g'day from downtown sierra city...

i just uploaded these photos and a head appeared around the doorway to say 'ribs are up', so i might go partake and see if i can get back on here in a bit...




ribs were good, but i'm too full...

there's been more and more clear sections of trail... you can just see the trail coming down this hill. i loved the snow, but it's hard to make miles when you're climbing speed bumps of snow or losing the trail again as it disappears into the white... it's very tiring too.




lots of the ridgelines i've been following have been these fabulous volcanic extrusions, rugged and craggy and improbably shaped...




tragically my lens has some kind of weird spot in it, so the sky always has this dark mark... i'm constantly amazed by the flowers, sometimes i'm wading knee deep in flowers.




there have been so many lakes in this last section. initially they were snowbound but mostly thawed (unlike those of the high sierra), but the snow is disappearing, and today i had my first practically snow free day...