Miter Basin. Sierra Nevada, California. August 6, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Evening photograph looking back down into Mitre Basin from near the outlet of Blue Sky Lake.
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First Light on Mount Diablo. Mission Peak, California. November 23, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The story: This photograph was made just before sunrise at the top of Mission Peak, on the ridge above Fremont in the southeast San Francsico Bay Area. Here the sun is already striking distant Mt. Diablo, a landmark peak in the East Bay and Delta area. A group of us had climbed Mission Peak for the sunrise onn this Thanksgiving Day morning.
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