9.27.2011

fish camp to shaver lake (14 | 19)

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

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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)

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pictured: long day celebrations

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sharing the cosmos

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9.25.2011

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

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a festival of granite

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near olmsted point

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half dome

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the valley

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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

9.18.2011

sawmill to tuolumne (12 | 19)

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

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

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9.16.2011

mono lake > mt conness (12 | 19)


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starting up tioga

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dirt

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self-portrait, seemed worthwhile in a place like this

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

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triumvirate

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bouldering

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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)

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wet

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III

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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.

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the moon rose just as I took this photo--lighting the mountain but not obscuring the milky way.

9.15.2011

travertine > mono lake (11 | 19)

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