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In 2005 I backpacked the John Muir Trail in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. It's about 220 miles. The end of the hike we camped below Mount Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 States and 14,496 feet in elevation, which we climbed the next day. Here I positioned a self-timed film camera on a tripod and ran just past the shadow into the daylight. The quality of light in the Sierra is renowned. Very crisp, very pure, and at this altitude the colors really snap. I used a polarizer and an old Canon F1N manual camera, plus Fuji Provia 100 ISO. I scanned the slide on an Epson scanner and touched it up with Adobe CS2 and Elements 5.0. Hope you like it.