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These heavenly wonders were created and have exhibited their best in beauty and awe through nature, untouched and unchanged by man in millions of years. Its best can be described in Psalm 104:

Bless the Lord, O my soul!
O Lord my God, you are very great!
You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
covering yourself with light as with a garment,
stretching out the heavens like a tent.
He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters;
he makes the clouds his chariot;
he rides on the wings of the wind;
he makes his messengers winds,
his ministers a flaming fire.
He set the earth on its foundations,
so that it should never be moved.


From John Muir, the naturalist wrote:

"Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so- called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanches; the air in majestic floods carrying minerals, plant leaves, seeds, spores, with streams of music and fragrance; water streams carrying rocks... While the stars go streaming through space pulsed on and on forever like blood...in Nature's warm heart.

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life....

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
- John of the Mountains, (1938), page 438.


This site includes:

________Mammoth Mountain_______
Scenic Loops


_______June Lake Mountains________
20 minute drive north of Mammoth Mtn
Trails and Lakes Gull, Grand and Silver

_______Mono Lake_________
the largest lake in California. The peculiar Tufa rising from the lake surface, after thousand of years of water level drop remaining some kind of castle-shaped above the landscape.

_______Ghost town Bodie________
Abandoned town of 10,000 during California gold rush during 1800s


_______East of Hwy 120, into Yosemite_________
Toulumne Meadow
Trails & Mountains
Lake May

_________Manzanar________
Japanese Internment Camp during WWII. Ruins and historical exhibits


_______Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest _________
Where the oldest trees in the world live for 4,500 years old above 10,000 ft elevation, before the Egyptian pyramids



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Video collection of Pete Bell: High Sierra HD - Backpacking the John Muir Trail
http://vimeo.com/1845374

Video of Chris Marino: Fly Fishing Eastern Sierra Nevadas
http://vimeo.com/14592443

Video of Alex Mortensen Backpacking Sierra Nevada
http://vimeo.com/27277167
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