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A winter scene from Palomar Mountain on Christmas Day. We drove around to play in the snow – just like everybody else… 😉
After the morning stop at Mono Lake we continued further north on Highway 395. We hiked a bit at Leavitt Meadows and then drove up Sonora Pass Road….
We stopped at the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve on the sixth day of our Eastern Sierra Trip. The water was really calm that morning as the…
The clouds that began to move in towards the end of our Red Cones hike looked promising so we went out for sunset. I had fond memories of…
The Red Cones are a volcanic landscape feature near Mammoth Lakes, more or less along the John Muir and Pacific Crest Trail. We hiked there from Horseshoe Lake…
We stopped at Lake Mamie and the Twin Lakes Overlook in the morning before continuing to Horseshoe Lake and a hike to the Red Cones. The first Lake…
We spent the day after our 20 Lakes Basin hike more leisurely, at Bishop Creek Canyon, where we encountered plenty of fall colors. They worked well with the bright and…
We finally returned to hike the beautiful 20 Lakes Basin again (we’ve been there before, in 2012).
After our morning visit to McLeod Lake (previous post) we drove to June Lake in the afternoon, to see how the fall colors in this lovely area were…
Our first excursion during our week in the Eastern Sierra was to McLeod Lake, which lies just 1 mile above Horseshoe Lake. The unusual elevation as well as…