#Sierra Nevada

[lisselundin]

Camping in the Eastern Sierra

#eastern sierra #sierra nevada #california #camping #outdoors #mountains #go fast campers

[mindianajonescreatives]

📍South Lake Tahoe, California

#california #lake tahoe #travel #south lake tahoe #mountains #nature #meadow #marsh #winter #landscape #photography #sierra nevada #peaceful #snow

[aimeekb]

Heading up the El Capitan trail in Yosemite

#el capitan #Yosemite #it’s me #in my element #aimeekb #lesbians who hike #California #hiking #nature #forest #mountains #adventure #explore #travel #travel photography #sierra nevada #winter in Yosemite #north face

[vintagecamping]

Adventure complete! Arriving back to their truck after 16 days on the John Muir Trail.

Sierra Nevada, California

1990

#vintage camping #campfire light #california #sierra nevada #john muir trail #hiking #history #camping #travel #1990s

[thomaswaynewolf]

#autumn #fall #sierra nevada #mountains #lakes #adventure #travel #my photo #southwest #photography #aesthetic #landscape #alpine #hike

[pallanophblargh]

The giant trees portion of my vacation is over (waves a tearful goodbye to the sequoias) and it’s safe to say that Sequoia and Kings Canyon National parks were the most beautiful place I’ve ever been. There are even more photos on the Nikon, but those will have to wait until I’ve gotten home. I only have a day and some change to explore the Bay Area before catching the train back home. I wish I had more time, even if I’ve already been gone for a good chunk of time.

#trees #landscape photography #wilderness #giant sequoias #sierra nevada #mountains #montane forest #sequoia and kings canyon national parks #waterfall #y’all I basically shed tears the whole time #it was exactly what I pictured in my mind #I kept saying wow over and over and I wouldn’t be surprised if j was starting to get tired of hearing it by the end #finally ticked this off the bucket list #would absolutely go again #now I need to make the most of this day and a half in California before heading back to the Midwest #it’s intimidating haha

[mapsontheweb]

Mountain ranges called Sierra Nevada.

by granadamaps

#maps #igsourced #granadamaps #sierra nevada

[disease]

"WINTER SUNRISE" SIERRA NEVADA FROM LONE PINE ANSEL ADAMS | CALIFORNIA, 1944 [gelatin silver print | 15 x 19 1/8"]

#ansel adams #landscape #nature #film photography #analog #black and white #monochrome #sierra nevada #california #40s #american #modern art #photography #u

[compare-and-conform]

Source of most frustration.

#me #its meeee #comfy #cozy #pop punk #blink #Sierra Nevada #girls who are short #girls with glasses #girls with nose rings #Spotify #take off your pants and jacket

[homeisaplaceinthehills]

Edén Ochoa Iniesta

Sierra Nevada, 2024

#Sierra Nevada #Spain #Granada #Andalucía #fir #forest #snow #winter #cold #photography #nature #landscapes #landscape #original photographers #photographer on tumblr #Edén Ochoa Iniesta #personal #travel #light #atmosphere #aesthetic #places #2024 #pioforsky

[pazzesco]

Kauri trees aren't only old but also enormous. A Giant Kauri tree in Waitakere Ranges Regional Park near Auckland, New Zealand.

In search of the Old Ones: Where to find the world's longest-lived trees

The Fortingall Yew. In a small church yard in Perthshire sits a yew tree which has been growing for thousands of years. Experts haven’t been able to gauge the exact age of this incredible tree but it’s thought to be somewhere between 3,000 and 9,000 years old.

Of some 140,000 species of woody plants on the planet, only about 25-30 can, without human assistance, produce specimens that reach the age of 1,000 years or older. Of those millennials, only about 10 can reach 2,000 years. And of those supermortals – all of them conifers – only three can produce trimillennials. Only one can produce quadrimillennials.

Humans have a long history of venerating elderflora (old trees) and megaflora (big trees). They have an equally long history of burning and felling them

The gnarled, slow-growing Bristlecone pine of the Great Basin are thought to be some of the oldest living trees on the planet

In California, one of these hardy pines has survived for 4,800 years

A Fitzroya Cupressoides tree located in Chile’s Alerce Costero National Park (above🔼), is more than 5000 years old.

That would make this tree, known as the Alerce Milenario, the world’s oldest known tree.

In Sierra Nevada. a number of Mariposa Grove's Giant Sequoias have been determined to be over 3,000 years old.

#trees #dendrology #bristlecone pine #great basin #mariposa grove #sierra nevada #giant sequoia #giant sequoias #kauri tree #new zealand #alerce costero #chile #fitzroya cupressoides #bristlecone #megaflora #Sequoiadendron giganteum

[chlobody]

Mobius Arch - Alabama Hills, CA

#rock formation #mobius arch #alabama hills #california #sierra mountains #sierra nevada #nudemodel #nude art #artistic nude #artsy nude #nudephotography #nature lovers #natural #nature fairy #nature #nature nude #naked into the wilderness #naked hiking #nude pose #art nude #naked in nature #nude in nature #natural body #nature girl #nature girls #model #naturist #nude photoshoot #mountaingirl #nature nymph

[henk-heijmans]

Gnarled tree, Sierra Nevada, 1950 - by Donald Ross (1912 - 1999), American

#Donald Ross #Sierra Nevada

[vintagecamping]

A young man poses at the entrance to the Sequoia National Park Trail Crest on Mt Whitney.

Sierra Nevada, California

1963

#vintage camping #campfire light #sierra nevada #mt whitney #sequoia national park #history #camping #hiking #1960s

[thomaswaynewolf]

#the eastern Sierra Nevadas #onion valley #Sierra Nevada mountains #Sierra Nevada #adventure #travel #my photo #California #mountains #aesthetic #photography #landscape

[bettergeology]

Remarkable rocks of Pine Creek Pass, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

Pine Creek Pass is a less-used trailhead in the Eastern Sierra of California. It's a steep slog of about 3,500 vertical feet in about 6 miles, ending at just over 11,000 feet. The scenery is remarkable, but so are the rocks.

This an unnamed pinnacle of dark gabbro which has been intruded by younger granite bands. The gray cliff to the right is intruded by the same younger granite bands!

Fractures in the gabbro of the stripy mountain filled with feldspar crystals (formed when liquid). The lighter band is offset slightly by the white vein, which shows lateral movement across that vein when it was forming. These are called en-echelon fractures.

Younger granite intruding (as bands) older granodiorite and a xenolith eclogite inclusion - a chunk of unrelated rock carried by the original melted granodiorite (complex relationships here!).

Granodiorite polished smooth by the abrasive action of glaciers during the last Ice Age (~21,000 years ago in this area).

Outcrop of glacially polished granodiorite.

Glacially polished granodiorite with a thick intrusion (dike) of pink granite that has been offset laterally by a younger and thinner dike of different granite.

#geology #photography #rocks #sierra nevada #high sierra #granite #eastern sierra #structural geology