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Virtual Guidebook to
East of the Sierra
Mono and Inyo Counties, California
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Main Street in the ghost town of Bodie.
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Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)
- Bridgeport (1)
- The Ghost Town of Bodie (10)
- North and West of Mono Lake (6)
- Lee Vining Canyon (10)
- West and South of Mono Lake (4)
- Mono Lake Tufa (8)
- June Lakes Loop (3)
- Mammoth Mountain Ski Area (2)
- Mammoth Lakes (6)
- Long Valley (1)
- Chalfant Valley/Volcanic Tableland (1)
- Bishop and Round Valley (1)
- Big Pine Area (3)
- White Mountain Peak (4)
- The Patriarch Grove (5)
- The Discovery Trail (3)
- The Methuselah Grove (3)
- Westgard Pass (1)
- Independence (8)
- Northern Inyo Range (3)
- Manzanar (5)
- The Alabama Hills (4)
- Whitney Portal and Tuttle Creek (6)
- Lone Pine (4)
- West of Owens Lake (4)
- East of Owens Lake (4)
- On the Road to Cerro Gordo (3)
- Cerro Gordo Town (4)
- Cerro Gordo Mine (4)
- South of Owens Lake (2)
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- Complete Listing (see also the Fullscreen versions)
listed from northwest to southeast-
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Bridgeport
- The Mono County Courthouse in Bridgeport.
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The Ghost Town of Bodie
- An overview of the ghost town of Bodie.
- Methodist Church on Main Street in Bodie.
- Main Street, Bodie.
- The old electric power plant.
- Below the mines and mill, Bodie.
- A bank vault, without the bank.
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A giant flywheel.
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A mine winding engine below the mill in Bodie.
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At the corner of Green and Main.
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Near the Hoover House.
- North and West Shore of Mono Lake
- Mono Lake County Park.
- Legally mandated lake level on the boardwalk at Mono Lake County Park.
- Birdwatching platform on the north shore of Mono Lake.
- Site of the Mono Marina, on the fomer shoreline of Mono Lake.
- Shoreline of Mono Lake at the old Mono Marina site.
- The Mono Basin Scenic Area Visitor Center near Lee Vining.
- Lee Vining Canyon
- Timberline meadow just east of the Yosemite entrance station.
- Tioga Lake, first campground east of Tioga Pass.
- Next to the weather station at Ellery Lake.
- Dodge Point on the Tioga Road in Lee Vining Canyon.
- The Tioga Pass Resort, dating back to 1914.
- On the rockslide section of the Tioga Road in Lee Vining Canyon.
- On the Tioga Pass Road in the lower part of Lee Vining Canyon.
- The Poole power plant on Lee Vining Creek.
- The big meadow in Lee Vining Canyon.
- Erratic boulder and giant ice-age moraines in lower Lee Vining Canyon.
- The Tioga Gas Mart, convenience stop with something more.
- West and South of Mono Lake
- Test Station Road southwest of Mono Lake.
- Rush Creek as it approaches the shore of Mono Lake.
- Mono Lake from the north slope of Panum Crater.
- From the summit of Panum Crater.
- Mono Lake Tufa Formations at South Tufa State Reserve
- Legally mandated level of Mono Lake at South Tufa.
- Tufa towers at the edge of Mono Lake, view one.
- Tufa towers at the edge of Mono Lake, view two.
- Tufa towers at the edge of Mono Lake, view three.
- Tufa towers at the edge of Mono Lake, view four.
- Tufa towers at the edge of Mono Lake, view five.
- Shore of Mono Lake between South Tufa and Navy Beach.
- South shore of Mono Lake near Navy Beach.
- The June Lakes Loop
- Fishing boats at Silver Lake on the June Lakes Loop.
- A private house near Silver Lake, June Lakes.
- The main street of the resort community of June Lake.
- Mammoth Mountain Ski Area
- Lodges and lifts at Mammoth Mountin ski area.
- A statue of a mammoth at the base of the gondola at Mammoth Mountain.
- Mammoth Lakes Basin
- Twin Lakes, Mammoth Lakes.
- The Mammoth Mine mill, Mammoth Lakes.
- Old bunkhouses at the Mammoth Mine.
- Lake Mary, Mammoth Lakes.
- Lake George, Mammoth Lakes.
- A forest killed by volcanic carbon dioxide emissions, Mammoth Lakes.
- Long Valley
- Camping at Little Hot Creek, in Long Valley.
- Chalfant Valley and the Volcanic Tableland
- Benton Hot Springs Resort.
- Bishop and Round Valley
- Round Valley in the autumn.
- Big Pine Area
- At the Taboose Pass trailhead, near Aberdeen.
