"The Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods of light, the white beams of the morning streaming through the passes, the noonday radiance on the crystal rocks, the flush of alpenglow, and the irised spray of countless waterfalls, it still seems above all others the range of light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen.”
John Muir - My First Summer in the Sierra
San Jacinto Mountains, California
Jennie Lake Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, California
“No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.”
“They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here among the transitory shapes of time.”
Ascending San Jacinto Mountain, Riverside County, California
Mammoth Lakes, California
Bridge of the Gods
Cascade Locks, Oregon
Convict Lake, Mono County, California
Catskill Mountains, New York
Mammoth Lakes, California
Whitney Portal Road
Lone Pine, California
Mammoth Lakes, California