Steamboat Backyard.

Just a quick twenty mile drive from home. The Flat Tops Wilderness.

Pyramid Peak.

Yosemite - The Merced Grove, Liberty Cap, and The Merced River

Not a Giant Sequoia. Merced Grove.



Giant Sequoia. Merced Grove.



Liberty Cap.



Parking Fail. I pulled up next to this car thinking I'd park there but then saw the bear damage. Took a few pictures and parked at the other end of the lot. Guess these guys forgot to read the sign they parked in front of.





The destination: Liberty Cap. From the top of Nevada Falls.



The John Muir Trail carved through the granite below Nevada Falls.



Little Yosemite from Liberty Cap's Northeast Gully.



The forgotten side of Half Dome.



Banzai Tree at the very top of Liberty Cap.



More Half Dome and Bonzai Tree.





Looking back towards Yosemite Valley and Happy Isles from Liberty Cap.



The bridge above Nevada Falls from the top of Liberty Cap.



Half Dome, Mount Broderick, and Liberty Cap from the Mist Trail.



The awesome Vernal Falls.





To that night's campsite on the Wild & Scenic Merced River.

Squaw Valley Creek

One of my favorite places on earth. The area around the McCloud reminds me a bit of Big Sur in that it isn't just a monotonous forest of a few types of trees or plants. Because it sits in kind of the geographical zone between mountains and foothills, and because of the fact that it is blessed with lots of water in the form of numerous cold water springs and good winter precip, the McCloud area is rich and diverse. It just feels like a healthy landscape, and if you get out enough, you know what that means.