July 30, 2006

Emigrant Wilderness, some more pictures

Just in case there's someone else out there who likes granite as much as I do...

Rock wall in the Emigrant Wilderness

For a person like me who loves to walk, the cool thing about the high Sierra is that you can walk in almost any direction you choose. There are almost no thickets or tangles or bogs to impede you. And the rough crystalline surface of the rock gives such good traction that you can walk up some very steep slopes in perfect safety...

Rocky landscape, Emigrant Wilderness
These trees below made me think of those walking trees that the Ents herded in the (book) Lord of the Rings...
Trees in rocky canyon, Emigrant Wilderness

Posted by John Weidner at July 30, 2006 09:51 PM
Comments

Thank you. I adore granite. I would love to have a home with a granite foundation. There are some lovely old homes with them in New Hampshire and Maine.

Posted by: Mrs. Peperium at July 31, 2006 06:16 PM

Thank you. I adore granite. I would love to have a home with a granite foundation. There are some lovely old homes with them in New Hampshire and Maine.

Posted by: Mrs. Peperium at July 31, 2006 06:16 PM

Have you ever seen a bridge made from granite?

http://www.bridgemeister.com/pic.php?pid=1484

Posted by: Mrs. Peperium at July 31, 2006 06:24 PM

That's the oddest looking bridge I've ever seen!

Posted by: John Weidner at July 31, 2006 06:38 PM

It is but it's also charming. The tides and storms flow right through it. They got the idea from a bridge in Scotland. Unfortunately the Nazis blew that one up.

Posted by: Mrs. Peperium at August 3, 2006 05:34 PM
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