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High Sierra may refer to: Places * High Sierra (biome), a region of California * Sierra Nevada (U.S.), a mountain range in California also called the High Sierra or High Sierras ** High Sierra Trail, which crosses the Sierra Nevada Arts, entertainment, and media * ''High Sierra'' (film), 1941 * High Sierra Music Festival, held in Quincy, California since 1991 * ''John Muir's High Sierra'', an Oscar-nominated short documentary Computing and technology * High Sierra Format, a CD-ROM filesystem developed in 1986 * macOS High Sierra, an operating system for Apple computers Other uses * High Sierra, an American outdoor brand owned by luggage manufacturer Samsonite International See also * Sierra mountains (other) Sierra is a Spanish word meaning mountain chain and saw, from Latin '' serra''. The corresponding word in Portuguese, Catalan and Latin is ''serra''. This name is used for various mountain ranges in Spanish-speaking and other countries (with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sierra (biome)
:''See Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada for general information about the mountain range in the United States.'' The ecology of the Sierra Nevada, located in the U.S. states of California and Nevada, is diverse and complex. The combination of climate, topography, moisture, and soils influences the distribution of ecology, ecological communities across an elevation gradient from . Life zone, Biotic zones range from scrubland, scrub and chaparral communities at lower elevations, to subalpine forests and alpine tundra, alpine meadows at the higher elevations. Particular ecoregions that follow elevation contours are often described as a series of belts that follow the length of the Sierra Nevada. There are many hiking trails, paved and unpaved roads, and vast Public lands#United States, public lands in the Sierra Nevada for exploring the many different biomes and ecosystems. The western and eastern Sierra Nevada have substantially different species of plants and animals, because th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra Nevada (U
The Sierra Nevada ( ) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily in Nevada. The Sierra Nevada is part of the American Cordillera, an almost continuous chain of mountain ranges that forms the western "backbone" of the Americas. The Sierra runs north-south, and its width ranges from to across east–west. Notable features include the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree in the world by volume; Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America; Mount Whitney at , the highest point in the contiguous United States; and Yosemite Valley sculpted by glaciers from one-hundred-million-year-old granite, containing List of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park, high waterfalls. The Sierra is home to three national parks, twenty-six wilderness areas, ten national forests, and two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sierra Trail
The High Sierra Trail (HST) is a hiking trail in Sequoia National Park, California. The trail crosses the Sierra Nevada from west to east. According to the Yosemite Decimal System, the HST is a Class 1/Class 2 trail, which means simple scrambling, with the possibility of occasional use of the hands for balance. Route From the plateau of the Giant Forest at Crescent Meadow (elevation ) the trail travels high on the northern wall of the canyon of the Middle Fork of the Kaweah River to Bearpaw Meadow. This first of the trail is a popular though strenuous two-day round trip hike. The Bearpaw Meadow High Sierra Camp (a simple tent hotel) located here dates back to 1934. Leaving the meadow, the trail climbs through the Hamilton Lakes Basin to Kaweah Gap which, at , is one of the lowest passes over the Great Western Divide within the park. From this pass, the route descends into Big Arroyo and then climbs to the Chagoopa Plateau, only to drop again to in the Kern River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sierra (film)
''High Sierra'' is a 1941 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh, written by William R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett, and starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Its plot follows a career criminal who becomes involved in a jewel heist in a resort town in California's Sierra Nevada, along with a young former taxi dancer (Lupino). Parts of the film were shot on location at Whitney Portal, halfway up Mount Whitney. The screenplay was co-written by John Huston, Bogart's friend and drinking partner, adapted from the novel by William R. Burnett (also known for, among others, the novel '' Little Caesar'' and the script for '' Scarface''). The film cemented a strong personal and professional connection between Bogart and Huston, and provided the breakthrough in Bogart's career, transforming him from supporting player to leading man. The film's success also led to a breakthrough for Huston, providing him with the leverage he needed to make the transition from sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sierra Music Festival
