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Dale R. Carlson

@dalercarlson.bsky.social

"Mountain Sky" for #blueskymonday #blueridgemountains #mountjefferson #lonetree #bluesky #bluemoonistic

March 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM

BelleAB

@belleab.bsky.social

“Every Day is a Winding Road”🎶🎶
— Sheryl Crow
More of my son skinning up Mt. Hood and leaving his “artwork” (ski tracks)!
⛷️❄️⛷️
📸: my son’s friend
#scape #humansofbluesky #mounthood #mountjefferson #oregon #pnw #backcountry #skiing #outdoors #nature #june #photography

June 19, 2026 at 5:45 AM

Samuel John Klein

@sjkpdx.bsky.social

#MountJefferson (at 10,490 feet, the second-tallest mountain in #Oregon) as seen from the parking lot of #TimberlineLodge on #MountHood (about 6,000 ASL)

The distance involved here is about 47 miles.

#CascadeVolcanoes
#PhotographersOfBluesky

January 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM

Margot Foley

@mfoley25.bsky.social

Mount Jefferson as seen from the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, 2016. It is the second highest mountain in Oregon, standing at 10,495 feet.
#BlueSkyMonday
#MountainMonday
#ECK #WCK
#Oregon #PNW
#MountJefferson
#Nature #Photography

This view from the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood captures the snow-capped peak of Mount Jefferson, a stratovolcano in Oregon's Cascade Range, rising prominently in the distance. The foreground is filled with the dark silhouettes of evergreen trees, while multiple layers of misty, deep-blue rolling hills and ridges recede toward the horizon under a clear, pale sky.

June 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM

Nathan Rohde

@pacnorthimages.bsky.social

Wispy clouds and setting sun. Caught between earth and sky—Mount Hood rising through the clouds like a dream. Moments like this remind me how small we are… and how wildly beautiful this world can be. ✨🗻 #Wanderlust #AerialViews #pnwlife #mountjefferson #MountHood #PacificNorthwest #PNWExplored

August 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM

Oregon Randy

@oregonrandy.bsky.social

I choose this wonderful high alpine tree from my hike yesterday for #ThickTrunkTuesday!
#Oregon #Hiking #Nature #Trees
The mountain I was near played peekaboo for a lot of the day, and that was just fine.
#MountJefferson

A large wind bent tree leaning over a rocky trail from far left. It's branches have a thick growth of green needles, and it's bark is a dark charcoal brown with a rough texture. The trail starts at lower right and climbs upward under the outstretched trees limbs, and continues as it winds out of sight near middle right.
The landscape is sparse of plants, dominated on the ground by various sizes of stones in colors from dull pale red, and light grey. Other areas of the ground are covered by old fallen dull orange pine needles. Among the stones are large grey gnarled logs from long gone trees.
The sky above the tree and trail is a fairly even medium tone grey of thick cloud.

A photo of an alpine view across a green meadow slanting from the lower left corner to the middle right. The green ground cover are very low tough high alpine shrubs. Along the top edge of the meadow are tall pointy evergreen pines jutting straight up.
At the lower left is a small grey trail through the meadow that disappears into the treeline.
Behind the trees in the distance is a rising landscape of rugged mountainside that ascends into cloud draped slopes of white snow and glaciers. These lower mountain flanks are mainly a dark rocky brown/grey with patches and isolated linear growths of dark green forest.
Above the clouds, snow, and glaciers rises the icy white summit, jagged sub peaks and imposing rocky cliffs of the top of the mountain. Bright blue sky is all around the summit and the chaotic white clouds nearby.

September 9, 2026 at 12:44 AM

wataugaonline.bsky.social

@wataugaonline.bsky.social

Blue Ridge Conservancy adds 60 acres of "critical" land to Mount Jefferson State Natural Area, growing it to 1,270 acres. Land includes headwaters of Little Naked Creek, purchased from longtime stewards Henry & Dyeann Jordan. wataugaonline.com/blue-ridge-c... #MountJefferson #HighCountryNC