Mountain range

That means there are multiple mountain lions and close.

The bears and the Sierras are softies, but the mountain lions will attack you.

They'll attack your pets.

They've even been known to attack bikers.

Being accustomed to climb trees and making botanical studies, I experienced no difficulty in reaching the top of this one, and never before did I enjoy so noble an exhilaration of motion.

And such odors! These winds had come all the way from the sea, over beds of flowers in the mountain meadows of the Sierras, then across the plains and up the foothills and into the piney woods with all the varied incense carried by the way.

Though comparatively young, these trees, the one Mr. Muir climbed into and its neighbors, were about 100 feet high, and their lithe, brushy tops were rocking and swirling in wild ecstasy.

In its greatest sweeps, the top of Muir's tree described an arc of from 20 to 30 degrees, but he felt sure it wouldn't break, and so he proceeded to take in the great storm show.

The grossest thing that happened to me while I was on trail was I puked from norovirus for an entire night.

And it was the day after we left Kennedy Meadows South, the first day in the Sierras.

So happy to be there.

And I alternated with another member of my trammeling who also had norovirus just puking throughout the entire night, going back and forth to our tents, passing each other in the moonlight.

How did that perform on the PCT?

For me who, so I didn't get to rainy Oregon or, you know, rainy Washington just yet.

So I was only desert and Sierras and a little bit of NorCal.

It was great.

The windward islands, marking the eastern inlet of the sea, are largely volcanic necks.

a distinct class of mountains independent of great lines of folding of the earth crust are the volcanoes these have grown by extrusion and accumulation sometimes they are parasitic on the folded mother systems sometimes independent of them they belong to the great area of igneous activity which since at least as early as the beginning of the tertiary time has marked the whole western half of the north american continent the caribbean and the northern and western sides of the andean region although they blend the volcanic ejecta of this great belt may be classified for convenience into two distinct age categories which may be called the quiescent and the active volcanic groups the active volcanic groups occur in four widely separated regions one the andean group of volcanoes of the equatorial region of western south america rising above the corrugated folds of the northern termination of the predominant south american cordilleras 2.

The chain of some twenty-five great cinder cones, which stretch east and west across the southern end of the Mexican plateau, protruding parasite-like upon the terminus of the North American Cordilleras.

3.

The Central American group, with its thirty-one active craters, growing diagonally across the western ends of the east-west folds of the Antillean corrugations, which fringes the Pacific side of Guatemala, San Salvador, and Costa Rica.

The chain of volcanoes in the Windward Islands, marking the eastern gate of the Caribbean Sea and standing in line directly across the eastern termini of the Antillean Mountains of east-west trend.

parallel to the central american group similarly situated at the western termini of these mountains in recent times all these giants of fire have built up vast piles of lava and cinder into lofty summits which overwhelm in topographic grandeur the less but more significant orographic features of the region the quintessent volcanic regions where activity was dominant chiefly in the tertiary time but ceased long ago are many The isthmus of Panama, the Pacific coast of South America west of the Arato, the northern coast of South America, and the old volcanic regions of northern Mexico and the United States are among these.

There can be little doubt that the tremendous outbursts of igneous materials in tertiary time, which dominated western North America, extended in a great belt around the southern end of the North American Cordilleras, crossing the Caribbean area to the Atlantic between the two continents.

In the broader sense of the term, however, America has an abundance of deserts, regions which bear a thin cover of bushy vegetation but are too dry for agriculture without irrigation.

On the north, such deserts begin in southern Canada, where a dry region abounding in small salt lakes lies at the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains.

In the United States, the deserts lie almost wholly between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountain ranges, which keep out any moisture that might come from either the west or the east.

Beginning on the north with the sagebrush plateau of southern Washington, the desert expands to a width of 700 miles in the gray, sage-covered basins of Nevada and Utah.

In southern California and Arizona, the sagebrush gives place to smaller forms like the saltbush, and the desert assumes a sterner aspect.

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... um, right? It feels like comparatively, right? If like, you know, next week for instance, like me and, uh, Matt are actually headed up to, uh, the Sierras like south of Lake Tahoe to go chase mountain quail and, and grouse.

Cool.

Um, you know, it's just a wildly different environment, like, you know, big hikes, you know, time in the mountains.

Um, that's a pretty common one for us.

Um, and then kind of all the quail exist out there.

And then, you know, you can go up to like the, like, what is it? Northeast part of California, um, and you can go chase chukar out there, right? 'Cause that's kind of like that area where, um, you know, the Sierras kinda break off into the Great Basin.

Like, so it's-