Anticipating an upcoming backcountry trip, I decided to spend a few days in the high country at the beginning of July, partly to photograph and partly to begin adapting to the elevation. (That trip will begin at over 10,000' of elevation.)
I camped just outside the eastern boundary of the park along the Tioga Pass Road since the Tuolumne Meadows campground was still closed while construction work was being completed. Because of new park access regulations I was able to head over Tioga Pass and into the park (the boundary was only five minutes from my camp) as long as I got in before 6:00AM... which wasn't a problem since I wanted to start photographing nearly an hour earlier. I was also able to reinter the park after 2:00 and work the late-day light.
With a closed campground and entrance restrictions (and the early high country season), at times it felt like I had Tuolumne Meadows and nearby locations to myself, especially in the early morning — and what a rare experience that was!
Here's an initial set of photographs from the visit. (These link to my Flickr account, but you can also see them — and read about them — as they appear on [/url], on Flickrmy website over the next few weeks.
Anticipating an upcoming backcountry trip, I decided to spend a few days in the high country at the beginning of July, partly to photograph and partly to begin adapting to the elevation. (That trip will begin at over 10,000' of elevation.)
I camped just outside the eastern boundary of the park along the Tioga Pass Road since the Tuolumne Meadows campground was still closed while construction work was being completed. Because of new park access regulations I was able to head over Tioga Pass and into the park (the boundary was only five minutes from my camp) as long as I got in before 6:00AM... which wasn't a problem since I wanted to start photographing nearly an hour earlier. I was also able to reinter the park after 2:00 and work the late-day light.
With a closed campground and entrance restrictions (and the early high country season), at times it felt like I had Tuolumne Meadows and nearby locations to myself, especially in the early morning — and what a rare experience that was!
Here's an initial set of photographs from the visit. (These link to my Flickr account, but you can also see them — and read about them — as they appear on [/url], on Flickrmy website over the next few weeks.
Anticipating an upcoming backcountry trip, I decided to spend a few days in the high country at the beginning of July, partly to photograph and partly to begin adapting to the elevation. (That trip will begin at over 10,000' of elevation.)
I camped just outside the eastern boundary of the park along the Tioga Pass Road since the Tuolumne Meadows campground was still closed while construction work was being completed. Because of new park access regulations I was able to head over Tioga Pass and into the park (the boundary was only five minutes from my camp) as long as I got in before 6:00AM... which wasn't a problem since I wanted to start photographing nearly an hour earlier. I was also able to reinter the park after 2:00 and work the late-day light.
With a closed campground and entrance restrictions (and the early high country season), at times it felt like I had Tuolumne Meadows and nearby locations to myself, especially in the early morning — and what a rare experience that was!
Here's an initial set of photographs from the visit. (These link to my Flickr account, but you can also see them — and read about them — as they appear on [/url], on Flickrmy website over the next few weeks.
