The North Shore Mountains are pretty much paradise in Metro Vancouver. I shot this last winter during an incredible fog snap. Surprisingly this particular location doesn't normally get a ton of fog, even compared to forests that are only a short distance to the east, so it was quite exciting to have a full day of it!

Image settings: 19mm, f/11, 1/4s, ISO 200

Let me know if you have questions. If you want to view more of my work, it's available in high quality at my website!

Love this image. There's a ton of boring and derivative work coming out of the Dolomites these days, so this is a breath of fresh air!

Agreed. Yellowknife is fun for a short visit in winter but ultimately you're going to run out of things to do there pretty quickly.

They were gone at the beginning of September. Truly the best season/time for hiking and backpacking!

It will be full winter conditions up there now.

Including all flights, driving, permits, lodging, supplies I'd say around $1800 per person. No getting around the fact that it's a very remote park, plus fuel costs have obviously gone through the roof. The crazy part is, as far as Canada's northern national parks go, this is one of the 'cheapest' to visit 😅

Copypasting from a reply I gave someone else in a different thread about the same trip:

>It takes a couple days. For us it was 2 hour flight from Vancouver to Whitehorse, 6 hour drive to the float plane, 12 minute flight to lodge. Sleep then next day a 1 hour flight to the park and 4-5 hour hike up to the meadows. If money isn't an issue you can helicopter directly to the meadows, but that costs about $12,000 for the entire heli and you have to get a special permit from Parks Canada. Can also get to the trailhead via canoe etc if you have the requisite experience and time.

I'm sorry 😂

That's awesome. Would be great to go back someday. We'll see though - lots of other spots in the park that I want to explore.

Yeah, just looks small since I was shooting at 14mm!

I shot this on September 9th. We camped up there for a week and were snowed on multiple times! Quite refreshing compared to current fall conditions down here in Vancouver, lol.

Yes, basecamping. We took a float plane into the valley and hiked up.

Not Tombstone (Ogilvie Mountains), but it is part of the Laramide Belt which contains both ranges!

Yeah it just doesn't make sense to carry around my 14-24 f/2.8 all the time. Switching to mirrorless allowed me to save a ton of weight. Thanks to amazing stabilization I barely even need a tripod, so I switched to a smaller/lighter one for the few situations where I prefer it.

And I could have done a much better job with the stacking, but I was too excited by the Aurora and forgot to take more frames lol.

Northern Lights over one of the coolest mountains I've ever seen. I was about to fall asleep when it suddenly got very bright in my tent. I looked outside and straight above was this crazy, green glob of Aurora. Glob is the only word I can think of to describe it - it was unlike any Aurora I'd seen before. I yelled to wake my friends up and got dressed. I got out of my tent, looked up, and of course the Aurora had died down significantly. But it was still beautiful and I figured since I was dressed I'd wander around and watch the show anyway.

One of the benefits of going far North is that you can often look in any direction to watch the Aurora. In fact, I don't think I've ever had a trip to the Arctic or near Arctic where this wasn't the case. For this shot I was aimed almost directly south! This image is not a day/night composite, however I did combine three back-to-back exposures for the sake of dynamic range and avoiding too much motion blur in the Aurora.

All shots: 14mm, f/4
Foreground: 30s + 15s ISO 6400
Sky: 6s ISO 3200

I no longer carry fast lenses meant for nighttime shooting, so it was difficult to get a usable result, but combining mean stacking and AI noise reduction did the trick.

If anyone would like to see more of my photography, I post regularly on Instagram @tristan.todd!