A few friends accompanied me to Mineral King over the weekend. It was a beautiful fall-ish time – clear air (could have been clearer except that there are fires within the Sierra Nevada), warm in the day, cool at night. I was struck by how fall can be experienced with all five senses.
Taste: the currants are abundant!
Hear the wind in the aspens – it sounds different in the fall!
The colors are beginning to change:
The dried grasses smell different:
The higher we climbed, the more nip we felt in the wind:
