It's hard to communicate the grandeur of the mountains that encircle Valdez, with these browser-sized photographs. The sun is always present, but the relationship between the clouds and the land changes over the course of a day, from intimate and languid in the early hours to scattered and distant in the evening. In fact, if I could replace the town of Valdez with a camping store and a hostel, and spend all my time hiking around in these mountains, I would do so.