My first view of the Sierras
Sign just out of Big Pine
Coming up on Big Pine
My first look of Whitney from Lone Pine
Owens Lake sunrise
Inyo Mountains sunrise
Inyo Mountains sunrise
Mt. Whitney (14,494'—at least the traditional elevation)
Lone Pine Peak detail
Alabama Hills
Alabama Hills
Alabama Hills
Alabama Hills
Alabama Hills
Double-barrel action hoping for sunset cloud color that never developed
Lone Pine Peak and Mt. Whitney from the Alabama Hills
Mt. Tom (13,652') from along 395 west out of Bishop. The views from this stretch of the highway looking south were rather impressive with all kinds of great looking mountains, though not all pictured here.
Lower Yosemite Falls
Tunnel View, Yosemite
Half Dome
Back around to the Owens Valley side, the Sierras from Death Valley Road out of Big Pine. Split Mountain (14,058', left) Birch Mountain (13,602', center), and Middle Palisade (14,012') in the back right-center. Some fine backpacking destinations back in there in the summer that I have my sights on in the future.
Back in Death Valley National Park, heading southeast a little ways past Crankshaft Junction en route to the Racetrack for a second time. Ah the wide-open back roads. This is my kind of travel.
Racetrack Valley
The view back to the northeast along the road that leads out of the valley, which turns right and goes through the valley on the far right. Tekettle Junction lies near the right end of the lower distant hills.
Wrong turn
Death Valley from Aguereberry Point
Mesquite Flat dunes
Mesquite Flat dunes
Earth's shadow, Zabriskie Point
Zion Canyon, late afternoon
Towers of the Virgin, sunrise
Bentonite Hills, Capitol Reef National Park
Enjoying optimal conditions at Temple of the Moon and Temple of the Sun, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
The end