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Photography by Robert Adriaansen
Photographer | Backcountry Explorer | American Hybrid

California is beautiful.

Her surrounding land has always been of great interest to me, including agriculture, rivers and lakes, foothills and my favorite, the Sierra Nevada mountain range. I've hiked over some of the local foothills and backpacked through her mountains including Giant Sequoia National Monument, Golden Trout Wilderness, Mineral King, Sequoia National Park. I've also explored along California's central coast and coastal mountains including Big Sur and Ventana Wilderness, Eastern Sierra from Bodie down to Lone Pine, Alabama Hills and Cottonwood Lakes. It was the love for our land that inspired me to capture it with photography so I could share the beauty with others.

A very good friend of mine, Michael Hansen (website), has been an inspiration to me and my photography and is also my shooting/backpacking buddy.

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"Capturing the light reflected by our land"

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Upper Mosquito Lake October 4th 2009

 Published November 20th, 2011

There were three of us, Michael, Allen and myself.

We started on the trail about 8:30 am. The weather: clear skies, dry and cool, upper 30'sF. Along the hike, we saw three buck mule deer. We made it to the first of six mosquito lakes by 11:30am where we stopped and ate lunch. While resting at the lake, we can see our next challenge, an eighty-foot wall of granite boulders. During the hike up the granite wall, we pass Lake No.2 then arrive at Lake No.3 for a second break. Mike, Chip and myself camped at this lake last year (2008) in September. It's a beautiful lake with a small island. From this lake, you can look North to see Empire Mtn. and Timber Gap or look South to view Hengst Peak. The surroundings here are mostly granite and few clusters of different types of pine. We now have another 100ft of elevation gain. On our way to the 6th lake, we pass Lake No.4 and stop at a couple of ponds that had great reflections for that that time of day. In one of the ponds, there was a large bou ...

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Mt. Silliman July 12th 2009

 Published November 20th, 2011

This weekend's backpack trip took us to Mt. Silliman in Sequoia National Park. My buddy Allen and I started the hike at the Lodgepole trailhead. about 6,800 feet. The weather was cool but warm enough to wear shorts and a t-shirt. We stopped about three miles in where the trail crosses Silliman creek. The creek was very photogenic. After about an hour of taking photos, it was time to get back on the trail. As I was about to cross the creek, Allen corrected me and said " we're going this way. . ", which was along the side of the creek and up the mountain. At this junction, there is a small sign that reads "Twin Lakes" and "Ranger Lake" and points across the creek in a NW direction. The trail that we needed to follow didn't have a sign. In fact, if you look at a trail map, there is no trail marking for this route. Allen has been there before, so he led the way.

It is definite that this trail is not used often. Shrub and grass have grown over parts of this trail. When we got to the first ...

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