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The Sierra Nevada & Owens Valley
03 May 2003 by AL
I was born and raised in Bishop, California, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Its an area made up of contrasts; hot summers - cold winters, magestic mountains - dry desert, old cowboys - young skibums. In a recent search I stumbled upon this website created by the Pigmy Packer. What a gem! It contains the rich history of the Owens Valley from the early settlers of the valley to the beginning of the Sierra Club. It also contains some of the sad chapters of High Sierra history like the Manzanar disgrace and the LA Auqeduct scandal. Some of you will flinch from the interface design, but just try to look past that at the wealth of information instead.
I really liked his vintage cowgirl pin-up collection :-)
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03 May 2003 | B said...
Interesting. I was in Lone Pine a couple weeks after September 11th with a friend who was flying a hang glider there. It was truly beautiful, but a loooooong way from Phoenix, especially on a motorcycle. As I recall, Lone Pine's a favorite place for filming Westerns.
04 May 2003 | Graeme Donald said...
What does "magestic" mean?
04 May 2003 | alisha said...
hell if I know. 8 years of german has totally screwed up my english. Im sure it wont be my last spelling mistake.
06 May 2003 | indi said...
Alisha: Being from California as well I can appreciate your use of the term "majestic" to describe the Sierra Nevada range around Bishop. I have driven through there many times on the way to Yosemite or Tahoe. It's one of my favorite drives. Once coming back from a ski trip with a buddy going south at about one in the morning there was no one else on the road and the moon was full so we turned off the headlights for a while. Wow, the mountains and scenery just popped out at us. I wouldn't recommend that anyone do that , seeing as I'm as a more mature and hopefully wiser individual, but it is a great memory.
Indi
17 Jan 2004 | Holland said...
This topic is one we will tackle later in this article, but it refers to making sure that your application and the dock aren't fighting it out for supremacy of the screen.
