A photo story

An alpine morning in the Wind River Range

I was above treeline in the Wind River Range of Wyoming on a morning in August 2026, around 11,000 feet. Tundra and broken granite run up the slope toward a sharp granite peak, with low green plants and pale boulders all the way up, and the sky was completely clear. It was around 55, with a light breeze around 5 miles an hour.

The Wind Rivers are a high, rocky range in western Wyoming, and this was alpine country, just grass, stone, and that peak standing over it. I took this looking up the slope in the morning light. The evening before, Laura and I had been on a trail through burned forest in Shoshone National Forest.