A nice view of one of the sheer faces of Looking Glass Rock. This shot can be had from one of the Forest Service Roads that parallel the mountain.
I used the boulder in the foreground to get close to the cliff edge for this shot.
The forest at the cap of the mountain acts like a giant sponge. During especially wet times, that sponge gives up moisture in form of little rivulets that carve their ways through the granite and stain the surface with tannins. I actually got too close to the edge for this photograph and stepped in a slick spot and fell. If I'd not fallen on my back I could very well have gone over the side and added myself to a long list of idiots.
The forest at the cap of the mountain acts like a giant sponge. During especially wet times, that sponge gives up moisture in form of little rivulets that carve their ways through the granite and stain the surface with tannins. I actually got too close to the edge for this photograph and stepped in a slick spot and fell. If I'd not fallen on my back I could very well have gone over the side and added myself to a long list of idiots.
One of the tannin-stained rivulets slicing through the rock.
When I got down to the bottom of the mountain I hiked to a swimming hole where I disrobed and took a plunge in the cold mountain water.
I had this swimming hole all to myself for the duration of my bath.
One last look at the cliffs from another Forest Service Road before I left. If you click on this photo to enlarge it, you will see two things of note: 1: A group of climbers on the cliff face near the top, and 2: the unique "eyebrow" features that are special to Looking Glass Rock and some of the other nearby plutons in the immediate vicinity.
When I got down to the bottom of the mountain I hiked to a swimming hole where I disrobed and took a plunge in the cold mountain water.
I had this swimming hole all to myself for the duration of my bath.
One last look at the cliffs from another Forest Service Road before I left. If you click on this photo to enlarge it, you will see two things of note: 1: A group of climbers on the cliff face near the top, and 2: the unique "eyebrow" features that are special to Looking Glass Rock and some of the other nearby plutons in the immediate vicinity.
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