![]() Whether we visit a new spot or return to a familiar place, our time in these rather remote locations is limited. After the hailstorm, it cleared up nicely, and we all set to work. Even though it is a 7.5-mile hike from the trailhead, with an elevation gain of about 1200 feet, it is hard to consider it “wilderness” when the local high school cross country team from Mammoth Lakes regularly runs up there and back during training. This year we returned to what I consider one of the jewels of the Sierra Nevada, the Lake Ediza basin in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. Whether it has been big, or bigger, granite, we certainly have seen our share of it in the Eastern Sierra, where we generally take our trips. My co-conspirator in all this, Paul Kratter, agreed to the basic premise but had one stipulation: Big Granite…. I wasn’t after solitude I wanted to share a unique experience with other like-minded folks. And, to be honest, I was afraid of bears! I had no desire to be alone in the wilderness at all. I was inspired in part by reading of Clyde Aspevig’s pack trips in Wyoming, as well as Sargent’s forays through the Alps a century ago with his companions. I wanted to do something fun with other artists whose work I’d admired and who I had met at some recent plein air events. ![]() Getting a Sierra pack trip for artists off the ground 14 years ago was an attempt to build community. ![]() Painting Outdoors With Friends in the Sierrasīy the Granite Group artists Bill Cone, painting outdoors
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