- Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
- This series of MODIS images shows biomass burning in southern Africa in April, May, June, and July 2002. The images span a number of different viewpoints of the region, but the country of Angola, with its highly dendritic (carved by rivers) geological formations are common to them all. Many of the images show parts of adjacent countries, with Angola usually at top left. As a reference point, locate the brightly-colored, salty soils of the Etosha Pan in north-central Namibia. Angola is north of Namibia and Botswana is east. Northeast of Botswana is Zimbabwe, and due north is Zambia. In many images, the Okavango River creates a green, broomstick-shaped delta in Botwsana. In the false-color images, vegetation is pale green, and burned areas are reddish brown. In both kinds of images, fires are marked with red dots.
- Hinkhouse Peak (summitpost.org)
The summit of Hinkhouse Peak is near the east end of a ridge running 2-1/2 miles eastward from Cutthroat Peak. This ridge serves as the border between Okanogan and Chelan counties. From the summit, Liberty Bell and North and South Early Winters Spires dominate to the south, and Kangaroo Ridge and Silver Star the east. West along the ridge is Cutthroat, and across the Cutthroat Creek drainage peaks stretch northward into Canada. The first ascent is attributed to Lage Wernstedt in 1925 or 1926. Wernstedt was an Associate Topographic Engineer for the US Forest Service. The mountain has been identified through the years by a number of unofficial names including Washington Pass Peak, and Fickle Peak, and the four crags at the summit are known as The Towers of the Throatgripper. It was identified in earlier editions of Beckey’s Cascade Alpine Guide: Rainy Pass to Frasier River as State Crag and one edition of Beckey’s Cascade Alpine Guide" Columbia River to Stevens Pass erroneously identified a peak in the Teanaway/Mt. Stuart area as Hinkhouse Peak. See the “NOT Hinkhouse Peak” section below for more about this case of mistaken identity.
