On his beloved "Range of Light", the Sierra Nevada:

"The scenery is mostly of a comfortable, assuring kind, grand and inspiring without too much of that dreadful overpowering sublimity and exuberance which tend to discourage effort and cast people into inaction and superstition."

John Muir, from his book, Steep Trail

Sevahah Cliff near Mount Morrison

Lake Tahoe from near Eagle Falls,
Emerald Bay

East face of Mount Whitney at sunrise

Bird on the highest point
in the Lower 48

View south-east from the
summit of Mount Whitney

Pallisade Range of the High Sierras
from the east

A forester in Plumas National Forest,
High Sierras

Devil`s Postpile National Monument

Happy camper in Muir Woods
National Monument

A sequoia giant,
Sequoia National Park

Fallen Sequoia tree,
Sequoia National Park

A monument to forestry
in a High Sierra town

A forester in Plumas National Forest,
High Sierras

A redwood catching early morning light

A forester in Plumas National Forest,
High Sierras

Dusting down the road at a forestry
camp, Plumas National Forest

Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe

A departing logger`s truck,
Plumas National Forest

A park ranger drawing a desert plant,
Anza-Borrego
State Park

Drawing a desert plant,
Anza-Borrego
State Park

A park ranger drawing a desert plant,
Anza-Borrego
State Park

Distinctive number-plate
seen in San Francisco

Golf-course near Anza-Borrego
State Park

Road sign near Mono Lake,
Owens Valley

Power lines running through sand dunes,
west of Yuma

Target practice in hunting country

Phone box near Anza-Borrego State Park

Photographed east of
Anza-Borrego State Park

Play on words at a gas station

Photographed east of
Anza-Borrego State Park

Teddy bear cholla in
Anza-Borrego State Park

Joshua trees In Joshua Tree
National Monument

Summit crater, Lassen Peak

Japanese photographer on Salton Sea

Knotted core of redwood tree stump
in Muir Woods National Monument

Industrial development on Salton Sea

Black-necked stilt near the Salton Sea

Left to right: great egret, avocet
and glossy ibis

Cinnamon teal

Ranger with children
near Malakoff Diggins

Park ranger at a national park entrance

Modest residence of a park ranger at
Anza-Borrego State Park

Wild west display near Malakoff Diggins

Bouldering at Hueco Tanks

Hotel swimming pool, northern end
of Lake Tahoe

   
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