Status Updates From The High Sierra: A Love Story

Desolation is for kids, take Hwy 89 from Tahoe. Lake Aloha reservoir from 1875. Day permits can be obtained at Forest Service. The meterorite showers are a riot. Sequoia are huge and Foxtails pines strong. Famous Artists are Wiliam Keith, Chiura Obata, Cedric Wright, Ansel Adasm, Galen Rowell, and Tom killian

Eating while backpacking in a lightning storm is like like taking communion, spiritual food and memorable

Hetch Hetchy, a drowned yosemite, was built too high. He calls it the murdered sister. Save the other yosemites, though I wonder why Kim doesn't like Yosemite park. Wateris Water there is life. Mt Whitney should be Mt Muir, Whiteney was a rich bureaucrat not an environmentalist.

chickadee syncopation is now in my head and science as a devotion.Loving the slow processof sky island/fellffield formation and animals as sacred in the sancturary of the High Sierra

Names cast a spell or mood

Granite looms large which is silica, feldspar, hornblende. Quartz are crystals formed by slowing cooling underground Lake Tahoe is a mixture, I think, metamorphic.
LSD as medication changes brain chemistry, he says temporarily. Natives painted pictrographs and etched petroglyphs while on a psychedilic.
Glaciers formed basins which from in the High Sierra is due to freeze-thaw cycle of water and thinner ice.