Sunday, September 17, 2017

Mono Lake, Sierra Nevada, California Albert Bierstadt, 1872


This one I hadn't seen before, but that is what the country looks like around Mono Lake.

Lots of interesting country to explore there.





3 comments:

  1. Mono Lake is interesting, but the old mining country around there always has some surprises for the enterprising. There's an airplane crash site about ten miles north of Mono Lake that I happened on about twenty years ago while deer hunting.

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    1. The back roads in and out of Bodie are a gas, but you'd better have plenty of it, as you're out in the middle of the proverbial nowhere.

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    2. In the FJ Cruiser I have the main tank: 18 gallons; the 19 gallon auxiliary tank that sits in front of the rear bumper - and up inside; and then there are the fuel cans on the rear bumper or that are on the roof depending on the trip. Baseline is 37 gallons + add ons. One reality of the West is that fuel can be hard to find when you're out and about. My first trip along the Kokopelli trail with the Toyota Trail Teams (factory team) when they had them and they started bumming fuel from me to get to Moab put the light on and I bought the auxiliary tank. The bolt-on bumper fuel is more or less give-away fuel to people down on their luck.

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