Madera County

• Auguste Rodin.

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Another shot from our days at Big Pine California, this is the impressive Rainbow falls a 4mile hike along the Devils Post Pile National monument will get you here. True to its name we got to see a rainbow along the base of the waterfall. My wife was actually pretty sick while we took this hike and I don’t know how she pulled off walking under the hot summer sun. Thankfully she got better in the days that followed, thanks to the clean air of the Sierra.

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Ansel Adams Wilderness - To the right of Banner Peak is North Glacier Pass. The walk to the pass in the summer is a wonder of flower-filled meadows...

Ansel Adams Wilderness

One more from the ApCad workshop back in August. It took a lot of work in ACR to get the exposure looking decent, and even then things were kind of...

The sun rises on Banner Peak from a small lake at Island Pass.

This is the reward once you finish catching your breath at the upper viewpoint and venture down the steep stairs to the base of the falls. You try...

Things I learned while hiking to Rainbow Falls:

1. If you've been sick for most of the week prior to heading to Devils Postpile, maybe hiking 4...

...a spectacular sunrise on the shores of Thousand Island Lake.

Banner Peak looms over Thousand Island Lake in the Ansel Adams Wilderness at the end of a day filled with stormy weather.

A more intimate view of the lower right side of Rainbow Falls, Devils Postpile National Monument.

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Mt. Ritter, Mt. Banner – Ediza Lake – Ansel Adams Wilderness

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This area is one of the prime wilderness destinations...

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From a solobackpacking trip to Sierra Nevada range, California

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At sunset I climbed to a high point above our camp and parked myself while I waited for the sky to change color. With all the clouds, not much...