The Sierra Crest, and a bit of Half Dome

California’s Nice Valley is many issues: some of the essential agricultural areas on the earth, America’s Serengeti Plains the place thousands and thousands of migratory birds spend the winter, and some of the polluted air basins within the nation. The air pollution is a disgrace, inflicting all method of well being issues for individuals who reside right here, and obscuring the unimaginable mountains that ring the valley. Besides on a couple of choose days out of the yr. At the moment was a type of days.

Grey, Purple and Merced Peaks in Yosemite Nationwide Park

We had a reasonably intense storm final night time, and it was adopted up by windy chilly circumstances that cleared the air. I took my customary stroll alongside the Tuolumne River Parkway Path. A bit of the path follows the bluff and on days like this, I get an exquisite panorama of the Sierra Nevada protecting Yosemite Nationwide Park. A zoomed-in look offers a view of Grey, Purple and Merced Peaks within the southern a part of Yosemite (above).
A shift to the north reveals the excessive peaks of the Sierra Crest, together with Mt. Maclure, Rodgers Peak, and Mt. Lyell, three of the upper peaks in Yosemite Nationwide Park (Mt. Dana, the 2nd highest, is not seen). A few of the foreground peaks are fairly well-known as nicely. Mt. Starr King and Sentinel Dome are seen, and on the very left fringe of the photograph is the highest portion of Half Dome! It is arduous to pick, however the CalTopo offers some identification of the completely different peaks. 

Supply: https://caltopo.com/view#ll=37.6344,-120.7662&e=15&t=n&z=9&c=0.31,85.35

There are higher views of Half Dome from the valley flooring (the intersection of Oakdale-Waterford Freeway and Keyes Street is way clearer on days like this). I could not get any footage at this time, however this is one from a distinct day (see some extra at https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2019/02/it-was-that-kind-of-day-half-dome-from.html). An exquisite day.