High Sierra backpacking and landscape photography in Dusy Basin

By Scott Sady   We just finished the second annual July 4th backpacking trip in the High Sierra. For me, I prefer to celebrate America by spending time out in her wilds as opposed to watching things blow up. Monique and I and various friends have made it a point to hit the trail for …

Olympic National Park back to Reno – Aliner camping part 3 of 3

by Scott and Monique part 3 of 3 The last leg of our journey had us leaving northern Oregon and heading to the Hoh Rain forest. This was a small, but scenic area. Mossy, yet hot and sunny while we were there. Not very rainforest-like at all. While the only real accessible parts of any …

Aliner trailer camping along the Oregon coast – part 2

by Scott part 2 of 3 After leaving Jedediah Smith redwoods in northern California, we headed to the Oregon Coast. This was all new area to me, and in hindsight, we didn’t spend nearly enough time here. The Oregon coast is to me, an idealized, romanticized version of the California coast, only without the crowds, …

Aliner trailer camping and photography on the Northern California Coast-part 1

by Scott part 1 of 3 My original plan was to head to Utah and Arizona and hike and photograph the slot canyons, but after finding most of the trails I was interested in limited to less than 15 people (and completely booked up) we decided to head to Olympic National Park in Washington state, …

High Sierra backpacking in Humphreys Basin and Piute Pass

We didn’t get out into the backcountry last year because we had such a busy summer and I vowed that will never happen again. Here is the first of several trip reports of photography expeditions from this year’s adventures and I’m sure there are more to come. I’ll break this down into two sections, a …