El Dorado Sunset Medium:Canvas I found a good spot

I found a good spot on a big rock in the middle of the river

Each step through the pine-scented air reminded me that the struggle had been worth it

I was constantly checking the Fall color conditions

I was in the middle of nowhere on a 3-day solo backpacking trip in Desolation Wilderness

El Dorado Sunset Medium:Canvas I found a good spotFor three long years, I dreamed of this moment. The perfect sunset where the South Fork American River feeds into Folsom Lake near El Dorado Hills. I visited this spot ten times over those years, always hoping, waiting for the sky to deliver what I knew it could. Each visit ending in disappointment. But today today was different. As I hiked down the familiar path, there was a strange stillness, as if the landscape itself knew something spectacular was