- Red Cone and the Big Pine Volcanic Field, from the foot of Taboose Pass.
- In the lava beds near Aberdeen.
- White Mountain Peak
- West from the summit of White Mountain Peak.
- East from the summit of White Mountain Peak.
- Below the summit of White Mountain Peak.
- Alpine grassland on the summit ridge of the White Mountains.
- White Mountain Road and the Patriarch Grove
- The highest road in California, along the top of the White Mountains.
- Dead bristlecone pines, higher than any now living.
- The Patriarch Grove of ancient bristlecone pines.
- From a ridgetop in the White Mountains.
- Sagebrush high in the White Mountains.
- The Discovery Trail
- The Discovery Trail loops through the area where 4000 year old trees were first found.
- Exposed roots on a still-living ancient bristlecone pine.
- An ancient bristlecone pine growing on quartzite.
- The Methuselah Grove of Bristlecone Pines
- A young bristlecone pine on the Methuselah Grove trail.
- At a saddle on the Methuselah Grove trail.
- On a ridge above the Methuselah Grove, looking out over Deep Springs Valley.
- Westgard Pass and the Death Valley Road
- Sierra Vista, on White Mountain Road, in the autumn.
- Independence
- The breeder pond in front of the Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery.
- Trout eggs in the Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery.
- The Inyo County Courthouse in Independence.
- A locomotive from the "Slim Princess" in Dehy Park, Independence.
- Mary Austin's house in Independence.
- A Pelton wheel at the Eastern California Museum.
- The "historic equipment yard" at the eastern California Museum.
- Wetland habitat on the abandoned Eclipse Ditch, east of Independence.
- The Northern Inyo Range
- An incredible panorama of the Sierra escarpment from Santa Rita Flat in the Inyo Mountains.
- Near Barrel Springs in the Inyo Mountains.
- At the mouth of Mazourka Canyon, east of Independence.
- Manzanar
- The guard station at the entrance to Manzanar Japanese Relocation Camp.
- Site of rows of barracks at the Manzanar camp.
- Remnants of a fountain and Japanese garden near the hospital at Manzanar.
- The Japanese cemetery at the Manzanar Relocation Camp.
- The Los Angeles Aqueduct north of the Alabama Gates.
- Alabama Hills
- North of Movie Flat in the Alabama Hills.
- On the edge of Movie Flat in the Alabama Hills.
- In the southwest part of the Alabama Hills.
- Among the rocks in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine.
- Whitney Portal and Tuttle Creek
- A late winter storm over Owens Valley, from the Whitney Portal Road.
- Mount Whitney from the Alabama Hills.
- At the foot of the Sierra Nevada during a winter storm.
- Sunrise in Owens Valley.
- First light on the Sierra, from Tuttle Creek.
- Sunrise at Tuttle Creek Campground, near Lone Pine.
- Lone Pine
- The mass grave of victims of the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake, in Lone Pine.
- At the corner of Whitney Portal Road and Highway 395 in Lone Pine.
- Diaz Lake, created abruptly by subsidence during the earthquake of 1872.
- Late afternoon in Owens Valley, southeast of Lone Pine.
- West of Owens Lake
- On the Horseshoe Meadows Road above Owens Lake.
- Walts Point, above Cottonwood Canyon.
- The Cottonwood charcoal kilns near the former shoreline of Owens Lake.
- Late winter storm clouds over the Sierra escarpment at Cartago.
- East of Owens Lake
- Remains of the old silver-lead smelter at Swansea on the former shoreline of Owens Lake.
- Keeler, the "end of the line" for the Carson and Colorado Railroad.
- At the former lakeshore in Keeler, on Owens Dry Lake.
- Dirty Socks Spring, on the edge of Owens Lake.
- On the Road to Cerro Gordo
- The road to Cerro Gordo begins by following up a wash.
- Joshua trees at about 6000 feet on the road to Cerro Gordo.
- On the road to Cerro Gordo in the Inyo Mountains.
- The Town of Cerro Gordo
- The American Hotel in Cerro Gordo.
- Lola's bordello and the old assay office in Cerro Gordo.
- Between the Belshaw House and the small museum at Cerro Gordo.
- On the Mexican Spring Road above Cerro Gordo.
- Cerro Gordo Mine
- Top of the ore bucket tram, from Cerro Gordo down to Owens Valley.
- Ore loading station at the top of the Cerro Gordo mine area.
- The powerhouse and hoist building at the Cerro Gordo Mine.
- Inside the Cerro Gordo powerhouse/hoist building.
- South of Owens Lake
- The top portion of Fossil Falls, a Pleistocene watercourse.
- The middle portion of Fossil Falls.
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