Morning Light at Fletcher Lake. Yosemite National Park. August 28, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I was backpacking in Yosemite this past weekend, on a loop that took me up Lyell Canyon to Ireland Lake, cross-country to Fletcher Lake, and then back to Tuolumne Meadows via the Rafferty Creek trail.

This picture was taken in the morning as the sun began to peek around and over Fletcher Peak, which towers above the lake. Fletcher Lake is in the foreground, a glacial moraine above the Vogelsang High Sierra camp is behind the trees, and the lower slopes of Vogelsang Peak are in the background.

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Meadow Near Tioga Pass. Yosemite National Park. August 15, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Yesterday was a different sort of weather day in the Tioga Pass area; cloudy and raining the whole time I was there.

This picture shows the meadow just below Tioga Pass in an area where trees appear to have been knocked down by an avalanche long ago.

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Mt. Gibb Sunset. Yosemite National Park. August 6, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

After taking a lot of sunset pictures at Tioga Pass on August 6 I figured that I could finally start the long drive back to the Bay Area. I was wrong.

The beautiful light continued all the way down to Tuolumne Meadows and I couldn’t avoid stopping to take more pictures including this one of Mt. Gibb.

I got home quite late…

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