I can’t emphasize enough how smoky it was up in the high Sierras due to all the fires.  The first picture in this batch should do a good job. It was also very hot – upper 90s during the day.  Not exactly ideal hiking weather.  So instead I just took a leasurely drive along one of my favorite roads in America, the Sonora Pass.  I also stumbled upon Mark Twain’s cabin.  Who even knew he had a cabin out here?