Saturday 7 June 2014

Yosemite National Park: the High Sierra erratics

The Tioga Road which cuts across Yosemite from west to east is an extraordinary drive into the sub-alpine and alpine zone of the High Sierra.

Glaciers shaped the landscape and I have always been intrigued by erratics, boulders that are stranded and precariously dumped by the retreating ice. Clinging to life among the boulders at Olmsted Point and in the granite cracks are trees which make for wonderful counterpoints to the grey tones of the rock.








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