" ... like the creases in an aged face. "

from Yosemite Trails

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Chase's uncanny ability to personalize the landscape, while intensely

compelling, is delivered with a casual offhandedness.

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" Our trail lay now over a rough plateau thinly timbered with pines who's foliage

was of a black and serious cast. These wind-swept table-lands, open to every

weather, have often a peculiarly stark and forbidding appearance; the blazing 

sun and withering winds seem to have bleached the very granite to a shivering

complexion, and the shallow draws and contours, marked with dark timber are

drawn in lines like the creases in an aged face. "

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photo on a Sierra trail by j. develyn

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