Snowline

Snowline

When the snowline drops to just above Lone Pine’s Alabama Hills, the whole landscape feels like it’s holding its breath. One day the hills are …

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Gray Day

Gray Day

North of Bishop, CA Foggy, cloudy days have a way of softening the world, as if someone gently turned the volume down on reality. There’s …

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Mt. Dana, Tioga Pass, Yosemite National Park

Mount Dana

Looking east to the backside of Mount Dana, at the Top of Tioga Pass just inside Yosemite National Park’s east entrance, . Mount Dana’s story …

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View from Manzanar

View from Manzanar

The view looking northeast across Owens Valley from Manzanar always feels like a quiet argument between memory and landscape. You stand there with the wind …

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Eastern Escarpment Sierra Nevada Range near Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills

Lone Pine Peak

Tilted fault-block mountain ranges are formed when large blocks of the Earth’s crust are uplifted and tilted due to extensional tectonic forces, creating steep sides …

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Mt. Whitney

Mt. Whitney

“The Sierra Nevada is five hundred miles of rock put right. Granite freed by glaciers and lifted through clouds where water, frozen and fine, has …

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Keeping Bees

Keeping Bees

Crafton Hills, Yucaipa, California Beekeeping in the area has this quietly magical rhythm to it, the kind you only notice when you slow down long …

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