Top mountain peaks
Triple Divide Peak
Mount Cannon
Mount Stimson
Mount Jackson
Kintla Peak
Mount Brown
Mount Custer
Mountain PeakMount Doody
Mount Pinchot
Bearhat Mountain
Clements Mountain
Edwards Mountain
Mountain PeakLone Walker Mountain
Mount Oberlin
Mount Phillips
Mount Geduhn
Mountain PeakRainbow Peak
Razoredge Mountain
Numa Peak
Caper Peak
Vulture Peak
Heavens Peak
Gunsight Mountain (Montana)
Norris Mountain
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How to photograph mountain peaks
Summits catch first and last light — alpenglow can turn rock pink or orange minutes before sunrise and after sunset while valleys stay in shadow.
- Photograph the peak from a lake, meadow or ridge at sunrise when the face that looks east lights up first.
- Long lenses compress ridgelines; shoot the peak from several miles away to make it look massive.
- Afternoon thunderstorms are common in summer at high elevations — plan summit hikes for early morning.
- Snow on the summit holds detail best when you expose for the highlights and lift shadows later.
- Alpenglow lasts only a few minutes; set up and focus beforehand.
Season: Early summer keeps snow on the peaks with green valleys below; autumn adds aspen or larch color in many ranges.