The Sierra Mountains

The Sierra mountains are beautiful.  The Stanislaus National Forest is scenic.  The Yosemite National Park with its noisy rivers and tributaries is stunning.  These are some of the country's and perhaps the world's most scenic places.  The old growth trees stand in some of the largest tracts in the country.  These places are precious.  See them as soon as you can.  Return to them if you are able.

The nature of Yosemite

Upper Yosemite Falls

Yosemite Falls has a magical aura to it because of the high place where the water leaps from its rocky channel.  The water in Yosemite Creek comes from snow melt.  In the summer Yosemite Falls is not flowing.

Upper Yosemite Falls is a one of the most beautiful waterfalls in existence. The water shoots out in comets that leap out from the lip of the cliff side.  John Muir and another man lived in a cabin built near the base of Lower Yosemite Falls.

Yosemite Coming Home

Yosemite National Park

The granite of Yosemite causes awe.  The Yosemite Valley is a place of great steep cliffs.  Light comes into the valley.  The shadows of clouds are on the cliff sides. One feels awe at the sight of it.

The Forests of the Sierra Nevada

Blackened tree Yosemite NP Between Big Oak Flat Info Center and Entrance to Yosemite Valley, Big Oak Flat Road

One sees the evidence of recent fires all around.  The forest composition changes with elevation.  Incense cedars are seen in much of the Sierra Nevada forest.