High Country and High Sierra Camps

Some of my favorite places in Yosemite are on the High Sierra Loop trip through the High Sierra camps: Tuolumne, Glen Aulin, May Lake, Sunrise, Merced Lake, and Vogelsang. Here's a brief photo tour of some of the sights from the camps and trails along the way in the order of the seven day loop trip.

Aquatic Buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilus) actually blooms underwater. As lake levels of Washburn lake drop during the late summer, its flowers may reach the surface as seen here. Copyright ©2004, James McGrew.

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Aquatic Buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilus) actually blooms underwater. As lake levels of Washburn lake drop during the late summer, its flowers may reach the surface as seen here. Copyright ©2004, James McGrew.

aquatic buttercup ranunculus aquatilus

$"Patterns" A classic exfoliation dome between Merced Lake and Vogelsang. Overlying granitic material unloads and fractures like layers of an onion. Such layers eventually "exfoliate" and spall off in rock falls, thereby releasing pressure and causing more unloading in the underlying rock. The process perpetuates the dome like shapes throughout Yosemite's middle elevations.$

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