Corn Lilies and other meadow wildflowers growing near Sherman Pass, Sequoia National Forest |
Kennedy Meadows, Sequoia National Forest |
The crazy Nine Mile Road, one of the steepest and most narrow and scenic roads in the Sierra! |
The beautiful eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada Big Pine, CA |
Scene from the Grandview Campground Elevation about 8,500' |
Sage and Sky at Grandview |
Up near the Schulmann Bristlecone Pine Grove Elevation about 10,000' |
Cabin near the Mexican Mine that was built with bristlecone pine logs around the turn of the century |
Larry, a writer from Backpacker Magazine, and 4wheelbob |
Can you see why they are called bristlecones? |
Flax |
Forget-me-nots |
Raspberry buckwheat and asters |
Bristlecones in the Patriarch Grove |
My best bristlecone pine impersonation! |
My truck is down there somewhere... |
White Mountain Peak is playing Peak-a-Boo |
The bristlecones prefer the white dolomite soil |
The long road out to the White Mountain Peak Trailhead |
View from the Barcroft Lab, elevation about 12,500' |
Looking down to the Long Valley Area Crowley Lake is shining in the afternoon sun |
We met a very friendly Jack Rabbit at the White Mountain Peak Trailhead... |
What are you looking at?? |
Sunrise at Barcroft We were going to try to summit White Mountain Peak that day but Bob was feeling quite ill so we headed down to Big Pine... It was just as well as we heard that a terrific lightening and hail storm brewed up by early afternoon up there! 2006 Trip to the White Mountains 2007 Trip to the White Mountains More info on this area More info on Bristlecone Pines Back to Road Trips Back to Tarol's Homepage |
Looking across the Owen's Valley to the Sierra |
That's Bishop down there where I grew up :) |
The Barcroft Lab is a high altitude laboratory that's ran by the University of California. It's kind of an eerie place, there's sheep in a pen outside that stare at every move that you make, there were cars there but no on answered when we knocked, and I felt like I was in an episode of the X-Files or something, lol We had permission to drive up there and camp there that night. |
Larry at a pretty wide-trunked bristlecone |