This view from my back yard shows Miller Peak to the left of my "sliding roof observatory" and Carr Peak to the right. My place is at an altitude of 4656 feet, whereas Miller and Carr are at 9466 and 9220 feet. Notice the cliff in front of (and below) Carr Peak. The next picture uses a telephoto lens to show it better.

I used a telephoto lens from my back yard for this picture of Carr Peak and a cliff in the foreground. The cliff has a bare area near the top and right which is a hang glider launching point.

The following pictures were taken from the Carr Peak Trail.

Starting out, at 7200 feet, with 9220-foot Carr Peak 2.6 walking miles away (probably 1 mile for crows).

This young evergreen has "high hopes" for its high slope home.

Probably half-way to the peak.

Looking down on the hang glider launch site, which probably is at 7000 feet. My place is just above the "end of the hang glider road" (I can't find it, so don't strain).

Same hang glider launch site, but from farther up the trail. Am at ~8800 feet. The launch site is at the top of a butte that is clearly seen from my patio. To the right is Miller Canyon, where the John Cooper Trail begins.

Looking southeast at a "purple" mountain in the distance, which is Sierra San Jose, located in Mexico and rising to almost the same altitude as Carr Peak. Am at 8800 feet.

Looking southwest over Miller Ridge at Mexico from 8900 feet. 

"Once when I was collecting specimens under an oak tree I found, among the other plants and weeds, and of the same size as they, a plant of a dark colour with contracted leaves and a straight, rigid stalk.  When I made to touch it, it said in a firm voice:  'Let me alone!  I am no weed for your herbarium, like these others to whom nature has given a bare year of life.  My life is measured in centuries:  I am a little oak tree.'  -  Thus does he whose influence is to be felt across the centuries stand, as a child, as a youth, often still as a man, indeed as a living creature as such, apparently like the rest and as insignificant as they.  But just give him time and, with time, those who (will) know how to recognize him.  He will not die like the rest." Schopenhauer, 1851, Essays and Aphorisms, p 236 (Hollingdale trans, London Penguin Books).

Returning along the green north slope it seems that Spring has just sprung in mid-May at this 8600-foot region.

The green-sided trail is an extension of this vibrantly green north slope. Carr Peak is out of view to the left. Looking west.

It's amazing how Nature, all by itself, can create beauty from an unplanned falling over of the dead and rising up of the new. Thank goodness for wilderness areas!

This site opened:  May 18, 2004.  Last Update:  May 22, 2004