Tioga Lake "low tide"
Tioga Lake sits just below the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, in California's Sierra Nevada, at just about 3,000 meters of altitude above sea level (just under 10,000 feet). The mountain to the left, directly above the lake, is Mt. Dana, the second-highest peak in Yosemite, at 3,981 meters (13,061 ft.)
Of course an alpine lake can't have a low tide, but this is what it seemed like. This is such a low water year in the High Sierra that all the snow and ice were gone more than a month earlier than normal. I stood on this very spot exactly ONE MONTH LATER than this last year, and the water level was up to the treeline, and some sections of the lake were still frozen over.
Six-shot panorama, hand-held, stitched together in PSE9.
See the comments below for a view of what it looked like one month later in the season the previous year (in contrast, a very GOOD snow year).
Tioga Lake "low tide"
Tioga Lake sits just below the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, in California's Sierra Nevada, at just about 3,000 meters of altitude above sea level (just under 10,000 feet). The mountain to the left, directly above the lake, is Mt. Dana, the second-highest peak in Yosemite, at 3,981 meters (13,061 ft.)
Of course an alpine lake can't have a low tide, but this is what it seemed like. This is such a low water year in the High Sierra that all the snow and ice were gone more than a month earlier than normal. I stood on this very spot exactly ONE MONTH LATER than this last year, and the water level was up to the treeline, and some sections of the lake were still frozen over.
Six-shot panorama, hand-held, stitched together in PSE9.
See the comments below for a view of what it looked like one month later in the season the previous year (in contrast, a very GOOD snow year).