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aimeekb · 2 years

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Sierra Nevada views from Mammoth Lakes, California

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thorsenmark · 5 months

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Get Yourself to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking the Discovery Trail and taking in views of the ancient bristlecone pines in this portion of the Schulman Grove and Inyo National Forest. The view is looking to the southwest with a distant view of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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best-views · 7 months

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Cottonwood Lakes backpacking

near Horseshoe Meadows, in Golden Trout Wilderness, in Inyo National Forest, CA

#cottonwood lakes #golden trout wilderness #inyo national forest #horseshoe meadows #views #nature #backpacking #summer #california

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taxil · 7 months

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#george lake #mammoth lakes #yosemite #inyo national forest #john muir #wandern in kalifornien #Youtube

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colorsoutofearth · 8 months

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Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) in Inyo NF, CA

Photo by Juan Carlos Munoz

#bristlecone #bristlecone pine #pinus #pinus longaeva #inyo #inyo national forest #trees #orange #yellow #tree bark #colorful bark #old trees #nature

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quo-usque-tandem · 9 months

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Hot Creek, Inyo National Forest, California

#nature #nature photography #Hot Creek #Inyo National Forest #California #travel #travel photography

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cookinguptales · 2 years

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Inyo National Forest

These are the trees I trekked out to see at 11k feet. It was the only time I’ve ever stood on solid ground and realized I was looking down at the clouds. A genuinely wild experience, but I’m not sure my body could ever handle it again. I think I made it like half a mile into the trail before my chronically ill body just noped the fuck out, lmao.

idk how mountaineers do it, that altitude will get you!!!

#it was also fairly late in the day so it was cold as balls #which did not help lmao #inyo national forest #national parks #the travel bug

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darthcatboy · 2 years

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owens valley geology adventures with thrawn part 1

#thrawn #star wars #toy photography #the black series #inyo national forest #geology fun times #i'm gonna make him some little geologist accessories eventually

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thereisstilltime · 2 years

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To 12,000 feet… or looking back up… the path not that wide… staying focused!

#mine #hiking #hikingadventures #hiking trails #inyo national forest #shepardspass

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cristinad61 · 9 days

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The Adventure Continues... Hot Creek

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#CG 2006 #Huell Howser #Inyo National Forest #mountains #water

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thorsenmark · 5 months

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Sky Replacement at Starkweather Lake by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across the lake waters in Inyo National Forest. The day was overcast with smoke and haze from the nearby wildfires. My thought in composing this image was to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward and capture a sweeping view across the lake waters. That would include both the nearby forest and the reflections of the lake waters. It was as I began working on the image in post production that I then decided to once again try out the sky replacement setting in Photoshop with this image. The sunset colors with the clouds definitely seemed more of a desired setting in the Mammoth Lakes area than what I had experienced that morning. So the skies are part of the Adobe stock images in Photoshop but all else is captured with my Nikon D850 SLR camera. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

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best-views · 2 years

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Mount Whitney hike!

Views of the Bighorn Park high sierra meadow near Outpost Camp looking east (#1) and west (#2), looking east from the high sierra meadow near Trail Camp (#3), looking south down the Mount Whitney trail leading up to the peak (#4), looking west over the Sierra Nevadas (#5), and a final view from the top of Mount Whitney looking down east towards the start (#6)

#mount whitney #mt whitney #sierra nevadas #inyo national forest #sequoia national park #nature #views #landscapes #hiking #john muir trail #california #Summer

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mossandfog · 3 months

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Meet Methuselah, The World's Oldest Tree

The great pyramids of Egypt. The Roman Empire. Alive through all of them and still gripping to life today, a tough, gnarled tree has been quietly perched on a mountain in California. Within the White Mountains of California, an ancient bristlecone pine stands as the ultimate testament to resilience and the passage of time. The tree is known as Methuselah, this remarkable tree is considered one of…

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#oldest #4800 years #Bristlecone Pine #Inyo National Forest #Methuselah #oldest living thing #oldest tree on earth #oldest trees #where is the oldest tree #wonders of California #wonders of the world

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drawn-views · 6 months

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Cottonwood Lake 3, Golden Trout Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, CA

#cottonwood lakes #golden trout wilderness #inyo national forest #california #summer #sierra nevadas #backpacking #watercolor #nature #landscapes #painting #drawing #ink #art #in the field

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pcttrailsidereader · 1 year

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The End of Fire Season?

Here we are a few weeks from Thanksgiving. It is early November and it appears, according to the Washington Post, that the California Fire season may be over for 2022. November? It has been another long fire season in the west.

Rain and mountain snow pounded California and parts of the intermountain west on Election Day.

Several feet of snow fell in the Sierra Nevada, including 29 inches in Wishon and 28 inches near Devils Postpile. The Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted that it received 34.3 inches, boosting 2022’s precipitation to 115 percent of normal.

At lower elevations, numerous locations in California set daily rainfall records Tuesday, including Los Angeles, with 1.31 inches.

Ahead of the storm, forecasters said the rain and snow were likely to end the fire season in much of California.

This is potentially very good news for the battered and burned western states. Of course, when it comes to fickle the weather in the west can be all of that despite predictions from knowledgable sources.

If you have visited Devils Postpile along the PCT you will likely recall the surrounding burned out forest. It is not until you break out of the trees at the Devils Postpile do you really see the devastation left from the Rainbow fire from 1992.

Here is a short fire chronology of the fire that devastated the area around Devils Postpile from a Forest Service study covering the past thirty years since the original fire.

Rainbow Fire •Ignited by lightning Aug. 20, 1992 six miles below the monument on Inyo N.F. •High winds (60+ mph) spread the fire to 2,400 ha in 24 hr. •By Sept. 8 about 3,378 ha had burned including 265 ha (82%) of the monument. •Large portions of the burn were high severity.

In the thirty years since the Rainbow Fire the forest is slowly re-generating. When we were there nearly twenty years post fire, we camped among some gray snags looking out on a broad burned out forest. News of a substantial snow in the Sierra offers a sense of respite from the intense battering due to fire that has plagued the west since last January. Then, a surprise wildfire devastated a suburban housing development near Denver and the hits just kept on coming.

If this recent storm is a precursor for a cold and wet winter that will be something to celebrate. If, on the other hand it turns out to be an anomaly then that will be another issue altogether. Fingers crossed and let's hope the snow gods smile on the west in 2023.

#Devils Postpile #Inyo National Forest #Rainbow fire 1992 #Sierra Mountains

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lovz2hike · 2 years

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Lake Dorothy

Our annual hiking trip found us in the Inyo National Forest again. This year we are hiking behind Convict Lake and backpacking to Lake Dorothy. We headed out Wednesday night following along the very familiar 395 highway. We got to Bishop early enough to check in to the Bishop 395 Inn and make a quick stop at Schat’s Bakkery. After a great nights sleep we woke up early and headed to Convict…

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#Backpacking #backpacking with dogs #Convict Lake #Eastern Sierra #Hiking #Inyo County #Inyo national forest #John Muir Wilderness #lake Dorothy #living my best life #Mammoth lakes #mildred lake #Mountain Views #So Cal

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