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.

Pacific chorus frog. All species of frogs in Yosemite have catastrophically crashed in numbers, racing towards extinction and many have already gone locally extinct. This species breeds readily in a wide range of habitats, undergoes metamorphosis in a matter of weeks and is so terrestrial that it can quickly disperse. As a result, its numbers have remained stronger than any other species of frog or toad. However its also disappearing incredibly quickly as a result of pesticides blowing in from the Central Valley, non native species and disease, thinning ozone layer (and increased UV radiation), global warming, acid precipitation to name a few.

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Pacific chorus frog. All species of frogs in Yosemite have catastrophically crashed in numbers, racing towards extinction and many have already gone locally extinct. This species breeds readily in a wide range of habitats, undergoes metamorphosis in a matter of weeks and is so terrestrial that it can quickly disperse. As a result, its numbers have remained stronger than any other species of frog or toad. However its also disappearing incredibly quickly as a result of pesticides blowing in from the Central Valley, non native species and disease, thinning ozone layer (and increased UV radiation), global warming, acid precipitation to name a few.