Hwy 395, Eastern Sierra

Loc

I'm heading up there late Friday afternoon for a snowboarding trip with buddies of mine in Mammoth. I'll be able to catch sunrise and sunset on Saturday while they're driving up after work. I'm thinking of spending Friday night in Lone Pine and doing sunrise at the Alabama Hills. So now what can I do with the rest of Saturday afternoon and evening?

We plan on staying in Bishop Saturday and Sunday night. I get 3 sunrises and 1 or 2 sunsets so I want to pick the best spots. I'll definitely post pictures when I get back

dbd

Bishop spots
Don't forget moonlight on the snow covered Sierra, several hours after moonrise.

Bishop sunrise: The weather looks clear so shoot early light on Sierra snow. Take East Line Street east out of town until it turns to dirt. Go as far up the hill as you trasnportation allows. Shoot west to Mts Humphreys, Basin, Tom.

Bishop sunset: Clear air doesn't help make the sunset colorful to the west. If you are interested in the amount of snow on the White Mountains (not alot yet this year), go west up Bishop Creek Road to at least the Buttermilk Country Road turnoff and shoot east to the last light on the Whites.

I'm sitting in E-J's down in Big Pine stitching the panoramas I shot in Death Valley Friday and by moonlight of the Palisades east of Big Pine after the bar closed last night.

If you have time while in Bishop check out the Mountain Light gallery for Galen Rowel's work and Vern Clevenger's gallery he moved down to Bishop from Mammoth last summer.

Dale B. Dalrymple
http://dbdimages.com

ian408

I don't know if the road's open but the view from the lookout just before
Devil's Postpile just outside of Mammoth is spectacular.

Oh. Stop at Shottz for a pastry and coffee in the morning

saurora

dbd wrote:

Don't forget moonlight on the snow covered Sierra, several hours after moonrise.

Bishop sunrise: The weather looks clear so shoot early light on Sierra snow. Take East Line Street east out of town until it turns to dirt. Go as far up the hill as you trasnportation allows. Shoot west to Mts Humphreys, Basin, Tom.

Bishop sunset: Clear air doesn't help make the sunset colorful to the west. If you are interested in the amount of snow on the White Mountains (not alot yet this year), go west up Bishop Creek Road to at least the Buttermilk Country Road turnoff and shoot east to the last light on the Whites.

I'm sitting in E-J's down in Big Pine stitching the panoramas I shot in Death Valley Friday and by moonlight of the Palisades east of Big Pine after the bar closed last night.

If you have time while in Bishop check out the Mountain Light gallery for Galen Rowel's work and Vern Clevenger's gallery he moved down to Bishop from Mammoth last summer.

Dale B. Dalrymple
http://dbdimages.com

Dale you have an uncommon name and I use to know someone by that name...did you ever live in the Torrance/South Bay area of So. Cal? Are you (or were you) ever married to a gorgeous red-head?

dbd

ian408

You have to ski from the Mammoth Mtn parking to the overlook, some uphill.

Eat at Schats in Bishop or Mammoth.

Saurora

No, San Diego, no, But I'll consider any reasonable offer.

Loc

Friday night after EJ's closed, from up on the hill, the Palisades and Big Pine by moonlight:



Dale B. Dalrymple
http://dbdimages.com