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Posted: 31 Oct 2013

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Pacific Crest Trail

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Near Webber Lake, California, in the Sierra Nevada north of Donner Pass. The Sierras are getting lower here!

RHH, have particularly liked this photo

7 comments - The latest ones
 slgwv
slgwv club
Thanks!
10 years ago.
 RHH
RHH
Wonderful! Would love to do the whole trail sometime.
10 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
Thanks! We're doing bits and pieces in our backyard, the Sierras in the general area around Lake Tahoe. At this rate we'll finish sometime in the 2100s ;)
10 years ago.
 Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
Okay, I'm missing something "the Sierras are getting lower"? Admittedly I'm getting over a cold and can't think clearly, but can't figure out what that means.
10 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
The peaks (and crest) aren't as tall as farther south! The highest peak in this area is only a little over 9K feet. Even down by Reno there are peaks over 11K--and, of course, in the High Sierra by Bishop you have peaks over 14K feet.
10 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
Somehow I'd humanized and was getting an image of mountains with osteoporosis, which, actually, is what you're saying.
10 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
The southern end of the Sierras is well defined, where they run into the Garlock fault at the edge of the Mojave, but the northern end--not so much. They just peter out. I think of them as ending somewhere around Portola. The Sierra Buttes and 20 Lakes Basin still look like a lower version of the Sierra, what with glacial lakes and granite bedrock, but certainly by the time you get to Lassen you're in the Cascades. The geology has changed markedly! I was struck, the first time I visited Lassen, how much it's like the Cascades farther north. When I was in grad school there was a notion that the Trinity Alps, which also have granite bedrock, are the offset Sierra block, but I don't know what the current status of that idea is.
10 years ago.

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