Spent a week here in October of 2007 with some of the most amazing scenery I've ever seen. Some parts make you feel like you're in a painting. It just south of Yosemite and very close to Mammoth.

From Wikipedia

The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. The wilderness is part of the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. The wilderness was established as part of the original Wilderness Act in 1964 (originally named the Minarets Wilderness). In 1984, after his death, the area was expanded and renamed in honor of Ansel Adams, well-known nature photographer who is famous for his landscape photographs of the Sierra Nevada.

The wilderness spans 230,258 acres (932 km²). Yosemite National Park lies to the north and northwest, while the John Muir Wilderness lies to the south.

Points of interest in the Ansel Adams Wilderness include:

* The Sierra Crest
* The Ritter Range:
o Mount Ritter
o Banner Peak
o The Minarets
* The San Joaquin River Valley
* Devil's Postpile National Monument
* 350 miles (560 km) of hiking trails, including portions of:
o The John Muir Trail
o The Pacific Crest Trail
o The Sierra High Route

Some images:






And it snowed on our last night there...


Album: http://www.thellanas.com/ImageGaller...damsWilderness

This is one of those places to see before I die kind of place

snow for the MF win.

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

Awesome shots. I wish we'd stopped there and or been there not at the end of summer.

I enjoy going to places like these than some National Parks. Yosemite, though beautiful, for example just has so many people. When we were here we saw some people on the trail but once we had camped on along the lakes, it was just us.