Swan Rangers explored shifty shades of gray during their outings this past week!

Scroll down for the rest of their photos and details!

For our lead photo, Chris Gotschalk had to hike up to the cloud deck to find enough snow to ski on while . . .

. . . on another day, Norma Linsky had to get above the “inversion” fog layer to find blue sky!

Meanwhile, Keith Hammer shows us what that inversion looked like from the shore of Flathead Lake and . . .

. . . shows us how that fog deposited some rime on some nearby bushes.

Mary Via found rime on some colorful Crab Apples and . . .

. . . Ruth Quist found some on a seedy looking tree!

Pam Willison found interesting ice formations along a lakeshore while . . .

. . . Lynn Smith found ice imitating the shape of the conks/mushrooms on the log above!

Keith Hammer found a foggy Great Horned Owl . . .

. . . Red-tailed Hawk . . .

. . . Rough-legged Hawk . . .

. . . and a Downy Woodpecker checking out some Thistle seed!

In our parting shot, Norma Linsky shows us that late light can bring a bit of color to an otherwise gray day!

If you have interesting photos of your outings, send them along with a description to keith@swanview.org and we'll try to work them into these weekly reports!