Sierra Nevada, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"This case involved a forty‐two‐year‐old naturalist sleeping out in the Sierras, some wildflower expert. There was a particular kind of flower or something."

"the rig he saw in the Sierra, that I didn’t like the looks of?"

"Posses, Boy Scouts, forest rangers, helicopters, combed the area for two weeks, until the first storm dumped two feet of snow on the Sierra and made them give up."

"they're boarding reindeer Greyhound specials for a pre-season heart-to-heart Happiness Conference deep in Sierra wilderness ten thousand five hundred and sixty yards from a primitive motel."

"I see the picture of him alone in the mountains in that outfit: the vision: it's pure morning in the high dry Sierras, far off clean firs can be seen shadowing the sides of rocky hills, further yet snowcapped pinpoints, nearer the big bushy forms of pines..."

"This morning I saw a peregrine falcon eating babies from a sparrow’s nest, he replied. A lot of commotion. High drama in the Sierra Nevada."