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.

The steep and jagged mountains seem to go on for ever from this 12,000 vantage point just north of Forester Pass.

#1 Vernal Fall