Rae Lakes – Kit Stolz

Dawn comes to Rae Lakes

Fin Dome over Rae Lakes: Rae Lakes are one of the most accessible of the glacial High Sierra lake chains, so this is a sight many early rising many visitors have seen…blessedly. [Photo via a National Park Service contest on fb, by winner Matt Cooper.]

The Sierras: A lot younger than they look

The Sierra Nevada mountains are nowhere near as old as they look; geologically, they're shockingly young. That's the news from David Perlman, a science writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. The mountains of the Sierra Nevada are still rising, and they're a lot younger than most scientists previously thought. That's the conclusion of Earth scientists inContinue reading “The Sierras: A lot younger than they look”