Fractured Stone Landscape. © Copyright 2016 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A small subalpine lake, fractured granite slabs, and peaks on the Sierra Nevada crest.
This is the sort of Sierra Nevada landscape that usually appeals most strongly to me — that terrain just below the upper limits of trees, where small lakes and tarns dot the landscape, small meadows lie among them, high peaks tower, and rocks and slabs and boulders are everywhere. The latter — the “rocks and slabs and boulders” — are the most defining element of this landscape, all the way from the granite underfoot to the fractured faces and ridges of the peaks.
This spot, high in the Eastern Sierra, is essentially “at the end of the trail,” as the maintained trail ends at a lake just beyond the low saddle between the foreground and the more distant peak. It is a wonderful place for wandering, as the open terrain is conducive to route finding — this is country where it is possible to say, “I think I’ll go there,” and then find a clear route to “there.”
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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