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International Feast

Wynne B — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:48:26 +0000

BISHOP, CA — EAT, DRINK & DANCE at the International Feast, Saturday March 19 at the Tri-County Fairgrounds. The Rotary Club of Bishop Sunrise invites you to attend their first annual community dinner—INTERNATIONAL FEAST—on Saturday, March 19. Festivities begin at 5:30pm at the Home Economics Building at the Tri-County Fairgrounds in Bishop, CA. $25 includes […]

Wine, Cheese, Books and Art in the Eastern Sierra

Spot — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:38:04 +0000

Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association presents: Wine, Cheese, Books & Art in the Eastern Sierra When & Where: Friday, November 13, 2015, 4-6pm at the Eastern Sierra Visitor Center in Lone Pine, California on the corner of US 395 and CA SR 136 Saturday, November 14, 2015, 4-6pm at the Mammoth Lakes Welcome Center-USFS, on Hwy […]

Mt. Grant Finally Opens to Hikers

Wynne B — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:29:37 +0000

This morning, Hiking Nevada’s County High Points author, Bob Sumner, sent along a link from the Reno Gazette Journal reporting that the Hawthorne Army base is finally going to make Mt. Grant (11,270-ft.), high point of Mineral County, accessible to hikers. One of the problems with the peak is that hiking access is through the […]

Close Ups of the High Sierra

Wynne B — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:34:30 +0000

Close Ups of the High Sierra, Norman Clyde’s collection of stories about his backcountry adventures in the Sierra Nevada, is now available in a new printing with easy to read ivory pages. Norman Clyde, a name as legendary as that of Fremont or Muir. Norman Clyde, a man to whom the entire High Sierra was […]

New Climbing Mt. Whitney ebook on Amazon

Wynne B — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:39:15 +0000

We’ve finally added a new ebook edition of Climbing Mt. Whitney to Amazon’s Kindle program, exclusive for three months. Anyone who purchased a hard copy of the book from Amazon can get the Kindle edition FREE! It’s not often that a guidebook author is both an expert and actually fun to read but Peter Croft […]

A Weekend to Remember

Spot — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:11:23 +0000

It’s a weekend to remember in the Owens Valley with two great events worthy of mentioning. As autumn rolls north to south through the Owens Valley, the cottonwoods continue to show their brilliant orange and red leaves. With the backdrop of fall coloring the periphery of the Great Basin’s westernmost landscape, join the Eastern California […]

November, already! Time for the desert.

Spot — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 01:53:44 +0000

Fall arrived in the Eastern Sierra when the aspens began changing color from to brilliant yellow, orange, and red in mid-September, then rolled down the Sierra slopes to the Owens Valley. Now, the first week of November, the last of the cottonwoods are turning orange. The Owens Valley floor is covered with thousands of cottonwoods […]

Planted 100 years ago this month, the Roosevelt Sequoia commemorates the completion of the Westgard Pass Road

Wynne B — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:12:57 +0000

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people drive their cars through Big Pine, California, passing a tall Sequoia tree at the northern edge the of town where US-395 meets CA-168, the Westgard Pass Road over the White Mountains. The Theodore Roosevelt tree was planted 100 years ago on July 23rd to commemorate the opening of […]

Author Andy Zdon to speak in Bishop

Spot — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:08:48 +0000

Andy Zdon author of Desert Summits: A Climbing & Hiking Guide to California and Southern Nevada will be the guest speaker at the Eastern Sierra Land Trust’s brown bag lunch on August 7, 2013 in Bishop, California. Here is the announcement from ESLT: Brown Bag Lunch Series Aquifer Modeling in the Amargosa and Death Valleys […]

White-faced Ibis & Great Egrets sighted in Bishop

Wynne B — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:53:11 +0000

This morning on our morning walk, just south of Bishop, California, headquarters for Spotted Dog Press, we saw no less than three dozen white-faced Ibis and a half dozen Great Egrets on flood-irrigated fields, sparkling beneath the new morning sun just risen above the White Mountains to the east.