Idaho Exposure

Hiking, Climbing, Backpacking, Snowshoeing, Backcountry Skiing. Photos by Thomas Oetzell; idahoexposure.com


Most viewed - Yosemite; Lyell Fork, Merced River, Half Dome, Tuolumne Meadows, July 17, 2010
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IMG_4668.JPG7 viewsRainbow above Lee Vining and Mono Lake from Conway Summit, Highway 395.
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IMG_4761.JPG7 viewsFive hours earlier, we were on the horizon, above the stand of pines, pretty much in exactly the direction the rutted trail is leading back into the photograph.
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IMG_4769.JPG7 viewsFletcher Creek cascades into a hanging valley around 8150', before its final drop to Merced Lake.
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IMG_4828.JPG7 viewsThere always seems to be a resident Marmot at the top of a well traversed summit. It doesn't seem to matter that there is no apparent source of water up here, other than potholes of rapidly evaporating water collected during that last thunderstorm.
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IMG_4838.JPG7 viewsEast, from the summit of Half Dome, snow-covered Banner Peak is the first significant summit from the left with the prominent snowfield high on its north face. Two days earlier, we passed through much of the northeast trending drainage in the foreground which rises to Tuolumne Pass, before dropping into Lyell Canyon where we began our loop.
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IMG_4841.JPG7 viewsThe author on the prow of Half Dome overlooking Yosemite Valley to the west.
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IMG_4845.JPG7 viewsThe Professor on the summit of Half Dome.
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IMG_4867.JPG7 viewsEcho Peaks; Cathedral Range, from .08 miles south of 9700' Cathedral Pass.
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