David Howland Photo
A panoramic sunrise photograph of snow-covered Mount Washington, with Tuckerman and Huntington Ravines visible as dramatic bowl-shaped glacial cirques on the mountain's face, bathed in warm pink and red alpenglow light against a deep blue pre-dawn sky, with small structures visible on the summit and dark evergreen forest in the foreground.

Tuckerman and Huntington Ravines at Sunrise

I’m not sure whether I like this tighter crop that focuses on the ravines or the wider crop with the foreground scraggly pine trees, Morning Alpenglow on Tuckerman Ravine and Mount Washington better.

This panorama of sunrise alpenglow on the west facing ravines of Mount Washington was one of my most hard-won photos of the winter of 2024. I had been wanting to photograph a sunrise from the top of Wildcat D Peak for a few years and finally got a weather window late enough in the year that I wouldn’t have to leave my car at 1am. Even so, I put skis on snow at 5:30am from the parking lot of the Wildcat ski area and it took an hour and a half of high effort skinning to get to the top before the sunrise peaked over the eastern mountains. It was a dark, windy, and cold ascent and it was hard to tell as I was climbing what the sunrise would be like. My effort was rewarded with a beautiful display of alpenglow on Tuckerman and Huntington Ravines. Also visible is the large avalanche that had come down the center of Tuckerman Ravine the day prior.

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A panoramic morning alpenglow photograph of snow-covered Mount Washington and Tuckerman Ravine glowing in shades of pink and red against a deep blue pre-dawn sky, with the broad glacial bowl of Tuckerman Ravine clearly visible on the mountain's face, dark evergreen trees silhouetted in the foreground, and a small structure visible on the distant summit.
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.
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 panoramic winter landscape photograph showing snow-dusted dark forested ridgelines in the foreground, with the snow-covered Presidential Range including Mount Washington rising behind them, all bathed in vivid pink and orange alpenglow from a sunrise or sunset sky.