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Garnet Mountain (Benchmark)

2022/03/152018/07/14

The summit of Garnet Mountain, Laguna Mountains, California.

Story and photos from a hike to Garnet Mountain, a peak on the “100 Peaks List” of the Sierra Club San Diego chapter.

Mono Basin after an early winter storm

2019/12/112017/09/21

Sunlight breaks through clouds over Crater Mountain after an early winter storm

Over night, the incoming storm that had prevented me from reaching the summit of Mount Dana (and instead led me to a quite lovely loop hike including Dog Lake, Lembert Dome and the Tuolumne Meadows) had brought rain and snow to Yosemite, the Mono Basin and perhaps into western Nevada as well. The landscape looked fantastic with the clouds and the fresh snow – from a mere dusting at the transition between sagebrush steppe, and solid, gleaming white at the higher elevations. It was irresistible.

Monsoonal Moods at the Laguna Crest

2022/03/262017/07/27

Crepuscular rays shine from behind a cloud hovering over the Laguna Crest, seen from the Garnet Peak Trail, Mount Laguna, California, July 2017.

Ten landscape photos from San Diego’s Laguna Mountains as monsoonal moisture reaches Southern California.

Stormy Windansea at Sunset

2022/04/112017/01/04

Waves roll in on a stormy evening at Windansea Beach, La Jolla, California, December 2016.

Returning to Windansea ten days after the sunny low-tide photos. It was raining more or less steadily – rather difficult conditions for long exposure photography because it’s next to impossible to keep the filter/lens free from raindrops, and boy do they show on wide angle photos…

Rainy Day Drive

2021/08/112016/05/05

looking across the vast pastures of former Rancho San Jose Del Valle from the Lake Henshaw Vista, Palomar Mountain, California

Impressions from a rainy day early in April. I guess you know it by now – weather moving through San Diego County triggers an instant desire in me to get out. Dramatic clouds, light playing on the landscape, being in the fog (or rather, clouds) … I hope you can see why I love these conditions, in the photos below.

Cloudy Cardiff

2021/09/212016/04/29

The rock "tabletops" at the tide pools of Tabletop Reef, Solana Beach, California; April 2016.

Photos from a brief evening visit to South Cardiff State Beach (Seaside State Beach) during a stormy and breezy day earlier in April. I don’t know where the last two weeks went, it feels like I made these photos three days ago, and I’ve built a terrible backlog of images to process and publish by now… (but what else is new?;-)