Sierra Nevada Adventures

Though their name in Spanish means simply “the snowy range” no less an authority on the subject than naturalist John Muir thought a better, more apt name would be the Range of Light. Certainly the incomparable peaks of Sierra Nevada have been a beacon to many an explorer since humans first laid eyes on them thousands of years ago. And while their sun-lit iridescence is due to the unusually light-colored granite of the range’s many towering faces (the result of countless years of being polished by glaciers) their transcendent natural beauty has a light all its own.

The Sierra Nevada stretch 400 miles north to south between California’s central valley in the west and Arizona’s Great Basin in the east. They are home to many of the most unique and beautiful landscapes in America. Within the Sierra Nevada are awesome glacially scoured canyons like Kings Canyon and the Hetch Hetchy Valley, peaks such as Mt. Whitney* (the highest point in the contiguous United States), groves of Giant Sequoia, the earth’s largest living thing, and national parks like the astounding Yosemite. Truly visitors could spend a lifetime in this divine place and only see a fraction of its wonders.