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Photographs of Carl Sharsmith

  Carl, photo by John O'Neill. From O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

 

 

  Carl with Conness glacier party, 1932, NPS photo, from O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl on the summit of Mount Dana, August, 1933, photo by J. M. Lennox from John Sharsmith and Allan Shields, Climb Every Mountain: A Portrait of Carl Sharsmith used with permission from Allan Shields granted 4/20/06.

 

  Carl with Jimmy car, 1937, NPS photo, from O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

 

  John Sharsmith, son of Carl and co-author of Climb Every Mountain: A Portrait of Carl Sharsmith, with mom, Helen, from O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

   Carl at Tuolumne Meadows summer cabin, 1946, with wife Helen, daughter Linnea and son John, where Linnea once visited with family of Bill Jones, then Tuolumne Meadows district naturalist and now lead-member of Name4Carl Committee. The cabin is still in use. From  O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

 

  Carl demonstrating rappelling, 1950, photo by Art Nelson. From O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

 

  Carl with party exploring an ice cave n Dana Glacier, 1951. Photo by H. E. Mehden. From O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

  Carl on Mount Lyell, 1954, photo by Robert Gottlieb. From O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Carl with one of "his" plants, from Hello World: A National Park Adventure, by Fran Hubbard, photo by Douglass Hubbard; used with permission from Awani Press. Click here for more photos of Carl leading children's nature walks in Tuolumne Meadows.    

 

 

  Professor Sharsmith at his Herbarium, San Jose State. Photo courtesy of San Jose State University. From O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

  Carl, the veteran ranger in 1985, NPS photo. From O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Carl on a walk, 1989. It's O.K. to have fun! Photo courtesy of Joan Rosen. From O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

  Carl at his tent in Tuolumne Meadows, 1992. Photo by Kim Harrington. From O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist, used with permission granted 4/26/2006.

 

 

 

 

Carl walks up the trail with Elizabeth O'Neill. From O'Neill, John Carroll and Elizabeth Stone, from Tioga Tramps: Day Hikes in the Tioga Pass Region, permission for use requested 4/26/06.

 

 

 

 

 

 Carl Sharsmith and Will Neely giving one of their highly acclaimed 2-ranger interpretive evening program at Tuolumne Meadows (no slides, no amplification, only great songs and stories). Photo courtesy Douglass Hubbard.

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