Stormy sunset over Longs Peak from the Ute Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Acknowledgments

The roots of this book go back many years, and so there are many people to thank. My parents deserve thanks for the patience and love they showed when they took my sister and me camping, then hiking, and eventually backpacking in the wilds of California. My wife, Cora, and our children, Emily and Audrey, deserve thanks for tolerating the long absences that a career as a landscape photographer requires. I’d like to thank the many photographers whose work inspired me during my photographic journey, including Galen Rowell, David Muench, Jack Dykinga, and Tom Till. And I’d like to thank the staff at Rocky Nook for their painstaking efforts to make this book as good as it could be.