by Emil Morhardt

Another shot of the high Sierra above South Lake near Bishop, California, taken between rain events at the end of July, 2014. The snowy patches on the north-facing slopes are all that is left of the once much larger glaciers. Otherwise there’s no mountain snow left and precious little runoff at a time of year the runoff would normally have peaked a month ago and still be going strong. There’s a large fire in progress in Yosemite in the direction we’re looking, but so far the smoke is blowing the other way.