One of the challenges of driving the west coast is getting past San Francisco without getting funneled into endless freeways. (which are not my idea of a relaxing holiday) On our way home from our last trip we followed the winding Kern river valley and drove north via Lone Pine and Bishop. I hiked up to a paragliding launch near Bishop but the wind didn't cooperate and I ended up hiking back down. From there we took the Tioga pass road back towards the coast through Yosemite National Park. We hadn't driven this way before and it was nice to get a different view of the park. Yosemite Valley is impressive but too touristy for me. We didn't have a lot of time left, and the weather was rainy and probably soon to be snow, but we stopped to stretch our legs at Tenaya Lake.
I had recently read The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson (recommended) so it was interesting to actually be there. The mountains are very different from the Rockies.
There were still the usual suspects around though.
Most of my photographs from here were patterns in the rock and vegetation.
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