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:

See the rainbow?


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.


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:


At the mouth of the lake. There were some gorgeous waterfalls as we climbed, but I didn't get pictures that did them justice.


And the lake itself:


It's a crummy picture, but these are the falls that we hiked along for a couple of miles:

[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]

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:

I love desert storms and the cloud patterns caused by them:

[cmayer31]

This last set was taken heading into and in Bryce Canyon.

[cmayer31]

And the last set of just random pictures:
In Zion

Another trail that we were on heading to some waterfalls, but I forgot the name:


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.


Amy has some much better pictures of Utah here.

[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!
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?
AWESOME!!