Posted on 09/18/2004 4:28:01 PM PDT by djf
It'd be even nicer if it wasn't part of Kalifornia.
Hopefully the Republican Party will make a comeback in California or else Kalifornia will trade the entire eastern slope of the Sierras and its environs to Nevada for Las Vegas.
Sure wish I could call it home.
Signed,
stuck in the Antelope Valley
I once read an article by a vulcanlogist (? Please no Star Trek jokes if I'm using the wrong term), that eventually Mammoth Mountain's long dormant volcano will erupt (as in Mt. St. Helen's).
I saw a tabloid at the grocery store today & it says the end times began on September 16th. They're probably a little bit off too :)
Too many new homes, I am going to have to look further east if I ever want to "own*" any land.
* "Owning" Land, the myth that paying for property makes it yours, belied by the fact that you must still pay yearly tax's and ask Gov. Org. for permission to actually use it in any way.
Up until the 1860s the Eastern High Sierra region was considered to be part of Nevada. Most of the folks living here today wish it was. There was actually a ballot measure back in the 70s (during the Reagan era) to annex part of the Eastern High Sierra to Nevada. It barely lost.
I'm not in Mammoth, but I am in the Sierra foothills.
I have friends near Jamestown, a few days vacation.
We spend a week in Bridgeport every year, stopping in Lone Pine and Bishop on our way up.
Bridgeport has got to be one of the loveliest spots on earth...
Stay safe!
Was near there this summer for a geology field seminar. Stopped for a burger at the Piute general store (Bramlette's?) in Benton and then drove 120 to Mono Craters. I guess that would have put us about five or six miles from today's epicenter. The canyons south of the road near Cowtrack Mountain looked inviting. A little hiking on a return trip might be in order.
As a side note; the last time the Long Valley Caldera erupted, about 3/4 million years ago, the ashfall left a half inch layer as far away as present day Kansas. Known as Bishop Tuff, it occurs in layers many feet in thickness in your neck of the woods, though I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you haven't heard before.
Please add me to your quake ping list.
Will be glad to add you to the list. :)
"Closer to Bodie...my favorite ghost town! Wish I'd visited there this weekend!!!"
Many years ago I went to Bodie, and loved it. My favorite ghost town too. Also went to Mono Lake, which, actually, gave me the creeps. It's so otherworldly, like it's on the Planet of the Apes or somewhere else in outerspace. Because of this though, it was an absolutely fascinating place. Would like to go back one day.
After Ivan it's the turn of Jeanne : Mag 6 earthquake under the hurricane
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My Aunt Fay (Lawrence) used to be County Clerk...lived in Lone Pine.
leni
As kids, we went to Bodie every couple of years (Spent summer vacations at Twin Lakes). Before it bacame a Nat'l Park (And I'm glad that it did!!!), we were able to feel like it was "ours" when we went. We would usually be the only visitors. There were six kids--back when you didn't have to keep your kids within sight at every moment--so we probably did take over the place.
We especially loved the "two-holer" near the jailhouse.
My dad always made us read historical stuff about anywhere we visited. Bodie stuff was always my favorite. Rosa May and Lottie, the two most famous prostitutes, were "romantic" figures.
In 1964 a young university student and geographer, Donald R. Currey, traveled to Wheeler Peak to study Ice Age Glaciers. He and a friend came upon the Bristlecones at the timberline of Wheeler Peak and began to take core samples from several trees. They noted trees as old as 4,000 years! The end of the summer was near and their coring tool broken, the students asked for and were granted permission by the U.S. Forest Service to cut down a Bristlecone Pine, it was "Prometheus."
After the students cut the trunk at eight feet above the original base, over 4,844 rings were counted. This student had just killed the oldest living thing on earth.
Eventually dendrochronologists determined, closer to the base of the tree, it's actual age to be 4,950 years. A tragic event indeed.
At least this incident drove the movement to protect them.
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