Archive for December 2013
The Alabama Hills
If you like Westerns, you definitely need to visit California’s Alabama Hills. Over 150 different movies and a handful of TV shows have filmed here, including The Lone Ranger. The rugged, dry terrain against a backdrop of the tall Sierra Nevada Mountains makes this a picture perfect setting. But what really sets the Alabama Hills…
Read MoreDeath Valley Part 2
For Part 1 of the series, just click here. In this article, I’ll discuss places you can visit on the North End of Death Valley. Just across the Nevada border is a little ghost town called Rhyolite. The town was formed during the gold rush of 1905. After the richest ore was extracted, it declined…
Read MoreDeath Valley Part 1
Death Valley – why do you want to go there? Such was the reaction from my friends when learning about my upcoming photo trip. Like most people, they did’t associate Death Valley as a place of scenic distinction. In this article I hope to provide compelling reasons why you should visit Death Valley. It’s much…
Read MoreAlpenglow at Mono Lake
Mono Lake is just one of many interesting places you can visit East of the Sierra Nevadas in California. This is one of the oldest lakes in North America. Since it has no outlet, salts and other minerals accumulate and make the water quite alkaline (pH of 10). In fact, it’s more than 2.5 times…
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