{"id":6915,"date":"2014-06-23T06:12:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=6915"},"modified":"2019-07-08T05:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T21:22:47","slug":"townsley-lake-and-cathedral-range-at-sunrise-yosemite-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/townsley-lake-and-cathedral-range-at-sunrise-yosemite-national-park.html","title":{"rendered":"Townsley Lake and Cathedral Range at Sunrise, Yosemite National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite lakes in the Sierra Nevada is Townsley Lake, located a bit above and not far from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/a-return-to-vogelsang-high-sierra-camp.html\">Vogelsang High Sierra Camp<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/yosemite_national_park_photos.html\">Yosemite National Park<\/a>. Every time I stay at Vogelsang I make sure to spend at least one sunrise at Townsley, where I have always had quiet solitude and wonderful morning light. Vogelsang means &#8220;bird song&#8221; in German, and while I made this photograph that was indeed all I could hear: the chirping of small birds and nothing else. Two other beautiful, typical, granite-basin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/sierra_nevada_photos.html\">Sierra Nevada<\/a> lakes are very close to Townsley; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=25753\">Hanging Basket Lake<\/a> (you can actually see a bit of light bouncing around the hanging valley containing Hanging Basket at the far right of this image, below the sunlit Cathedral Range), and a lake I like to call &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=23255\">Nameless Lake<\/a>&#8221; about 1\/2 mile above and to the left of this image. All three can be easily bagged in a half-day hike from Vogelsang High Sierra camp. Cheers, and thanks for looking!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cathedral Range peaks reflected in the still waters of Towns...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=25756\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Cathedral Range peaks reflected in the still waters of Townsley Lake at sunrise, Yosemite National Park, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/yosemite-high-country-sierra-nevada-photo-25756-802761.jpg\" alt=\"Cathedral Range peaks reflected in the still waters of Townsley Lake at sunrise, Yosemite National Park, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cathedral Range peaks reflected in the still waters of Townsley Lake at sunrise.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=25756\">25756<\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=yosemite_national_park&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Yosemite National Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite lakes in the Sierra Nevada is Townsley Lake, located a bit above and not far from the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp in Yosemite National Park. Every time I stay at Vogelsang I make sure to spend at least one sunrise at Townsley, where I have always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,138],"tags":[221,320,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-6915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sierra-nevada","8":"category-yosemite","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-sierra-nevada","11":"tag-yosemite-national-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}