoke-tinged)

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Descending from snowpatch fieldwork—sightlines to mostly hidden thunderhead far off to the south-southwest...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The Flying V Snowfields appearing quite early this year on the great horned peak...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Portraits of dying snowbanks (recharging soil moisture as they rot away) in the subalpine deadfall woods

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This year's rather dismal subalpine seasonal snowcover breaking up around what will become the Grizzly Face Snowfield (in the foreground)...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A couple of weeks back: Weather-maker rolling in over part of the snow-patched Black Mount, Scotland's Central Highlands.

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Raven Snowpatch has yielded a lot of ground in the last week. Shoots popping up at its foot in the damp melted-off snowbed.

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The Raven Snowpatch much-diminished after an unseasonably warm week in the Interior Northwest...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Snow-lean mid-December ridgetop above 6,000 feet, waiting to get buried...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Moonrise on the eve of some much-needed snowmakers for the high country...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Snowpatch fieldwork up in the "Skyland Block"...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

One lonesome snowpatch still shining in this high-country viewshed...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Summit: weather-beaten Curl-leaf Mtn-Mahogany & Douglas-fir...distant N-face snowfield beacon across the valley

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Hunting out final snowpatches in an obscure range, amid crown-of-spikes snags & wolf sign...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Boiling skies & a faroff semidesert landmark: two kinds of towers.

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Subtle skyline imprint, but an important, ancient caldera highland in profile...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Roiled yesterday of high-based thunderstorms over Northern Intermountain West, and more today brewing...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The sky-island cone in dark evening cloud-shadow

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The White Bird Snowfield, ridgebrow wings spread...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Seasonal snowfields up on the big ridge, dimmed by fall of summertime snow pellets...

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Undertaker Snowfield, early-summer guise

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

NE-face snowfields on semidesert rim far to the south

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Cloud shadows playing on the great barren anticlinal ridge of Lalíik (Rattlesnake Mountain), one of the Yakima Folds & a legendary house of wind.

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Mist-raked, freshly snow-dusted massif

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

A seasonal spring snowpatch: mid-March-->late April.

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

On this inaugural World Day for Glaciers, thinking of the only recently de-glacierized cirques of the high Wallowa Mountains, and of the continued importance of perennial snowfields & icepatches in these alpine environments: hydrologically, geomorphologically, ecologically—maybe even culturally.

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Classic roiled spring skyscape, broken light on the Windhead Saddle Snowpatch

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Hanging Bald, early spring

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

As meteorological spring unfolds, snowpatches pattern the foothills & uplands while the mountain snowpack continues to stockpile water…

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Wind + snow + cold: formula at play on the upland ridge-crest.

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Ethan Shaw @cutoffmountain.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Deep chill ahead of slight warmup & more snow (thankfully). Thinking of the perennial snowfields & icepatches up in the high country, currently buried under the seasonal snowpack...