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Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Lundy Canyon trail view of a Mill Creek waterfall. Lundy Canyon is the first canyon north of Tioga Road and north of Mono Lakes.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Lundy Canyon trail view of a beaver pond on Mill Creek by morning light. Lundy Canyon is the first canyon north of Tioga Road and north of Mono Lakes. The county park campground below Lundy Lake did not fill on an early fall weekend and many of the campground sites...

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip. Summit Lake is in the center from Burro Pass above Virginia Lakes. Summit Lake borders Yosemite NP and the high country beyond Summit Lake is in Yosemite NP. Burro pass is less than 7 miles round trip and 1400 feet climb from the Virginia Lakes trailhead north of...

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip. East Lake, Green Creek Canyon, and Monument Ridge can be seen in the center and center right from this Burro Pass view above Virginia Lakes north of Mono Lake. Hiking trails link Green Creek and Burro Pass in the canyons below. East Lake is above Green Lake (not...

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Virginia Lakes and the Burro Pass Trail from Burro Pass. The Burro Pass hike is one of the easier (1400 feet climb) and shorter (less than 7 miles round trip) scenic Eastern Sierras hikes and starts at the Virginia Lakes trailhead north of Mono Lake.

2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Green Lake via Green Creek trail from Green Creek campground which is south of Sonora Pass on Green Creek Road off highway 395, west of Bridgeport and north of Mono Lake.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Blue Canyon from the Pacific Crest Trail south of Sonora Pass off highway 108. Blue Canyon drains the northwest face of Leavitt Peak and is a moderate day hike south of highway 108.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Leavitt Peak from the Pacific Crest Trail south of Sonora Pass off highway 108. The cirque rocks appear to be a "rock glacier".

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Levitt Creek basin from the Pacific Crest Trail south of Sonora Pass. Latopie Lake is on the right with the Koenig Lakes in the middle and Leavitt Lake on the left from the "Notch" as the PCT crosses the ridge below Leavitt Peak. The PCT day hike south of...

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, view of Sonora Pass from the Pacific Crest Trail south of the pass. Sonora Peak is on the right side (non-technical climb from the PCT which we hiked the next day) and Stanislaus Peak is the center back pointy peak (low level technical climb). The valley on the left...

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Mogollon Rim, east central Arizona, which is the southwest edge of the Colorado Plateau. "Mogollon" is the name of one of the early native American cultures of the southwest as is "Anasazi". Good gravel roads follow the upper rim edge with view...

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Petrified Forest NP, AZ, "log" along the trail. The color "palette" in the "logs" is extraordinary.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Petrified Forest NP, AZ, Blue Mesa roadside view.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Petrified Forest NP, log on a pedestal along a hiking trail.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Largest ruins at Wupatki NM which is northeast of Flagstaff, AZ. The first circle to the right of the large pueblo is a kiva and the second far right and lower circle is a sports "stadium". This would be the first sports league in America since other...

2016 Fall WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, The Iceberg (hopefully) for which Carson Iceberg Wilderness is partially named. Visible from a short walk along the pasture at the end of the Clark Fork Road west of Sonora Pass off highway 108. We studied our maps carefully and are sure as two Iowans wandering...

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Albert's Squirrel as seen on the Mogollon Rim trail which is east of Payson, AZ, right on the border between the Sitgreaves NF and the Tonto NF.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Pygmy Nuthatch seen on the Mogollon Rim trail which is east of Payson, AZ. Just a cute bird.

2016 Fall WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Javelina crossing the road at dusk in the Gila NF in south central New Mexico. Picture is poor quality because the Javelina never stopped moving at dusk and the low light conditions created a slow shutter speed. Our first new mammal species other than a member of...

2016 Fall WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Oliver Lee Memorial SP view at dusk of the Sacramento Mountains escarpment, left, and the Tularosa Valley, right, which is located south of Alamogordo,NM.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Burro Lake from the west flank of Black Mountain above Lundy Canyon, CA, and north of Tioga Pass. The northern end of the White Mountains and Mono Lake are faintly visible in the center of the picture.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Oliver Lee Memorial SP view of the Sacramento Mountains escarpment on the left and the Tularosa Valley on the right. Oliver Lee Memorial SP is few miles south of Alamogordo in south central New Mexico at the west edge of the Sacramento Mountains with great views of...

2016 Fall WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Gran Quivira at Salinas Pueblo Missions NM, New Mexico. Excavated pueblo ruins are in the foreground and the 17th century Spanish Mission church is in the back. An unusual pueblo because the building material is local limestone instead of the classic sandstone or...

2016 Fall WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Photographers Point on the Pole Creek Trail out of Elkhart Park above Fremont Lake and Pindedale, WY. Photographers Point is a 4.5 mile hike and one of the few day hiking destinations with views of the Wind River granitic high country.

Fall 2016 WY/CA/AZ/NM Trip, Green River Lake at sunrise on the northwest side of the Wind River Range, WY. The beginning of the Green River.