A 14 mm lens enabled double star trails over my campsite at Bighorn Plateau, which is on the John Muir Trail in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The campsite was pretty, but we were disappointed to discover the pond was full of bug larvae and therefore undrinkable. I bribed my hiking partner to hike 2.5 miles and get drinking water for us with a battery charge.

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Seen as the clouds cleared after a night of camping in a snowstorm at Glacier Point.

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Seen as the clouds cleared after a night of camping in a snowstorm at Glacier Point.

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Just gotta snow camp.

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I recently made a trip to Yosemite. I snowshoed in from Badger Pass and I camped in the snow at Glacier Point. I didn't get the main photo I wanted, but I did get a good number of other photos that I liked. I'll try to post them.

I knew that the moon would rise between Clouds Rest and Half Dome as viewed from Tunnel View. I was surprised at the lack of other tripods set up at Tunnel View; normally it's packed with photographers. There was a guy with a 100-400 lens who walked away right before the moon rose; he missed out, I guess.

Horsetail Falls, better known as "the firefall," is visible on the left.

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