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.

Some of the most interesting scenery in the mountains is under our feet. We walk over miniature landscapes as we travel. These lodgepole pine needles were in the glacially carved Evolution Valley.

#1 Vernal Fall