This is more what the high country looks like right now and we had more snow this year than the one in the picture. This is from the summit of Mt. Dunderburgh on July the 4th 1998 after the big El Nino in "97", looking west into Yosemite high country.


Temple Crag also on the trail into the high country and home to one of the longest rockclimbing routes in the Sierra, Dark Star, straight up the nose. It is a beautiful granite fin with superb rock for climbing, yet a dream for me.