Nov 10 2025
Mount Ritter Standing at 13,149 feet above sea level, Mount Ritter commands the Sierra Nevada landscape like a dark fortress carved from ancient stone. This striking peak, the highest mountain in Madera County, rises with dramatic authority in the heart of the Ansel Adams Wilderness, its distinctive silhouette visible from dozens of miles away across …
Nov 28 2021
When the electrified chaos of the city becomes too loud, it is necessary to escape to nature. John Muir waxed poetic on the subject, and I would tend to agree with his waxings. A visit to Mount Ritter, whose jagged profile can be seen from his eponymous trail in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Central …
