Tuesday, December 26, 2017

A Weekend on the East Side

Mono and Inyo Counties, California
August 11-12, 2001

This was a quick Saturday-Sunday trip with Karen to visit some highlights along the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. Highlights not recorded by photograph: a nighttime dip in the unimproved BLM part of Keough's Hot Springs south of Bishop and another drive down Silver Canyon Road with a drop of 6,000 feet in nine miles (average grade 13%).







The west entrance to Bodie State Historic Park via State Highway 270, the last three miles on dirt road.


















The townsite of Bodie, the buildings in a state of "arrested decay".










Negit Island and Paoha Island in Mono Lake viewed from US 395.







The Mono Craters as viewed from State Highway 120.









Tufa at Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve at the south end of Mono Lake.












Lake Sabrina at an elevation of 9,128 feet in the Sierra Nevada.












On the Methuselah Trail at the Schulman Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.












Heading north on White Mountain Road in Inyo National Forest near the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.













Hot Creek Gorge in Inyo National Foreset, where hot springs near and in the stream make it a Hot Creek.















June Lake from Oh Ridge.




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