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Fall color is a layered cake of emerging color along Coffee Creek in Trinity County. Indian rhubarb (Darmera) are green with emerging touches of yellow and orange-red, bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) are mottled yellow and lime, while Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) top the cake with pink frosting. Jeri Rangel sent us a slice of that […]
Mt. Rose is the Rodney Dangerfield of peaks at Lake Tahoe. It gets no respect. As an extinct volcano, Mt. Rose (10,775′) is the most topographically prominent Nevada peak at Lake Tahoe, yet Freel Peak on the California side is taller (10,881′). More photographed are the smaller Mt. Tallac (9,735′) and Pyramid Peak (9,985′) and more […]
Grasses along Hat Creek near CA-89 and CA-299E are literally shimmering in the afternoon autumn light with broadleaf cattail (Typha latifolia) standing at attention. Black oak remain Just Starting at this elevation. Hat Creek (3,422′) — Just Starting (0-10%)
Matthew Pacheco spent a week in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado and Utah, reporting that a 12-hour drive east of California, it’s looking incredible, right now, especially along Last Dollar Road, County roads 5, 7 and 9 off RT 62 into the Dallas Divide and along Owl Creek Pass, at peak for another week or […]
“Gallimauphry” is a fun word. It means a confused jumble or medley of things. While there’s little confusing about these wonderful photographs and reports, I love using the word when pulling together collections of shots from a given destination. As, when else would you use a word like gallimauphry? In this case, the focus is […]
We received so many photographs and reports from Mono County this past week, that I’ve just now pulled them together. So, apologies for the delay in posting these. Conditions have advanced since these were taken. So, look at the date, to make your own assessment of what it might look like, now. In everyone’s favor, […]
“Pine Creek Canyon” would be more accurately described, were it renamed “Cadmium Yellow Canyon,” during autumn. The combination of crystal-clear air, blue skies, bright sunlight and blooming rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus), golden grasses and emerging yellow-leaved black cottonwood (Populus balsamifera) make it appear as if cadmium sulfide was sprinkled across the canyon. The cottonwood are well short […]
Dog Valley is puttin’ on the dog. Color spotter Clayton Peoples was in search of an old crystal mine in the eastern Sierra foothills (near Reno) where people can pick up crystals — as many as they can carry in a five gallon […]
The LaPorte Road in Plumas County, leading from Quincy, forms a boulevard of deciduous trees that in Mid-October compares to any in California for its beauty. Jeff Luke Titcomb drove it on Sunday, finding native bigleaf maple Near Peak. The sugar maple are close to peaking, as well. Though sugar maples are an exotic specie, […]
There’s a reason California has a bear on its flag. The state was full of bears in the mid 1800s and it still is. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife states that between 30,000 and 40,000 American black bears and one California grizzly bear can be seen in California. The grizzly bear is on […]