Monique and I spent 5 amazing days in the remote Bear Lakes Basin of the California High Sierra starting at the Pine Creek trailhead. We did this just before I rushed out to Great Basin National Park to photograph Comet NEOWISE the next day. Pine Creek trailhead to either Pine Creek Pass or Italy Pass …
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By Scott We headed out to visit the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This monument was recently opened for mining and reduced in size significantly by the Trump administration, so we wanted to get out there before it got too tore up or had access blocked. I had a job to photograph at the Vegas Speedway, …
We took a quick break from a busy summer of wedding photography to visit Lake Aloha in the Desolation Wilderness area in South Lake Tahoe for a quick landscape photography trip. After grabbing our permit online, we parked at Lily lake and headed up from the Glen Alpine trail head. Our first day in to …
by Scott It’s that time again, time for our annual 4th of July backpacking trip report (but we know you all mostly just check in for the pictures,) so here it goes…. This year’s trip was up Pine Creek Pass just north of Bishop, California, in the High Sierra. Pine Creek Pass trailhead is at …
by Scott Welcome back! I have been so focused on our growing wedding photography business that I didn’t get out backpacking at all last year, hence no trip reports or much of anything else posted here in over a year. Now that winter is upon us (sort of) I figured I would do this …
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