wmpe2000: Angelica lineariloba - Sierra angelica or Poison angelica seen in the Sierra Nevada mountains
wmpe2000: Yampah - Eriogonum nudum in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains
wmpe2000: Rule 1 - read the water before crossing - a nice runout pool, a clockwise current was noted, if one should fall or be swept downriver in higher water
wmpe2000: Rock Creek at elevation 10,300 feet - 3139 meters
wmpe2000: the guide demonstrating our last crossing
wmpe2000: the tame first crossing of Rock Creek
wmpe2000: Sierra Mountain Center wilderness class at Mosquito Flat in the Sierra Nevadas - water crossing skills
wmpe2000: Sierra Nevada Mountains rising in the distance
wmpe2000: White Mountain Wilderness
wmpe2000: Lake Crowley a reservoir created by building the Long Valley Dam of the Owens River and as a consequence ending farming in the Owen's Valley in the early 1900s - Owens Valley's water is sent to Los Angeles
wmpe2000: Sierra Nevadas Mountains, Alabama Hills, Owens Valley all resulting from fault block and basin and range stretching
wmpe2000: Sierra Nevada mountains - view of Mt. Whitney- highest peak in the lower US at 14,505 feet seen from Lone Pine, California
wmpe2000: Little Colorado River Gorge limestone at the edge of the Colorado Plateau on the Navajo Nation
wmpe2000: the Little Colorado River Gorge incised into the Colorado Plateau runs for 57 miles to the confluence of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon National Park
wmpe2000: pinus edulis casting the a valuable shadow in the high desert
wmpe2000: Psilostrophe sparsiflora - Greenstem paperflower
wmpe2000: Kaibab Limestone cliffs overlying the exposed Toroweap Formation and Coconino sandstone - the Litttle Colorado River runs at the source and mouth with 300 miles of braided washes that seasonally flow with snow melt and precipitation
wmpe2000: Four-wing saltbush - Atriplex canescens
wmpe2000: Colorado Plateau and Little Colorado River Gorge at Lee Canyon viewpoint at the Begay jewelry stand
wmpe2000: Colorado River from the South Rim - Navajo Point
wmpe2000: Ericameria nauseosa - Rubber Rabbitbrush
wmpe2000: Cercocarpus ledifolius - Mountain Mahogany
wmpe2000: Juniperus osteosperma
wmpe2000: rufous-crowned sparrow
wmpe2000: wake up calls and breakfast chorus at the campgrounds