#Sierra Buttes

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Upper and Lower Sardine Lakes, Tahoe NF

The Sierra Buttes with a healthy amount of springtime snowpack overlooking golden reflections in Upper and Lower Sardine Lakes in Tahoe National Forest at sunset.

By Optimal Focus Photography

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Small pines fighting for a foothold in some rough shale rocks along the hiking trail to the Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout in Sierra County California. I captured this image in late day golden hour light as I descended the trail on this amazing hike last summer.

As the top is at 8500 feet, it's a later season hike. I tried it two years ago in mid-June and didn't make it, lost the trail in the snow on the way down (still don't know how that happened), and ended up trekking much longer than I planned on trekking, for a short time wondering if I'd taken an unplanned camping trip. Prints and merch available: https://buff.ly/3GXUFnQ

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Sierra Buttes

above Sierra City, California

photo: Hans Ostrom

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Sand covered secrets

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I 🫶🏻 you, Death Valley

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❤️Sierra Skye❤️

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Kissing leads to necking and necking leads to more necking and more necking leads to screaming and rolling around! No no no no!

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Small pines fighting for a foothold in some rough shale rocks along the hiking trail to the Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout in Sierra County California. I captured this image in late day golden hour light as I descended the trail on this amazing hike. In my Etsy shop: https://buff.ly/3OQoCuk

Prints and merch on demand: https://buff.ly/3GXUFnQ

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The Big Dipper behind he Sierra Buttes, near Sierra City, California. The Dipper's handle is more or less vertical, on the left.

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I will be writing a whole post on near-future global crisis books and how the genre is just rough and everyone should stop trying to write it and promote some nonfiction instead (once I actually finish this damn book) but I will say, shout out to the one chapter with the kayaker in SGV. LA does suck and we should rip it out and try all over again, so true.

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Mount Whitney, California

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Merry Casual Sex Day

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Wrapping up an academic year

I started my week in DC for a White House AI summit, and so did my Washington Monument photo ritual… Back in Sacramento, the executive team had a two-day planning meeting, and we also celebrated Deputy Chancellor Daisy Gonzales who is transitioning to lead the California Student Aid Commission: *** It was also a time to honor Juneteenth, a federal holiday to commemorate the ending of slavery…