On a wonderful Independence Day weekend, we backpacked into the Mt. Adams Wilderness in Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest (see Field Notes section for more information about this trip).

My most memorable photograph of the trip was a five - hour exposure of the night sky from our camp on Looking Glass Lake. The arcs of light over the mountain are the tracings of stars as the earth turns. A sliver of moon arose late in the exposure, illuminating the glaciers and rock of Mt. Adams.

Lee Rentz