Andrew Long (my roommate from freshman year) was visiting from NY last weekend, so John and I took him for a hike in Big Sur on Monday. Here are some of the pictures I took.

The Bixby Bridge

It was really windy, so we complied…

OK, I’m out of photos now.

I’m not showing the scaled down ones, since they’d be too small, so here they are:

This one was taken when we first were entering Yosemite valley.

The water here is a naturally occurring soda spring.

This picture was taken in the middle of a dried out lake. To get a sense of how big these mountains are, take a look in the lower right corner of the picture. That’s my Mom standing there. The trees are so tall that they make the mountains look less impressive without a good frame of reference.

These are much better at higher resolutions, but I can’t seem to find the full size version of flickr, and picasa won’t let me download the full-scale original (18MB, so that’s probably ok).

The weekend before last, my parents, brother and I went to Yosemite for some hiking and such. It’s amazingly difficult to capture the magnitude of the views that can be found there on a camera, but these are the best pictures to come out of the trip. I have more pictures on flickr. Click for larger versions.

These pictures aren’t really in order.

Brian and I befriended this squirrel named Fat Squirrel. He wasn’t very photogenic, but he was fat.

The coloring in this picture is an accident, but I think I like it. This is the back yard of a hotel where we had a snack and lemonade after some hiking. (We weren’t staying at the hotel, though)

None of us were attacked by bears.

Having cars and people in the picture helps to give a sense of scale here:

Mom really liked this one diner we went to. I don’t blame her, it was quite good…

The panoramas weren’t uploaded correctly, I’ll post them separately soon…