Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

A Way Across the Mountain by Scott Stine now available

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.
A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker's 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite's Discovery.
A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker’s 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite’s Discovery by Scott Stine is now available at the Mono Lake Committee Bookstore and online store.

Paleoclimatologist Scott Stine has just released his first book, A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker’s 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite’s Discovery and it is now available at the Mono Lake Committee Bookstore and our online store.

Stine reconstructs Joseph Walker’s famous 1833 route over the Sierra drawing on years of in-depth scientific research and knowledge of the geomorphology, hydrography, biogeography, and climate of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin, and the detailed travel narrative of the Walker expedition’s field clerk, Zenas Leonard. Stine documents the inception, growth, and persistence of the myth of Yosemite’s discovery, and explores the extent to which that lore has overshadowed Walker’s greatest discovery—that the huge swath of continent between the Wasatch Front and the Sierran crest is hydrographically closed, draining not to an ocean, but to salty lakes and desert sands.

Stop by the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore, or visit our online store to get your copy of A Way Across the Mountain, and support the protection and restoration of Mono Lake! The Mono Lake Committee will be hosting a presentation and book signing with Scott Stine on Saturday, October 17, 2015 from 4:30–6:30pm at the Mono Inn. Mark your calendar, and more details on this event will be posted here soon.

Researcher Scott Stine has studied aspects of Mono Lake's climatic history since the mid-1970s. Photo by Arya Degenhardt.
Paleoclimatologist Scott Stine has studied aspects of Mono Lake’s climatic history since the mid-1970s. Photo by Arya Degenhardt.

2 Comments

  1. Wish I could attend! Will buy a copy though. I read the journals of Wm Brewer and Clarence King too. Love historical journals.

  2. Congratulations Scott! We all knew ya had it in ya way back in the 70’s at Cal…we’ll try to make it Saturday.