First Light, Temple Crag
First Light, Temple Crag. Sierra Nevada. August 12, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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August 2006
Oak Tree and Fallen Branch
Oak Tree and Fallen Branch. Calero Park. August 20, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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Big Pine Lakes 2006 - Day 6
***Saturday, August 12, 2006
Once again I got up early on this, our final trail day, and spent an hour or so photographing the view from the nearby bench.
Dawn on Palisade Glacier and Lake Four. August 12, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Dawn, Temple Crag and Lake Four. August 12, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
The [...]
Big Pine Lakes 2006 - Day 5
***Friday, August 11, 2006
Another layover day! (I’ve only been on one other trip where we spent so much time in one place - some years ago we spent about this much time in the Cottonwood Lakes area as we investigated some high ridges and climbed Mt. Langley.)
Rising early again, this time I wandered about 100 [...]
Big Pine Lakes 2006 - Day 4
***Thursday, August 10, 2006
Most were in no hurry to get started today, as it was a full layover day. However, I had heard yesterday that I might get good sunrise photos from Summit Lake, about 15 minutes up the trail. I got up around 5:30, grabbed a pack with my photo equipment, and headed up [...]
Big Pine Lakes 2006 - Day 3
***Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Today was truly a lazy day - though not the most lazy day of the trip, as you will soon see. Our goal was Lake Four, and the hike was supposedly only one mile, though it probably totalled up to perhaps a mile and a half before we were finished.
We recrossed [...]
Big Pine Lakes 2006 - Day 2
***Tuesday, August 8, 2006
We managed to get up at a reasonable hour, at least by normally relaxed Talusdancers standards. (We’ve been known to start hikes as late as noon.) The trailhead was about a mile back down the road, so we did a quick car shuttle to the parking lot there. A few minutes later [...]
Big Pine Lakes 2006 - Day 1
***Monday, August 7, 2006
This year’s Talusdancers pack trip was a departure from what we usually do. Last year’s trip covered a 14-day route on the John Muir Trail between the area around the Minarets and Bishop Pass. (I had to bail on day 4 due to illness, but I rejoined the group for the last [...]
Peninsula, Big Pine Creek Lake Four
Peninsula, Big Pine Creek Lake Four. Sierra Nevada. August 9, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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The calendar says it is summer…
… but I had the feeling that autumn is just around the corner on today’s hike at Calero park. The dry, brown grass has fallen over on the hilltops, brown leaves are stacking up beneath Bay trees, the poison oak has turned red.
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