Winter Arrives

Winter arrived in the High Sierra yesterday morning.

A dusting of snow frosted spent maple and aspen leaves at North Lake Tahoe. The area was already past peak, though the light snow made it official. You missed it.

On Interstate 80, orange black oak cover the hillsides between Dutch Flat and Alta. Black oak are peaking between 3,000 and 5,000′ throughout the western Sierra. Yosemite is glorious with them.

Peak color has now descended to the Sierra foothills and is filling the Central Valley with warm joy.