High Sierra Music Festival is a multi-day music festival held in Quincy, California, United States, a mountainous area about 80 miles northwest of Reno, Nevada. History The first High Sierra Music Festival was in 1991 at Bear Valley in Alpine County and was the genesis of High Sierra Music, of Berkeley, California. The festival is held each year the weekend of July 4. The four-day festival features an eclectic mix of some of the most famous national and international names in jamband, bluegrass, roots rock, folk rock, southern rock, jazz, country rock, newgrass and blues rock. Away from the music stages, patrons can attend films and movement playshops including yoga, pilates, etc., shop for arts and crafts, or enjoy a wide variety of gourmet food and drink. The organization has also produced festivals and concerts elsewhere in California, and in Maryland, Nevada, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Missouri. Past artists have included The Black Crowes, Bob Weir & RatDog, Michael Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Muir's High Sierra
''John Muir's High Sierra'' is a 1974 American short documentary film directed by Dewitt Jones produced by Dewitt Jones and Lesley Foster. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. Plot Cast See also * List of American films of 1974 References External links * ''John Muir's High Sierra''at the National Archives and Records Administration The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also task ... 1974 films 1974 short documentary films American short documentary films 1974 independent films American independent films Documentary films about nature 1970s English-language films 1970s American films English-language short documentary films English-language independent films {{short-documentary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sierra Format
ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media. The file system is an international standard available from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Since the specification is publicly available, implementations have been written for many operating systems. ISO 9660 traces its roots to the ''High Sierra Format'', which arranged file information in a dense, sequential layout to minimize nonsequential access by using a hierarchical (eight levels of directories deep) tree file system arrangement, similar to Unix file systems and FAT. To facilitate cross platform compatibility, it defined a minimal set of common file attributes (directory or ordinary file and time of recording) and name attributes (name, extension, and version), and used a separate system use area where future optional extensions for each file may be specified. High Sierra was adopted in December 1986 (with changes) as an international standard by Ecma International as E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacOS High Sierra
macOS High Sierra (version 10.13) is the fourteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. macOS High Sierra was announced at the WWDC 2017 on June 5, 2017 and was released on September 25, 2017. The name "High Sierra" refers to the High Sierra region in California. Its name signified its goal to be a refinement of the previous macOS version, macOS Sierra, focused on performance improvements and technical updates rather than features. This makes it similar to previous macOS releases Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion and El Capitan. Among the apps with notable changes are Photos and Safari. macOS High Sierra is the final version of macOS to support the Unibody iMac and the Polycarbonate Unibody MacBook, as its successor, macOS Mojave, drops support for the late 2009 and final models. System requirements All Macs that supported macOS Sierra support macOS High Sierra. *iMac (Late 2009 or later) * MacBook (Late 2009 or later) *MacBo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sierra Sport Company
High Sierra Sport Company is an American sports apparel company that manufactures for a global market active-outdoor and sports bags, mainly soft-sided backpacks, wheeled luggage, duffels as well as leather travel bags and day packs. Founded in 1978 in Vernon Hills, Illinois as H. Bernbaum Import & Export Company by Harry Bernbaum and his son Hank, it was acquired by Samsonite on July 31, 2012, for $110 million in cash. The subsidiary employs 51-200 people and is headquartered in Gurnee, Illinois. History Founded in 1978 by Harry Bernbaum, a lover of the outdoors, High Sierra Sport Company was named after '' High Sierra'', the 1941 Humphrey Bogart-starring film, as well as the Sierra Nevada mountains, both of which inspired the aesthetic of High Sierra, the company's eponymous brand and line of bags, as Bernbaum intended his manufacturing company's bag and luggage products to appeal to both the adventurous outdoorsman and the adventure-seeking sort of ordinary traveler. As fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samsonite
Samsonite International S.A. is an American Baggage, luggage manufacturer and retailer, with products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases. The company was founded in 1910 in Denver, Colorado, Denver, Colorado, United States. Its registered office is in Luxembourg and it is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. History The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, on March 10, 1910, by Black Hawk, Colorado-born luggage salesman Jesse Shwayder (1882–1970) as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company. A religious man, Shwayder named one of his initial cases Samson, after the Bible, Biblical strongman, and began using the trademark ''Samsonite'' in 1941 for its tapered Vulcanized fibre, vulcanized fiber suitcase, introduced in 1939. In 1965, after the Samsonite suitcase became its best-selling product, the company changed its name to SAMSONITE. For many years the subsidiary SAMSONITE Furniture Co. made folding chairs and card tables in Murfre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
