More On the Subject of Autumn

This weekend, while in Seattle, I realized that I have managed to prolong the usually short-lived autumn color experience.

I started back in late September with the first real inklings of alpine fall as tundra plants began to turn yellow and red.

A few weeks later I made it to the eastern Sierra twice during the first part of October for the peak of the aspen season.

In late October I took a one-day trip to Yosemite Valley to see the dogwoods turn red and to find an astonishing display of yellows and golds on the Valley floor.

Last weekend I was again surprised by fall color, this time in the Pacific Northwest.

If I’m lucky there is still one round to go as what passes for fall color arrives in the San Francisco Bay area. Yes, there is fall color here, though you have to look for it.
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About

I started this blog back in 2002 or so for several reasons, including the following:

To archive and display photography from my outdoor adventures – mostly in California, but also in Alaska, The Yukon, and British Columbia. (These days my main photography web site is G Dan Mitchell Photography.)
To share stories from my hiking, backpacking, skiing and other trips.
To post and save links to interesting stories on the outdoors, the environment, and related topics.
To publish some information that I think might be useful to others, including my gear list (Equipage) and some trail guides (Trails) and trip descriptions.

NOTE:

This site is no longer actively maintained, though it is monitored. My “Dan’s Outside” website was very active some years ago, but I eventually transferred much of my online material to my photography website at http://www.gdanmitchell.com/.

For now the material on this site remains for archival purposes only. Eventually it may be removed.

Thanks,

G Dan Mitchell

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