Focus-stacked white bark pine that appeared to be on its last legs. Looked very brown and only had a little green. Such a cool tree.
Trail to Grizzly Meadow looking back towards our campsite in the distant granites.
Lupine, flax and sage and a great view of Emigrant Meadow Lake.
I love this view. In the foreground is the granodiorite of Fremont Lake, heavily oxidized. The rest of of granitic rock in the distance is the Topaz Lake…
Oxidizing Fremont Lake granodiorite.
Eric for scale. And High Emigrant Lake in the far background.
Lupine galore!
Pretty lupine and phlox.
Grizzly Peak. Apparently it is entirely composed of Valley Springs formation date to 24-27Ma. These rhyoltic tuffs were lifely erupted from large volcanic…
Grizzly Peak in teh background with Fremont Lake granodiorite in the foreground which likely about 95Ma (slightly older than Topaz Lake granodiorite). Also of…
Erratics on the polished Fremont Lake granodiorite. Looking towards Snow Lake.
Weathering granitic erratic on top of glacially polished granodiorite. So cool!
Weathering granitic erratic on top of glacially polished granodiorite. Fishing reel for scale.
A photo for relative dating exercises in class!
Eric for scale. Erratics on polished granodiorite that have been cross-cut by a vein of ?
Such a great relative dating photo.
Sneaking-up on Grizzly Meadow lake.
Here's the main channel into Grizzly Meadow. At this point the intermittent stream goes sub-surface because the runoff from this year's snow pack was so…
Grizzly Meadow lake with Grizzly Peak in teh background. The mosquitos were HORRIBLE here. Even with a brisk 15mph breeze they would not leave us alone. So we…
