Top mountain peaks
Mount Washburn
Mountain PeakFrancs Peak
Eagle Peak
Mount Holmes
Colter Peak
Mount Norris
Antler Peak
Mount Everts
Mount Schurz
Mount Stevenson
Barronette Peak
Roaring Mountain
Bunsen Peak
Terrace Mountain
Echo Peak
Gray Peak
Younts Peak
Mount Langford
Abiathar Peak
Sepulcher Mountain
The Thunderer
Clagett Butte
Dunraven Peak
Heart 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.