« 2015-05 Sierra Nevada

May 29, 2015: Eastern Sierra Nevada: Mono Lake & Sonora Pass (California)

This album also contains several pictures from May 30 in the Sierra foothills, and then a few more from June 4 in the Mt. Shasta area.

Mono Lake

Mt. Gibbs
U.S. Highway 395
Mono Lake & Paoha Island
Test Station Road
tufa formations
South Tufa Area
tufa formations, reflected
South Tufa Area
freshwater spring
South Tufa Area
tufa formations, reflected
South Tufa Area
brine shrimp & exposed tufa
South Tufa Area
tufa formations
South Tufa Area
Mt. Gibbs, Mt. Dana, & tufa
South Tufa Area
Mono Craters
CA Highway 120

Twin Lakes & Robinson Creek

Parker Peak & Mt. Lewis
CA Highway 120
Lower Twin Lake & Crater Crest
Twin Lakes Road
western blue flag iris
Annett's Mono Village
Crater Crest
Annett's Mono Village
swamp onion
Barney Lake Trail
bitter-cress
Barney Lake Trail
panicled death-camas
Barney Lake Trail
small-flowered blue-eyed-mary
Barney Lake Trail
low phacelia
Barney Lake Trail
antelope bitter-brush
Barney Lake Trail
dense false gilia
Barney Lake Trail
Robinson Creek Valley & Hunewill Peak
Barney Lake Trail
arrow-leaved balsamroot
Barney Lake Trail
lupine
Barney Lake Trail
small-flowered penstemon
Barney Lake Trail
woolly mule's-ears
Barney Lake Trail
western blue flag iris
Barney Lake Trail
variable checkerspot butterfly on woolly mule's-ears
Barney Lake Trail
quaking aspen
Barney Lake Trail
Peak 10441 & wetlands
Barney Lake Trail
arrow-leaved balsamroot
Barney Lake Trail
wild onion
Barney Lake Trail
Peak 11318 & Upper Twin Lake
Twin Lakes Road
Wheeler Peak & Mt. Jackson
Twin Lakes Road

Sonora Pass

Pickel Meadow
Sonora Pass Road
Leavitt Meadow
Sonora Pass Road
mountains above Sonora Pass
Sonora Pass Road
Sonora Peak & Deadman Creek
Sonora Pass Road
Blue Canyon & Leavitt Peak
Sonora Pass Road
mountain pretty face
Donnell Vista
opposite-leaved tarweed
Donnell Vista
mountain pride
Donnell Vista
rosy pussy-toes
Donnell Vista
Donnell Lake
Donnell Vista
Dardanelles
Donnell Vista
mountain pride
Donnell Vista
fir seed skeleton
Donnell Vista
Bridges' gilia (and pussypaws)
Donnell Vista
Quick's phacelia
Donnell Vista
alumroot
Donnell Vista
granite prickly-phlox
Donnell Vista
hairy vetch
Sonora Pass Road
mountain misery
Sonora Pass Road

Ward's Ferry Road & Priest Grade

Tuolumne River
Ward's Ferry Road
graffiti on Ward's Ferry Bridge
Ward's Ferry Road
two-lobed clarkia
Ward's Ferry Road
woolly sunflower
Ward's Ferry Road
white lupine
Ward's Ferry Road
sticky Chinese-houses (tincture plant)
Ward's Ferry Road
woolly Indian paintbrush
New Priest Grade Road
two-lobed clarkia
New Priest Grade Road
globe gilia
New Priest Grade Road
velezia
New Priest Grade Road
yerba santa
New Priest Grade Road
Grizzly Gulch
New Priest Grade Road

Mount Shasta

Mt. Shasta
Bunny Flat
Mt. Shasta
Bunny Flat
The Eddys
Everitt Memorial Highway
bitter cherry
Everitt Memorial Highway
tobacco brush (snow-brush)
Everitt Memorial Highway
California stickseed
Everitt Memorial Highway
creeping buttercup
Mt. Shasta City Park
yellow monkeyflower
Mt. Shasta City Park
headwaters of the Sacramento River
Mt. Shasta City Park
Black Butte
Spring Hill Road

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