Owens Valley Aqueduct at Jawbone Canyon - March 2011

Owens Valley Aqueduct at Jawbone Canyon - March 2011

Owens Valley Aqueduct at Jawbone Canyon - March 2011

Red Rock Canyon on California State Route 14 on the way to Owens Valley

Nine Mile Canyon Road back to Kennedy Meadows

Lava outcrop just south of Little Lake off of old U.S. 395

Me on the Nine Mile Canyon Road

Nine Mile Canyon Road back to Kennedy Meadows

Fence on the Nine Mile Canyon Road

Pearsonville - Hub Cap Capital of the World

Pearsonville resident.

Pearsonville - where the gasoline prices never change

Pearsonville - circa 1970's (Photocard courtesy of Inyo County Sesquicentennial)

Yuko N. Hahn writes: We always stopped for lunch at Maggpie's cafe on the way to Bishop. I remember her on Johnny Carson's or Letterman late night show. It was so much fun just to watch her talking to the truckers on CB radio. I still have a Magpie coffee mug and her book somewhere. I think she offered free coffee to the truckers. She'd say I'll make a fresh pot of coffee waiting for you and add water over already brewed coffee grind. Such a great memory. I dont know what happened and when she closed. We think of her every time we drive by Pearsonvill. Cindy O'Neill Kennedy writes: I raced Powder Puff on their dirt race track, 1980. So much fun and great memories! In the early 70s, we would ride up there just to look at all the hub caps! David Merrigan writes: Back in the 60’s, they had a cool race track. Good food also Howdy Vassar writes: Broke my leg there on the motocross track

Lone surviving building, the post office, of the ghost town of Little Lake

What remains of old U.S. 395 in the ghost town of Little Lake.

What remains of old U.S. 395 in the ghost town of Little Lake.

Looking south towards the ghost town of Little Lake.

Looking north from hills by the ghost town of Little Lake.

Looking south towards the ghost town of Little Lake.

Old Southern Pacific RR grade south of Little Lake

U.S. 395 south of Little Lake

Old Southern Pacific RR grade heading into Little Lake

Advertisement on the lava outcrop south of Little Lake

Little Lake townsite - photo taken in the hills to the east of U.S. 395

Red Cinder Cone at the southern end of Owens Valley - March 2011

Area to the east behind the Red Cinder Cone

Red Cinder Cone

Red Cinder Cone

Red Cinder Cone

Fossil Falls Area

Red Cinder Cone

Fossil Falls area - Dry Owens River in center of picture.
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

Fossil Falls area
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

Fossil Falls road sign

Red Cinder Cone

Area to the east behind the Red Cinder Cone

Area to the east behind the Red Cinder Cone

Fossil Falls area
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

Fossil Falls area
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

Fossil Falls area
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

Pleistocene Lakes in the Mojave Desert
[Roadside Geology of Owens Valley]

Red Cinder Cone at the southern end of Owens Valley - May 2016

Red Cinder Cone at the southern end of Owens Valley - May 2016

Remains of Sam Lewis' "High Lonesome Ranch" just west of Coso Junction.
See more of Sam Lewis HERE.
Read SAM LEWIS' Journal HERE

View to the east at the Coso Mountains from the remains of Sam Lewis' "High Lonesome Ranch."

Entrance to the remains of Sam Lewis' "High Lonesome Ranch"

Panorama of the southern end of Owens Lake from the Olancha Pass trail

Panorama of the southern end of Owens Lake from the Olancha Pass trail

The Road to Sage Flat

Olancha Pass trail

Stock loading ramp at Sage Flat roadend

Dunmovin, CA. ruins - Between Coso Junction and Olancha

Dunmovin, CA. ruins - Between Coso Junction and Olancha

Dunmovin, CA. ruins - Between Coso Junction and Olancha

Abandoned building in Grant, CA. in Owens Valley. The 1961 Twilight Zone Episode 23, Season 2, "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" was filmed using this building.

The old J.G. Motel in Grant, CA

House in Cartago

Bessie Brady and Molly Stevens boat landing in Cartago. The two boats hauled silver bullion across Owens Lake from the Cerro Gordo smelters at Keeler.

Metal ant on house in Cartago

Photo courtesy of Lawrence Thomas

Big Pine Distributors located in the hills overlooking Olancha, CA

Ranch Houise Cafe on U.S. 395 in Olancha, CA

Sierra Nevada panorama off of State Route 190 just east of Olancha.

Jael Hoffman's Metal Art south of Olancha, CA on U.S. 395

Jael Hoffman, the "Land of Ono"

Horseshoe Meadows Road panorama of the northern end of Owens Lake

Owens Valley dry lake from the old Mt. Whitney Pack Trains Carrol Creek Trail - 2013

Pacific Alkali Company plant on the west shore of Owens Lake where once the town of Bartlett existed

Pacific Alkali Company plant on the west shore of Owens Lake