{"id":6287,"date":"2011-12-01T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=6287"},"modified":"2011-12-27T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T00:58:17","slug":"december-1-2011-owens-valley-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2011\/12\/01\/december-1-2011-owens-valley-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"December 1, 2011 Owens Valley landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charlie Bustamante and I moseyed on up to the southern Owens Valley for a day of wind and dust and photography.\u00a0 The late morning hours were spent around Keeler and Owens Lake, and a separate Stormbruiser page was posted for that<\/a>.\u00a0 After lunch in Lone Pine, we elected to go into pretty picture-taking mode in and around the Alabama Hills, below Mount Whitney.\u00a0 It was chilly and occasionally windy here, but not nearly as nasty as the conditions southeast of Lone Pine and around Keeler and Swansea.<\/p>\n

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The images above were a little west of the sharp switchbacks on the Whitney Portal Road west of Lone Pine, at about 8000 feet elevation.\u00a0 The temperature here was about 28F, but the wind was light.\u00a0 Mount Whitney itself was obscured by clouds.\u00a0 We had driven beyond the official “road closed” sign (below the switchbacks), and came upon this part where plenty of rocks and dirt had descended upon the road.<\/p>\n

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The Alabama Hills are just west and northwest of Lone Pine.\u00a0 Some clouds, including the large wave cloud that was over nearby Owens Lake, were shading most of the area; but, occasionally the sun emerged for a brief appearance and lit up our foregrounds.\u00a0 The face of the eastern Sierra remained quite prominent and presented the usual fantastic photo ops:<\/p>\n

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From here we poked around the Owens River east of Independence, and came upon an old railroad station called “Kearsarge,” and an abandoned mining operation.<\/p>\n

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After one last stop to image the Eastern Sierra around sunset, we headed back south towards the real world.\u00a0 I’m ready to go back already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Bustamante and I moseyed on up to the southern Owens Valley for a day of wind and dust and photography.\u00a0 The late morning hours… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-44","7":"category-desert","8":"category-landscapes","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}