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Full moon - Sierra Nevada Mountains, California © Jim Herrington Some friends and I skied 40 miles across the highest stretch of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California - a route known to backcountry skiers as the Sierra High Route. It is an east/west traverse of the range topping out at 13,000 feet elevation at it&#8217;s highest point and averages around 10,000 feet and is normally completed in about 6 days. I took this photo at 11pm on the second night just as we&#8217;re starting to get into the high stuff, under a full moon so bright that I could almost do a handheld exposure&#8230; but not quite. I made a brief tripod exposure, long enough for my friends on the bottom right to blur. Most nights we would sleep under the stars, right on the snow, but there was a chance of bad weather that night so we made our basic shelter which is a hole dug down into the snow with a lightweight roof suspended over it, held up with our skis and poles. I remember this was one of those times I had &#8220;quit smoking&#8221; cigarettes and had taken a pipe with me&#8230; After six days of greedily inhaling pipe tobacco smoke along the High Route the first thing I did when returning to civilization was buy a pack of Camel Lights. 

Full moon - Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

© Jim Herrington

Some friends and I skied 40 miles across the highest stretch of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California - a route known to backcountry skiers as the Sierra High Route. It is an east/west traverse of the range topping out at 13,000 feet elevation at it’s highest point and averages around 10,000 feet and is normally completed in about 6 days. I took this photo at 11pm on the second night just as we’re starting to get into the high stuff, under a full moon so bright that I could almost do a handheld exposure… but not quite. I made a brief tripod exposure, long enough for my friends on the bottom right to blur. Most nights we would sleep under the stars, right on the snow, but there was a chance of bad weather that night so we made our basic shelter which is a hole dug down into the snow with a lightweight roof suspended over it, held up with our skis and poles.

I remember this was one of those times I had “quit smoking” cigarettes and had taken a pipe with me… After six days of greedily inhaling pipe tobacco smoke along the High Route the first thing I did when returning to civilization was buy a pack of Camel Lights. 

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