There are a number of people who tread lightly through the Black Range carrying little more than some water and a cellphone. The water is under-standable, the cellphone? There is very little cell coverage in the Black Range. The cellphone is for photography or running apps like Merlin, who makes calls from the Black Range?
Véronique de Jaeger, of Kingston, is one of the people who tread lightly with cellphones and the photographs she takes are wonderful depictions of these mountains.
The two top photos are from the east side of the range near Kingston, acknowledging our clear days and the smokey days of our fire season. The bottom photo is from Railroad Canyon on the west side of the Black Range. This year the creek rarely had running water.