The climb up to Sonora Pass and beyond was astonishingly, impossibly beautiful. Unexpected. Made 23 miles. Trail Magic at the pass courtesy of Sleeping Bare. Wildflowers and butterflies are in abundance with a profusion of color.
From Sonora Pass the elevation begins to drop as I walk towards Lake Tahoe. In a few days I will be out of the Sierra Nevadas. The landscape is changing from granitic to volcanic. I have now walked through seven mountain ranges: Laguna, San Jacinto, San Bernardino, San Gabriel, Liebre, Tehachapi and Sierra Nevada. There remains the Klamath Range in California and the Cascade Range in California, Oregon and Washington.
Instead of desert lizards scuttling down the trail in front of me, there are now ground squirrels.
Looking back from Sonora Pass:
Over Sonora Pass:
Snow Field on Sonora Pass:
Shutterbug on the left, Sleeping Bare on the right:
On the way down from Sonora Pass:
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