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A panoramic golden hour view of New Hampshire's Presidential Range, with warm orange sunlight illuminating the snow-covered upper slopes and summits of Mounts Eisenhower, Pierce, Monroe, and Washington and the forested lower ridges, set against a clear deep blue winter sky.

Golden Hour over the Presidential Range

I took this panorama during golden hour before sunset from the summit of Mount Jackson in the White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire. The sun was setting to the west and bathing the slopes of the Presidential Range with a golden glow that contrasted beautifully with the blue skies above. This sunset hike up Mount Jackson with my friend Dave Simms might have been my favorite of the winter of 2026. The Presidential Range was covered in clouds and visibility was zero when we left the parking lot. After a few hours of climbing through the snowy forest, however, we broke out of the trees onto the summit of Mount Jackson and were rewarded with this cloudless sky and fantastic view of Mounts Washington, Monroe, Eisenhower, and Pierce.

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A panoramic winter sunset view from Mount Jackson in New Hampshire's Presidential Range, showing deep snow drifts and snow-laden evergreen trees in the foreground, with Mounts Eisenhower, Pierce, and Monroe visible across dark forested ridges, and snow-capped Mount Washington rising prominently against a glowing pink and lavender twilight sky.
A winter sunset view of New Hampshire's Presidential Range, featuring deep snow drifts and frost-covered evergreen trees in the foreground, frost-dusted forested slopes in the middle distance, and the bright snow-capped summit of Mount Washington rising prominently against a soft pink and lavender twilight sky.
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A sweeping dusk view of the Southern Presidential Range, with a vast snow-covered alpine foreground dotted with small frost-covered conifers giving way to forested slopes bathed in warm golden light, and Mount Washington's snow-capped summit rising prominently against a clear pale blue sky in the distance, with Mounts Pierce, Eisenhower, and Monroe also visible along the ridge.