Beautiful Carson Pass

Very rarely do I take terrestrial landscape photographs, it is just not my cup of tea. I love shooting from the air! But sometimes as I pass though an area I am compelled to stop and take the shot, such was this scene along the Carson River in the Carson Pass just south of Lake Tahoe, California. This scene was readily available from the side of the road during my trip through there in early March.

Archaeological finds place the eastern border for the prehistoric First Nations Martis people in the Reno/Carson River area, apparently the first humans to enter the area about 12,000 years ago. By the early 1800s, Northern Paiute tribes lived near the lower Carson River and the present Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, and the Washoe people inhabited the upper watershed region.

This beautiful river and valley were both named for the legendary Kit Carson, who guided John C. Frémont's expedition westward up the Carson Valley and across Carson Pass in winter, 1844. He was a mountain man, frontiersman, guide, Indian agent and United States Army officer. His full name was Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson and he was born in Kentucky in 1809 and died in Fort Lyon, Colorado in 1868 at the age of 58, then buried near his home in Taos, New Mexico.

There are numerous places named after Kit Carson, most all of them beautiful and wild. This is another inspirational image from my project "Where Eagles Fly";

About The Project

Is my personal mission to introduce people to these amazing locations that surround us. I am piloting a bush plane while exploring and filming throughout the remote back-country areas of North America to raise awareness of the 47% of the USA and 90% of Canada that remain unpopulated wilderness.

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My name is Zedekiah Morse and I'm a Bush Pilot, Photographer, Explorer and Filmmaker. I live in the Rocky Mountains and devote my time and resources to exploring as much of the world as I can by air. If you wish to watch a short film detailing how I do my work and this project.

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