As I mentioned in the previous post, you could often trace the trail ahead of you from the top of a pass. Mather was the most amazing one for this, as the switchbacks were über-steep and curved hard to the left before dropping quickly to an alpine valley that headed off to the right, so the trail got distant fast, but easy to follow across barren terrain. I tried my hand at a VERTICAL panoramic here, shooting down at the trail as some hikers crossed the valley. The posted photograph above is a small crop of the much larger photo, which is below at my maximum width for the content on this blog. If you click it, it will bring up a 7.5 mb file that is still a greatly reduced size to the original file, but at this level, you can already see how my lens kinda flat out SUCKED at the edges of the frames, which manifests in the final composite as blurry sections surrounded by the sharper portions of the frames they have been married with. I suggest you right-click and 'Save File As' so you can pixel-peep it in the image app of your choice...
