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YNP – California Falls
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About a mile and a half past Glen Aulin is California Falls, the first of 3 sets of water falls. As the water level is relatively low it’s pretty easy to walk right up to the water’s edge. During the spring time i can only imagine how much more water comes through there – all of it funneling down the…

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Near California Falls – YNP
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We stopped for lunch around California Falls on our way down the trail Saturday afternoon. The landscape all around us was amazing, you could easily see tens of miles in every direction. This area is covered with snow for a majority of the year – on average there is 300-500 inches (that’s 25 – 41 feet!) of snowfall each winter.…

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Morning Light on the Tuolumne River
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We were only there for 2 mornings, but this is what it look on each of them. The water was so clear you could generally see down to the bottom no matter how deep it was (granted it’s late summer and the water isn’t really that deep, maybe 20 feet at the most). More than once while we were standing…

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Glen Aulin Lodge – YNP
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The main building at Glen Aulin is a large tent. In this tent – like all of the high-sierra camps (or at least the 2 that i’ve been to) – a lot of things take place. When you arrive at camp you walk into this tent and check in with the camp manager (Tim). He offers you a cup of…

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Glen Aulin Falls – YNP
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Staying at Glen Aulin is quite nice. We managed to land what the camp manager stated was the “best tent they had, right next to the falls.” These were those falls. We were probably 50 feet away from the water’s edge and the lull was quite nice. During the day the beach area around the falls is full of hikers…

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Tuolomne River (redux)
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Here’s a detail of the previous shot.

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Tuolumne River
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All along the trail the water flowed down the granite slabs as it has done for thousands of years. In many places the granite is so worn by the flow of the water that it looks just like the sand on a beach as the waves retreat, the solid rock taking on the shape of the flowing water..

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Tuolumne River Rapids
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Surprisingly – to me at least – the river was strong, even in mid-august. All along the trail from Tuolumne to Glen Aulin the river rolls down long slabs of granite creating rapids that stretch on for hundreds of yards. This spot was just below the Glen Aulin campground. The contrast of the 3 different varieties of water along with…

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Preparing for Glen Aulin
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This past weekend was our long awaited trip to Glen Aulin – one of the High Sierra Camps in YNP. We ended up being able to drive up and spend the night in Groveland, CA Wednesday night and spend a couple of hours enjoying ourselves at the Iron Door Saloon. Here we all are (my boots are in the foreground)…

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Burney Creek – Burney State Park
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Just past the waterfall a stream forms and carries through the valley off into the woods. I climbed out into what became a precarious position and made this image. The total exposure was about 1 minute with a light(ish) neutral density over the lens. If it weren’t for the mosquitoes i could have stayed out there all day shooting that…

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