#high sierra

[mudwerks]

(via Pulp International - Photos of kneeling Hollywood stars)

#Glenn Ford #Gloria Grahame #The Big Heat #film #vintage #noir #1953 #Humphrey Bogart #Ida Lupino #High Sierra #1941

[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

[vintagecamping]

A 1973 Jeep J20 parks wherever it damn well pleases. High Sierra, California 1975

#vintage camping #campfire light #jeep #jeeplove #history #road trips #high sierra #sierra nevada #outdoors #travel

[nearlydark]

Near Soda Springs

#personal #Yosemite #Yosemite National park #Tuolumne meadows #tioga rd #high Sierra #mine

[movieposters1]

#high sierra

[vanwinkle11]

Somewhere in the High Sierra on June 19, 2022

#mountains #hiking #backpacking #trekking #pacific crest trail #pct #john muir trail #jmt #high sierra #sierra nevada #photography #shot on iphone

[slippy-socks]

#need 2 go back to the mountains rn immediately #my art #illustration #plein air #high sierra #california #sierra nevada #trees

[iantuttle]

Unnamed lake, Yosemite high country, 2023.

#yosemite #lake #high sierra

[craigfernandez]

#Humphrey Bogart #High Sierra

[scenephile]

Means he’s free

#high sierra #raoul walsh #ida lupino #humphrey bogart #zero #1941 #film noir #roy #scenephile #movie quotes #film quotes #movie scenes #film scene #movie scene

[cinemajunkie70]

Happy Birthday in the afterlife to Humphrey Bogart!

#humphrey bogart #bogie #Casablanca #the maltese falcon #the big sleep #the african queen #the caine mutiny #the desperate hours #we’re no angels #high sierra #Sabrina #to have and to have not #key largo #the petrified forest #actor #movies

[kkdas]

Starting our hike at Convict Lake. It was a beautiful Sierra day!

#high sierra #convict lake

[pcttrailsidereader]

Before photography, painters provided the only way that the beauty of the Sierra could be shared more broadly.  Imagine living on the East Coast in the middle of the 19th Century and seeing images like those above or those of Albert Bierstadt (http://pcttrailsidereader.com/post/152773096089/german-born-although-he-was-only-one-when-his). The paintings above were the product of Scottish-born William Keith (November 18, 1838 – April 13, 1911), who spent most of his career in California.

Keith became a close friend of fellow Scottish-American John Muir (they were also born the same year). James Mitchell Clarke described their friendship as one “in which deep affection and admiration were expressed through a kind of verbal boxing, counter-jibe answering jibe, counter-insult responding to insult.”

Keith initially arrived in California in 1859 where the job he had hoped for did not materialize, so he set up his own engraving business.  He first studied painting with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, and may have taken watercolor instruction from Elizabeth Emerson, whom he married in 1864. He was influenced by other artists including Albert Bierstadt (see above).

During the 1870s Keith painted a number of six- by ten-foot panoramas, including Kings River Canyon (Oakland Museum … see the bottom image image) and “California Alps” (Mission Inn, Riverside). These competed with paintings of similar size and subject matter by Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Hill.

#Albert Bierstadt #William Keith #Thomas Hill #painters #High Sierra

[nudeartpluspoetry]

Sierra City, California, population 225

(my hometown)

#sierra nevada #small towns #hometowns #sierra city #high sierra

[rwpohl]

#the trouble with angels #ida lupino #1966 #high sierra #duel in the sun #stille liebe #for whom the bell tolls #mädchen in uniform #playing for time #elisabeth II. #tess

[movieposters1]

#high sierra