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Rock Creek Canyon
I lived in Mammoth Lakes for 16 years back in the 1970′s and climbed and hiked every mountain that I could get my grubby little boots on. As I branched out and discovered new canyons, no other place...
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Green Lake
Green Lake in the Bishop Creek Canyon is a sacred place and the happy hunting ground for the ancestors of the Paiute people. Evidence of the habitation of these people goes back thousands of years and...
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White Mountains of California
There are many White Mountains in America but none can compare with the White Mountains that skirt the eastern edge of the Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra. They are within eyeshot of the Sierra...
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Woodcutters of the Eastern Sierra
There was a time in the history of the West, when if nothing else, a person could earn a living cutting wood. This was during the time of mining, railroads and wood gathering for pioneer households....
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Mono Lake Memories
Over the years I have observed Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra from every shore in every kind of weather-from the mirror calm of a bright orange sunrise to the violent churning foam of a turbulent,...
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Old Wagon Roads of Sherwin Grade
To stand down at the bottom of Sherwin Grade on U.S. 395, some 10 miles north of Bishop, California, and look up is impressive. Cars and trucks zoom by at high speeds and accomplish in 10 minutes, what...
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Arborglyphs of the Eastern Sierra
It was purely by chance that I stumbled across one of my greatest discoveries in life, the arborglyphs of the Eastern Sierra. I started out hunting for pioneer and Indian relics as a young boy and was...
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Ten Best Campgrounds in the Eastern Sierra
How we all long to get away from it all and go camping. It is so ingrained into our national psyche that the phrase, “Happy Camper” denotes whether we are doing well or not. When kids grow up to be...
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Buttermilk and the Tungsten Hills
One thing about visiting Bishop,California is there is no lack of recreational opportunities, whatever they may be, in every direction out of town. Not only are there excellent places to...
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Old Benton Hot Springs
Most people in California have driven over HWY 120 that goes through Yosemite from Manteca on the west side of the Sierra. Few have driven the entire 152 miles over the mountains to Old Benton Hot...
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