Garnet Peak, at an elevation of almost 5900 feet, is one of the best high elevation vista points along the Pacific Crest Trail in San Diego’s Laguna Mountains. For our September activity, we hope that the weather will cooperate when we hike there for sunset photos. Please continue reading if you’re interested.
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May 2023 Activity: Laguna Meadows in Spring
Please join SCPS chair Alexander S. Kunz for a photo hike in San Diego’s Laguna Mountains. May and June are the best months for springtime impressions of San Diego County at these higher elevations. The hike combines a part of the Big Laguna Trail with the Sunset Trail and the scenery includes chaparral, open meadows, forest expansive views to the west.
February 2022 Activity: Desert Hike
Join us for our February 2022 outdoor activity. We’ll go to Anza Borrego Desert State Park for an afternoon hike with our chair Alexander S. Kunz. It has been a pretty dry winter so we’re not expecting flower blooms, but the desert is always an interesting place to photograph and explore, in particular for close-ups, details, abstracts, and also wildlife.
February 2021 Meeting: Backpacking Photography with Alan Majchrowicz
We invite all Photo Section members to our February 2021 online meeting with Pacific North-West landscape and nature photographer Alan Majchrowicz from Bellingham, Washington. Please continue reading if you’re interested.
May 2019 Activity: Laguna Mountains in Spring
Join our vice chair Alexander S. Kunz for a spring photo hike in San Diego’s Laguna Mountains! The route will include the Sunset Trail, Water of the Woods, the Big Laguna Lake, Laguna Meadows. Please continue reading if you’re interested.
March 2019 Activity: Los Penasquitos Canyon Hike
Join us for our March 2019 photographic activity – we’re going for a hike in the riparian woodlands of Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve with Photo Section vice-president Alexander S. Kunz. Trails at the preserve wind through a beautiful canopy of oaks and sycamores, and along the creek that forms quiet pools and ponds here and there.