Showing posts with label Tuolumne Meadows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tuolumne Meadows. Show all posts
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Feeling a Bit Sheepish: A Bit of Glacial Mutton in the Sierra Nevada

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Pothole Dome in Tuolumne Meadows at Yosemite National Park Sometimes glacial terms represent some kind of logical relationship to realit...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

A Series of Fortunate Events: Climbing a Dome That's Not Exactly a Dome...It's Rock Mutton

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There are domes and there are "domes". Yosemite National Park has a lot of domes of one sort or another, and there has always be...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Out of the Desert and Back to the Green Hills of Home

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Today wraps up the story of a week-long journey through the deserts of the southwest. I've been telling the story as if in real time, ...
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Sunday, June 1, 2014

"Fly-over Country" Moniker Doesn't Do this Land Justice: Crossing the Basin and Range

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The Basin and Range province is one of the largest geological provinces in North America, covering all of Nevada, parts of eastern Californi...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

The Right Place at the Wrong Time: A January Sunset at Olmsted Point

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Yesterday I saw sights I never thought I would see: Tioga Pass in mid-January , short of snow but full of incredible beauty. There was so mu...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

The Right Place at the Wrong Time: A January Day at Tioga Pass

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If anyone had told me anytime in  all the years that I have lived here in Central California that I would be where I was today, I would n...
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