These are some gouache backpacking sketches made while camping with friends recently in the San Rafael Wilderness. You find elevations of over 6000 feet just a condor’s flight from the coast. The “Sea of Clouds” one above is of a 4000 foot deep fog layer blanketing the coast… it was drizzly and grey at down at home, but we were up in the sun with the Jeffrey pines, Sugar pines and other pines whose names I couldn’t quite catch as they whispered in the wind.