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Dawn in the Beartooth Mountains

I was on an alpine ridge in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana at dawn in August 2023. Broken rock covers the ground, with a couple of snow patches still holding in the low spots, and a rounded ridge rises in front of me toward jagged peaks with a little snow on their faces. The sky was heavy with broken clouds, and a thin line of light was coming up on the horizon. It was around 39, with almost no wind.

The Beartooths are a high, rocky range along the Montana and Wyoming line, and this was above treeline, just rock, grass, and those leftover patches of snow. I took this looking across the ridge toward the bigger peaks, with the light still low. I'm leaving the ridge and the peaks unnamed, because I don't have a confirmed name for this exact spot.