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  • Mono Lake, California. Tufa formations with December snow. Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back.
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  • Route 395 runs through the town of Independence, California in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountain region. Near Independence.
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery. The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Bridgeport, Hot Spring. Jack and Evan Menzel and their friend Luke Sawyer enjoy the hot water with Luke's dad, Chris, who is drinking a beer. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mount Whitney, at 14,496 feet high, is the tallest mountain in the continental United States. It is one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the US. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery. The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called ?a gem unique and worthy of its name.? When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney, at 14,496 feet high, is the tallest mountain in the continental United States. It is one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the US. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney, at 14,496 feet high, is the tallest mountain in the continental United States. It is one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the US. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney, at 14,496 feet high, is the tallest mountain in the continental United States. It is one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the US. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery..The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called "a gem unique and worthy of its name." When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney, at 14,496 feet high, is the tallest mountain in the continental United States. It is one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the US. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Eureka Dunes, California - the tallest dunes in the United States. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Eureka Dunes, California - the tallest dunes in the United States. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Alabama Hills, Owen's Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bouldering below Dead Man's Summit, on Route 395, Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Canoeing on Convict Lake. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Convict Lake. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Ghost mining Town, Cerro Gordo, California - now a state historic park. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • June Lake Loop off Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Cowboy spurs. Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - drive to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Dinner on the Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Benton Crossing Dump - Owen's Valley, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lie near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake in winter snow. Mono Lake lie near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers on an island in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. (lit with red flash before dawn).
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lie near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake at sunrise. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bodie, California - a ghost town - now a State historic park. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake at dawn with crescent moon. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Ghost Town, Bodie, California - now a state historic park. Faith D'Aluisio looks in the window. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bodie, California - a ghost town - now a State historic park. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Sheep roundup at dawn. Near Mono Lake, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bikers in Lone Pine, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Sheep roundup at dawn. Near Mono Lake, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Sheep roundup at dawn. Near Mono Lake, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Lakeside grass at dawn at Mono Lake, California, Highway 395, East Sierra.
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  • Rainbow over abandoned cabin in Owen's Valley, California. Near Lee Vining on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Coyote at Devil's Postpile National Monument. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Local brown bear breaks into motor home to steal food from campers at a campground at Devil's Postpile National Monument. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bristlecone Pines in White Mountains, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bristlecone Pines in White Mountains, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bristlecone Pines in White Mountains, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bristlecone Pines in White Mountains, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Jennifer at the Cerro Gordo, Ghost Mining Town. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Local's Night at Tom's Place on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Keogh Hot Springs on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (He was raising his two young sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rafting on the Truckee River downstream from Lake Tahoe, CA
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses Emigrant pass near Watson's monument.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses the Sierras near Cougar Rock.
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  • A belt buckle of one of the riders in a past annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses some very rugged terrain. .Hal Hall's winning horse Francisco takes a hay and water break as the full moon rises.near mile 78 in. (1990).
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  • Hal Hall riding his horse Francisco finishes the annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California in 1990.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California. 1980
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  • Dramatic spring runoff from melting mountain snow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River, Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California. Marc Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, looking at the rainbow. Photographed in 1980 prior to his writing the book.
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  • Kayaking down the Toulumne River in Northern California. Sports.
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  • Alex Wright, 14, skips along the top of a pipe that is part of the California Aqueduct water transport system. Owens Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, along Route 395. Los Angeles Aqueduct. MODEL RELEASED.
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