Ansel Adams's grandfather ... Adams tries to resign from the Sierra Club during the battle to widen the Tioga Road near Tenaya Lake. In the end, he loses his battle — and he believes the ...

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...