High Sierra Topix

RoguePhotonic wrote:Going and seeing some of the most beautiful scenery in the world while getting in shape isn't cool? Hate to know what IS cool. Maybe you should take her up Clyde Minaret and see if she enjoys that more.

you aren't around a lot of teenagers, are you? "been there done that" is all you're going to hear from her. she is flying to Japan this summer, spending a summer in a big city there. Can't go more in the opposite direction than that.

Went up with the wife and kids and did a little car camping up in Yosemite Valley this past weekend. The waterfalls were in rare form, so many little falls here and there you don't see later in the season were a treat. Here's a couple of pics of the Yosemite, Vernal and Nevada Falls.

7 weeks... already packing food, deciding on camera gear. Probably won't see Rainbow Falls this summer, but we may just change our minds when we get close to Reds and stop there for the higher water level that is pretty certain this year


Rainbow Falls

a little more than a month before we head out west again. On the trail around July 1. Time for some inspiration again


Looking back at Upper Basin with Mather Pass and the Palisades

A tribute to this fantastic winter. A view I saw twice in the past year.. Although one was a lot less snowy !

Tioga Lake 6/5/16:

Just a little more than a week before we're back in the Sierra


Looking south from Glen Pass, July 2014

From the ridge on the north side of Green Lake looking south:

Kearsarge Pass, 06/18/2016.

Some fresh panoramas from this summer, day 1 of our hike


Approach to Parker Pass


Sunset on Kuna and Koip Peak