fish camp to shaver lake (14 | 19)

not pictured: 3 course breakfast and 4000 feet of climbing to bass lake




alex's ride, long-chainstay era mb-1

not pictured: 7000 feet of climbing to shaver lake up "the grade" (6 lane hwy with a no ac warning sign)


pictured: long day celebrations


sharing the cosmos

tuolumne meadows to wanona via yosemite valley (13 |19)

a festival of granite




near olmsted point


half dome


the valley


alex would join me for the remainder of the tour...

sorry for the downtime between posts, i've been moving my computer and unable: back online now

sawmill to tuolumne (12 | 19)

huge car traffic, smog in the valley, and lightly-used shuttles...


since I'd be meeting alex the next day in the valley, i had all day to climb and explore the meadows

mono lake > mt conness (12 | 19)

  
starting up tioga










dirt




self-portrait, seemed worthwhile in a place like this


reached sawmill camp, dropped the bike and started out on foot to summit mt conness


triumvirate




bouldering


you can see the couloir behind my right hand, but climbing up there by myself without an ice axe seemed unreasonable (not to mention chacos)

parametrics




wet


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apparently that wasn't enough to be tired, so I rode into tuolumne to get some firewood: those photos will come later.



one of my favorite cosmos photos yet:
the moon rose just as I took this photo--lighting the mountain but not obscuring the milky way.

travertine > mono lake (11 | 19)

descending another pass to mono lake mono panorama: full size