Mundo4x4Casa
West slope, N. Ser. Nev.
This T.R. is in three parts as the forum limit is 25 images.
On the way in: I turned the free wheeling hubs on here:
snow melt:
Here's the spot:
It doesn't look like much except when you turn around:
Wait! Whats that in Jeanie hand? We had 5 bars cell service here, better than we get at home. And what is that apparatus in the background? Seismic tectonic vibration reading equipment. We eventually ran across a half dozen of these self same readers around the caldera.
I can't post a report without our familiar SeeAlice pose with one shared Sierra Nevada beer and the two chairs as the sun sets: bath tubs are a little much to drag along.
I call this: Hope springs eternal:
By the morning, it was a whole new light: The big white thing is Mammoth Mountain ski area,
Not many tracks other than bicycles through the pumice flats:
Jeanie took this short vid on the way down to the pumice flats: click on vid to open:
We wanted to savor the area that we had quickly passed over in our youth and decided to check out the Inyo Craters. A mile hike up to the cones was rewarded with these youngsters in terms of geologic age. 550 years ago, one after another within 100 yards of each other, in a few days span, the three cones erupted. Carbon dating discovered the history.
Highest cone:
Middle cone:
lower cone:
Now we know why there is so much pumice around. These three blew only pumice and tear drop obsidian, no lava. After lunch we decided once again to change plans. I wanted to further explore around Mono Lake. We set out for the site of Mono Mills, a logging and firewood narrow gauge railroad operation that serviced Bodie on the edge of that Jeffrey Pine Forest. Also, I wanted to drive on some sand.
Here any truck camper is too wide, even the 86” wide Lance. A snootful of desert pin stripes ensued.
On the way in: I turned the free wheeling hubs on here:
snow melt:
Here's the spot:
It doesn't look like much except when you turn around:
Wait! Whats that in Jeanie hand? We had 5 bars cell service here, better than we get at home. And what is that apparatus in the background? Seismic tectonic vibration reading equipment. We eventually ran across a half dozen of these self same readers around the caldera.
I can't post a report without our familiar SeeAlice pose with one shared Sierra Nevada beer and the two chairs as the sun sets: bath tubs are a little much to drag along.
I call this: Hope springs eternal:
By the morning, it was a whole new light: The big white thing is Mammoth Mountain ski area,
Not many tracks other than bicycles through the pumice flats:
Jeanie took this short vid on the way down to the pumice flats: click on vid to open:
We wanted to savor the area that we had quickly passed over in our youth and decided to check out the Inyo Craters. A mile hike up to the cones was rewarded with these youngsters in terms of geologic age. 550 years ago, one after another within 100 yards of each other, in a few days span, the three cones erupted. Carbon dating discovered the history.
Highest cone:
Middle cone:
lower cone:
Now we know why there is so much pumice around. These three blew only pumice and tear drop obsidian, no lava. After lunch we decided once again to change plans. I wanted to further explore around Mono Lake. We set out for the site of Mono Mills, a logging and firewood narrow gauge railroad operation that serviced Bodie on the edge of that Jeffrey Pine Forest. Also, I wanted to drive on some sand.
Here any truck camper is too wide, even the 86” wide Lance. A snootful of desert pin stripes ensued.
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