Clearing Autumn Snow Storm – Eastern Sierra Near Mount Tom. Sierra Nevada, California. October 4, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Autumn snow flurries surround the peaks of the eastern Sierra near Mount Tom and Round Valley as an early fall storm clears.
As I began my return drive from my early-October “aspen hunting” expedition into the area above Bishop, California in the eastern Sierra Nevada a windy storm that had dropped several inches of snow earlier that day was beginning to clear. Rather than taking highway 395 north toward Sherwin Summit I decided to follow the older road up from Round Valley. As I neared the top of this road and looked back I saw this view of lingering snow flurries over nearby peaks and, in the distance, Mount Tom.
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I love this photograph, Dan. Very dramatic. I’ve never been fortunate enough to be there during a storm. I have followed the geocache to the site of Ansel Adam’s famous Mt. Tom’s clearing storm photo and photographed it in a variety of conditions. Could it be that I’m a wimp when it comes to driving on that side during the winter conditions?
Awesome photo.
Thanks for the comment, Rosemary. You are one up on me – I’ve never been to the precise spot where that photograph was made, though I think of it (and a friend of mine who was in a “relocation camp” during WWII as a child) every time I pass Manzanar.
Dan