The high Sierra with glaciated granite mountains bathed in California sunshine.

Many talented climbers and writers have penned their appreciation: John Muir, George Brewer, Josiah Whitney, Clarence King, Norman Clyde, Chuck Pratt, Tom Frost, John Salathe, Yvonne Chouinard, Alan Bard, David Brower and Galen Rowell to name a few. They have all been my inspiration to return again and again, more summits are calling me. Mountains and Rivers without End (Gary Snyder- another mountaineer to inspire).