El Dorado Sunset Medium:Canvas " I couldn't have asked

" I couldn't have asked for better conditions

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

the real joy of the trip would come from the drive there

heart pounding with anticipation

5 hour drive from my house through the long windy roads of highway 49

El Dorado Sunset Medium:Canvas " I couldn't have askedFor 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