Lone Pine views

Just before dawn I walked across the highway from our motel, rested my camera on a fencepost, and began taking photos as the sunlight hit the peaks of Mt. Whitney. It’s been a few years since I’ve visited Lone Pine and I had forgotten how breathtaking the view of the Sierra peaks is.

After breakfast we stopped at the Alabama Hills Café for coffee and a roll, then headed to the Interagency Visitor Center for some ideas on snowshoeing. We got a recommendation for heading up White Mountain Road to the snow gate and then snowshoeing a couple of miles along the road to the Bristlecone Pines at the Schulman Grove. Since I have always wanted to visit the Bristlecone area, this became our tentative plan for tomorrow morning.

For the rest of the morning we toured through the Alabama Hills, checking out the old western movie locations and hiking to a couple of arches (Mobius Arch and Lathe Arch) that beautifully frame Mt. Whitney. We unsuccessfully searched for the Eye of Alabama Arch. I stupidly forgot to download the GPS coordinates for it. As a result of doing the Movie Road tour, Karen decided there were a few old movies to put into our Netflix queue.

After lunch we headed up to BIshop, but stopped at Manzanar, one of the WWII Japanese interment centers. The museum is very interesting—the driving tour less so because not much is left. I left feeling sad that our country treated citizens so poorly.

We had a great dinner at Amigos. Some of the internet reviews claim it is the best Mexican restaurant ever. We really like what we had.

Links
—Lone Pine views photo gallery