Yosemite Sunrise Desert photography Puzzles are the perfect downtime

Puzzles are the perfect downtime activity for friends & family

because if I was looking at the mountain from any other angle

put all my backpacking gear in a safe place under a tree that would hopefully help keep it dry

Not just the waterfall

Hoping not to crash on the way up

Yosemite Sunrise Desert photography Puzzles are the perfect downtimeA sunrise I had to wake up at 2am to see. When ideas for fall color were being tossed around in my head, this one kept coming up. The river, El Capitan, Bridal Veil Falls, it looked amazing, something I really wanted to add to my portfolio. For about a month, I was constantly checking the Fall color conditions. When the time seemed right, I had two days that I could make it down there, one had no clouds in the forecast, the other said clouds with a