#1 Vernal Fall

In the summer of 1988 I hiked the John Muir Trail, which travels 221 miles from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney. I took photographs along the trail and over the next year and a half did a suite of 17 etchings of this Sierra Nevada backpack.

At 12,000 feet, this was our highest camp. Granite and snow dominate this land high above the tree line.