Ancient slopes broken
Precipitous cliffs arise
View from Parker Pass

Oh friends, not these tones!
Rather, let us raise our voices in more pleasing
And more joyful sounds!
Joy! Joy!
Joy! Joy!

View after leaving the trail to Donahue Pass and continuing up towards Mt Lyell. Mt Gibbs, Kuna Crest and Koip Crest as well as Lyell Canyon. I used to practice printing photographs with this negative.

Mts Lyell and Maclure as seen from the Kuna Crest. The glacial lobes were a bit larger then.
It's just a small thing
that's of little consequence.
Melting away.

I recall thinking at the time I took this photo that I was entering dangerous territory, rather like entering the jaws of a large beast. Looking back now I see how transitive and delicate this view was. The shot was taken looking out from inside the Conness glacier bergshrund. We could see the rock surface curving away under the ice and these icicles while looking out.

The glacier is a stark environment of ice and rock with surprising elements of incredible beauty found in the interstices as well as the landscape in general. Here is an ice cored moraine burying the toe of a classic cirque glacier. Note the exposed ice of the glacier where old snow has melted away. Note also the melt pond at the base of the moraine.

In Autumn she lit 
briefly on my window sill  
Then was gone again

Here was a gallery of photos from what was possibly my favorite solo day hike. From the Tioga Pass trailhead, to the top of Mt Dana. I then crossed the narrow arete onto Dana Plateau. It doesn't look it from the Tioga Pass road far below but this area is a beautiful rock garden. My photos don't nearly do it justice. The images are offered as is. I have not had the opportunity to do any enhancements outside of a little experimentation on contrast overlays. Several of the slides need further cleaning and rescanning. They've been buried for a long time.