Snyder

Here in the Mind, Brother,
Turquoise Blue.

Gary Snyder

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Sierra Nevada Backpacking

Pictures from a backpacking trip into the Sierra Nevada, September 20-27, 2011: North Lake to Lamarck Col (almost). Also included: a few images from a day trip to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.



Alpine Aster
(Aster alpigenus)

American Parsley Fern
(Cryptogramma acrostichoides)

Aspens

Bush Chinquapin
(Chrysolepis sempervirens)

Erratic and view of canyon

View of Grass Lake

View of Lamarck Col

Granite with inclusions
Granite with inclusions

Patterned granite

Lamarck Creek

Large erratic

Lower Lamarck Lake

Lower Lamarck Lake, dusk
Mountain Pride
(Penstemon newberryi)

Mountain Sorrel
(Oxyria digyna)

Mountaineer Shooting Star
(Dodecatheon redolens)



Whitebark Pine needles and pollen cones
(Pinus albicaulis)

View toward Piute Pass










Sagebrush
(Artemesia tridentata)
Sedge
(Cyperaceae carex)







Lower Lamarck Lake

View of Upper Lamarck
North bank of Upper Lamarck Lake



View of Grass Lake

View east from Lamarck moraine

Aspen and columnar granite

Wall and lichen
Talus, Upper Lamarck Lake

Whitebark Pine
(Pinus albicaulis)

Whitebark Pine cone
(Pinus albicaulis)
Bristlecones 1
(Pinus longaeva)

Bristlecones 2
(Pinus longaeva

Bristlecones 3
(Pinus longaeva

Bristlecones 4
(Pinus longaeva

Monday, November 22, 2010

Death Valley, Owens Valley, and the eastern Sierra

Pictures from a mid-November trip to a Wilderness First Responder class held near Bishop, CA. An amazing course that any serious outdoors person should consider taking. See the Wilderness Medicine Institute for a description and class schedule.