The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "Snowy Range") in California is commonly known as the Range of Light. This is Galen Rowell's old stomping grounds, the Bishop Creek drainage in the Inyo National Forest near his home town of Bishop.
I stumbled across this shot while looking for images from my 2006 Fall Colors trips to post to my new travelogue/photoblog:
Active Sole. The image didn't turn out well until I tried processing my 3 bracketed exposures with
HDR software.