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yukon222
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yukon222
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 Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:20 pm |
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Plenty of stunning pictures, but I especially enjoy this one.
| KarenČ wrote: |  Once upon a cold morning |
Congratulations on a superb trip!
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Go Jo
of the lykkens
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Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:37 pm |
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| Yana wrote: | | Oh, the shuttle bus. My parents and I were in the Mammoth Lakes area last year for some day hiking and we experienced the shuttle bus all of once before deciding that it was completely worth it to get up super early and drive instead on the other days. |
 The Pile  Honeycomby  Doing The Wave  I have scarring to always remember the floor of this bus by.  Queen of Balance  Watch out children, we have tripods and poles Leg Torture They're not even faking those faces.
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Roald
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Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:07 pm |
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I am the biggest secret admirer of Karen's photos. Now she does video too!
Like Matt said, everyone's pics round out a cool story line of your trip. Makes me want to get back to Yosemite. I'll look out for marmots in the tent(!).
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Go Jo
of the lykkens
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Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:09 pm |
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| Tag Man wrote: | | Sucks that you all had to break down in Tweakersville, lol. |
This trip was my first introduction to so many things, one of which was the concept of 'guerrilla camping'... which seems like it should be be 'gorilla camping' (ooohoohooh aahaahaah) since it is such a zoo finding sites in the middle of the night. After our lack of sleep at the Miner's Mart, I found myself nodding off in the rig on the way over Tioga Pass, hearing only snippets of the conversations about where we would be pitching our tents. Due to the late snow melt we ended up carrying our gear down a closed camp ground driveway in the dark and tumbled into our tents hoping for the best. As it turns out I awoke to an awe inspiring view and and learned a lesson about the enjoyability of a flexible itinerary when traveling. We even found the park natives to be entertaining and not overly aggressive, a step up from the backwoods tweekers from night one.
So we just found some other cars and packed up our bags to find a home for the night. This location looked promising even in the dark.  This was the view from our second guerrilla camping. It put the 'Meadow of Hope' to shame. Californians wear fur and look good doing it!
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Quark
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Quark
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Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:07 pm |
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So I hafta get married to join you guys next time, huh?
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
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canyonwren
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Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:57 pm |
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Gil
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Gil
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Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:03 pm |
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Fantastic pictures all of you! That must have been quite the trip!
Friends help the miles go easier.
Klahini
Friends help the miles go easier.
Klahini
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KarenČ
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KarenČ
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Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:14 pm |
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Yosemite
 How wet were the falls?  Half Dome  Tiny hikers ascend Half Dome  Tourons and a big tree  Pre sunset  Hikers amidst the tufas  Mono Lake Sunset  Second Lake  Fifth Lake  Tisha 'The Machine' heading towards tasty peaks  Banner Peak Sunrise  Star trails over Banner Peak  While the housewives sleep...  Imtimate moment between Jo and her cup of Joe  The view from MY island (the only one of 1000 that had a clear passage through the ice)  Welcome back sun  One last view of Banner Peak  Garnet Lake - Where's the color?  Basalt Gawker  Lazy Marmot (is there any other kind?)  Flycatcher  Coyote  Godzilla  Climbing Marmot  Green Towhee
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GaliWalker
Have camera will use
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Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:18 pm |
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| KarenČ wrote: | Tiny hikers ascend Half Dome |
That has to be my all-time favorite Half Dome shot! What a great perspective, especially if you've ever been one of the ants climbing up.
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MCaver
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Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:17 pm |
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| Roald wrote: | | I am the biggest secret admirer of Karen's photos. |
Karen's one of the best photographers on this site. Her trips and photos never cease to inspire me.
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ree
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ree
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Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:29 pm |
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So true!!!
You ladies visited my absolute favorite parts of CA!
Bodie was very close to where you visited... truly one of the best ghosttowns in Ca. Lots of hot springs around Mammoth too.
Ummmm. Didn't you have to get past a LOT of flies to go swimming in Mono Lake?! I love swimming too, but I remember a LOT of flies deterring my doing that!
The Bristlecone Forest is out that ways too. That is really magical too.
I'm so glad y'all had a great adventure! 395 is way prettier than highway 1, imho. But I'll take mountains over foggy coast any day.
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Davidč
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Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:58 am |
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| KarenČ wrote: |  The Housewives |
This photo reminds me of this classic thread
So any photos from Tisha? - Josie is that it?
If you have a tremendous backload of photos to process - just skip ahead to the people pics 
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Go Jo
of the lykkens
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Go Jo
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Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:14 pm |
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| Davidč wrote: | | Josie is that it? |
Our family brought it to my attention this weekend that they are still patiently waiting for my niece & nephew's birthday party pics... from May. So I took a moment to see why it is taking me so long to catch up and calculated that I take approx 700+ photos per week so either I need to hire a photog assistant or only allow myself a 1 gig memory card  When this weekend's Scenic Beach Camping, yesterday's Lake Tapps Reunion and the Super Heroes & Princesses Turn 3 Party roll out of my studio I promise to resurrect this thread with my Mono Lake, Big Pine Lakes & Thousand Island Lake contributions. Sooooo, see you right back here in October? 
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the Zachster
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I LOVE this thread! It is so entertaining and amazingly beautiful...you just take your time and make it last all year!  
"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
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Ingunn
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:33 am |
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The crux of our trip was getting our vehicle packed and ready to go every morning...next time we're renting a U-Haul!
 Our rental car had a little too much junk in the trunk, but Josie got us through the week with her impressive Tetris skills.  Spacious digs
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