Random Camping Pictures

[cmayer31]

Hi everyone, it's been a long time since I posted, so I thought that I'd share some random camping photos. These ones are from Mammoth in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. This has turned into a yearly trip for some of my good friends and I. I've been skiing / hiking in Mammoth even before I could walk, my dad carried me in a pack ;) but Mammoth still blows me away with its beauty and vast terrain. Anyhow, on to the pictures :)

These first pictures are from Rainbow Falls:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMG_0030.jpg
See the rainbow?
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMG_0035.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMG_0045.jpg
There's actually some pretty fun fishing down by the base of the falls. It's like taking a freezing shower when you get too close, but it was fun to catch and release for a while.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/Rainbow.jpg

More in the next post. :)

[cmayer31]

These were taken while on a long hike into the back country. We ended up at Shadow Lake which is one of my favorite mountain lakes ever. There are just a few:

On the way up:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMG_0077.jpg

At the mouth of the lake. There were some gorgeous waterfalls as we climbed, but I didn't get pictures that did them justice.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMG_0090.jpg

And the lake itself:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMG_0093.jpg

It's a crummy picture, but these are the falls that we hiked along for a couple of miles:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMG_0083.jpg

[shais_mom]

well what I've seen so far is
GORGEOUS!:)
waits patiently for the next round..... ;)

[cmayer31]

well what I've seen so far is
GORGEOUS!:)
waits patiently for the next round..... ;)

Sadly I don't have a whole lot of pictures from Mammoth. Most of the time we were on the move trying to get as much daylight as possible. I do have some from Utah last weekend, but I haven't cropped or edited them at all. I'll resize and post those too.

[shais_mom]

:cool:
:D
looking foward to them

[cmayer31]

This might cause picture overload, but here are the ones from Utah in no particular order:

The road into Zion National Park from the east. This is the big window and the road actually runs through a mile long tunnel:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1323.jpg
I love desert storms and the cloud patterns caused by them:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1422.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1373.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1404.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1349.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1377.jpg

[cmayer31]

This last set was taken heading into and in Bryce Canyon.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1409.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1418.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1433.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1426.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1477.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1460.jpg

[cmayer31]

And the last set of just random pictures:
In Zion
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1394.jpg
Another trail that we were on heading to some waterfalls, but I forgot the name:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1307.jpg

And poor Frankie in her own little camp cell while I packed the truck to move from Navajo Lake to Duck Crek, I mean creek. :)
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/cmayer31/Camping%20Share/IMGP1309.jpg

Amy has some much better pictures of Utah here. (http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=131274)

[Glacier]

Beautiful! I love waterfalls!

[lizbud]

Absolutely breath taking scenery there. :) Just gorgeous. Thanks for
sharing these pictures. :)

[jackie]

Great photos!

Must have been even more stunning in real life.

[Alysser]

Wow, those pictures are really breath-taking. What an expeirence!

[pitc9]

WOW! :eek:
Great pictures!!

[popcornbird]

Beautiful!!!! Where exactly is Mammoth? Whenever we visit the Sierra Nevada area, it is always Yosemite, and back. I *love* Yosemite, but I would love to see other parks in the area. We're hoping to go to Kings Canyon National Park some day, but I'd love to know more about Mammoth too. I just love exploring such beautiful regions. How far is it from Yosemite?

[Laura's Babies]

I can not believe the beauty of these places and YOU were THERE? :eek:
AWESOME!!

[lvpets2002]

:eek: OMG the pics were just so Great.. Aweesome of Mother Nature at her Best.. Great pics & many thanks..

[wolf_Q]

Your photos turned out beautiful! :) I want to visit Rainbow Falls someday, it looks absolutely breathtaking. The ones you took of Zion and Bryce are great too. Poor little Frankie in her camp cell. ;) Nebo and Keva looked pretty pitiful in theirs too.

[zippy-kat]

Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon... isn't that the Best Friends area? Did you get to go there?

Great pictures! :cool:

[Marigold2]

GREAT PICTURES I LOOKED AT THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN.

[shais_mom]

wow
those are AWESOME pics Craig! :D
lol
@ Frankie :D

[AbbyMom]

Great pictures! I love Bryce Canyon and Zion. Hubby and I have been there twice.

For those of you who haven't visited yet...make plans now. Its unspoiled beauty probably won't be unspoiled forever....

[KittyGurl]

Those pictures are absolutly goreous! :)

[.sarah]

Gorgeous! I am totally jealous! If I could visit anywhere in the US, it would be somewhere like that, where I could hike mountains and camp out.