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| Lone Pine to Independence Jan
21-23, 2016 |
| The Alabama Hills |
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| Sunrise on Mt Whitney from the Alabama Hills
(Including Mya and an eye of the face painted on the rocks) |
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| Lone Pine Peak |
At night with enough beer the formation can look like a
bird with out stretched wings |
| Thursday night
at about 10:30 I got a call from my wife back in Ridgecrest. A woman
named Leah had called her and told her she had Mya. She had called back
a second time and told her the dog had ran away. That's when I found out
I had a neighbor for the night in the Alabama Hills. When I located the
other camp a hundred yards from mine they had retired for the night.
Face Camp (as I call it because of the weird face painted on the rocks
which is easily seen from the road) attracts overnighters because it is
not far out of Lone Pine on the Whitney Portal Road. |
| Fossil Hill |
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| The start of a short hike to Fossil Hill (As
close as the road will get) |
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| The south and higher portion of Fossil Hill |
The Sierra across Owens Valley and the abandoned McIver
Canal |
| I noticed Fossil
Hill on a topographical map so I had to check it out. I didn't find any
fossils. The formation is slightly south of the Reward Mine which is
reached on the Manzanar Reward Road off of US395 north of Lone Pine and
south of Independence. |
| The Owens River |
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| Trees and vegetation near the Owens River
with the road to Onion Valley off in the distance. |
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| North from Manzanar-Reward Road |
South from Manzanar-Reward Road |
| A few years back
Los Angles was forced to put water back into the old Owens River. They
diverted some of the water coming out of Tinemaha Reservoir and recover
it again near Lone Pine where it it kept form trying to refill Owens
Lake. It is helping to restore the river eco system which they destroyed
nearly a hundred years ago. |
| Mazourka Road |
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| After sunset |
| On Friday night
I was hoping for a good sunset over the Sierra but it turned out so so.
I bailed Saturday morning after it started raining on me at 06:25. There
was no morning sunrise on the mountains because of the low cloud level. |
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