Join an exciting event of storytelling, photographs, and hard-earned trail knowledge that goes deeper into the Yosemite National Park’s quieter corners and the rugged beauty of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Author James Gray brings Yosemite to life through vivid images, short readings from his Yosemite Intern Mysteries novels, and behind-the-scenes stories that reveal the landscapes, people, and moments that inspired them. This presentation celebrates Yosemite as a place of mystery, solitude, and enduring wildness. Whether you love adventure storytelling, or simply escaping into a great outdoor narrative, this event will leave you seeing Yosemite in a whole new way.
About our speaker: James Gray is a longtime Yosemite explorer who has hiked the park nearly every year for the past 25 years and served multiple stints as a Yosemite Conservancy volunteer. A former federal trial attorney, he is the author of the Yosemite Intern Mysteries series as well as two historical novels, "New Garden" and "Trouble at Mono Pass."