Nature – NEWS Christopher Lisle

Southern Oregon Coast

clisle — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:25:23 +0000

Last February, a stubborn high-pressure system settled in and skiing in the Pacific Northwest started to feel pretty flat. When conditions like that linger, I usually turn to maps and start hunting for new places to photograph. Working through a short list I’d been sitting on, I headed south on Oregon Coast Highway 101, starting […]

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Los Picos de Europa

clisle — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:48:41 +0000

Spent 4 days hiking in Los Picos de Europa in northern Spain covering a little over 30 miles and 15,000 vert in elevation gain. Day 1: Starting out at Hotel Poncebos (900 ft) – Along the famous Rio Cares heading up towards our first small town (Bulnes) which is also accessible by a Funicular. Here […]

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Iceland 2022

clisle — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:32:30 +0000

Returning in October this was my third time visiting Iceland. By late fall the height of tourism has subsided and the weather is on the edge of turning into winter. Days were starting to get shorter and the moon was visible for most of the week oscillating above and below the horizon ever so slightly. […]

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Olympic National Park

clisle — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:51:15 +0000

This was the third time I’ve made it up to the Olympic National Park in Washington. It’s a large park where everything seems to be an hour away, limited cell service and sparse supplies so having a daily plan is helpful navigating and time management. Staying in the town of Forks, Wa it’s hard to […]

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Mt. Hood Classics

clisle — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 23:35:47 +0000

I have spent many miles hiking around Mt. Hood and the surrounding forest over the last 7 years. I wanted to put together a collection of photographs that showed not only the variety of terrain but also how the different seasons change the landscape. I’ve read dozens of books on the area along with studying […]

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Utah II

clisle — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 19:38:45 +0000

Made it back to Utah in May and got to explore some new areas. I had lived here as a ski bum in 2007 – 2009 and although had a passion for hiking/ski touring never had the opportunity to explore Utah asides from the Wasatch mountain range. Spent one day going to the Antelope Island […]

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Utah

clisle — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 23:43:45 +0000

Spent a few days hiking around Eastern Utah at the beginning of March. Finding the off-season the best time to visit popular destinations the daytime temps were enjoyable but the nights did reach 20 fahrenheit with some snow covered sandstone and frozen streams.

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PNW wallpaper

clisle — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 01:35:39 +0000

Update your iPhone or Android wallpaper with this free image from the Summer of 2021 – Location: Mt. Hood, Oregon. Summer is flying by and it will be September before I know it, I guess it’s time to start thinking about winter. Download

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Silver Falls II

clisle — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:47:06 +0000

I wanted to revisit Silver Falls State Park which I had visited in April of 2018. Mid June turned out to be perfect timing with good foliage coverage and still ample water running. Some of the smaller falls on the trail were turning into a slow trickle. Did the full loop but was surprised by […]

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Mount St. Helens

clisle — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:45:35 +0000

Spring on Mount St. Helens brings clear skies and easy touring access. Starting at an elevation of around 2,600ft we made it to this peak at around 6,040ft leaving us about 2,000ft vert from the summit. Most people hike to the summit and then return down the same route. It hadn’t snowed and had been […]

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Popular Waterfalls

clisle — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:04:36 +0000

Enroute to Mt. Rainer at the end of June. The reality of going to a popular waterfall. If you are looking for seclusion it’s always best to get there at the crack of dawn, of course sometimes you have to do a little scouting to figure out when the best time to arrive and how […]

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Painted Hills, Oregon

clisle — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 02:26:00 +0000

The Painted Hills in Oregon are beautiful, offering a unique look at the lands geology over millions of years. In an effort to preserve this area there are not many trails and you are required to not venture off them which in my opinion makes it kind of a boring/touristy place to photograph. (lookup the […]

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Weekend Warrior

clisle — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:26:18 +0000

It’s been a few years since I have been in Vermont during Fall Foliage or as we call it tourist season. The relationship between Vermonters and those city folk from New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York is that of love and hate. If your outside of Vermont and driving in any metro area your […]

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Free iPhone Wallpaper

clisle — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:47:18 +0000

I had a friend laughing at me because my phone wallpaper was the default image loaded on the phone, I have since ‘customized’ my phone and now you can too! Download a free wallpaper for your iPhone or other phone model. See highlights from trips to Iceland from the past two years. 2018 & 2019. […]

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Mt. St. Helens

clisle — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 02:53:52 +0000

Spent some time this summer exploring Mt. St. Helens (known as Lawetlat’la to the Indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat). The North side where the volcano exploded 30+ years ago is a unique look at the landscape slowly regenerating. The Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument was established on August 27, 1982 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan following the 1980 eruption.[2] The 110,000 acre […]

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North Cascade Lakes

clisle — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 07:08:15 +0000

There’s a lot of lakes in Washington. I found one with no trail or notes but someone had hiked to the right of the same watershed and then veered right at the end. I took his notes verbatim, same time of year, same relative path, I’ve hiked 23 miles +vert in one day and didn’t […]

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Water

clisle — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 05:34:13 +0000

A year of filming water in all its forms from the Pacific Northwest (primarily Mt. Hood) // Filmed over June 20th, 2019 – June 10th, 2020 – This came together as a way to showcase some of the time-lapse and video footage as a photographer I normally don’t publish. Shot starting from last year’s summer […]

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Falls Creek

clisle — Thu, 21 May 2020 01:09:12 +0000

Falls Creek Falls located in Skamania, Washington follows the river for 2 miles before approaching a multi tier More info Fall 2018

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October in Iceland

clisle — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:32:16 +0000

Winter approaches as noted by the sun’s height at noon. Storms in the higher elevations produce the seasons first snows while the lower lands receive their share of rain. The rivers are starting to rush as sediment and stormwater drops from otherwise tranquil waterfalls. Fall is in the air. We drove and camped in a […]

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Yocum

clisle — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:58:44 +0000

Photos from Last Spring down in the valley of Yocum Ridge

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